Marbaniang, Domenic

Dimensions Relational – Fellowship – Breaking loose from self and connecting to the HEAD who is CHRIST Existential – Meaning – The final and ultimate drive - need Aesthetic – Beauty – True Adoration, Worship, and Wonder Moral – Goodness – Conviction, Holiness, Commitment Procedures Infiltration - Measure Innundation - Volume Incarnation - View Indoctrination - Word Insulation – Defence Symbolization Precipitation Exemplification Verbalization Insulation Symbols of Truth Confidence – Power Confession - Expression Consistence - Integrity Concern – Significance Marks of Good Communication Focussed – to the point, reasonable, cogent Fervent – passionate, intense, energetic, confident Followable – simple, clear, explanative, understandable

Dimensions Relational – Fellowship – Breaking loose from self and connecting to the HEAD who is CHRIST Existential – Meaning – The final and ultimate drive - need Aesthetic – Beauty – True Adoration, Worship, and Wonder Moral – Goodness – Conviction, Holiness, Commitment Procedures Infiltration - Measure Innundation - Volume Incarnation - View Indoctrination - Word Insulation – Defence Symbolization Precipitation Exemplification Verbalization Insulation Symbols of Truth Confidence – Power Confession - Expression Consistence - Integrity Concern – Significance Marks of Good Communication Focussed – to the point, reasonable, cogent Fervent – passionate, intense, energetic, confident Followable – simple, clear, explanative, understandable © Domenic Marbaniang, 27 December, 2008

Sermon by Domenic Marbaniang, December 18, 2008 And the Word was made flesh, and dwelt among us, (and we beheld his glory, the glory as of the only begotten of the Father,) full of grace and truth. (John 1:14) THE SERIOUSNESS OF LIFE God would not have become man if He didn't look at life seriously. The little life that is lived on this planet has eternal ramifications. It is not just about living it here as an old movie song says "Jeena yahan, marna yahan, iske siva jana kaya" - "We're going to live here, die here; apart from this, is there anywhere else to go". Or what the dramatist said in the Tempest about this small little life "rounded by a sleep". That is an Epicurean and Hedonist world-view, a materialistic one. They look at just living the life at present and only enjoying its surface surfs and foams instead of plunging into the eternal depths of its significance. There is a story of few soldiers on a trip somewhere who loitered around ...