Franklin Covey Notes- 7 habits

 

The Rise of Event Data Analytics

Gone are the days when event success was measured solely by attendance numbers and guest satisfaction surveys. Today, event planners have access to a wealth of data that can be harnessed to make more informed decisions. From ticket sales and social media engagement to attendee demographics and feedback, the data generated before, during, and after an event provides valuable insights that can shape the entire event lifecycle.

One of the primary drivers behind the rise of event data analytics is the increasing digitization of events. With virtual and hybrid events, there is an even greater opportunity to gather data at every touchpoint. Each click, comment, and interaction can be tracked, offering a comprehensive view of attendee behavior and preferences. This wealth of data can be harnessed to create more engaging and tailored experiences for attendees.

Understanding Your Audience

At the heart of event data analytics is the quest to understand your audience on a deeper level. Who are your attendees? What are their interests, preferences, and pain points? By analyzing data on attendee demographics, registration information, and previous interactions with your brand, you can create attendee personas that serve as a foundation for event planning.

Furthermore, event data analytics can help you identify trends and patterns in attendee behavior. Are certain sessions more popular than others? Do attendees tend to drop off at a particular point in a virtual event? Armed with this knowledge, you can fine-tune your event agenda and content to better cater to your audience's needs and interests.

Optimizing the Event Experience

Event data analytics is not limited to understanding your audience; it also extends to optimizing the event experience itself. For in-person events, data can be used to monitor crowd flow, track session attendance, and even adjust temperature and lighting conditions based on attendee comfort. In virtual events, real-time analytics can help you identify technical issues and address them promptly, ensuring a seamless online experience.

Personalization is another key area where event data analytics shines. By leveraging attendee data, you can tailor event communications, recommend relevant sessions, and even offer personalized post-event content. This not only enhances the attendee experience but also fosters a stronger connection between your audience and your brand.

Measuring ROI and Future Planning

No successful event is complete without a robust post-event analysis. Event data analytics enables you to measure the return on investment (ROI) for your event by tracking metrics such as ticket sales, leads generated, and attendee engagement. This information is invaluable for demonstrating the impact of your event to stakeholders and sponsors.

Moreover, event data can guide your future event planning efforts. By identifying what worked well and what could be improved, you can refine your event strategy for future iterations. This iterative approach based on data-driven insights ensures that each event is better than the last, fostering long-term success.

Ethical Considerations

As we harness the power of event data analytics, it is essential to address the ethical considerations surrounding data collection and privacy. Attendees' data must be handled responsibly and in compliance with relevant regulations, such as GDPR and CCPA. Transparent data policies and consent mechanisms should be in place to protect attendees' rights and build trust.

In Conclusion

In the ever-evolving landscape of event management, data is the compass that guides us towards success. Event data analyticsempowers organizers to understand their audience, optimize the event experience, measure ROI, and plan for the future. It's a journey that requires a commitment to data-driven decision-making, ethical data handling, and a relentless pursuit of excellence. As we continue to unlock the potential of event data analytics, we can look forward to creating more memorable and impactful events that leave a lasting impression on attendees and stakeholders alike.

As leaders develop the skills of effective, principle-based leadership, they:

• Create shared vision and strategy — and communicate those ideas so powerfully that others join them on their journey.
• Focus everyone on a common goal and ignite each person’s intelligence to achieve it together.
• Build high-trust, inclusive teams.

RESULT: Team members change their behavior in ways that improve business results and transform your organization’s culture.

'Habits' Defined

A habit is the intersection of knowledge, skill, and desire:

• Knowledge is the theoretical paradigm, the what to do and the why.
• Skill is the how to do.
• Desire is the motivation, the want to do.

Knowing you need to listen and knowing how to listen are not enough. Unless you want to listen, it won't become a habit. Creating a habit requires work in all three dimensions. By working on knowledge, skills, and desire, we can break through to new levels of personal and interpersonal effectiveness as we break from old paradigms. 

