I am just your average, ordinary girl. But the thing is, that i love an anything but average, extraordinary God. And that's what makes my life what it is today. As i look at my life i see that God is not only a part of who i am now, and who i will be in my future, but also who i was in my past. He helped shape me then, he is shaping me now, and will continue to do so for the rest of my days. Without him i would be nothing. He is my past, present, and future.
PAST
My past consists of so many different things that define who i am and how God shaped me. It includes how my family works, how i first became a christian, and how i came to actually know what being a chrstian really meant.
1. Lets start with my family. I live with my grandparents. My grandma is the one who showed and taught me who God was. My dad lives in San Diego with my step mom and their two kids, my brother raleigh and my sister addison. My mom lives with her mom and family in San Jose with my other brother, Levi. My mom and dad dont really have a real close relationship with me, its more of a friend relationship than anything. Over the years they've hurt me and i've resented them. But i'm trying to overcome that because i know they mean well. But, luckily i have my grandma and she is the one who taught me how to love God and who influenced my to become who i am.
2.She was also the reasons i first decided to become a christian. It was a hot day in the middle of July. Me and a group of about six other 5 year olds were sitting in a circle around the teacher learning parts of the Lord's Prayer. that day we were learning "thy kingdom come, thy will be done, on earth as it is in heaven." on that day. I decided that i wanted to be a christian. Of course, as most five year olds i had no idea what that REALLY meant. I went to a chrstian school, i knew all the right answers, i went to chruch, i was chrsitian. But of course, after some time, i lost interest in church beacuse "old people" service was boring and i didnt like going. So i stopped, and i took everything in school forgranted.
3. But then something happened, we decided to move to Las Vegas. That changed everything. We began to go to a church that i loved. I felt welcomed and lloved by the people around me . I finally had a group of friends that like me for who i was and who would stand by me no matter what. I was so actively involved in church that it caused me to want to search for a deeper meaning of who Christ was and who he wanted me to be. I attended conferences, and i was part of small groups, everything encouraging me to grow closer to God. And that has brought me to where i am now.
PRESENT
Now i sit here as a student at APU living for God as best that i can. I am pursuing the calling that God has placed on my life. Everday he is showing me something new about himself, or about myself. He shows me things to help me develop who i am in him and things that will help me in the future.
FUTURE
I know that God has called me into mistry. I am supposed to show and tell the junior and senior high school students all about God and who is and his divine love for them. Everyday God shows me something that i will be able to use in the future. He is preparing my today, to do his work tomorrow. And i am excited for it
So not only has God worked through my past, but he is also working here and now and preparing me for my future. Everything that he does and shows me is just another part of who I am and who i am becoming
Saturday, September 29, 2007
Thursday, September 27, 2007
Exo/Deut: thurs 9.27.07
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1 Samuel 17:1-54: David v Goliath
Observe the text
1. Who is david (read 1 sam 16 too)
2. Who are the philistines and who is goliath?
3. Who does David say he represents in the story?
4. How does david kill Goliath?
5. When Goliath dies, what happens to him (describe what happens from the moment the rock hits him)
Interpret the Text
1. What is the significance about David's identity in this story?
2. In this story, there are two people who represent larger, opposing forces...why is this significant?
3. We are told that Goliath's head is crushed by the rock from David's sling...is there any special significance to this?
4. 1 Sam. 117:49 states that Goliath fell face forward. Does this trike you as off? Can you think of any special significance to this seemingly minute detail? (Hint: look at the larger context of 1 Sam. specifically when the Ark is before the pagan god Dagon.)
seriously, holy crap....connectedness...between everything and toward God, and connectiongs from before and genesis...etc...figure it out.
Read RUTH 1-4
LECTURE
Authorship
-Pentateuch (torah): first five books of the Bible: written by moses(?)
-Documentary Hypothesis Theory-
-JEDP
-A multiple authors theory
-states that at least four different authors are behind the composition of the OT
-Based upon the use of the various names for God used throughout the Pentateuch
-With each different name used, the hypothesis postualtes that his is in fact a reflection of a different author writing that particular section.
- J: the "Yahwiat" (i am that i am, covenant name of God)
- E: the "elohist" (generic god/gods)
- D: the "Deuteronomist" (law)
- P: the "priest" (sacrifice)
1 Samuel 17:1-54: David v Goliath
Observe the text
1. Who is david (read 1 sam 16 too)
2. Who are the philistines and who is goliath?
3. Who does David say he represents in the story?
4. How does david kill Goliath?
5. When Goliath dies, what happens to him (describe what happens from the moment the rock hits him)
Interpret the Text
1. What is the significance about David's identity in this story?
2. In this story, there are two people who represent larger, opposing forces...why is this significant?
3. We are told that Goliath's head is crushed by the rock from David's sling...is there any special significance to this?
4. 1 Sam. 117:49 states that Goliath fell face forward. Does this trike you as off? Can you think of any special significance to this seemingly minute detail? (Hint: look at the larger context of 1 Sam. specifically when the Ark is before the pagan god Dagon.)
seriously, holy crap....connectedness...between everything and toward God, and connectiongs from before and genesis...etc...figure it out.
Read RUTH 1-4
LECTURE
Authorship
-Pentateuch (torah): first five books of the Bible: written by moses(?)
-Documentary Hypothesis Theory-
-JEDP
-A multiple authors theory
-states that at least four different authors are behind the composition of the OT
-Based upon the use of the various names for God used throughout the Pentateuch
-With each different name used, the hypothesis postualtes that his is in fact a reflection of a different author writing that particular section.
- J: the "Yahwiat" (i am that i am, covenant name of God)
- E: the "elohist" (generic god/gods)
- D: the "Deuteronomist" (law)
- P: the "priest" (sacrifice)
CLFM: thurs 9.27.07
Gospel Themes, Part 2: Atonments
-picking up from the "fallen" theme of the gospel themes-
Redeemed
God's response to our failure:
-Atonement: process by which the hindrances to reconciliation are removed
-God's radical response to our brokenness
-Audacious breaking in to human history
-Rom. 5:8: God proves his love for us in that while we still were sinners, Christ died for us.
Understanding the atonement influenced by understandings of what is wrong with humanity
1. God's wrath against human sinfulnedd puts us in danger of eternal punishment
2. Humans need to know God's love for us
3. Humanity is trapped and oppressed by spiritual forces beyong our control
Biblical Images for atonement:
1. Satisfaction Theory
-primary author: Anslem of Cantebury
-primary image: the temple
-Rom. 3:22-25: for there is no distinction, since all have sinner and fall short of the glory of God; they are now justified by his grace as a gift, through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus, whom God put forward as a sacrifice of atonement by his blood, effective through faith.
2. Substitution Theory
-primary author: 16th c reformers
-primary image: law court
-Rom. 5:16: And the free gift is not like the effect of the one man's sin. For the judgement following one trespass brought condemnation but the free gift folowing many trespasses brings justitification.
