Post 2013 ISBC Reflections

2013.ISBCso-loved-overheadDo share your experiences and reflections from the 2013 ISBC. Share the good the bad and the ugly. When we share only the good (as on UBF websites), it is perhaps not entirely realistic or honest. But when we share all bad and ugly (as may be the case with UBFriends), it does become difficult and painful for some to read (even though I personally have no problem with brutal vitriolic comments). Hopefully, those who care to share and reflect may do so with reasonable objectivity and balance. Do speak the truth in love (Eph 4:15).

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ISBC UBFriends Stats

iupI found the following statistics to be kind of exciting.
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What would the other guy say?

a1This week I heard a fantastic logic puzzler called “The Two Doors Puzzle”. After hearing the answer to the puzzle, I immediately recognized the principle behind it. The puzzle is not realistic, because real life is not so black and white. However, the answer to this puzzle explains how I saw through the facade of the ubf heritage and discovered reality.

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UBF Doctrine – Behavioral Slogans

m1How then shall we live? I heard that famous question many times in ubf. In fact, the first 7 ideological points of the ubf heritage were often quickly taught or skipped in order to jump into the last 5 points: the ubf lifestyle. In ubf I was judged by what I did. And then I was judged by how much control I could exert to get others to behave according to these last 5 slogans. How I felt or what I thought was generally dismissed or ignored. What mattered, I was taught, was how I behaved. The last 5 slogans tell you just that.

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