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by John MacArthur
Our society is suffering from an identity crisis. Collectively and individually, people today don't have a strong sense of who they are, what they want, or how to achieve it. They drift anchorless through life, following the whims and fads of the world instead of accepting responsibility and pursuing maturity.
Christians don't need to struggle with that kind of identity crisis. We've been redeemed and claimed by Christ, brought into His family, and are being transformed into His likeness. To some degree, it should be difficult to tell where He stops and where you start, so to speak. As Paul says in Galatians 2:20, "I have been crucified with Christ; and it is no longer I who live, but Christ lives in me."
That glorious truth describes the spiritual state of every believer. We are no longer isolated and alone—the Lord bought us with a price (1 Corinthians 6:20) and grafted us into His family (Romans 11:17). We bear His name, and our transformed lives are a testimony to His love and power. Christ's sacrifice on our behalf establishes our new identity for eternity—we are His church, His body, and His bride.
But if individually we are identified with Christ, why then do so many Christians refuse to identify with the church—a collection of others likewise identified with the Savior? Why do they refuse church membership and eschew fellowship with a local congregation? If the Lord has made us all one family in eternity, why do so many believers spend so much time here on earth avoiding one another?
Paul sternly warned Timothy to not be ashamed of the testimony of the Lord (2 Timothy 1:8). In his case, Timothy had real reasons to be afraid of publicly proclaiming his faith and identifying with the church—he faced the constant threat of physical persecution, imprisonment, and even death.
The majority of believers today won't ever face that kind of pressure. Instead, the resistance to identify with the church is born out of the fear of man. In our perpetually shallow and increasingly atheistic culture, there's nothing cool about the church. So rather than being saddled with the stigma of buttoned-down religion, some believers try to discreetly live out their faith through loose affiliation with one—and sometimes more than one—congregation. Others just avoid the church altogether, ashamed that anyone might think they belong.
The idea of giving in to that kind of meager pressure would be laughable if so many Christians weren't doing it every day. But rather than proudly and publicly uniting with other believers, they chase fickle popularity. Maybe you've been tempted at times to do the same.
What you do in the face of that temptation says a lot about the true state of your heart. The best indication of your priorities is how and where you spend your time and energy, whether it's a political movement, a school board, a neighborhood committee, or a fan club.
And of all the organizations you could belong to, the church is by far the most important. Your commitment to and identification with your local congregation speaks volumes about who you are and what matters most to you. In fact, your participation in your church is so much more than a once- or twice-a-week activity—it's a gathering of people who are no longer citizens of this world; a fellowship of men and women who have been transformed into new creatures and united in faith. The church is a foretaste of the glories that await us in eternity.
So if you claim to love the Lord but refuse to identify with His people, it raises understandable questions about the veracity of your love. At the same time, if your reputation with the unsaved world means enough to keep you away from the church, you have cause for serious concerns about whether you've truly repented and believed in the first place.
One other thing to consider when it comes to reputations: it's true yours could suffer in some circles if you publicly identify with your local church—it might even be humiliating for you.
But that's nothing compared to the humiliations Christ willingly and sacrificially suffered on our behalf. And if the Lord is willing to associate Himself with weak, sinful people like us, we can't keep Him or His church at arm's length. If He's not ashamed to call us His, we cannot be ashamed to call Him ours.
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All I can do is continue to pray for my husband to be convicted about visiting a church that seems to be a Bible teaching church. I have always gone before him and the choices have not been good. I have been praying for him to lead us.
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I have really enjoyed this series on the importance of church membership but my heart grieves when I read the comments of those of you who cannot find a biblical church in your area. Our church was founded by a TMS grad and is currently shepherded by another TMS grad who faithfully preaches the whole counsel of God. We have elders who are committed to a biblical philosophy of church and ministry. It truly makes church membership a joy that I wish you all could experience.
The only thing I can suggest is starting a church in your area with a TMS grad if you can get enough people to support it. Many TMS grads are going overseas to train biblical pastors in other countries but it sounds like there is a need for some of them to start churches in the states.
Thank you Janice for the comment.
Please pray for us.
I used to avoid church, but not for these same blog reasons. While these reasons in this blog are true and legitimate, it is not a complete list of why some Christians might be wary of finding a church to join. This blog seems to assume that every church is full of mature Christians who care about strangers, foreigners, desperate people, but it is not always so.