3. Moral-Influence Theory
-primary author: Peter Abelard
-primary image: a teacher of mentor
-2 Cor. 3:18: and all of us, with unveiled faces, seeing the flory of the Lord as though reflected in a mirror, are being transformed into the same image from one degree of glory to another; for this comes from the Lord, the spirit.
4. Ransom Theory
-primary image: slave block
-sin as slavery to sin (Rom. 6)
-Matt. 20:28: Just as the son of man came not to be served but to serve, and to give his life a ransom for many
-John 8:34: Jesus replied, "I tell you the truth, everyone who sins is a slave to sin."
5. Victory Theory (Christus victor)
-primary image: the home
-2 Cor. 5:19: in Christ God was reconciling the world to humself, not counting their trespasses against them, and entrusting the message of reconciliation to us.
Common to all images of atonement:
-something of cosmic signigicance occured
-changes to our relationship to God forever
The cross shows us:
-the seriousness of our sin
-the enormity of God's great love for us
What Christ's scrifice means for us:
1. Freedom from the penalty of sin (forgiveness)(get out of hell free card)
-1 John 1:9: if we confess our sins, he who is faithful and just will forgive us our sins and cleanse us from all unrighteousness.
2. Freedom from the power of sin today (Rom. 6-8)
3. Reconciliation with God
4. Reconciliation with others
-Ephesians 2:13-18-
-picking up from the "fallen" theme of the gospel themes-
Redeemed
God's response to our failure:
-Atonement: process by which the hindrances to reconciliation are removed
-God's radical response to our brokenness
-Audacious breaking in to human history
-Rom. 5:8: God proves his love for us in that while we still were sinners, Christ died for us.
Understanding the atonement influenced by understandings of what is wrong with humanity
1. God's wrath against human sinfulnedd puts us in danger of eternal punishment
2. Humans need to know God's love for us
3. Humanity is trapped and oppressed by spiritual forces beyong our control
Biblical Images for atonement:
1. Satisfaction Theory
-primary author: Anslem of Cantebury
-primary image: the temple
-Rom. 3:22-25: for there is no distinction, since all have sinner and fall short of the glory of God; they are now justified by his grace as a gift, through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus, whom God put forward as a sacrifice of atonement by his blood, effective through faith.
2. Substitution Theory
-primary author: 16th c reformers
-primary image: law court
-Rom. 5:16: And the free gift is not like the effect of the one man's sin. For the judgement following one trespass brought condemnation but the free gift folowing many trespasses brings justitification.
3. Moral-Influence Theory
-primary author: Peter Abelard
-primary image: a teacher of mentor
-2 Cor. 3:18: and all of us, with unveiled faces, seeing the flory of the Lord as though reflected in a mirror, are being transformed into the same image from one degree of glory to another; for this comes from the Lord, the spirit.
4. Ransom Theory
-primary image: slave block
-sin as slavery to sin (Rom. 6)
-Matt. 20:28: Just as the son of man came not to be served but to serve, and to give his life a ransom for many
-John 8:34: Jesus replied, "I tell you the truth, everyone who sins is a slave to sin."
5. Victory Theory (Christus victor)
-primary image: the home
-2 Cor. 5:19: in Christ God was reconciling the world to humself, not counting their trespasses against them, and entrusting the message of reconciliation to us.
Common to all images of atonement:
-something of cosmic signigicance occured
-changes to our relationship to God forever
The cross shows us:
-the seriousness of our sin
-the enormity of God's great love for us
What Christ's scrifice means for us:
1. Freedom from the penalty of sin (forgiveness)(get out of hell free card)
-1 John 1:9: if we confess our sins, he who is faithful and just will forgive us our sins and cleanse us from all unrighteousness.
2. Freedom from the power of sin today (Rom. 6-8)
3. Reconciliation with God
4. Reconciliation with others
-Ephesians 2:13-18-
Tuesday, September 25, 2007
CLFM: tues 9.25.07
Christian World view
A personal, all powerful, creative God exists and always has
1. He is infinite and personal, transcendent and immanent, omniscientm sovereign, and good
2. God created the world ex nihilio (out of nothing) to operate with uniform cause and effect
3. Humans are created in the image of God
4. He communicated with humand through general revelations (creation) and special revelation(Jesus, the Bible)
5. Humans created good, but through the fall, the image of God became defaced
6. Death is either gate to life or eternal seperation from God
7. Ethics are transcendent and based on the character of God
8. History is linear
SOURCE OF AUTHORITY: the Bible as interpreted by the church historically, and the power of God as experienced through the church historically.
KEY QUESTION: Who is Jesus?
-Matthew 16:13-16 (adventure mountain: who do YOU say i am? You are the LORD son of the living God)
The central, audacious, core Christian belief: Jesus is fully God and fully human
-Transcendant-far away and holy God
-Immanence-the close and near God and people see him without dropping dead
Jesus' indirect claims to divinity:
1. Able to forgive sins
2. Will one day judge the world
Direct claims:
1. If you recieve him, you recieve God
2. If you see him, you've seen God
-OT stresses God's transcendence
-NT stresses God's immanence
-Have to understand transcendence to understand radial concept of immanence
Four central themes of the gospel:
1. Created
-Gen 1:26
-Implications of being in the image of God
-Created for freedom
-Called to be creative
-Called to be in community
2. Fallen: The causes of sin
-Ignorance: Ephesians 4:18
-Error: Isaiah 53:6
-Inattention: Heb 2:2-3
-Lack of Trust
-We are marked by sin (Mark 7:20-23)
-We are enslaved to sin (John 8:34)
-We expereince the consequences of sin
-Our relationships with God and other people are broken
3. Redeemed
4.Restored
Five traditional understandings of the image of God
1. Anthropomorphic
2. Prototype
3. Dominion
4. Ethical and cognative
5. Societal
A personal, all powerful, creative God exists and always has
1. He is infinite and personal, transcendent and immanent, omniscientm sovereign, and good
2. God created the world ex nihilio (out of nothing) to operate with uniform cause and effect
3. Humans are created in the image of God
4. He communicated with humand through general revelations (creation) and special revelation(Jesus, the Bible)
5. Humans created good, but through the fall, the image of God became defaced
6. Death is either gate to life or eternal seperation from God
7. Ethics are transcendent and based on the character of God
8. History is linear
SOURCE OF AUTHORITY: the Bible as interpreted by the church historically, and the power of God as experienced through the church historically.
KEY QUESTION: Who is Jesus?