Paradigms are powerful because they create the lens through which we see the world... If you want small changes in your life, work on your attitude. But if you want big and primary changes, work on your paradigm. - Dr. Stephen R. Covey

Habit 1: Be Proactive®

Being proactive means more than taking initiative. It means we are responsible for our own lives. Our behavior is a function of our decisions, not our conditions. 

Habit 2: Begin with the End in Mind® 

To begin with the end in mind means to start with a clear understanding of your destination. You need to know where you are going in order to better understand where you are now so that the steps you take are always in the right direction. 

Habit 3: Put First Things First® 

Habit 3 is the practical fulfillment of Habits 1 and 2. Habit 1 says, "You are the creator. You are in charge." Habit 2 is the first mental creation, based on imagination, the ability to envision what you can become. Habit 3 is the second creation, the physical creation. It's the exercise of independent will toward becoming principle-centered.

Habit 4: Think Win-Win®

Win/Win is not a technique; it's a total philosophy. This frame of mind and heart constantly seeks mutual benefit in all human interactions. It's not your way or my way; it's a better way, a higher way.

Habit 5: Seek First to Understand, Then to Be Understood®

Seek first to understand involves a deep shift in paradigm. We typically seek first to be understood. Instead, most people listen to the reply. They're either speaking or preparing to speak. 

Habit 6: Synergize®

Synergy is the highest activity in all life - the true test and manifestation of all the other habits combined. Synergy catalyzes, unifies, and unleashes the greatest powers within people. Simply defined, synergy means that the whole is greater than the sum of its parts. 

Habit 7: Sharpen the Saw®

Habit 7 is about taking time for self-renewal. It makes all of the other Habits possible. When you sharpen the saw, you preserve and enhance the greatest asset you have - yourself. 

Come out of BABYLON! (The worldly system)

 God is jealous. He saved you from serving the devil to be His very own bride. He expects total adoration and perfect obedience. Religious holy days are one of the devil’s and world’s favorite ways to seduce you into spiritual adultery, where you will ignorantly make love with pagan idolatry and the devil, often in the name of Christianity. When God sees this adultery, He turns to be your enemy (Jas 4:4).

God is jealous. He knew religious customs of other nations were attractive, so He warned His people strictly to reject all of them. He would not accept any pagan religious traditions, even if done to Him (Deut 12:1-4,29-31). He demands perfect obedience, without turning to the right or the left, without adding or taking away (Deut 5:32; 12:32). He expects you to come out and be separate (II Cor 6:14-18).

Christmas is Spiritual Adultery

Taking an evergreen tree, putting it in your house, decorating it with lights, sitting in the dark, and adoring it to Christmas carols is spiritual adultery. You profess to love Jesus, but you do so with the mementos and techniques of other lovers – the world and pagan religion. You are not content with Christ’s pure gospel – for it has no Mass of Christ. You have added the world’s seductions to keep you happy in your marriage to Christ. He is highly offended at your whorish ways.

120 Reasons Against Christmas

There are many Bible reasons not to celebrate Christmas for those who esteem God’s precepts concerning all things to be right and that hate every false way (Ps 119:128). The God of heaven has specified exactly how He wants to be worshipped. He does not accept inventions or modifications. And He seeks those who will worship Him in spirit and truth (John 4:23-24). You are living in the perilous times of the last days – a time of great compromise by so-called Christians (II Tim 3:1 – 4:5 ). Where do you stand?

Halloween: The Devil’s Night

What will you do this year? Worship the devil on Halloween night and worship the Lord Jesus Christ on Sunday morning? Such decisions were easy for Christians in the past, because they were not part of a generation of religious compromisers. The Bible is clear! God said, “Wherefore come out from among them, and be ye separate, saith the Lord, and touch not the unclean thing; and I will receive you.” Only the rebellious question such plain words from heaven! What will you do this year?