Going to a new church is like being the new kid at school, and not every kid is the most popular kid who can make friends from the very first day. Some kids are the rejects. Many new Christians are the rejects of the world, inside and outside of the church, and they don't receive a warm welcome, necessarily, everywhere they go.
Too many church members feel they have done enough to welcome the stranger, just by greeting them with a handshake every Sunday, but they have zero interest in becoming friends. Visit the new guy at their home, or invite the new guy to your home. I do not blame all churchgoers for this, but it is very common.
It takes many months to form personal friendships at a new church. Too many folks are too comfortable with their own clique of friends, they have no interest in expanding, or don't have the time in their lives.
So too many folks who try to attend a new church are giving up because it is very stressful to be that new guy, for many, many months; until you finally breakthrough and find someone folks you can be friends with at the local church. It takes tough determination to last through this initial period of finding friends at a new church. It is not easy for a lot of folks.
We must be willing to become friends with the outcasts and the lowly, the rejects, people like ourselves. Those might be the only folks who are interested in being our friend at a new church, or they might be us.
There is an aspect of Christianity that becomes too wholesome, (like when folks are raised in good Christian homes), they are not able to understand how Christ saves the lowlifes and outcasts. They don't understand why smelly homeless people should walk into our nice church building and stink up the place. They don't understand being a servant to the lowest and least among us. They love little because they have been forgiven little, life never made them desperate, but they cannot understand why needy people want to attend their church.
That is why it is hard for a lot of people to find a new church, they don't get an opportunity for friendship as often as they get a shallow greeting every week. It is very much a violation of James 2:16. We should not just give an insincere handshake or easy verbal blessing, but no material help, no personal interest, no friendship. Instead we must jump in and give the new guy friendship and help, then they will be coming to church every week because they want to, not just because Hebrews commands us to come to church.
I know we are talking about people, so nothing will ever be perfect, even concerning church people.
I am praying, Mae Ella, and will continue to. Since I now know you by name, I will specifically pray that the Lord will care for you and sustain you through this.
Dear John,
We have absolutely no problem identifying with the people of Christ. We love God and serve Him with all of our being. We don't avoid church because we don't want commitment, fellowship, conviction or discipline. We love all of those things, but it is rare to find in the Northwest.
We have absolutely no conviction that our having church at home is sinful in any way. We are growing in the Lord and our commitment to Him is paramount in our lives. We have communion, precious fellowship with other like-minded believers, and we share the love of Christ to the lost.
We were church attenders for 20 years and were involved in teaching Sunday School to adults, teens, and children. My husband has been on church boards and we were a tremendous supporter for church attendance.
After leaving a church we attended over 12 years due to a major moral failure in leadership that wasn't addressed, we attended several churches for a minimum of 18 months to two years and became active volunteers. If we told you of the situations that caused us to leave, we would think you would have supported our decisions. The reasons were never anything less than outright false teaching and unaddressed sin in the leadership that was ignored. Our problem was not because the fellowship was good or bad, or the facilities weren't nice or hip enough, or that we were lax in our dedication to our Lord Jesus Christ.
We just became so disappointed that we didn't know where to turn. Anyone who knows us completely understand yet they don't know what else to do and are fearful for standing out from the crowd so they stay.
We guess our question to you is, can you really paint all home church people as possibly not saved, or not strong in their faith? With all due respect that is wrong. You have been honored to have been raised in solid churches and you now lead an awesome church, but until you have experienced what multitudes of people we know are experiencing, we believe that your blanket assessment of us is undeserved.
We have to say this, that if it were not for the pandemic of the breakdown of the church leadership, we would never have searched nor found your site or teachings. We have finally found truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth and our family has grown so much in our knowledge of Him. Unless you have been exposed to the tragic failure of good whole teaching, you cannot understand what others have gone through.
We thank you for all you have done and are doing to enrich the lives of those who are desperately looking for clean water.
God bless you all at GTY.
Jean Selden
Auburn, Wa
I too have so enjoyed this series on the church. I am from Seattle but I am now living overseas in Toowoomba, QLD Australia and the need here for a solid church is critical. My wife is from here and we've lived here almost 7 years now and we have only just found a church to call home. In SEVEN YEARS! We've been to so many churches over the years but praying earnestly that God would provide a church we could call home that taught the Word and had a solid biblical, Christ-centered base. We could definitely use a TMS Grad who's be willing to come and help. In the meantime though, thank you Pastor John for your faithfulness and example to all of us. My wife and I regularly listen to your ministry and have done so for a while now. I grew up listening to you and my dad, who used to serve in your church. I thank God every day for Grace to You and hope and pray that our church remains solidly committed to serving the Lord and upholding the biblical mandate of the church!