-Matthew 16:13-16 (adventure mountain: who do YOU say i am? You are the LORD son of the living God)
The central, audacious, core Christian belief: Jesus is fully God and fully human
-Transcendant-far away and holy God
-Immanence-the close and near God and people see him without dropping dead
Jesus' indirect claims to divinity:
1. Able to forgive sins
2. Will one day judge the world
Direct claims:
1. If you recieve him, you recieve God
2. If you see him, you've seen God
-OT stresses God's transcendence
-NT stresses God's immanence
-Have to understand transcendence to understand radial concept of immanence
Four central themes of the gospel:
1. Created
-Gen 1:26
-Implications of being in the image of God
-Created for freedom
-Called to be creative
-Called to be in community
2. Fallen: The causes of sin
-Ignorance: Ephesians 4:18
-Error: Isaiah 53:6
-Inattention: Heb 2:2-3
-Lack of Trust
-We are marked by sin (Mark 7:20-23)
-We are enslaved to sin (John 8:34)
-We expereince the consequences of sin
-Our relationships with God and other people are broken
3. Redeemed
4.Restored
Five traditional understandings of the image of God
1. Anthropomorphic
2. Prototype
3. Dominion
4. Ethical and cognative
5. Societal
Thursday, September 20, 2007
Exo/Deut: thurs 9.20.07
READING: -Genesis 1-9
-Red Bible "The cannons of the Bible"
-Creation to the cross Ch. 1 (?s 1,4,5)
(DUE NEXT THURS)
Redemptive History
Redemptive History: The unfolding of God's plan of salvation in history
Typology: Special type of symbolism employed by scripture, especially in the OT. More specifically, a type in scripture is a person or thing in the Old which foreshadows a person or thing in the New.
-Does scripture give us warrant to read the Biblie in the manner?
-The answer must be yes, for the scripture supplies its own hermeneutic for us in...
-Luke 24
-"Unfolding"
-Progressive; there is a sense of development in the history of revelation
-its not everything at once
-"It [revelation] has not completed itself in one exhaustive act, but unfolded itself in a long series of successive acts."
-There is a sense of organic development.
-"The organic progress is from seed-form to the attainment of full growth; yet we do not say that in the qualitative
sense the seed is less perfect than the tree. The feature in question exaplins further how the soteric sufficiency of the
truth could belong to it in its first state of emergence: in the seed-form the minimum of indispensable knowledge
was already present." -Vos' famous seed illustration
-gen 3:(14-)15: the gospel first shown...in its smallest form...right before adam and eve are going to be kicked out. It promises Jesus's coming and satanic deliverance
-Organic Development...
-Gen 3:15
-Gen 15:4-5
-2 Sam 7:12-16
-Isaiah 9:1-7, 42:1-4, 53
-Gal 3:16
*the male child is going to come and strike satan, he will suffer in one way or another, but he will end up judging and ending satan. The child is coming to bring liberation and judgment*
-in 3:15, promise made to the serpant and to the man and the woman
-15:4 promise i saying the child is going to be the head of a great nation. As you progress through history, it becomes more clear and specific (zerah=seed used for the child/heir etc in hebrew)
-in 2 Sam it talks about zerah being God's son and zerah will be his son and he will sit on the throne for all eternity and be a great king...lineage of david. With the judgement it talks about, he will be punished, because he takes on the world's sin and he is suffering for the sake of others and he is beaten with the rods of men, just as the verse says.
-in Isaiah 9 it goes into detail as to what serah is supposed to be ...everlasting father, prince of peace etc.
-in Isaiah 42 is even further developing how the zerah is going to be a suffering servant and is going into more detail about who he will be , as in 53
-in gal paul explains the seed and understands the zerah word and he knows they are talking of the same thing in all the OT verses. The promise he refers to is the promise in Gen 3:15
-and that is redemptive-historic hermeneutic is. going through everything and seeing it unfold through history.
-isaac offering as obidience to Christ....God does that...foreshadowing
-"Gods"
-God is the protagonist; he is the main character
-"The key to the OT is not the part Israel plays-as important as that is-but that part God [emphasis his] plays in redeeming a poeople from slavery and making them his own." -Goldsworthy
-"Only Gpd's revelation could maintain a drama that stretches over thousands of years as though they were days or
hours. Only God's revelation can build a story where the end is anticipated from the beginning, and where the
guiding principle is not chance or fate, but promise. Human authors may build fiction around a plot they have
devised, but only God can shape history to a real and ultimate purpose." -Clowney The unfolding mystery
-"Plan of salvation"
-We must remember that this is selective history
-The purpose of God's plan of salvation is the main theme running throughout scripture
-Salvation is not the end of the story! Just as we are saved from something, we are also save to something (or in order to do something).
-inclusio: story begins and ends in the same fashion, or in almost the same sentence.
-The worship inclusio
-The tree of life
-Gen 2:9
-Rev 22:1-5
-they are designed to worship in both settings, the tree of life is in both settings, but then in gen they get kicked out. But it starts with worship and ends with worship. Once they get kicked out, the whole Bible is about how God is going to bring his people back to worship, and that is by sending his son to die and save us and then we are able to go to heaven in the end and it is a life of worship.
-we are saved to worship God and enabled to worship Him.
"The cross is portrayed as the central event in history" - Wilkinson
-Red Bible "The cannons of the Bible"
-Creation to the cross Ch. 1 (?s 1,4,5)
(DUE NEXT THURS)
Redemptive History
Redemptive History: The unfolding of God's plan of salvation in history
Typology: Special type of symbolism employed by scripture, especially in the OT. More specifically, a type in scripture is a person or thing in the Old which foreshadows a person or thing in the New.
-Does scripture give us warrant to read the Biblie in the manner?
-The answer must be yes, for the scripture supplies its own hermeneutic for us in...
-Luke 24
-"Unfolding"
-Progressive; there is a sense of development in the history of revelation
-its not everything at once
-"It [revelation] has not completed itself in one exhaustive act, but unfolded itself in a long series of successive acts."
-There is a sense of organic development.
-"The organic progress is from seed-form to the attainment of full growth; yet we do not say that in the qualitative
sense the seed is less perfect than the tree. The feature in question exaplins further how the soteric sufficiency of the
truth could belong to it in its first state of emergence: in the seed-form the minimum of indispensable knowledge
was already present." -Vos' famous seed illustration
-gen 3:(14-)15: the gospel first shown...in its smallest form...right before adam and eve are going to be kicked out. It promises Jesus's coming and satanic deliverance
-Organic Development...
-Gen 3:15
-Gen 15:4-5
-2 Sam 7:12-16
-Isaiah 9:1-7, 42:1-4, 53
-Gal 3:16
*the male child is going to come and strike satan, he will suffer in one way or another, but he will end up judging and ending satan. The child is coming to bring liberation and judgment*
-in 3:15, promise made to the serpant and to the man and the woman
-15:4 promise i saying the child is going to be the head of a great nation. As you progress through history, it becomes more clear and specific (zerah=seed used for the child/heir etc in hebrew)
-in 2 Sam it talks about zerah being God's son and zerah will be his son and he will sit on the throne for all eternity and be a great king...lineage of david. With the judgement it talks about, he will be punished, because he takes on the world's sin and he is suffering for the sake of others and he is beaten with the rods of men, just as the verse says.