Valentine’s Day

Jehovah created love, sex, and marriage; Valentine’s Day honors lust, casual sex, and chance. Jesus Christ is the Lord of heaven and earth; Rome’s pagan deities of Juno, Lupercus, and Cupid are abominations to Him.

Thanksgiving Day: Celebrate!

America is the most blessed nation in the history of the world, and Thanksgiving Day is a national holiday to give thanks to God. While we vigorously oppose the pagan and papal holy days of Halloween, Christmas, Easter, and Valentine’s Day, we believe that Christian Americans should observe Thanksgiving Day.

Raise your voice to bless the God of heaven for His wonderful goodness to our nation, our families, our churches, and our souls. Maybe we can drown out the din of the pagans around us taking the day off work, glutting themselves on turkey, preparing for a shopping orgy on Friday, and engaging in football worship!

Easter: We have a few problems

What do bunnies, eggs, and sunrise services have to do with the resurrection of Jesus Christ? 
(Hint: nothing whatsoever.)

 

Easter: When Rome Makes 2 = 3!

The greatest sign Jesus gave proving His deity was to predict His resurrection in three days and three nights. How many nights are there between Good Friday and Easter Sunday morning? Easter tradition tells us Jesus was in the ground only two nights, but Jesus tells us three. Who should we believe? Let God be True!

How to Stop Celebrating

When the Lord reveals the evil of pagan holy days, there are questions about informing others of the change in your life. Here are a few suggestions to be wise and righteous before God without being unduly antagonistic or offensive to those who cannot see (Rom 12:18; I Cor 7:15).

The Bible and grammar

 

RULE #5: Obey the Rules of Grammar.

