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At school for the past 4 or 5 years my position is Math Resource Teacher or Math Coach…so I enjoy teaching students math.

I work with 3rd, 4th, & 5th grade students.

I get to create some fun and challenging math review games for them.

One of the concepts that is difficult for them especially 4th graders is division.

Things like 517 divided by 8…and word problems are even more challenging.

Two hundred forty-three racers entered the Subaru Rally Challenge.

The race officials wanted to place the cars into heat races that each hold 13 drivers.

How many heat races will the race officials need to have in order for all drivers to compete in the challenge?

243/13=18R9 so the students need to understand that if the drivers are put into 18 groups of 13 there will be 9 drivers who will not get to race, therefore they race officials need to add another heat race so these 9 drivers get to compete.

The officials need to have 19 heat races for all drivers to compete.

So division is good.

Also what if you baked a cake for a party etc....

We have divisions in sports,

keep on talking about good division

We have divisions in sports from the very youngest to the top professional level.

Division is good…we divide up bathrooms and locker rooms into boy, girls, men, women…we try and protect our children here, do as I said division is good.

In Washington D.C. we have Republicans vs. Democrats, we have division…how is this working out for our country?

Is division really good?

George Washington

Washington warned of the dangers of political factions to democratic republics throughout history.

His aversion to partisanship reflected the fact that just a few decades earlier, in 1746, political parties had driven England to civil war.

Washington warned of the dangers of political factions to democratic republics throughout history.

His aversion to partisanship reflected the fact that just a few decades earlier, in 1746, political parties had driven England to civil war.

“I was no party man myself,” Washington wrote Thomas Jefferson, “and the first wish of my heart was, if parties did exist, to reconcile them.”

George Washington’s Farewell Warning Partisanship would lead to the “ruins of public liberty.”

Washington also saw the dangers in the division of North vs.

South and warned that political factions gaining enough power could seek to obstruct the execution of the laws that were created by Congress and could prevent the three branches from properly performing their duties as outlined in the Constitution.

Washington also saw the dangers in sectionalism (North vs. South) and warned that political factions gaining enough power could seek to obstruct the execution of the laws that were created by Congress and could prevent the three branches from properly performing their duties as outlined in the Constitution.

Partisanship would lead to the “ruins of public liberty,”

He also said;

The disorders and miseries which result gradually incline the minds of men to seek security and repose in the absolute power of an individual; and sooner or later the chief of some prevailing faction, more able or more fortunate than his competitors, turns this disposition to the purposes of his own elevation, on the ruins of public liberty.

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Without looking forward to an extremity of this kind (which nevertheless ought not to be entirely out of sight), the common and continual mischiefs of the spirit of party are sufficient to make it the interest and duty of a wise people to discourage and restrain it.

The disorders and miseries which result gradually incline the minds of men to seek security and repose in the absolute power of an individual; and sooner or later the chief of some prevailing faction, more able or more fortunate than his competitors, turns this disposition to the purposes of his own elevation, on the ruins of public liberty.

It serves always to distract the public councils and enfeeble the public administration.

It agitates the community with ill-founded jealousies and false alarms, kindles the animosity of one part against another, foments occasionally riot and insurrection.

It opens the door to foreign influence and corruption, which finds a facilitated access to the government itself through the channels of party passions.

Thus the policy and the will of one country are subjected to the policy and will of another.

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So maybe not all division is good....

Scripture Passage

Review of Intro to Corinthians

1 Cori

Paul founded the church at Corinth during his second missionary journey probably around ad 51.

Important Reminder

Essential Understanding

A. In 1 Corinthians we see Paul, a pastor, dealing with a problem church.

In this letter and in Galatians, we see him apply universal gospel truth in different ways, based on the need of the church: freedom for the Galatian churches/limits to the Corinthian church.

B. This book is either a series of "cultural dinosaurs" or a wealth of principled truth applied to a particular historical/cultural setting.

We must be careful not to confuse truth and cultural applications of that truth.

For a good discussion of this very important hermeneutical issue see Gordon D. Fee and Douglas Stuart's How To Read the Bible for All Its Worth, pp.

65-76 and Gordon Fee, Gospel and Spirit.

C.

This book will push you to the limit of your spiritual ability to interpret the Bible.

It will force you to rethink aspects of your theology.

It will open a window to God's will for our day, practically speaking, as few other biblical writings.

The text states that Paul was “CALLED” klētós κλητὸς

invited, called out, chosen; SENSE: summoned - denoting someone whose participation or presence has been officially requested; especially a request to which refusal is not an option.

κλητὸς

essential

summoned by God to an office or to salvation

called, invited, summoned by God to an office or to salvation

Paul indicates that he has been summoned by God to be an APOSTLE, an envoy of Jesus Christ (an apostle is normally someone who has been taught directly by Jesus and who is invested with the authority to speak on His behalf.

G. Archer says: It is debated whether there are apostles today.

"The Bible itself never indicates the office of apostle has officially ceased, any more than with an evangelist or pastor-teacher (Eph 4:11-12)."

"The signs of a true apostle" are listed in : "signs and wonders and miracles."

These illustrate the spiritual power of someone called (commissioned) by the Lord to "break new ground" and bring unity to the Church.

"The signs of a true apostle" are listed in : "signs and wonders and miracles."

These illustrate the spiritual power of someone called (commissioned) by the Lord to "break new ground" and bring unity to the Church.

Utley gives a more detailed outline of the underlying foundations of APOSTLE

"an apostle" This is a common Greek word for "send."

This term has several theological usages.

"an apostle" This is a common Greek word for "send" (i.e., apostellō).

See Special Topic at .

This term has several theological usages.

1.

The rabbis used it as one called and sent as an official representative of another, something like our English "ambassador" (cf.

).

2. The Gospels often use this term of Jesus being sent by the Father (cf. ; ; ; ).

In John the term takes on Messianic overtones (cf.

; ,,,,; ,,,,; ; ; ; ; ,,,,,; ).

It is used of Jesus sending believers (cf.

; ).

2. The Gospels often use this term of Jesus being sent by the Father (cf. ; ; ; ).

In John the term takes on Messianic overtones (cf.

; ,,,,; ,,,,; ; ; ; ; ,,,,,; ).

It is used of Jesus sending believers (cf.

; ).

3. The NT used it for disciples.

a. the original Twelve who were an inner circle of disciples (cf.

; )

b. a special group of Apostolic helpers and co-workers

(1) Barnabas (cf.

,)

(2) Andronicus and Junias (KJV, Junia, cf. )

(3) Apollos (cf. )

(4) James, the Lord's brother (cf. )

(5) Silvanus and Timothy (cf. )

(6) possibly Titus (cf. )

(7) possibly Epaphroditus (cf. )

c. an ongoing gift in the church (cf.

; )

4. Paul uses this title for himself in most of his letters as a way of asserting his God-given call and authority as Christ's representative (cf.

; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ).

For Paul, apostleship was rooted more in the appearance of the risen Christ to him (1 Cor.

9:1; 15:7–9) than in letters of authorization from others in the church.

The authorization of his apostleship was not the congregation, but God, as we see in his “by the will of God” (see also Gal. 1:1).

His calling as an apostle came from God (“called an apostle”).

Sosthenes.

Perhaps the same person mentioned in Acts 18:17, ruler of the synagogue in Corinth at the time of Paul’s first visit to the city.