-in Isaiah 9 it goes into detail as to what serah is supposed to be ...everlasting father, prince of peace etc.
-in Isaiah 42 is even further developing how the zerah is going to be a suffering servant and is going into more detail about who he will be , as in 53
-in gal paul explains the seed and understands the zerah word and he knows they are talking of the same thing in all the OT verses. The promise he refers to is the promise in Gen 3:15
-and that is redemptive-historic hermeneutic is. going through everything and seeing it unfold through history.
-isaac offering as obidience to Christ....God does that...foreshadowing
-"Gods"
-God is the protagonist; he is the main character
-"The key to the OT is not the part Israel plays-as important as that is-but that part God [emphasis his] plays in redeeming a poeople from slavery and making them his own." -Goldsworthy
-"Only Gpd's revelation could maintain a drama that stretches over thousands of years as though they were days or
hours. Only God's revelation can build a story where the end is anticipated from the beginning, and where the
guiding principle is not chance or fate, but promise. Human authors may build fiction around a plot they have
devised, but only God can shape history to a real and ultimate purpose." -Clowney The unfolding mystery
-"Plan of salvation"
-We must remember that this is selective history
-The purpose of God's plan of salvation is the main theme running throughout scripture
-Salvation is not the end of the story! Just as we are saved from something, we are also save to something (or in order to do something).
-inclusio: story begins and ends in the same fashion, or in almost the same sentence.
-The worship inclusio
-The tree of life
-Gen 2:9
-Rev 22:1-5
-they are designed to worship in both settings, the tree of life is in both settings, but then in gen they get kicked out. But it starts with worship and ends with worship. Once they get kicked out, the whole Bible is about how God is going to bring his people back to worship, and that is by sending his son to die and save us and then we are able to go to heaven in the end and it is a life of worship.
-we are saved to worship God and enabled to worship Him.
"The cross is portrayed as the central event in history" - Wilkinson
CLFM: thurs 9.20.07
Subversive World Views (ones we dont like to claim)
INDIVIDUALISM
Individualism: Belief in the primary importance of the individual and in the virtues of self-reliance and personal independence. Acts or an act based on this belief.
Types:
1. Utlilitarian individualism
2. Expressive individualism
Key Convictions of Individualism
1. The indicidual is the primary reality
2. The end justifies the means
3. Relativism
4. We have a right to freedom, fulfillment
5. Performance defines our value
6. Our problem is not sinc, but external limitations
7. The solution is person self-fulfillment
SOURCE OF AUTHORITY: the individual
Individualism subverts Chrstianity through false beliefs
1. My personal beliefs and practices are private
2. I dont need the Christian community
3. God exists to help me reach my potential
4. God exists to help me be happy
Chrsitian response to individualism
-NT focuses on community, not individualism
-Over 36 "one anothers" in the NT
-We're called to be a part of the Body of Christ
CONSUMERISM
Consumerism: the theory that a progressively greater consumption of goods is economically beneficial. Attachment to materialistic values or possessions.
Key convictions of consumerism
1. Problem with humanity: lacking stuff
2. Soultion: more stuff
3. Money is power
4. More is better
5. People are objects to consume
6. Discard what ceases to fulfill us
SOURCE OF AUTHORITY: the marketplace, advertising, money
-Positives
1. promotes competition
2. recognizes the powe of choice
3. recognizes the power of money
-Negatives
1. Redefines out needs
1. Redefines our values
3. Leads to bondage
4. Ultimately doesnt satisfy
- Ecc. 2:12
Christian response to consumerism
-"We read the gospels as if we had no money, and spend our money as if we had not read the gospel" -Haughey
-Money has a spiritual power
-Money is meant to be a tool
- 1 Timothy 6:17-19
-Money is insidious: Who do we serve?
-Matt. 6:24
-Money is an indicator of our values
-Matt 6:21
Philipians 4:11-13
Not that I am speaking of being in need, for I have learned in whatever situation I am to be content. I know how to be brought low, and I know how to abound. In any and every circumstance, I have learned the secret of facing plenty and hunger, abundance and need. I can do all things through him who strengthens me.
-lack of contentment leads to bondage
-contentment is the way to freedom
What are your top 5 values?
-spend the next week keeping a log of how you spend your money/time
-are you investing in the things you value
A MEASURE OF AUTHENTICITY
INDIVIDUALISM
Individualism: Belief in the primary importance of the individual and in the virtues of self-reliance and personal independence. Acts or an act based on this belief.
Types:
1. Utlilitarian individualism
2. Expressive individualism
Key Convictions of Individualism
1. The indicidual is the primary reality
2. The end justifies the means
3. Relativism
4. We have a right to freedom, fulfillment
5. Performance defines our value
6. Our problem is not sinc, but external limitations
7. The solution is person self-fulfillment
SOURCE OF AUTHORITY: the individual
Individualism subverts Chrstianity through false beliefs
1. My personal beliefs and practices are private
2. I dont need the Christian community
3. God exists to help me reach my potential
4. God exists to help me be happy
Chrsitian response to individualism
-NT focuses on community, not individualism
-Over 36 "one anothers" in the NT
-We're called to be a part of the Body of Christ
CONSUMERISM
Consumerism: the theory that a progressively greater consumption of goods is economically beneficial. Attachment to materialistic values or possessions.
Key convictions of consumerism
1. Problem with humanity: lacking stuff
2. Soultion: more stuff
3. Money is power
4. More is better
5. People are objects to consume
6. Discard what ceases to fulfill us
SOURCE OF AUTHORITY: the marketplace, advertising, money
-Positives
1. promotes competition
2. recognizes the powe of choice
3. recognizes the power of money
-Negatives
1. Redefines out needs
1. Redefines our values
3. Leads to bondage
4. Ultimately doesnt satisfy
- Ecc. 2:12
Christian response to consumerism
-"We read the gospels as if we had no money, and spend our money as if we had not read the gospel" -Haughey
-Money has a spiritual power
-Money is meant to be a tool
- 1 Timothy 6:17-19
-Money is insidious: Who do we serve?
-Matt. 6:24
-Money is an indicator of our values
-Matt 6:21
Philipians 4:11-13
Not that I am speaking of being in need, for I have learned in whatever situation I am to be content. I know how to be brought low, and I know how to abound. In any and every circumstance, I have learned the secret of facing plenty and hunger, abundance and need. I can do all things through him who strengthens me.
-lack of contentment leads to bondage
-contentment is the way to freedom
What are your top 5 values?