I didn't read into the blog any blanket statement painting home church planters in the way you describe (7).
Amen Jean!
I couldn't have said it better. Our family is in the same situation as you have explained and we too live in the Northwest. Portland, Oregon to be exact. It is a hotbed of emergent nonsense. There is a gross lack of discernment in the visible church when pastors allow and even promote prominent popular pastor/teachers who promote contemplative spirituality and ecumenism.
Here is a portion of an article by Mike Gendron:
by Mike Gendron
July 20, 2011
The Death of Discernment In The Church
By Mike Gendron
Have you considered the spiritual health of your church in these days of tolerance and compromise? Is the leadership earnestly contending for the faith against the current wave of ecumenism? A. W. Tozer used the illustration of circulating blood to describe the health of a church. "The red corpuscles are like faith - they carry the life giving oxygen to every part of the body. The white cells are like discernment - they pounce upon dead and toxic matter and carry it out to the drain. In a healthy heart there must be provision for keeping dead and poisonous matter out of the life stream."
Using Tozer's analogy, churches that are dead or dying are the churches that no longer have the ability or the desire to discern truth from error. If they cannot identify toxic doctrinal error, the poison can never be removed from the body. And if it is not removed it will continue to circulate, bringing confusion to believers and false hope to "seekers."
Our family loves The Lord Jesus Christ. We enjoy nothing better than fellowship with believers. John MacArthur teaches the truth of God's Word and until we find a local church we are being fed by this ministry. Thank you! We are looking for a healthy church with fearless, Godly elders that will obey the scriptures to "contend earnestly for the faith" and spread the glorious gospel of our Lord Jesus Christ as commanded in scripture.
P.s. We would dearly love to meet like-minded believers in our area.
In answer to Michael 9.
In both this blog (third to the last paragraph) and the previous blog there are statements made to question the validity of our faith. Whether the intent was that, only the author knows, but when repeated, it gives the impression of such. I am not upset with John for his viewpoint at all. I understand that what he is doing is for the edification of the body. My point is that many people who are not attending church at this time because of lack of having a sound church with sound leadership in their area could be better understood. We are not resistant to looking for a church body. We love the church, but at this time, we have been set at home for church. Blessings to you.
The paragraph you indicated deals with people who rebelliously refuse to be involved in a local congregation; specifically people who are more concerned about their reputations with the world than they are with following the Lord's design for the church.
Only you know if that applies to you. But it's certainly not a blanket condemnation of anyone involved in a house church. Plenty of vibrant, dynamic congregations were born out of someone's living room. Even Grace Community Church began with a few faithful families meeting in their homes.
Many believers are unable to find a solid church in their area--we included some resources in a recent blog post to aid their search. However, it's a different story if they're rebelliously unwilling to look at all. It's those people and their sinful attitudes that John is writing about.
I appreciate and thank you for your response. Your explanation of John's intent absolutely makes sense to me.
My sensitivity could be affected by all the wonderful followers of Christ that are suffering because of the huge problem of finding a sound church. I see how broken and upset people are having to separate from a church body. It is painful for true believers.
Our church also started as a home church with only 8 people. There were no qualified elders so the church was under the oversight of a group of elders at a biblical church in another state nearby. Very humble beginnings indeed. But 16 years later it has grown into a vibrant church with elders and deacons. We get regular visitors who come sometimes from across town because they are looking for good, solid expository preaching and are tired of being spiritually hungry.
Sometimes all you have is a small group of people who have a strong desire to be a sound church, founded by the Word of God. God will bless that desire! Praying for you and your church!
My family and I have been fortunate to be in some solid churches and I thank God for that. We left our church, the chapel in Akron, to help a friend who took the pastorate at a traditional baptist church that was about to close the doors. My wife and I became members thinking that was the best way to get involved with service and prompted by this blog.
Now we regret our decision to be members. I was told that I was being considered to be a deacon/elder in this church that has a very unhealthy and immature elder board. I wanted to be an elder to bring a biblical influence to the group and help move the church toward health. Well, because I addressed the one deacon's wife of her sin causing factions in the church and then having him SCREAM at me for "judging" her I have been disqualified and set back from serving. The offending deacon stepped down and left the church because the ultimatum was given my family leave or they leave. I found this out after they left.
