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quotes[0]='The new creation in Christ is the Lord\'s, WE are HOLY to the Lord!&nbsp; <a href=http://theshovel.net/writings/dig.asp?TID=120  class="Leftnav"></i>source<i></a>'

quotes[1]='Do you understand that using "Christian" terminology, observing "Christian" practices, or taking a stand for "Christian" principles might only be a facade of the desperate struggle to live by your performance?&nbsp; <a href=http://theshovel.net/writings/dig.asp?TID=121  class="Leftnav"></i>source<i></a>'

quotes[2]='There is only one rationale behind what has been brought to pass in Christ, and it is Christ Himself.&nbsp; <a href=http://theshovel.net/writings/dig.asp?TID=185  class="Leftnav"></i>source<i></a>'

quotes[3]='In Christ there is neither insider nor outsider, there is neither center nor fringe, there is neither status-quo nor non-conformist! There is only the new creation.&nbsp; <a href=http://theshovel.net/writings/dig.asp?TID=184  class="Leftnav"></i>source<i></a>'

quotes[4]='If there is a true maturity in Christ it would be a stubborn holding to the miraculous revelation that all are equally alive in him.&nbsp; <a href=http://theshovel.net/writings/dig.asp?TID=184  class="Leftnav"></i>source<i></a>'

quotes[5]='How is it then we could ever imagine that in regarding sin exactly as God does - done away in Christ - that we would ever suggest that we are being deceived?&nbsp; <a href=http://theshovel.net/writings/dig.asp?TID=380  class="Leftnav"></i>source<i></a>'

quotes[6]='(Regarding confession) The truth is that as long as you assume you are obligated to perform the desires of the old life - the one that was destroyed on the cross of Christ - you are asking God to break a sin-cycle He already delivered you from!&nbsp; <a href=http://theshovel.net/writings/dig.asp?TID=387  class="Leftnav"></i>source<i></a>'

quotes[7]='So then, what God - other than the God of our imaginations - are we praying to who could overlook everything accomplished in Christ in order to accommodate the kind of requests we throw at him?&nbsp; <a href=http://theshovel.net/writings/dig.asp?TID=387  class="Leftnav"></i>source<i></a>'

quotes[8]='Though we may view ourselves according to the flesh from time to time God is not under any such confusion.&nbsp; <a href=http://theshovel.net/writings/dig.asp?TID=387  class="Leftnav"></i>source<i></a>'

quotes[9]='I don\'t know about you, but I\'ve got more to do with my time than to waste it on a finite knowledge-based religion!&nbsp; <a href=http://theshovel.net/writings/dig.asp?TID=185  class="Leftnav"></i>source<i></a>'

quotes[10]='If we were to insist upon viewing reality as it truly is in Christ we might just discover what our hearts already know.&nbsp; <a href=http://theshovel.net/writings/dig.asp?TID=188  class="Leftnav"></i>source<i></a>'

quotes[11]='Simply stated, if the life to which Christ has called us is in fact based upon a seeking of acceptance in Christ so that our continued following Him - whatever one believes this to be - only proves how unacceptable we are, then Christ would be nothing but a dealer or an enforcer of sin.&nbsp; <a href=http://theshovel.net/writings/dig.asp?TID=377  class="Leftnav"></i>source<i></a>'

quotes[12]='Now, why would I try to re-establish the thing that can only bring knowledge of sin when that thing is what killed me so that I could be delivered from it?&nbsp; <a href=http://theshovel.net/writings/dig.asp?TID=377  class="Leftnav"></i>source<i></a>'

quotes[13]='What if we were to understand that the things found in the Law were merely projections of a true substance that could not be truly seen apart from seeing the reality itself?&nbsp; <a href=http://theshovel.net/writings/dig.asp?TID=163  class="Leftnav"></i>source<i></a>'

quotes[14]='Our perceptions have been so ingrained that we have accepted the shadow of Christ as somehow being his companion ... almost as if it\'s his evil twin brother! (Shoveletter, The Fear of Shadows)'

quotes[15]='Do we think God removed one veil so that He could establish another one to hide His reality from us?&nbsp; <a href=http://theshovel.net/writings/dig.asp?TID=164  class="Leftnav"></i>source<i></a>'