-spend the next week keeping a log of how you spend your money/time
-are you investing in the things you value
A MEASURE OF AUTHENTICITY
Wednesday, September 19, 2007
FWS descriptive essay
The Great Wave by Hokusai
Great white caps and deep blue bodies of the ocean fill the vast majority of the painting. The wave caps appear to be frozen white and seem to resemble claws or talons reaching ever more closely toward the people in the boats. They give off a frightening feel that makes the viewers begin to understand the intensity and hugeness of the waves. The fury of the waves is shown through the mass amounts of "talons" that are coming toward the people. The deep and lighter blues of the body of the waves show the depth and chaos of the waves. The waves themselves seem angry and fierce to the point of attack on the people that come in boats. The sound of the waves would become more deafening each second. The large size of the waves would cause a roaring and crashing sound to be resounded in every direction. The sound itself would be enough to drive fear into the people on boats. The waves seem angry and foreboding. The waves appear to wish to attack as well as threaten the coming sailors. The treacherous waves are seething toward the apparently calm sailors. The ocean waves are powerful to the point where it creates its own force, it appears that the second the wave crashes down on the boats that it will swallow them up and cause such wreck and destruction that none will survive.
The sailors in the boat appear to not have any worry in the world about the gargantuan wave that is about to hit them. They appear to either be sleeping, or dead. The fact that they are all dressed alike and look alike reflects the culture in which they live. During the Edo period, everyone was required to have a universal dress code and haircut. The sailors' boats are being rushed into a roaring wave and there is nothing they can do to save themselves. It seems as though the wave has come to attack them.
In the background of the hostile and ravenous ocean wave scene, sits Mount Fuji. The Mountain itself is tranquil and peaceful in contrast to the chaos that is occurring in the forefront of the painting. Normally, the mountain by itself would appear to be towering and awe inspiring, but when in comparison to the overwhelmingly large wave, it seems lesser in size and it becomes a place of peace in the painting. Although the mountain is tranquil in the background of the menacing forefront, the sky around it does prove to have a more ominous feel to it. The sky surrounding the wave is black and stormy. The cloud encompasses the mountain in gray and black. It gives the somewhat peaceful mountain scene a more unsettling aspect. The dark sky shows that there was at one point a storm that swept through the area where this painting is set. It gives origin to the wave and its horrendousness. Moving from the base of the mountain toward the top of the sky the clouds move from a deep, deep grayish black to a light gray even to an off white color. The clouds let up and the viewer is able to see a sky that is warmly colored and seems embracing. The change in sky and cloud color shows that the storm that led to the tremendous terror that is the giant wave, is gone now and soon the wave will be as well.
Great white caps and deep blue bodies of the ocean fill the vast majority of the painting. The wave caps appear to be frozen white and seem to resemble claws or talons reaching ever more closely toward the people in the boats. They give off a frightening feel that makes the viewers begin to understand the intensity and hugeness of the waves. The fury of the waves is shown through the mass amounts of "talons" that are coming toward the people. The deep and lighter blues of the body of the waves show the depth and chaos of the waves. The waves themselves seem angry and fierce to the point of attack on the people that come in boats. The sound of the waves would become more deafening each second. The large size of the waves would cause a roaring and crashing sound to be resounded in every direction. The sound itself would be enough to drive fear into the people on boats. The waves seem angry and foreboding. The waves appear to wish to attack as well as threaten the coming sailors. The treacherous waves are seething toward the apparently calm sailors. The ocean waves are powerful to the point where it creates its own force, it appears that the second the wave crashes down on the boats that it will swallow them up and cause such wreck and destruction that none will survive.
The sailors in the boat appear to not have any worry in the world about the gargantuan wave that is about to hit them. They appear to either be sleeping, or dead. The fact that they are all dressed alike and look alike reflects the culture in which they live. During the Edo period, everyone was required to have a universal dress code and haircut. The sailors' boats are being rushed into a roaring wave and there is nothing they can do to save themselves. It seems as though the wave has come to attack them.
In the background of the hostile and ravenous ocean wave scene, sits Mount Fuji. The Mountain itself is tranquil and peaceful in contrast to the chaos that is occurring in the forefront of the painting. Normally, the mountain by itself would appear to be towering and awe inspiring, but when in comparison to the overwhelmingly large wave, it seems lesser in size and it becomes a place of peace in the painting. Although the mountain is tranquil in the background of the menacing forefront, the sky around it does prove to have a more ominous feel to it. The sky surrounding the wave is black and stormy. The cloud encompasses the mountain in gray and black. It gives the somewhat peaceful mountain scene a more unsettling aspect. The dark sky shows that there was at one point a storm that swept through the area where this painting is set. It gives origin to the wave and its horrendousness. Moving from the base of the mountain toward the top of the sky the clouds move from a deep, deep grayish black to a light gray even to an off white color. The clouds let up and the viewer is able to see a sky that is warmly colored and seems embracing. The change in sky and cloud color shows that the storm that led to the tremendous terror that is the giant wave, is gone now and soon the wave will be as well.
Tuesday, September 18, 2007
for my lover
The scientific method is a series of steps taken to solve problems or questions. A main starting point for this process is the formation of a hypothesis. To conduct the experiment materials are a necessity. Then observations are put to use through performance of the experiment itself. The end result utlimately decides the fate of the educated guess. The point of the experiment in last week's lab was to prove the accuracy of either the pipette or the graduated cylinder. Of the two the pipette seemed more likely to be accurate. To ensure accurate results the process was repeated, which proved the existence of human error in scientific experimentation.
Materials and methods
The materials in the experiment were as follows: a ten ml graduated cylinder, a ten ml pipette, a pipette pump, ten 50 ml beakers, and a calculator which has statistical functions. In addition to those, there will also be a need for a few more materials such as, distilled water, an electric balance, and ten weigh boats. To begin the weigh boats were taken and labeled from numbers one to ten then each was carefully weighed. The data recorded was placed in the results table under the "weigh boat alone" column. Next, the pipette was used to measure five 10ml of distilled water and placed into each of the labeled boats. All boats were then put on the scale, balanced, and once they were weighed, the data were recorded and the results were placed under the "weigh boats and water" column in the results table. To retrieve the actual weight of the water itself, the weight of the boat was subtracted by the weight of the boat and the water. That data was also recorded into the results table under the "water alone" column. The process of the experiment was repeated in the exact order as listed above, though in place of the pipette, a graduated cylinder was used for the water measurements. The data was then placed in a second results table, labeled in the same manner as the first.
