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In our recent travels, my wife and I boarded a shuttle bus. A man promptly offered my wife his seat. A woman immediately offered her seat to me! The other passengers seemed to agree that it was appropriate for her to do so. Am I going to have to get used to this?

Here's my take on the timing of the 7 last plagues:

While I agree that God can never be defeated, humanity could have been defeated. If, in our corporate free will, we corporately "chose" to totally reject God and His way of governing. Humanity could have been abandoned to satan and utterly destroyed. At the individual level (or sovereign nation level), people can still be defeated by evil if they choose to disbelieve the promises of God and remove themselves from His protective hedge. We witness this every day in our world. God is not defeated; but a member of His family is lost.

Aubrey asked in the post below: Generally there two: The number of baptisms and the ability to engage with a congregation in a positive manner. Baptisms become problematic in that young pastors are often not placed in situations where there are likely to be a large number of people who convert. Back in our ancient history we ordained people who were medical missionaries overseas. Such neither pastored congregations nor were they personally converting people. I am aware of a somewhat recent situation in which the man stated that he would never pastor a congregation. His primary function was to lead a group of High school students in selling, door to door, SDA publications. He was ordained as SDA clergy. At a later time when his position with the students was taken away from him, he refused an offer to pastor a congregation. We have ordained people simply because we wanted to place them in an elected, or appointed, position where some would expect them to be ordained. Stan's denominational positon is such that it has often been held by an ordained person, but not always. Auburey the bottom line is that we have not been consistent. And, we have not treated everyone the same. In some respects I agree with this as I believe that we should leave it possible for God to lead us. But, in other ways I do not believe that God has had much to do with our decisions. NOTE: In my response, I have focused on the NAD. I have not spoken to situations in other countries.

Gregory, my first question would be Where were you when this happened? In what State? Or in what country? The community's deference to their elders is different in different communities. I wouldn't necessarily infer from this that you and your wife look OLD!

the lady was being polite to the elderly?