Oatmeal Joey Arnold (@JoeyArnoldVN)

One song we sang during worship talks about how better is one day in your courts than a thousand years elsewhere and that reminded me when I first heard that song, perhaps different version or style of that song or perhaps a similar song with similar lyrics, which I first heard back in 1999 at Word Of Life's (WOL) West Coast Camp (WCC) in Lassen Pines, California or that was at least my first summer there as a camper. I went there each summer from 1999 to 2003. So, we sang this song or similar songs at least one summer if not every year I was there at the very most. During offering and as part of the sermon introduction, Shawn played 2 songs on guitar and sung a little but it was mostly like a soundtrack, the first song was oh the wondrous cross or wonderful cross and the second song was holy is the lamb or worthy. Joanna talked to the children teacher man who also had his wife talked about a kid running the race. The other kids cheered him on. So, during the sermon, Joanna talked about seeing in other people a reflection within ourselves. Romans talks about that about how our hearts are like mirrors, that is the law is written in our hearts and that the law acts like a mirror. Without the love God, we can be consumed by the mirror, by hate, etc. Because light and mirrors are scary without a Savior. So, we walk towards the path of recovery together. But we pray for Christ to help us kind of thing. Otherwise we become leftist NPCs. But that is the natural state of man without God. That is who we are. So, we pray for Christ to redeem us from the inside-out. Linda talked about home schooling and such. I say give people options. Allow parents to customize classes for their children. Instead of just dropping kids off at government school, AKA public school, give parents the option to pick which classes. Perhaps a kid should be in one class at this one school and in this other class at this other school. Perhaps some of the classes should be online and other classes be taken at home or at a cafe or at somebody's house or other places. As mentioned in Sunday School class today, individualism can be good or bad or as I like to put it, individualism can be a potential step towards decentralization while collectivism is generally a mechanism and tool of centralization. And both can have benefits. Both can help. But the world generally becomes too centralized and everything too much and too often everywhere and in too many ways. Exceptions exist. I promote decentralization as an attempt to reach balance. We don't need to help people reach for more centralization because people naturally do that on their own. These are generalized terms and situations and everything that I am briefly mentioning here right now. There can be a time and place for different things. Return power back to the people.