1. God has chosen to communicate with written language, so we must learn the rules of language.
   1. Grammar. That department of the study of a language which deals with its inflexional forms or other means of indicating the relations of words in the sentence, and with the rules for employing these in accordance with established usage. The science which analyzes those distinctions in thought, which it is the purpose of grammatical forms more or less completely to render in expression. [OED]
   2. If you never learn to read, then you will be at a great disadvantage to know Scripture.
   3. If you never learn elementary grammar, you will also find it harder to understand well.
   4. However, it is important to also remember that we understand the things we read and hear with hardly any conscious thought about grammar. Even if you do not know the proper terms for various grammatical constructions or how to diagram sentences, you are probably still able to hear and understand. Teaching and defending demand more.
   5. As noted earlier about reading, grammar hardly qualifies as a rule of interpretation, since it is fundamental to understanding writing from any source in any language.
      1. But since Scripture clearly uses grammatical constructions in proving doctrinal points, it will be considered here as a rule of interpretation.
      2. Neither grammar nor justification of print on a page is taught in II Timothy 1:13.
      3. The “form of sound words” in II Timothy 1:13 is using words of a wholesome character or nature, as Paul did and taught elsewhere (I Tim 6:3; Titus 2:1,8).
   6. Experience shows few Bible readers and preachers pay close attention to the language and grammar of Scripture any longer, and there are reasons for their carelessness.
      1. Once you get in the habit of changing God’s words on a regular basis, then the individual words and their tight relation to the sentence lose importance.
      2. Once in the habit of modifying the message and program to cater to carnal and unregenerate members, you emphasize the sound of words over their sense.
   7. You will be accused of a nit-picking, old-fashioned method of interpretation, unless you can remember and explain the Holy Spirit’s examples of grammatical arguments.
   8. It would serve serious students well to own at least one handbook of English grammar.
   9. This study of Bible grammar is not exhaustive, but it should provoke careful study.
2. Remember arguments where the Holy Spirit appeals to grammar in Scripture to prove points.
   1. Paul built a significant argument for salvation on the mere number of a noun (Gal 3:16).
      1. Were God’s promises to Abraham and his “seed”? Or Abraham and his “seeds”?
      2. The difference here is the great contrast between Jesus Christ and antichrist Jews. Which of these two was the object of God’s promises in Abraham?
      3. Paul appeals to the Old Testament and argues from the fact that every promise to Abraham and his seed were to a singular “seed” (from Gen 12:7 to Gen 24:7).
      4. The true fulfillment of the promises to Abraham and his seed are in Jesus Christ and His spiritual children, identified through faith (Gal 3:16 cp Gal 3:29).
      5. Salvation is by grace, not race or law, from the grammar in the Old Testament.
      6. It is gratifying to see modern translations of the Bible foolishly pervert this point by using indefinite (NIV) or plural (NASV) nouns in the promises to Abraham recorded in Genesis. Even the New King James Version makes this corruption.
   2. Paul makes a fine switch from the active voice to the passive voice (Galatians 4:9).
      1. Arminian theology makes your salvation dependent on your knowledge of God.
      2. God’s theology makes your salvation dependent on His knowledge of you.
      3. God knowing us is the key (Rom 8:29-30; Eph 1:6; II Tim 2:19; Matt 7:23).
      4. Paul reasons, if your salvation is by God’s knowledge of you, why chase laws?
   3. Jesus argued an important doctrine from the tense of a verb (Matthew 22:32).
      1. The Sadducees, pseudo-masters of the Bible, denied the resurrection of the dead.
      2. Jesus proved the resurrection of the dead by the present tense in “I am the God of Abraham,” since He is God of the living, not the dead, and Abram was dead.
      3. Moses wrote this 400 years after Abraham and used the present tense (Ex 3:6).
      4. And Jesus argued His point from the only italicized word in Exodus 3:6! Glory!
   4. Jesus argued another important doctrine with merely the tense of a verb (John 8:58).
      1. Limited by the Jews to 50 years, Jesus claimed the eternal nature of Jehovah.
      2. Comparing Himself to Abraham, He did not say, “Before Abraham was, I was.”
      3. He said, “Before Abraham was, I am,” using the sacred present tense (Ex 3:14).
      4. The Jews obviously understood the implications, for they tried to stone Him.