quotes[16]='The problem we have with the Law today is that even though the reality has come - and has made us complete - we keep falling for the fears that seem to be lurking in the shadow.&nbsp; <a href=http://theshovel.net/writings/dig.asp?TID=164  class="Leftnav"></i>source<i></a>'

quotes[17]='The shadow (of the Law) DEMANDED that something REAL was needed, it declared that something REAL was coming. AND THEN THE ONE WHO WAS ABLE TO FULFILL THE NEED CAME!&nbsp; <a href=http://theshovel.net/writings/dig.asp?TID=165  class="Leftnav"></i>source<i></a>'

quotes[18]='And since the ADEQUATE has come, there is no more need for the INADEQUATE.&nbsp; <a href=http://theshovel.net/writings/dig.asp?TID=165  class="Leftnav"></i>source<i></a>'

quotes[19]='Maybe your most persistent conflicts emanate from the struggle to resolve the discord between true life and shadow land.&nbsp; <a href=http://theshovel.net/writings/dig.asp?TID=167  class="Leftnav"></i>source<i></a>'

quotes[20]='A favorable consensus of opinion might indicate a commonly held fallacy, not an irrefutable truth.&nbsp; <a href=http://theshovel.net/writings/dig.asp?TID=167  class="Leftnav"></i>source<i></a>'

quotes[21]='Too many misrepresentations of Christ\'s freedom stake their claims upon Biblical inerrancy and infallibility. Are we okay with this?&nbsp; <a href=http://theshovel.net/writings/dig.asp?TID=167  class="Leftnav"></i>source<i></a>'

quotes[22]='What makes us think that a bold approach to "Biblical inspiration" removes the possibility that its message is twisted? I\'m thinking we might need to reset our BS sensors.&nbsp; <a href=http://theshovel.net/writings/dig.asp?TID=167  class="Leftnav"></i>source<i></a>'

quotes[23]='Is Christ himself enough validation for you? (Shoveletter, Shadows of Biblical Proportion)'

quotes[24]='Do you think God really needs anyone to agree with Biblical inerrancy and infallibility to enable Him to deliver a prisoner from his condemnation and into life?&nbsp; <a href=http://theshovel.net/writings/dig.asp?TID=167  class="Leftnav"></i>source<i></a>'

quotes[25]='I suspect behind many heavy-handed "The Bible is our only authority" type sermons lurks something else altogether.&nbsp; <a href=http://theshovel.net/writings/dig.asp?TID=167  class="Leftnav"></i>source<i></a>'

quotes[26]='Realize the possibility that God\'s written testimony of Christ has been perverted into a life-sucking monster!&nbsp; <a href=http://theshovel.net/writings/dig.asp?TID=168  class="Leftnav"></i>source<i></a>'

quotes[27]='If Rules of Biblical Interpretation are supposed to help us divine the true meaning why are we more and more divided as interpretations increase?&nbsp; <a href=http://theshovel.net/writings/dig.asp?TID=168  class="Leftnav"></i>source<i></a>'

quotes[28]='How do YOU explain all the bondage found within the Christian marketplace?&nbsp; <a href=http://theshovel.net/writings/dig.asp?TID=168  class="Leftnav"></i>source<i></a>'

quotes[29]='Even though professions of faith might be sprinkled generously throughout Statements of Faith faith itself doesn\'t even have to enter the equation!&nbsp; <a href=http://theshovel.net/writings/dig.asp?TID=168  class="Leftnav"></i>source<i></a>'

quotes[30]='Those who minister Life and Freedom know that the Life of God has already been put within those to whom they minister.&nbsp; <a href=http://theshovel.net/writings/dig.asp?TID=169  class="Leftnav"></i>source<i></a>'

quotes[31]='They concluded that He was a law-breaker, and they had written-in-stone by-the-hand-of-God proof.&nbsp; <a href=http://theshovel.net/writings/dig.asp?TID=169  class="Leftnav"></i>source<i></a>'

quotes[32]='Whatever God had actually spoken to individuals in times past - whether recorded or not - ultimately testified of Christ, who is the EVERYTHING of God.&nbsp; <a href=http://theshovel.net/writings/dig.asp?TID=169  class="Leftnav"></i>source<i></a>'

