Strengthened individuals
Encouraged for unity
We’ve been pushed to the limit
Through an established motivation
Gathered in love to Christ our head

Come on let’s join in synergy
Conspiracy constructed with hope in sight
A rebellious enthusiasm – united by Christ
To vulcanize the Spirit-filled thrash forever

Revitalization is what we want to see
Of the moving solidarity
By given strength community will be found
Let’s exploit our nerve of optimism

By flesh we’ll go separate ways
By Spirit we’ll unite
It’s time to make a change of mind
To conquer egocentricity

Together we will conjure up
A zealous wish to sacrifice the singularity
For the growth of this body
For the kingdom’s progress
–Extol, “Thrash Synergy”–

¹⁸ For the wrath of God is revealed from heaven against all ungodliness and unrighteousness of men, who suppress the truth in unrighteousness, ¹⁹ because what may be known of God is manifest in them, for God has shown it to them. ²⁰ For since the creation of the world His invisible attributes are clearly seen, being understood by the things that are made, even His eternal power and Godhead, so that they are without excuse.
–Romans 1:18-20 (NIV)–

The Spirit Himself bears witness with our spirit that we are children of God.
–Romans 8:16 (NIV)–

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God will be with us, and he will make us understand what we have believed. For we are well aware that we are at the stage described by the prophet, who says, “Unless you believe, you will not understand” (Isa. 7:9).

–Augustine, On Free Choice of the Will 1.2–

Do not, then, reprove for error those who have made a choice; for you know nothing about it. “No, but I blame them for having made, not this choice, but a choice; for again both he who chooses heads and he who chooses tails are equally at fault, they are both in the wrong. The true course is not to wager at all.” Yes; but you must wager. It is not optional. You are embarked. Which will you choose then? Let us see. Since you must choose, let us see which interests you least. You have two things to lose, the true and the good; and two things to stake, your reason and your will, your knowledge and your happiness; and your nature has two things to shun, error and misery. Your reason is no more shocked in choosing one rather than the other, since you must of necessity choose. This is one point settled. But your happiness? Let us weigh the gain and the loss in wagering that God is. Let us estimate these two chances. If you gain, you gain all; if you lose, you lose nothing. Wager, then, without hesitation that He is. “That is very fine. Yes, I must wager; but I may perhaps wager too much.” Let us see. Since there is an equal risk of gain and of loss, if you had only to gain two lives, instead of one, you might still wager. But if there were three lives to gain, you would have to play (since you are under the necessity of playing), and you would be imprudent, when you are forced to play, not to chance your life to gain three at a game where there is an equal risk of loss and gain. But there is an eternity of life and happiness. And this being so, if there were an infinity of chances, of which one only would be for you, you would still be right in wagering one to win two, and you would act stupidly, being obliged to play, by refusing to stake one life against three at a game in which out of an infinity of chances there is one for you, if there were an infinity of an infinitely happy life to gain. But there is here an infinity of an infinitely happy life to gain, a chance of gain against a finite number of chances of loss, and what you stake is finite. It is all divided; wherever the infinite is and there is not an infinity of chances of loss against that of gain, there is no time to hesitate, you must give all. And thus, when one is forced to play, he must renounce reason to preserve his life, rather than risk it for infinite gain, as likely to happen as the loss of nothingness.

–Blaise Pascal, Pensees, 3.233–

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The Cloud of Unknowing.

Jordan Aumann, Spiritual Theology.

Norman Geisler, When Critics Ask.

Josh McDowell, More Than a Carpenter.

Thomas C. Oden, John Wesley’s Scriptural Christianity, p. 228.