Follow up to Sunday afternoon

I guess everyone agrees that our time on Sunday afternoon was a little bit mind boggling, I hope it was helpful though. I think everyone benefited from it and has some sort of better understanding about the persons of the Godhead now. I just want to remind you all that it's easy to come away from a subject like that with a lot of new head knowledge and there is nothing wrong with that. Knowledge is important, but I don't want any of us to fall into the trap of getting satisfied with head knowledge. Gaining knowledge is just one of the stops along the journey, but the goal of the journey is to apply understanding so that we have a better appreciation of the Lord. The goal is to love more! So, at the end of every session, like the one on Sunday afternoon, we need to help each other out and ask 'how has our appreciation and love for the Lord grown as a result of what we've learnt?' If there is no greater appreciation, then there is just new head knowledge and that doesn't really count for anything. Application to our lives is what we need to always be striving for.
I hope that is a helpful reminder.
I also want to urge you to try to study a little bit more. If you can, don't just read the point but check out all the bible references too. We need to resist being taken for fools and giving in to the gullibility factor. It's much easier to take the statements at face value and not really think about the fact that these articles or points were all written by men. They are not inspired! That might be obvious, but we need to treat them like they're not inspired. That means putting in the work and checking the proof texts. Ask the question all the time: 'Is this point scriptural?' If not we can't agree with it. If you say, 'ah well this is the confession that the church has taken for it's own so it must be good', or 'Andrew seems to agree with it', or 'it was written by the great Puritan minds - what could be wrong with it', then I am afraid you have fallen foul of the gullibility factor. You can't assume any of those things. The bible must be the only authority! So, get your bibles out and set aside a little bit of time to look. That is exactly what I have to do during the week to prepare for you guys. We all need to do it!
I really hope these prompts are encouraging you guys to keep moving forward.
Any thoughts you have, just post them. I'm sure they will benefit us all.