quotes[33]='Do we not realize that the religious leaders of Biblical times were standing upon the same false confidence embedded in today\'s "Christianity"?&nbsp; <a href=http://theshovel.net/writings/dig.asp?TID=169  class="Leftnav"></i>source<i></a>'

quotes[34]='Ironically, my "Biblical interpretations" have only served to REMOVE me from any serious consideration by those I once desired to impress!&nbsp; <a href=http://theshovel.net/writings/dig.asp?TID=169  class="Leftnav"></i>source<i></a>'

quotes[35]='Don\'t we realize that the "completeness" demanded by the "it is written" was not more words on paper but the Word of God himself - Christ - written on our hearts?&nbsp; <a href=http://theshovel.net/writings/dig.asp?TID=170  class="Leftnav"></i>source<i></a>'

quotes[36]='The only completeness you will ever find in the Book is the ONE of whom it testifies: CHRIST. And if HE is what you see when you read it, then read on!&nbsp; <a href=http://theshovel.net/writings/dig.asp?TID=170  class="Leftnav"></i>source<i></a>'

quotes[37]='The truth is that the "revelation" is not the WORDS ON THE PAGE that can be broken down and categorized, but the INSIGHT to the heart.&nbsp; <a href=http://theshovel.net/writings/dig.asp?TID=170  class="Leftnav"></i>source<i></a>'

quotes[38]='Don\'t miss the fact that Paul\'s message was so different because of the fact that he, a Jew, was sent OUTSIDE to those who had NOTHING in God so that he could proclaim the GRACE OF GOD to these "outsiders" declaring that they had been brought fully into the life of God through Christ.&nbsp; <a href=http://theshovel.net/writings/dig.asp?TID=170  class="Leftnav"></i>source<i></a>'

quotes[39]='If we truly hear the living witness found in the pages of the Book we will hear testimony to the one and only reality, the one and only LIFE ... CHRIST.&nbsp; <a href=http://theshovel.net/writings/dig.asp?TID=171  class="Leftnav"></i>source<i></a>'

quotes[40]='Forget the accuracy by which you might prove yourself wrong or right, for this is the wisdom you learned in the world, not of God, and you are even now being pressured to conform to it.&nbsp; <a href=http://theshovel.net/writings/dig.asp?TID=172  class="Leftnav"></i>source<i></a>'

quotes[41]='If I\'ve learned anything about religious agreement it is that the thing agreed upon proves less important than the consensus of opinion related to that "truth".&nbsp; <a href=http://theshovel.net/writings/dig.asp?TID=172  class="Leftnav"></i>source<i></a>'

quotes[42]='MY point is to proclaim Christ, the one who died to sin and was raised to newness of life - the one in whom we have been removed from death and made alive!  My desire is to shake the doctrine by which we keep trying to hide our doubts and fears and in which we have learned to trust in the wisdom of men.&nbsp; <a href=http://theshovel.net/writings/dig.asp?TID=173  class="Leftnav"></i>source<i></a>'

quotes[43]='So, we have reasoned that if the Bible is infallible and everything else is fallible, then a correct understanding of the words of the Bible demands the correct understanding of God.&nbsp; <a href=http://theshovel.net/writings/dig.asp?TID=173  class="Leftnav"></i>source<i></a>'

quotes[44]='I have merely come to realize that we have everything we need for life and godliness because we are indwelt by the Spirit of Christ, and not because we have a copy of the Bible.&nbsp; <a href=http://theshovel.net/writings/dig.asp?TID=173  class="Leftnav"></i>source<i></a>'

quotes[45]='For (the religious mind) believes that the mind of man can comprehend the mind of God as long as it has the right textbook!&nbsp; <a href=http://theshovel.net/writings/dig.asp?TID=173  class="Leftnav"></i>source<i></a>'

quotes[46]='Why do we want 100% accuracy?  Because we want certainty.  We want the ability to claim that we KNOW what we believe because "It is written."&nbsp; <a href=http://theshovel.net/writings/dig.asp?TID=173  class="Leftnav"></i>source<i></a>'