Materials and methods
The materials in the experiment were as follows: a ten ml graduated cylinder, a ten ml pipette, a pipette pump, ten 50 ml beakers, and a calculator which has statistical functions. In addition to those, there will also be a need for a few more materials such as, distilled water, an electric balance, and ten weigh boats. To begin the weigh boats were taken and labeled from numbers one to ten then each was carefully weighed. The data recorded was placed in the results table under the "weigh boat alone" column. Next, the pipette was used to measure five 10ml of distilled water and placed into each of the labeled boats. All boats were then put on the scale, balanced, and once they were weighed, the data were recorded and the results were placed under the "weigh boats and water" column in the results table. To retrieve the actual weight of the water itself, the weight of the boat was subtracted by the weight of the boat and the water. That data was also recorded into the results table under the "water alone" column. The process of the experiment was repeated in the exact order as listed above, though in place of the pipette, a graduated cylinder was used for the water measurements. The data was then placed in a second results table, labeled in the same manner as the first.
Exo/Deut: tues 9.18.07
Biblical Writing and History
-the NT writers emphasize continuity between Jesus' story and the OT
-they do this by referencing the OT, either directly or by allusion
-the author assumes that his readers know this story intimately
-herein lies out problem...we do not know history
*talk/walk through the Bible by wilkenson...good book to have*
Old Testament History
-Creation (gen 1)
-Fall (gen 3)
-Abraham/Isaac/Jacob/Joseph (gen 11-50)
-Moses/Exodus (exodus-deuteronomy) 1446 BC <-- date of the exodus
-Entance into promised land aka canaan (joshua)
-The judges (judges-esther)
*2 Corinthians 5:17 (if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation...) paul talks about new creation....relates back to gen 1.*
*Gen 4-10 noah, life after strayed from garden etc*
*by the end of judges....monarchy=1 and 2 Samuel*
-Monarchy (1 and 2 Samuel; 1 and 2 Kings)
-The hugh point of this period is under David/Solomon
-Divided Kingdon (1 and 2 Chronicles)
-Northern Kingdom: Israel/Samaria (rest of the sons of israel(10))
-Destroyed:722 BC (by assyrians)
-Assyrians make israelites breed with their men=samaritan (half-breeds) and the kids lose their original heritage
-Assyrians either kill all or you let us live here and we take your wives and breed...basically
-Southern Kingdom: Judah (Judah & Benjamin)
-Destroyed:586 BC (by babylonians)
-rape and killing of women and then killing children
-they destroy everything, towns, buildings etc. including destorying the great temple built by Solomon
-722BC
-Assyria sweeps down from the Borth and conquers Israel (the Northern Kingdom: 2 Kings 17:6-7, 24-41)
-Prophets of the Northern Kingdom: Isaiah, Amos, Hosea, Micah, Jonah
-586 BC
-Babylonians destroy temple, carry a small remnant of Judah away to Babylon (the Southern Kingdom: 2 Kings 25:1-12
-Prophets of the Southern Kingdom: Jeremiah, Zephaniah, Nahum, Ezekial, Habbakkuk. (daniel and Jeremiah are captured and come back to babylon with them so they are the ones who have stories in their books having to do with the horrid events etc.)
-Judah is in exile for approximately 70 years
-The decree of Cyrus issued roughly in 538 BC
-At this point the people of Israel begin to return to Jerusalem to rebuild the temple (thus, "Second Temple Judaism")
-Cyrus the Persian conquered Babylon in october 539 and reigned over Persia from 550-530
-Post-exilic prophets: Nehemiah, Ezra, Haggai, Zechariah, Obadiah, and Malachi.
-the decree allowed to remaining judah people to go back and rebuild things...to go home
Intertestamental Period
-Malachi is the last prophet to write (ca. 432-425 BC)
-thus begins 400 years of biblical silence
-But this is not to say that there is nothing important going on in the world
-In the 4th century BC Alexander the Great (356-323) rose to power
-Through several military campaigns Alexander conquered the Mediterranean world
-Alexander not only spread his political power, but also the Greek culture to all the lands he conquered (now everyone knows greek because thats the language of business etc along with your own normal language.)
*Galations 4:4 now that the world is ready, because we have one language world society, the time is right...now Jesus can come...for a world wide evangelisation*
*every portion of the NT is written in greek*
*the Bible is a story about how the believers are save not how the jews are saved.*
-the NT writers emphasize continuity between Jesus' story and the OT
-they do this by referencing the OT, either directly or by allusion
-the author assumes that his readers know this story intimately
-herein lies out problem...we do not know history
*talk/walk through the Bible by wilkenson...good book to have*
Old Testament History
-Creation (gen 1)
-Fall (gen 3)
-Abraham/Isaac/Jacob/Joseph (gen 11-50)
-Moses/Exodus (exodus-deuteronomy) 1446 BC <-- date of the exodus
-Entance into promised land aka canaan (joshua)
-The judges (judges-esther)
*2 Corinthians 5:17 (if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation...) paul talks about new creation....relates back to gen 1.*
*Gen 4-10 noah, life after strayed from garden etc*
*by the end of judges....monarchy=1 and 2 Samuel*
-Monarchy (1 and 2 Samuel; 1 and 2 Kings)
-The hugh point of this period is under David/Solomon
-Divided Kingdon (1 and 2 Chronicles)
-Northern Kingdom: Israel/Samaria (rest of the sons of israel(10))
-Destroyed:722 BC (by assyrians)
-Assyrians make israelites breed with their men=samaritan (half-breeds) and the kids lose their original heritage
-Assyrians either kill all or you let us live here and we take your wives and breed...basically
-Southern Kingdom: Judah (Judah & Benjamin)
-Destroyed:586 BC (by babylonians)
-rape and killing of women and then killing children
-they destroy everything, towns, buildings etc. including destorying the great temple built by Solomon
-722BC
-Assyria sweeps down from the Borth and conquers Israel (the Northern Kingdom: 2 Kings 17:6-7, 24-41)
-Prophets of the Northern Kingdom: Isaiah, Amos, Hosea, Micah, Jonah
-586 BC
-Babylonians destroy temple, carry a small remnant of Judah away to Babylon (the Southern Kingdom: 2 Kings 25:1-12
-Prophets of the Southern Kingdom: Jeremiah, Zephaniah, Nahum, Ezekial, Habbakkuk. (daniel and Jeremiah are captured and come back to babylon with them so they are the ones who have stories in their books having to do with the horrid events etc.)
-Judah is in exile for approximately 70 years
-The decree of Cyrus issued roughly in 538 BC
-At this point the people of Israel begin to return to Jerusalem to rebuild the temple (thus, "Second Temple Judaism")
-Cyrus the Persian conquered Babylon in october 539 and reigned over Persia from 550-530
-Post-exilic prophets: Nehemiah, Ezra, Haggai, Zechariah, Obadiah, and Malachi.
-the decree allowed to remaining judah people to go back and rebuild things...to go home
Intertestamental Period
-Malachi is the last prophet to write (ca. 432-425 BC)
-thus begins 400 years of biblical silence
-But this is not to say that there is nothing important going on in the world
-In the 4th century BC Alexander the Great (356-323) rose to power
-Through several military campaigns Alexander conquered the Mediterranean world
-Alexander not only spread his political power, but also the Greek culture to all the lands he conquered (now everyone knows greek because thats the language of business etc along with your own normal language.)