   5. Paul argued an apparent verb tense error contained advanced revelation (Romans 4:17).
      1. God told Abraham, “I have made you a father of many nations,” when he was the father only of Ishmael, who would provide but one nation (Gen 17:5,20).
      2. God had purposed many nations through Isaac, and God’s purpose is so certain that we can use past tense verbs for actions not yet done (Gen 17:4,16).
3. Consider these grammatical constructions and the doctrinal implications from true analysis.
   1. Our Lord Jesus declared His Deity to Nicodemus by His use of a verb tense (John 3:13).
      1. He began by telling Nicodemus that He had come down from heaven.
      2. He added that He was still in heaven, even while they were talking on earth!
      3. Modern translations profanely delete this glorious little phrase from the verse.
      4. An angel or saint could come down, but only Jehovah God is omnipresent!
   2. John’s verb tenses in John 1:12and context teach that regeneration is by God’s power.
      1. Those who “believe” (present tense) “were born” (past tense) of God.
      2. Only this construction and understanding agrees with the facts of John 1:13.
      3. “Received him” is past tense only to continue from 1:11 in historical mode.
      4. John quickly brings this past tense to the present, by his explanatory “even.”
   3. Paul used verb tenses to show the gospel only benefits those already saved (I Cor 1:18).
      1. Only those who “are saved” (perfect tense, passive voice) profit from the gospel.
      2. Those perishing do not profit by the gospel; it is foolishness to them (II Cor 4:3).
      3. The language is clear – a perfect tense are and present tense is – indicating salvation occurred prior to the gospel being received as the power of God.
      4. God must call a man in order for the gospel to make sense (I Cor 1:22-24).
   4. John proves the priority of regeneration to faith by verb tenses (John 5:24; I John 5:1).
      1. The hearing and believing man “is passed” (perfect tense, passive voice).
      2. We can prove this grammar by comparing I John 3:14and I John 4:7.
      3. We can prove this grammar by honest men who want to check the Greek verbs.
   5. Paul teaches that our salvation is dependent on being accepted, not accepting (Eph 1:6).
      1. Here we are dealing with the voice of the verb – are we are active or passive?
      2. The religious world is clamoring, buying, and seducing sinners to accept Christ.
      3. God declare our adoption to be the result of being made acceptable (Acts 10:35).
   6. John proves God dwells in a person before that person will confess Christ (I John 4:15).
      1. The act of faith, in confessing Jesus as Son, is the future tense, “shall confess.”
      2. The result of regeneration, indwelling by God, is present tense, “God dwelleth.”
      3. Learn the basic but important rule that the tenses of verbs in a sentence are more important than their order in the sentence.
   7. Paul proves all foolish talking and jesting are sins by the number of a verb (Eph 5:4).
      1. Some have taken the liberty to justify “convenient jesting,” by limiting the condemnation of this text to only jesting, which, they say, is not convenient.
      2. But the plural “are” covers all three sins: filthiness, foolish talking, and jesting, which requires all three to be inconvenient, or some filthiness to be convenient.
   8. Paul argued we are already glorified by the use of the past tense of the verb (Rom 8:30).
      1. We believe sure enough we are foreknown, predestinated, called, and justified.
      2. But the text declares we are also glorified, which we view in light of Rom 4:17.
   9. Paul argued that justification precedes faith in a good text on justification (Acts 13:39).
      1. All that believe (plural, present tense) are justified (plural, perfect tense). Glory!
      2. Paul further confirms the fact by ascribing justification “by him,” that is Christ!
   10. Peter explained to Cornelius God had already accepted him and his family (Acts 10:35).
       1. He that feareth him (singular, present tense) is accepted with Him (singular, perfect tense), just as we know from Romans 3:18.
       2. He that worketh righteousness (singular, present tense) is accepted with Him (singular, perfect tense), just as we know from I John 2:29; 3:7,10.
       3. Being accepted with God through Jesus Christ is the key to salvation (Eph 1:6).
   11. Be thankful for the particularly precise language of the King James Version English.
       1. Thee, thou, thy, and thine are always singular. You can count on it absolutely.
       2. Ye, your, and you are always plural. Again, you can count on it absolutely.
       3. Matthew 26:64 addresses Caiaphas directly, then promises a view for the group!
       4. Luke 22:31-32 says Satan wanted all of them, but Jesus prayed for each of them.
       5. John 3:7 shows Jesus spoke to Nicodemus alone, but He taught a universal rule.
