Analysis of Church Divisions



I could never address,
You as godly people;
When you do not profess,
To be a disciple.

You are infants in Christ,
Not fed with solid food;
Your flesh is so enticed,
With carnal attitude.

You are fed with the milk,
For you are not ready;
With a life smooth as silk,
Not so slow and steady.

You still have carnal skin,
Flesh filled with jealousy;
Still behaving through sin,
Causing strife with envy.

Are you not merely flesh?
Of servants you believed;
Sacredly will not mesh,
For salvation received.

The Lord assigned to each,
Plant and water for growth;
For ministers to teach,
As ordained in your oath.

Plant and water as one,
Rewards for your labor;
With recruiting is done,
When blessing a neighbor.

Together we labor,
For the Lord in the field;
Raising up your neighbor,
Harvesting a big yield.

Copyright © 2021 Richard Newton Sherrer


Scheme ABAB CDCD EFEF GFGF HIHI JKJK LMLM MNMN M
Poetic Form
Metre 11101 111010 111101 110010 111001 111101 111101 11010 111101 111110 101111 111010 111101 111100 101011 101110 111101 110101 1111 101001 010111 101011 110011 101011 101011 011110 101011 110010 010110 101001 101110 100011 10101010
Closest metre Iambic trimeter
Characters 807
Words 149
Sentences 10
Stanzas 9
Stanza Lengths 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 1
Lines Amount 33
Letters per line (avg) 20
Words per line (avg) 5
Letters per stanza (avg) 73
Words per stanza (avg) 17

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The Problem of Immaturity 1 Corinthians 3:1-9

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Written on August 16, 2021

Submitted by richards.77936 on August 15, 2021

Modified on March 05, 2023

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Richard Newton Sherrer

I was born and raised on a farm in Pennsylvania. It was a small family farm that was handed down through 8 generations of Sherrer men until my father; Newton just could not make a living from it any longer. He thought that I would make a better living away from the farm. So, I decided to join the Air Force in 1969 upon graduating from high school. I gained quite a bit of experience and insight on life while in the service. Even though I was only stationed on the east coast of the US, my Air Force career took me to Germany and Korea. After 20 years wearing of the blue uniform, I decided going in a different direction and found myself becoming very diverse in many different fields. Something still seemed missing to me after being separated from the service for about 10 years. The Air Force was a way of life for me, but really missed life in Korea. I found myself changing careers again. Poetry was an interest of his since my days in high school. With returning to the Lord, I felt motivated to write of my Christian beliefs. I started looking at Bible verses and reflecting on my own personal experiences. The Bible was found to be as true today as to when the various books were written. I could see much of what the Bible is teaching us as valid as every in modern time. It felt only natural to me on using his personal experience based on Bible verses and see much of my own life written in the Scriptures. God inspires me what to write about though. I do not claim to be an expert on God or the Bible. I am just a Christian who has become enlightened to write poetic verses from the Holy Scriptures. more…

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