*Galations 4:4 now that the world is ready, because we have one language world society, the time is right...now Jesus can come...for a world wide evangelisation*
*every portion of the NT is written in greek*
*the Bible is a story about how the believers are save not how the jews are saved.*
CLFM: tues 9.18.07
1. Argument by example: one or more examples used to support a general statement
Qualities of a good argument by example:
-uses more than one example
-uses accurate examples
-uses represntative examples-represent all in subject
-considers valid counter examples
2. Arguemtns by analogy: argue from one specific case or example to another specific example
Qualities of a good analogy:
-relevant simliarities
-recognizes relevant differences
3. Argument by authority: someone who is qualified in appropriate area, study, or work that this statement is true
Qualities of a good argument by authority:
-presents source
-comes from qualified sources
-uses impartial sources
-considers opposing arguments
4. Arguments about causes: observing that one event or circumstance seems to be related to another event or curcumstance
Qualities of a good argument for cause:
-explains how one circumstance causes another
-proivides the most likely cause
-causes will be complex
-avoids correlation error
5. Deductive Argument: logical arguments about a truth, where if the premises are true, then the conclusion is true.
Qualities of a good deductive argument:
-the premises are true
-the steps in the argument are accurate
-the cause and effect that is implied is accurate
COMMON DECEPTIVE ARGUMENTS
1. bandwagon
2. personal attack
3. scare tactics
4. slanting
5. strawman
6. false testimonial
7. argument from silence
8. circular argument
embedded to deliberative theology....moves to authenticity
-A world view is a set of presuppositions (or assupmtions) which we hold (consciously, or subconciously) about the basic make up of our world.
-Matt. 6:22: "The eye is the lamp of the body. If your eyes are good, your whole body will be full of light. But if your eyes are bad, your whole body will be full of darkness. If then the light within you is darkness, how great is that darkness!"
WORLDVIEWS
They answer basic questions of life
-What's the prime reality-whats really real
-What is a human being?
-What is wrong with humanity
-What happens to a person when they die?
-Is there absolute right or wrong?
-Does human hisotry have any meaning?
KEY QUESTION: What is the source of authority
Common worldviews
1. Deism
-God is like a watchmaker
-created the universe then let it go
-no room for miraculous
-humans aren't fallen, just park of the universe
SOURCE OF AUTHORITY: human mind or reason
2.Dualism
-two equal and independent powers, one good and one bad
-the universe is an endless battleground
-two forces are eternal and independent
-have similar components (existence, intelligence, will) but use them for different purposes
SOURCE OF AUTHORITY: the conscience, innate moral code
3. Naturalism
-all that exists is material matter
-the universe is a closed system
-humans are complex machines
-natural outgrowth of deism
-no more God whatsoever
-the only thing real are those that the 5 sense can sense.
SOURCE OF AUTHORITY: science and the scientific discovery
4. Nihilism
-nothing is important (or has reason), things happen by chance
-all knowledge is based upon unproveable assumptions
-logical conclusion of naturalism
-meaninglessness
SOURCE OF AUTHORITY: chance, feelings, circumstances (so basically none haha)
*Ecclesiasties looks nihilistic: Ecc. 2*
5. Existentialism
-goal: transcend nihilism by finding a purpose
-ultimate purpose found in consciousness
-our goal is to fulfill our potential, rebel against the meaninglessness of life
-to go out a make own purpose because there isn't one given in life
-Atheistic Existentialism: reaction to Nihilism
-Theistic Existentialism: reaction to dead orthodoxy
SOURCE OF AUTHORITY: personal choice (you create purpose and meaning on your own)
6. Eastern Pantheism
-God is in everything (us, books, desks, EVERYTHING) that exists
-goal is oneness with the cosmos
-many (if not all) roads lead to oneness
-focus on being, not doing
-time is unreal, history is cyclical
SOURCE OF AUTHORITY: mystical oneness with the cosmos
Qualities of a good argument by example:
-uses more than one example
-uses accurate examples
-uses represntative examples-represent all in subject
-considers valid counter examples
2. Arguemtns by analogy: argue from one specific case or example to another specific example
Qualities of a good analogy:
-relevant simliarities
-recognizes relevant differences
3. Argument by authority: someone who is qualified in appropriate area, study, or work that this statement is true
Qualities of a good argument by authority:
-presents source
-comes from qualified sources
-uses impartial sources
-considers opposing arguments
4. Arguments about causes: observing that one event or circumstance seems to be related to another event or curcumstance
Qualities of a good argument for cause:
-explains how one circumstance causes another
-proivides the most likely cause
-causes will be complex
-avoids correlation error
5. Deductive Argument: logical arguments about a truth, where if the premises are true, then the conclusion is true.
Qualities of a good deductive argument:
-the premises are true
-the steps in the argument are accurate
-the cause and effect that is implied is accurate
COMMON DECEPTIVE ARGUMENTS
1. bandwagon
2. personal attack
3. scare tactics
4. slanting
5. strawman
6. false testimonial
7. argument from silence
8. circular argument
embedded to deliberative theology....moves to authenticity
-A world view is a set of presuppositions (or assupmtions) which we hold (consciously, or subconciously) about the basic make up of our world.
-Matt. 6:22: "The eye is the lamp of the body. If your eyes are good, your whole body will be full of light. But if your eyes are bad, your whole body will be full of darkness. If then the light within you is darkness, how great is that darkness!"
WORLDVIEWS
They answer basic questions of life
-What's the prime reality-whats really real
-What is a human being?
-What is wrong with humanity
-What happens to a person when they die?
-Is there absolute right or wrong?
-Does human hisotry have any meaning?
KEY QUESTION: What is the source of authority
Common worldviews
1. Deism
-God is like a watchmaker
-created the universe then let it go
-no room for miraculous
-humans aren't fallen, just park of the universe
SOURCE OF AUTHORITY: human mind or reason
2.Dualism
-two equal and independent powers, one good and one bad
-the universe is an endless battleground
-two forces are eternal and independent
-have similar components (existence, intelligence, will) but use them for different purposes
SOURCE OF AUTHORITY: the conscience, innate moral code
3. Naturalism
-all that exists is material matter
-the universe is a closed system
-humans are complex machines
-natural outgrowth of deism
-no more God whatsoever
-the only thing real are those that the 5 sense can sense.