       6. Don’t let modern illiterates tell you we don’t want “thee” or “thou” in the Bible.
       7. Why did Paul end his epistles to Timothy differently (I Tim 6:21; II Tim 4:22)?
       8. The thee and thou of the KJV are superior to any English version without them.
   12. The right location of a comma defies the damnable doctrine of soul sleep (Luke 23:43).
       1. Jesus told the thief they would be together that very day in Paradise by saying, “Verily I say unto thee, To day shalt thou be with me in paradise.”
       2. Russellites and Adventists read, “Truly I tell you today, You will be with me in Paradise,” allowing the thief’s soul to sleep until some future time (NWT).
   13. Jesus was in the tomb two Sabbath days, based on the timing of the purchase of spices.
       1. Mark 16:1 indicates the women had bought the spices after a Sabbath day.
       2. Luke 23:56 indicates they had prepared those spices before a Sabbath day.
       3. The first Sabbath was Passover Sabbath; the next was the weekly (John 19:31).
       4. The women bought and prepared their spices on a day between these Sabbaths.
       5. Here is circumstantial evidence for our Lord’s “three days and three nights.”
   14. Ignoring the italicized words both condemns Jesus Christ and violates the true grammar.
       1. Arthur Pink suggested much light might be found by ignoring italicized words!
       2. Jesus argued from italicized words (Ex 3:6 cp Matt 22:32; Deut 8:3 cp Mat 4:4).
       3. Peter also argued doctrine from italicized words (Psalm 16:8 cp Acts 2:25).
       4. Can Mr. Pink discover how David and Elhanan killed Goliath (II Sam 21:19)?
   15. Jesus presently has His rod of iron rule by believing a verb tense (Revelation 2:26-27).
       1. He received such a throne and authority already, by the past tense “received.”
       2. We are not looking for some Jewish millennium in the future for Jesus to reign.
   16. God counted Paul faithful before conversion, by virtue of verb tenses in I Timothy 1:12.
       1. The coordinating conjunction “for” gives Paul’s faithfulness as a factor in God enabling him for the ministry.
       2. God measured Paul by his knowledge, which was unbelief (1:13; I Kings 15:14).
   17. Matthew used a different verb to lay a trap for higher and textual critics (Matthew 27:9).
       1. We condemn all the modern translations for crediting Isaiah with Mark 1:2.
       2. Zechariah wrote what Jeremiah spoke! Zechariah tells us so (1:4; 7:7,12).
   18. Verb tenses must be understood carefully in cases of quoted prophecies, for the prophet’s perspective was future, but the application by the apostle is present or past.
       1. Acts 2:17-21 was future to Joel, but not to Peter. It was fulfilled at Pentecost.
       2. Acts 15:16-17 was future to Amos, but not to James. It was fulfilled with Paul.
       3. Romans 11:26-27 was future to Isaiah, but not Paul. It was fulfilled with Christ.
       4. Hebrews 8:8-12 was future to Jeremiah, but not Paul. It was fulfilled in Christ.
       5. Hebrews 12:26 was future to Haggai, but not to Paul. It was fulfilled in Christ.
   19. Some have used Acts 2:41 to teach that baptism and church membership are simultaneous events, both of which are results of Peter’s preaching in Acts 2:40.
       1. “Then” is a conjunctive adverb that connects the independent clause of Acts 2:40 and the first independent clause in Acts 2:41. It does not affect the second independent clause of Acts 2:41, because conjunctive adverbs do not connect more than two such clauses.
       2. The two independent clauses of Acts 2:41 have two distinct and different time frames for their actions. The baptism of the first clause occurred after Peter’s preaching by virtue of “then” which means “at that time.” The addition of three thousand souls simply occurred sometime during that day.
       3. The two independent clauses of Acts 2:41 have two distinct and different subjects. The subject of the first clause is “they that gladly received his word,” and the subject of the second clause is “about three thousand souls.”
       4. A colon separates the two clauses, which is second only to the period in disconnecting clauses with independent and discontinuous grammatical constructions.
       5. The “and,” which serves as a coordinating conjunction in Acts 2:41, does not require addition to the church to be simultaneous with baptism any more than the following six clauses coordinated by “and.”
4. Grammar follows context and the preceding rules, because context determines grammar.
   1. Prepositional phrases must often be judged to be either subjective-genitive or objective-genitive. Is the object of the preposition the subject or object of the genitive case?
      1. A subjective-genitive construction makes the object of the preposition the subject of the genitive phrase. The object of the preposition performs the verb.