The church won't embrace biblical progress and I think we want to leave. My friend,pastor and former seminary professor said I could start preaching and teaching in 6 months but I don't care for carrots and will probably speak out about sin if I see it between now and then.
If this church was health and biblical I would get in where I for in but this church is on life support. They are doing the same things expecting change..... That's insanity!
Regarding #10 by Michelle
My family too is profoundly affected by the absence of solid Bible preaching and practicing churches in the Northwest. We went to several of the same churches she speaks of, know her family for many years, and can personally testify that if her family had found a good church with a godly pastor, they would be wholeheartedly participating and blessing that body of believers. Where are the true churches in the NW? Oh the disaster and wreckage that resulted from one of those churches that took me nearly two years to finally become convinced the pastor was indeed a wolf in sheep clothing, and he was not being held accountable by the elders. After so many tries you get burned out, and desperately cry to the Lord for His sovereign guidance! As Steven Lawson astutely says in his book: "There is a famine in the land!"
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I've used both Netbeans and Textmate and i'll stick to Textmate bigtime.
I am trying to get Netbeans to work with InstantRails and am not having any luck.
I have previously been using Aptana RadRails.
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Wonderfull location in Milaan! Very helpfull, good communication with Filiberto and Marcello. We would love to come back again some day!
Nice clean appartment, everything was in order. Very reliable people.
If everything went well, the apartment was immaculate happy again. The pizzeria and IE corner l 'Arcta or so I highly recommend.
Hat alles gut geklappt die Wohnung war tiptop gerne wieder. Die Pizzeria und IE Ecke l' arcta oder so kann ich sehr empfehlen.
Great appartment, really good communication and service from Filiberto and Marcello. Will visit again in the future.
The apartment is great: sufficiently equipped, well located and communicated. The only drawback I've seen are the difficulties of accessibility (third floor, no elevator and lots of stairs). The host, Filiberto, is a person with a nice, answered queries quickly and solved it brilliantly realized a minor inconvenience that we came. I recommend this apartment.
El apartamento está fenomenal: suficientemente equipado, bien situado y comunicado. El único inconveniente que hemos visto son las dificultades de accesibilidad (tercer piso, sin ascensor y con muchos escalones).
El anfitrión, Filiberto, es una persona de trato agradable, contestó rápidamente a las consultas que le realicé y resolvió estupendamente un pequeño inconveniente que nos surgió.
Recomiendo este apartamento.
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The appartment was as great as discribed on Wimdu's website. I definitely recommand Filiberto's appartment
The apartment is in a good location. By tram you go directly to the center and according to the "Duomo". In the apartment, everything was neat and even though we had arrived an hour earlier than planned, we did not have to wait long and the colleague of Filiberto was already there and gave us the keys. Plus it's very comfortable, find it perfectly four people place! :)
Die Wohnung befindet sich in einer guten Lage. Mit der Tram fährt man direkt ins Zentrum und entsprechend zum "Duomo". In der Wohnung war alles ordentlich und obwohl wir eine Stunde früher als geplant angereist waren, mussten wir nicht lange warten und der Kollege von Filiberto war schon zur Stelle und gab uns die Schlüssel. Außerdem ist alles sehr komfortabel ausgestattet, es finden perfekt vier Leute Platz! :)
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Skip to comments.USS Eisenhower arrives near Syrian border (From Reason.com - adds validity)
Posted on 12/06/2012 7:27:18 AM PST by Laissez-faire capitalist
The USS Eisenhower...arrived at the Syrian coast yesterday in the midst of a heavy storm, indicating US preperation for a potential ground intervention.
(Excerpt) Read more at reason.com ...
I then went to Google News and entered the keywords "French troops Syria" and found some news outlets on this. I am beginning to wonder if it is possible French (and/or even British) troops are going in. Hmmm...
Oops, meant to write "preparation."
In a rush... That's what you get. <sigh
Now no more distractions...
What do you think about this story and it being on Reason.com?
The USS Eisenhower... 8,000 troops... French/British troops? Ground invasion?
Another questionable source lists that there is an amphibious group with the Eisenhower ... that may be the confusion of the 8,000 troops stuff
Yes, there are some questionable sources surrounding this story... but Reason.com is not questionable by any stretch of the imagination.
Which lessens my suspicions on the matter greatly and makes me wonder what is really going on.
Time to prepare articles of impeachment.