quotes[47]='Men will hold the Bible as being God\'s ultimate authority - while ignoring or denying the fact GOD HIMSELF is His own ultimate authority and that CHRIST is His final word to man. This is why without being given the living Spirit of Christ we have NO REAL authority, even when quoting "Scripture".&nbsp; <a href=http://theshovel.net/writings/dig.asp?TID=174  class="Leftnav"></i>source<i></a>'

quotes[47]='Do you hold that the Bible is our "textbook" so that we may finally know God through carefully study ... or do you recognize that the Spirit of Christ (to whom the written words testify) is the One by whom we have been NOW brought into the knowledge of God?&nbsp; <a href=http://theshovel.net/writings/dig.asp?TID=174  class="Leftnav"></i>source<i></a>'

quotes[48]='I see the modern Christian perception of the Bible as that of a magic book full of spells and incantations which must be applied in meticulous detail to keep it from backfiring on the spell weaver.&nbsp; <a href=http://theshovel.net/writings/dig.asp?TID=174  class="Leftnav"></i>source<i></a>'

quotes[49]='I have witnessed an incredible similarity of religious fervency between people who look for God\'s direction in the pages of the Bible and those who can\'t seem to live without reading their daily personal horoscope in the pages of the local newspaper.&nbsp; <a href=http://theshovel.net/writings/dig.asp?TID=174  class="Leftnav"></i>source<i></a>'

quotes[50]='Do we not understand that the most accurate translation - even a "perfect" one - could never become "the Word of God"?&nbsp; <a href=http://theshovel.net/writings/dig.asp?TID=175  class="Leftnav"></i>source<i></a>'

quotes[51]='What if our religious perceptions are what they are because they cannot escape the logic upon which they exist?&nbsp; <a href=http://theshovel.net/writings/dig.asp?TID=176  class="Leftnav"></i>source<i></a>'

quotes[52]='We have been duped into the assumption that Jesus is the replacement of man instead of the fulfillment of man.&nbsp; <a href=http://theshovel.net/writings/dig.asp?TID=177  class="Leftnav"></i>source<i></a>'

quotes[53]='I suspect we get pulled off the simplicity of Christ because we strive after it according to the familiar premise of understanding we learned in this world, the one that gives the illusion but never the reality.&nbsp; <a href=http://theshovel.net/writings/dig.asp?TID=177  class="Leftnav"></i>source<i></a>'

quotes[54]='Why do we keep trying to establish "Christian" reasons to replace Christ?&nbsp; <a href=http://theshovel.net/writings/dig.asp?TID=121  class="Leftnav"></i>source<i></a>'

quotes[55]='The truth of the "tithe" is simply this: in Christ, WE are the tithe!&nbsp; <a href=http://theshovel.net/writings/dig.asp?TID=121  class="Leftnav"></i>source<i></a>'

quotes[56]='If the goal of a merchant is to make a profit, wouldn\'t a Word-Merchant operate under the same premise?&nbsp; <a href=http://theshovel.net/writings/dig.asp?TID=128  class="Leftnav"></i>source<i></a>'

quotes[57]='Are you counting on that outward-command-style motivation ... or the inward working of the Spirit?&nbsp; <a href=http://theshovel.net/writings/dig.asp?TID=128  class="Leftnav"></i>source<i></a>'

quotes[58]='My friends, freedom is truly a "dangerous" thing to the religious mind because it cannot be controlled.&nbsp; <a href=http://theshovel.net/writings/dig.asp?TID=129  class="Leftnav"></i>source<i></a>'

quotes[59]='The real life we have in Christ is so far superior to anything produced by Christian principles!&nbsp; <a href=http://theshovel.net/writings/dig.asp?TID=130  class="Leftnav"></i>source<i></a>'

quotes[60]='He (Jesus) continually shattered the pretenses of the religious mind, especially those said to be built upon the written word.&nbsp; <a href=http://theshovel.net/writings/dig.asp?TID=130  class="Leftnav"></i>source<i></a>'

quotes[61]='But when one who doesn\'t give a damn about God has been overtaken by His love ... that\'s miraculous.&nbsp; <a href=http://theshovel.net/writings/dig.asp?TID=101  class="Leftnav"></i>source<i></a>'

