Where Will You Be When You Get Where You Are Going?
Make a Personal Theo-metric Assessment!
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One single jack is at the heart of the virtual nature of Theo-metrics and making a personal and practical 3-D assessment of where you will be when you get where you are going. The three axes (X, Y, and Z) of each jack allow connections to be arrayed all over them in matrix fashion to represent key relationships in life.
Paul likes directional metaphors like breadth, length, height, and depth too. These little toy jacks come to mind as I read about his illustrations.
For this reason I bow my knees before the Father, from whom every family in heaven and on earth is named, that according to the riches of his glory he may grant you to be strengthened with power through his Spirit in your inner being, so that Christ may dwell in your hearts through faith—that you, being rooted and grounded in love, may have strength to comprehend with all the saints what is the breadth and length and height and depth, and to know the love of Christ that surpasses knowledge, that you may be filled with all the fullness of God (Ephesians 3:14–19 ESV).
Likewise, Paul also used dimensional words that are aligned with discovering these dynamics at work on our lifeline. Look closely below for the three Theo-metric axes of life for the things that can hang on the good (Y), bad (X), and ugly (Z) axes. Also, see how they dynamically interact to connect and relate to Jesus through the power of the Holy Spirit.
If then you have been raised with Christ, seek the things that are above, where Christ is, seated at the right hand of God. Set your minds on things that are above, not on things that are on earth. For you have died, and your life is hidden with Christ in God. When Christ who is your life appears, then you also will appear with him in glory. Put to death therefore what is earthly in you: sexual immorality, impurity, passion, evil desire, and covetousness, which is idolatry. On account of these the wrath of God is coming. In these you too once walked, when you were living in them. But now you must put them all away: anger, wrath, malice, slander, and obscene talk from your mouth. Do not lie to one another, seeing that you have put off the old self with its practices and have put on the new self, which is being renewed in knowledge after the image of its creator. Here there is not Greek and Jew, circumcised and uncircumcised, barbarian, Scythian, slave, free; but Christ is all, and in all. Put on then, as God’s chosen ones, holy and beloved, compassionate hearts, kindness, humility, meekness, and patience, bearing with one another and, if one has a complaint against another, forgiving each other; as the Lord has forgiven you, so you also must forgive. And above all these put on love, which binds everything together in perfect harmony. And let the peace of Christ rule in your hearts, to which indeed you were called in one body. And be thankful. Let the word of Christ dwell in you richly, teaching and admonishing one another in all wisdom, singing psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, with thankfulness in your hearts to God. And whatever you do, in word or deed, do everything in the name of the Lord Jesus, giving thanks to God the Father through him (Colossians 3:1–17 ESV).
Ok, the hard part is over. So now examine your own personal tension area and start making your own personal Theo-metric assessment of your lifeline, you know it better than anyone. Succeeding chapters will lay down more detailed matrix modeling points to assist you with structure and help make personal considerations and decisions.
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Theo-metrics Defined
In making a precisely defined, personal Theo-metric assessment, we should:
1 Adhere to a set of properties for a particular communication path,
2 Construct a definite abstract for the notion of distance in a metric space, and
3 Measure the dynamics acting on our souls—attributed to God, Satan, and earthly factors related
to decisions, activities, and performance.
About the Author
Jesse W. “Bill” Addison (January 26, 1945–present) has, until recently, served as a hospital chaplain ordained and commissioned by the Southern Baptist Convention and the North American Mission Board respectively.
After living in multiple broken early childhood homes and a church-sponsored children’s home during high school, Bill attended Tyler Junior College in Tyler, Texas, in the fall of 1962. Prior to graduating from Texas State University in 1969 with a degree in business management, Bill taught high school math in San Antonio as a means of working through the remainder of college. Following graduation, he volunteered for service as a U.S. Marine. Bill completed officer candidate school in January of 1969 and went on to perform duties as a logistics and data systems officer. He retired from active duty in October 1991 as a lieutenant colonel, distinguishing himself by his individual professional service in the Marines with one U.S. Navy Commendation Medal and two U.S. Meritorious Service medals.
Bill later served the state of Texas for a total of thirteen years in Austin, conducting multiple audits of agency-wide programs and performing managerial duties within state agencies. Along the way he also completed an accounting degree from Park University, a master’s in business management and accounting from National University, and five professional managerial, accounting, and auditing certifications before answering God’s long-standing call to ministry.
Following the loss of his first wife, Judy, to breast cancer in 2003, Bill attended seminary at Memphis Theological Seminary, where he graduated in 2007 with a Master of Divinity degree (magna cum laude). He has served as a chaplain intern in two VA hospitals and has served as a part-time volunteer hospital chaplain in the Houston area for ten years. Additionally, Bill fulfills pulpit supply opportunities for churches in the greater Houston area and he teaches Bible study in a Harris-Montgomery County neighborhood community as the need arises. Bill has two married daughters and three grandchildren. His second wife, Christi, has two children and seven grandchildren.