I bet the USS Eisenhower is running chemical weapons drills.
Won't amount to a hill of beans. Congress lost its war declaration powers long ago. Obama's mindset is, "I'm the C-in-C, I control the military. They go where I tell them. This is... uhhh... a global initiative. Uhhh... we are global... uhhh... citizens. This is for the good of the... uhhh... global community."
The next time Obama gives Congress the required notice of intent to commit US ground forces will be the first.
That would be prudent. Assad is said to be considering the Samson scenario with his chemweps. Israel would massively retaliate if a Syrian strike occurs against her, unless O
has secretly agreed to preempt it in some fashion.
I suspect that is why the Eisenhower BG is offshore.
The 8000# came from Russia Today.
This link below takes us to the USN official Ike link.
The Ike carries a compliment of 6,287 sailors including the air jocks and their crew.
There would probably be at least an additional few dozen civilians on board monitoring their products/services in use and helping to maintain them.
A similiar amount of tad naval personnel monitoring and learning.
For the Clancy fans/writers, there will be a half dozen Guys from the farm and that many from No Such Agency.
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Scoff all you want peeps, they're there, like it or not.
USS Eisenhower with 8 fighter bomber squadrons of Air Wing Seven on its decks and 8,000 sailors, airmen and Marines.
The USS Iwo Jima Amphibious Ready Group which carries 2,500 Marines.
10,000 US fighting men, 70 fighter-bombers and at least 17 warships, including the three Iwo Jima amphibious craft, a guided missile cruiser and 10 destroyers and frigates.
Patriots deployed on the Turkish-Syrian border, THAD and Aegis on the Syrian coast aboard the USS Eisenhower strike group.
Yes let's go in and fight with the Al Qaeda. Maybe they will like more better.
Prayers for our troops.
Reason.com is using the same source as RT.
Intervention?? No, an intervention is what Oprah or Dr Phil conducts. When you send military into a foreign country it is called "invasion."
The little man with cheeks of tan was handed an array of "toys" with which he should never have been entrusted.
Is this how he plans to get rid of the military? Cannon fodder.
Good God, imagine if Bush were in the White House... the "media" and their democrat bosses would be literally and shrilly screaming for heads.
That figure might have been the max TO when the boat was launched but there are not that many bodies on the Ike. Ships company is about 3200 with ~2000 attached to the CVW.
Eisenhower has been decommissioned...
I believe you mean USS Enterprise which was just decommissioned on 1 december.
Two ?'s
Where are you getting your data?
Is the navy having problems staffing its ships with qualified personnel?
Do they have the ability to destroy seran gas without spreading it?
That is what the idiots running the west right now do not realize. They cannot get Assad to leave by offering him asylum. He represents a significant ethnic group. It is not just about him. If he leaves, his entire extended ethnic family of thousands, will be killed and tortured by the Islamic Insurgents and Sunni Rebels.
That is what they tried to do during the first Gulf War. They bombed all of Saddams facilities. Later on they discovered that bombing the facilities released the elements into the immediate area. In Iraq they were located out in the dessert. In Syria they are located close to residential areas. One of the bombed facilities in Iraq, was damaged so bad that the UN could not even enter the facility. They just sealed it and left it there. After the final war to remove Saddam, the facility was still there and still sealed by the UN. So the claim that WMD was not in Iraq was patently false, as every thing else that ever came out of the Oligarchies mouth. They initially left the facility sealed, then came back and found that the facility had been entered and cleaned out of its WMD. No one knows who got the stuff.
So if the US wants to continue its primary objective in the Middle East and Africa, which appears to be getting WMD into the hands of Islamic terrorists, then they will bomb his facilities by air.
The fleet.
Is the navy having problems staffing its ships with qualified personnel?
The Navy is being forced to do more with less. Technology improvements have reduced the required number of bodies but the Navy is shrinking and a lot of sailors are getting RIF'd. The CVW alone requires fewer mechanics, technicians, pilots, etc. ...
eisenhower... enterprise..
both start with an E and have ten letters...
Interesting as I've always understood Reason was extremely left wing. I'll have to drop by, and read there one of these days.
Whatever the reason is, it almost certainly can't be good.