         1. In I John 3:16, God’s love for us caused Him to lay down His life for us.
         2. In Haggai 2:7, the “desire of all nations” is a prophecy of Jesus Christ, Who is desired by all nations. There is no one desiring nations. Consider this difference long enough to fully understand it.
         3. In Daniel 11:37, Herod did not forsake desiring women, for he had ten wives; but he did forsake women’s desire, for he killed their babies.
         4. In James 2:4, we allow evil thoughts to be the basis for our judgments. We are certainly to judge evil thoughts, but that is not taught here!
         5. In II Corinthians 5:14, Christ’s love for Paul constrained him to zeal, which is the great love he prayed for all men to perceive (Eph 3:14-19).
      2. An objective-genitive construction makes the object of the preposition the object of the genitive phrase. The subject of the preposition performs the verb.
         1. In Luke 11:42, the Pharisees were passing over their love of God, which they ought to have done. They were not neglecting God’s love of them.
         2. In I Timothy 6:10, the temptation is loving money, not money loving us.
         3. In Acts 13:34, the sure mercies are God’s in raising David’s Son, Jesus.
         4. In I Timothy 3:6, novices might be condemned for pride like the devil.
         5. In Jude 1:21, we keep ourselves loving God, for God loves us forever.
      3. We argue that such a construction is to be subjective-genitive in Romans 3:22; Galatians 2:16,20; 3:22; and Philemon 3:9 where righteousness and justification come by Christ’s faith and not our own. Consider that all modern Bible translations change this phrase to “faith in Christ” in all of these places.
      4. We deny the travesty of Scripture when some have argued that “the gift of the Holy Ghost” in Acts 2:38 is the Holy Spirit giving church membership through water baptism. The giving here is by God, and the gift is the Holy Ghost. Simply consider Acts 2:33 and John 7:39 and Ephesians 1:13.
      5. These grammatical constructions are interpreted by following the rules that have come before. Simply looking at the words and grammar will not give a hint.
   2. Long and complicated sentences must be diagrammed according to the rest of Scripture.
      1. I Pet 3:18-20 describes Noah preaching by Christ’s Spirit, while he was building the ark, to his disobedient generation, who were in prison when Peter wrote.
         1. Jesus did not descend into hell and preach to the spirits in prison, as the Catholics want us to believe. He went to Paradise with the thief.
         2. He commended His spirit to His Father’s hands, not the prison warden!
      2. Revelation 13:8 is short, but five consecutive prepositions modify “written”!
         1. Men wax eloquent about a Lamb slain from the foundation of the world!
         2. But the word “slain” is a participial adjective simply modifying the lamb.
         3. The preposition “from,” as prepositions do, tells us at what time the names were not “written” in the book.
         4. We confirm our choice by Christ’s death in time (Gal 4:4) and Rev 17:8.
         5. Jesus is described here as a Lamb slain for us to see a connection to 5:6.
   3. Long distance or complex relations of pronouns and antecedents must be Scriptural.
      1. In Psalm 105:36, the antecedent of “their” must be Egypt or the land of Ham.
      2. In Psalm 105:37, the pronoun “them” must be Israel from way back in 105:23.
      3. In Psalm 105:28, the pronoun “they” could be plagues, Moses/Aaron, or Egypt.
      4. Daniel 11 has very intriguing pronouns clarified only by context and history.
5. Corruptions of Scripture’s grammar could be multiplied indefinitely with little profit for most.
   1. Galatians 1:15-16 does not teach Paul was regenerated in his mother’s womb or at birth.
      1. The two parenthetical elements are unrelated to one other in a grammatical way.
      2. Both simply describe God’s calling of Paul to the ministry (Jer 1:5; Rom 1:1).
   2. Acts 2:38 will not allow substitution of other parts of grammar for “Christ” in the verse.
      1. Wanting to thwart the Campbellite doctrine of baptismal regeneration, it has been suggested that “anointed” be substituted for “Christ” in this text, for it to read, “baptized in the name of Jesus, anointed for the remission of sins.”
      2. Since “Jesus Christ” is a noun in this verse, it is invalid to substitute the participial adjective “anointed” in its place grammatically.
      3. Since the preposition “for” modifies the verb “baptized,” it is invalid to move its connection to an inserted participial adjective not in the original sentence.
      4. Such gymnastics and violation of grammar are perversely wrong and give the enemies of the cross the type of ammunition for ridicule they do not deserve.
      5. We know that the preposition “for” in this context means “in testimony of,” as proven by I Peter 3:21, and indicated by Mark 1:40-44.