quotes[62]='Our confusion comes from trying to get a handle on faith so that we can manipulate it or manufacture more of it!&nbsp; <a href=http://theshovel.net/writings/dig.asp?TID=107  class="Leftnav"></i>source<i></a>'

quotes[63]='For the Spirit of Christ is the life that flows through the vine into the branches producing the fruit. The Spirit is the CAUSE of the abiding. The Spirit is the SUBSTANCE of the abiding. The Spirit is the MEANING behind the abiding.&nbsp; <a href=http://theshovel.net/writings/dig.asp?TID=107  class="Leftnav"></i>source<i></a>'

quotes[64]='But in our attempt to harness the miracle, faith seems to slip right through our fingers.&nbsp; <a href=http://theshovel.net/writings/dig.asp?TID=107  class="Leftnav"></i>source<i></a>'

quotes[65]='It\'s easy to forget the permanent reality while you are caught up in a temporary situation that SEEMS more real.&nbsp; <a href=http://theshovel.net/writings/dig.asp?TID=108  class="Leftnav"></i>source<i></a>'

quotes[66]='God Himself is the only proof that will ever satisfy those who have been born of His Spirit ... for He is the fear destroyer!&nbsp; <a href=http://theshovel.net/writings/dig.asp?TID=108  class="Leftnav"></i>source<i></a>'

quotes[67]='My friends, He has made all things new ... and there is no sin in the place we really live.&nbsp; <a href=http://theshovel.net/writings/dig.asp?TID=95  class="Leftnav"></i>source<i></a>'

quotes[68]='our history has been rewritten in Christ!&nbsp; <a href=http://theshovel.net/writings/dig.asp?TID=95  class="Leftnav"></i>source<i></a>'

quotes[69]='So, where do YOUR thoughts take you when you consider what it could mean to "walk worthy"? And how far short do you see yourself in reaching this goal?&nbsp; <a href=http://theshovel.net/writings/dig.asp?TID=98  class="Leftnav"></i>source<i></a>'

quotes[70]='When this understanding fills you up you KNOW that you walk in this world as one who is worthy of God because the life that you walk in and by is the life of Christ.&nbsp; <a href=http://theshovel.net/writings/dig.asp?TID=98  class="Leftnav"></i>source<i></a>'

quotes[71]='Is He in you? Then what else are you looking for? LIVE!!&nbsp; <a href=http://theshovel.net/writings/dig.asp?TID=100  class="Leftnav"></i>source<i></a>'

quotes[72]='Do you not understand that the power of those who are born of God through Christ is the very same power of the life that is in CHRIST ... the same power of God that raised Him from the dead?&nbsp; <a href=http://theshovel.net/writings/dig.asp?TID=100  class="Leftnav"></i>source<i></a>'

quotes[73]='God IN man is the mystery of godliness.&nbsp; <a href=http://theshovel.net/writings/dig.asp?TID=100  class="Leftnav"></i>source<i></a>'

quotes[74]='Know this, right now: God will not forget what His Son has done for you, so stop thinking that He will.&nbsp; <a href=http://theshovel.net/writings/dig.asp?TID=87  class="Leftnav"></i>source<i></a>'

quotes[75]='The fact that I am in union with God through Christ is much, much bigger than I ever thought possible.&nbsp; <a href=http://theshovel.net/writings/dig.asp?TID=88  class="Leftnav"></i>source<i></a>'

quotes[76]='To know the fear of the Lord is to be known by God according to HIS judgment in Christ: NO CONDEMNATION.&nbsp; <a href=http://theshovel.net/writings/dig.asp?TID=88  class="Leftnav"></i>source<i></a>'

quotes[77]='The judgment seat is the revealing of the accomplishment of Christ through his death and resurrection. It is the making apparent to man that which God already sees.&nbsp; <a href=http://theshovel.net/writings/dig.asp?TID=89  class="Leftnav"></i>source<i></a>'

quotes[78]='But when the temporary is stripped away the eternal is seen for what it is, and the facade will be seen as having no substance after all.&nbsp; <a href=http://theshovel.net/writings/dig.asp?TID=92  class="Leftnav"></i>source<i></a>'

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