Syrian rebels seize El Saphira near big chemical weapons store
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In short: Well worth the day tripDate of review: October 11, 2005
In short: Fantastic race!In full: Weather couldn't have been better and the atmosphere was terrific with bands playing and crowds continuously cheering participants on. Wonderfully flat route - good for personal best. Well organised and a great goodie bag at end. Brilliant from start to finish.Date of review: October 11, 2005
In short: First time runner and was impressed. The weather was fantastic and made for a very quick race (1hr 11 mins 13 secs)In full: I thought the wave system was a great success and the start was not very congested! I agree with people's comments re the mile markers....I missed about half! Only sour note was being issued a parking ticket at one of the "free, closed to runners" car parks, apparently shoppers were parking there so they started to issue tickets to everyone. Anyway hopefully the appeal is successful!Definately be back next year!Date of review: October 11, 2005
In short: Great orgnaisation, route and crowd. A great raceDate of review: October 11, 2005
In short: Excellent organisation for a big field eventIn full: Very impressed - rivals FLM for organisation.Date of review: October 11, 2005
In short: Great organisation & amazing atmosphere!In full: Brilliant organised- wave structure very good in seperating the serious athletes from the fun runners. Excellent scenery and great goodie bag- what more can one want? ;DDate of review: October 11, 2005
In short: Only complaint is about the low mile markers, was desperately searching for 4-mile mark when I stumbled on the 6-mile mark, otherwise very goodDate of review: October 11, 2005
In short: Top EventIn full: White wave - felt pretty uncrowded although I did overtake a number of people from the first wave, which surprised me with my own time of 1:37 (slowish, I know but quite an achievement for me). Friendly and inspiring atmosphere - both crowd and fellow runners. However, as others have commented, it's a shame how rude a small minority of people remain as they barge their way through. Surprised to read that some thought it windy - a little breeze would have been very welcome towards the end as I felt in danger of overheating. By far the most enjoyable run of my relatively short running career which has started in my middle youth. A massive thank you to the organisers - can't wait for next year.Date of review: October 11, 2005
In short: Organisation was faultlessIn full: Superb marshalling and race organisation, but not a race for runners, I'm only average but spent 1 1/4 hrs on an obstacle course, hats off to charity fund-raisers, I know how hard it can be, but club runners should be placed in a front wave behind the elite. Still, worth the experience, goody bag quite impressive as freebies go.Date of review: October 11, 2005
In short: A well organised and mostly scenic raceIn full: Brilliantly organised even this year, which timing chips really helping. Enough people running to make it an exciting atmosphere but not too many that you can't run. A bit depressing when you head into the estates but running along the sea front and around the naval base, seeing the old ships, is very good. Well worth doing, especially if you are new to distance running and/or want to step up to half marathons.Date of review: October 11, 2005
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11.1. Database Settings
Selected Target Database - Display server/client parameters information
Displays information on the parameters used in the database. You can check the items to be displayed when the cubrid paramdump utility is running in the Manager.
For more information about this utility, see "Outputting Parameters Used in Server/Client."
If you select Display server/client parameters information option, you can check all parameter values applied to the server and the client.
If you deselect the option, you can check only the parameter values applied to the server.
Selected Target Database - Query Plan Cache Information
Displays information on the query plan saved in the cache of the database server. You can check the items to be displayed when the cubrid plandump utility is running in the Manager. For more information about the utility, see "Checking the Query Plan Cache."
Since this feature can only be performed when the database server is running, the Query Plan Cache Information menu is activated only when the database server is running.
If you select the Delete query plans saved in the cache option, the collected database query plan cache information is displayed before it is initialized.
11.2. Query Editor Options
File > Preferences > Query options
Sets the basic information about the currently used CUBRID Manager. Provides the same items as the host setting.
Host > Properties > Query
In the Query dialog box, you can set the following options:
Database > Properties > Connection Information
11.3. Global Settings
Help Setting
You can set whether the Help is displayed through the internal Help window or the external browser. You can also select the open mode when the Help is executed as an Eclipse plug-in.
Basic Information Setting
You can set the following through basic information setting:
JDBC Driver Setting
Multiple JDBC drivers are supported in CUBRID 2008 R2.1 or later. To access database in version earlier than 2.1, you can configure additional version of CUBRID JDBC driver. The CUBRID JDBC drivers are contained in cubridmanager/plugins. In CUBRID Manager R2.1, in general, you can access the corresponding version of database server by using CUBRID-JDBC-8.2.1.x. As multiple JDBC drivers are supported, you can use access the earlier version of database than the version of CUBRID Manager to execute queries. To do it, go to Default Configuration > JDBC Driver Configuration and configure additional JDBC driver that you will use.
