The essence of home-based church-supported gospel learning is what I call homeschooling. Parents guiding the discussion and teaching Christ and his gospel to their children. The Sunday church second hour is content review - sharing with your peers what you learned in your home study. The quarterly Teacher councils is a style review, for parent and teachers, sharing How we teach. Again, home is for study and gospel doctrine style teaching, the What we teach.
I have been spending time in very foreign places lately and the difference in culture are stark. Although I feel this way in most situations every day, the contrast to the stranger feeling is far more stark some four thousand miles away from my wife! Santiago in Chile has no particular enemies as far as I can see, unlike the United States. Border control is a simple matter in this part of South America compared to the grilling I will get when I re-enter the USA. I suppose more terrorists are interested in attacking "the land of the free and home of the brave" as they say, rather than the longest and skinniest country around. It is interesting to see the people on the streets of Santiago, stopping often, shaking hands, pairing off and often kissing each other. if you can get past the frustrated drivers that regularly toot their horns, it is all very (in a word) peaceful . It isn't very noisy for a congested city center and I don't see a lot of anxiety in anyone's f...
There is much talk from Lisa and Jason about car problems, buying a property in Fritch Texas, and other things. I'm going to start advertising recordings from the Princess and/or the Priest page on Archive.org here on the blog. I'll see if it gets some notice from the universe. Enjoy! https://archive.org/details/princesspriest/Lots+of+Peas+at+Fritch+Flop.mp3