However, depending on the version of the database server that is being connected to, there might be some restricted functions. For example, while the functions in the left tree structure work normally in the database of CUBRID 2008 R2.0 or higher, they do not work in earlier versions of the database. In addition, query editing or executing will work normally in the database of CUBRID 2008 R1.4 or higher, but will not work in earlier versions.
Monitoring Dashboard
You can set the color for each status of hosts, database servers, or brokers in the monitoring dashboard.
Import Options Setting
Set which strings will be regarded as NULL value during importing or updating.
Service Operation Setting
Sets database common parameters.
Server-Common/-Specific Parameter Setting
Sets the options related to the service operation. You may set automatic database startup.
HA Setting
Sets database HA parameters.
Edit Configuration File
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Barbara and I were talking over our art journals one day and she described a dress she had when she was seven or eight years old. Yellow with a lacy over dress and small collar and puffy sleeves. It was like a slap in the face because I had a dress just like that but hadn't remembered it in years. Especially the yellow part.
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Chapter 97: Al-QadrHoly Qur'an (edited by Malik Ghulam Farid), 1994
(Revealed before Hijrah)
Date of Revelations and ContextSome Commentators of the Qur'an think that this Surah was revealed at Medina. This, however, is a mistaken view, being against all historical data. It is definitely a Meccan Surah and belongs to the very early years of the Call. Such eminent and respected authorities as Ibn Abbas, Ibn Zubair and Aishah subscribe to this view. Noldeke places it after Chapter 93, which was one of the earliest Chapters to have been revealed at Mecca. The preceding Surah had opened with the Divine command to the Holy Prophet to recite the Qur'an and preach and proclaim its Message to the world. The present Surah deals with the high status, dignity and excellence of the Qur'an itself which is declared in the opening verse to have been revealed in Lailat al-Qadr, i.e., the Night of Decree (or Dignity). This Night of Decree or Destiny has been described elsewhere in the Qur'an, as the "Blessed Night" (44:4). The Surah has only five little verses, excluding the Bismillah and yet its meaning and contents are of very deep spiritual significance.
3394. Qadr means worth; sufficiency; dignity; decree; destiny; power (Lane). In view of the different meanings of Qadr and Lailah the verse may be interpreted as follows: The Qur'an has been revealed in a night which had been specifically set apart for the manifestation of special Divine powers; or in a night which is equal in worth to all the other nights put together, or in a night of dignity, majesty and honour; or, in a night of sufficiency, i.e., the Qur'an fully meets all moral and spiritual human needs and requirements. Or, the meaning is that God has revealed it in the Night of Decree or Destiny, i.e., the Qur'an was revealed at a time when man's destiny was decreed, the future pattern of the universe was settled, and the right principles of guidance for humanity were laid down for all time to come. The time of the appearance of a great Divine Reformer is also called Lailat al-Qadr because at that time sin and vice hold widespread sway and the powers of darkness reign supreme. It has also been taken to mean the particular night among the odd nights in the last ten days of Ramadan when the Qur'an first began to be revealed. Or, it may signify the whole period of 23 years of the Holy Prophet's ministry when the Qur'an gradually was being revealed.
3395. The blessings of the Night of Decree are beyond count or calculation.
3396. Alf (a thousand), being the highest number of count in Arabic, signifies a number beyond count, and the verse means that the Night of Decree or Destiny is better than countless number of months, i.e., the period of the Holy Prophet is infinitely better than and superior to all other periods put together. The verse embodies an illusion to the appearance of Divine Reformers among the Muslim when the latter would stand in need of them. One thousand months roughly make one century and the Holy Prophet is reported to have said that God will continue to raise from among His followers, at the head of every century, a Divine Reformer who would regenerate Islam and give it a new life and new vigour (Majah).
3397. Al-Ruh here signifies a new spirit, awakening, zeal or determination. In the Night of Decree the angels of God descend to help the Divine Messenger or Reformer to promote and further the cause of Truth and his followers are inspired with a new life, and a new awakening to spread and propagate the Divine Message.
3398. In the time of a Prophet or Divine Reformer a peculiar kind of mental peace descends upon the believers amidst hardships and privations. The heavenly happiness, which inspires them at that time, transcends all material and sensuous joys.
3398A. `Rising of the dawn' signifies the passing of the night of hardships and the rising of the dawn of predominance and ascendancy of the cause of Truth.


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