SOURCE OF AUTHORITY: science and the scientific discovery
4. Nihilism
-nothing is important (or has reason), things happen by chance
-all knowledge is based upon unproveable assumptions
-logical conclusion of naturalism
-meaninglessness
SOURCE OF AUTHORITY: chance, feelings, circumstances (so basically none haha)
*Ecclesiasties looks nihilistic: Ecc. 2*
5. Existentialism
-goal: transcend nihilism by finding a purpose
-ultimate purpose found in consciousness
-our goal is to fulfill our potential, rebel against the meaninglessness of life
-to go out a make own purpose because there isn't one given in life
-Atheistic Existentialism: reaction to Nihilism
-Theistic Existentialism: reaction to dead orthodoxy
SOURCE OF AUTHORITY: personal choice (you create purpose and meaning on your own)
6. Eastern Pantheism
-God is in everything (us, books, desks, EVERYTHING) that exists
-goal is oneness with the cosmos
-many (if not all) roads lead to oneness
-focus on being, not doing
-time is unreal, history is cyclical
SOURCE OF AUTHORITY: mystical oneness with the cosmos
Thursday, September 13, 2007
Exo/Deut: thurs 9.13.07
Hermeneutical Circle
Levels of exegesis for biblical interpretation
-Hermeneutics: the art or theology of biblical interpretation
-Exegesis: the careful, systematic study of the scripture to discover the original, intended meaning
Hermeneutical circle:
- Canonical Context
-Historical Context
-Literary Context
-Narrative Context
-Redemptive-Historical Context (Biblical Context)
-Meaning of the Text
-Historical-
-At this level one takes into consideration the historical setting of the passage in question
-Such issues as the historical context, geographical setting, cultural milieu, and political factors of the works setting are all taken into consideration
*people expected jesus to be a strong military leader...a king to overthrow all other kings...but that is what people expected at that time in history.*
-Literary-
-The litarary context analyzes the genre of the text in particular
-Genre analysis (i.e. poetry, narritice, appocalyptic) is extremely imporant to proper exegetical methodology
-One must understand the type on text/genre that is being examined in order to properly exegate
*Daniel, Ezekial, and Revelation are apocalyptic books...NOT LITERAL AT ALL (figurative, illusion, imagery)*
-Narrative-
-The narrative context is a careful analysis of the text
-It examines such things as settings, context, characterixationm plot, theme, conflict (if any), key words
*Jesus re-lives oldtestament israelites life...40 years in the wilderness after the exodus...then jesus goes out to be tempted in the wilderness..nbut he undoes it...they sin in the wilderness...he triumphs...etc...God lead the people into the wilderness..the holy spirit LEAD jesus into the wilderness to be tempted..after the 40 years....they go into canaan...into the physical kingdome...after 40 days jesus is baptised and declares God's kingdome to be coming/here*
-Redemptive-Historical-
-This level recognizes the resent work within its redemptive-historical context
-Redepmtive-history is simply the history, or story, of God's plan of redemption
-Thus at this level one takes into careful consideration all that has come to pass thus far in the bibical story of redemotion, and all that will come after, according to the rest of the canon of Scripture.
*old testament LEADS to Jesus...it promises it and you shouldnt be surprised about the things Jesus is saying and doing You have to understand the old testament before you can even begin to udnerstand the new because they are linking and the old testament lead to the new and everything unfolded in the old testament first.*
*jews are chosen people because from them comes Jesus Christ...they dont just get a free ticket to heaven*
*Revelation and Genesis linked massively. The garden of eden comes back up in Revelation. it all works together*
-Meaning-
-After all these contexts have been carfeully examined and questioned, one should be able to arrive at the meaning of a text.
-In order to arrive at this meaning, one must take into carful consideration the canonical, historical, literary, narrative, and redemptive-historical contexts in order to arrive at the proper "exegetical meaning" of a text, or ...the author's intended meaning.
*the church is the true and new israel..the chosen and saved...the believers*
Levels of exegesis for biblical interpretation
-Hermeneutics: the art or theology of biblical interpretation
-Exegesis: the careful, systematic study of the scripture to discover the original, intended meaning
Hermeneutical circle:
- Canonical Context
-Historical Context
-Literary Context
-Narrative Context
-Redemptive-Historical Context (Biblical Context)
-Meaning of the Text
-Historical-
-At this level one takes into consideration the historical setting of the passage in question
-Such issues as the historical context, geographical setting, cultural milieu, and political factors of the works setting are all taken into consideration
*people expected jesus to be a strong military leader...a king to overthrow all other kings...but that is what people expected at that time in history.*
-Literary-
-The litarary context analyzes the genre of the text in particular
-Genre analysis (i.e. poetry, narritice, appocalyptic) is extremely imporant to proper exegetical methodology
-One must understand the type on text/genre that is being examined in order to properly exegate
*Daniel, Ezekial, and Revelation are apocalyptic books...NOT LITERAL AT ALL (figurative, illusion, imagery)*
-Narrative-
-The narrative context is a careful analysis of the text
-It examines such things as settings, context, characterixationm plot, theme, conflict (if any), key words
*Jesus re-lives oldtestament israelites life...40 years in the wilderness after the exodus...then jesus goes out to be tempted in the wilderness..nbut he undoes it...they sin in the wilderness...he triumphs...etc...God lead the people into the wilderness..the holy spirit LEAD jesus into the wilderness to be tempted..after the 40 years....they go into canaan...into the physical kingdome...after 40 days jesus is baptised and declares God's kingdome to be coming/here*
-Redemptive-Historical-
-This level recognizes the resent work within its redemptive-historical context
-Redepmtive-history is simply the history, or story, of God's plan of redemption
-Thus at this level one takes into careful consideration all that has come to pass thus far in the bibical story of redemotion, and all that will come after, according to the rest of the canon of Scripture.
*old testament LEADS to Jesus...it promises it and you shouldnt be surprised about the things Jesus is saying and doing You have to understand the old testament before you can even begin to udnerstand the new because they are linking and the old testament lead to the new and everything unfolded in the old testament first.*
*jews are chosen people because from them comes Jesus Christ...they dont just get a free ticket to heaven*
*Revelation and Genesis linked massively. The garden of eden comes back up in Revelation. it all works together*
-Meaning-
-After all these contexts have been carfeully examined and questioned, one should be able to arrive at the meaning of a text.
-In order to arrive at this meaning, one must take into carful consideration the canonical, historical, literary, narrative, and redemptive-historical contexts in order to arrive at the proper "exegetical meaning" of a text, or ...the author's intended meaning.
*the church is the true and new israel..the chosen and saved...the believers*
CLFM: thurs 9.13.07
Action Focus Goals
-put your values into action.
Two types of Goals
1. Result focus goals
2. Action focus goals: a goal to do a specific action on a regular basis
How to set action focus goals
1. Work backward
2. Set daily and weekly goals
3. Ask for help
-think and pray about what two goals i should set-
Characteristics of a good action focus goal (BASIC)
-B: bold
-A: achievable
-S: specific
-I: incremental
-C: clear
To be successful
1. Believe in the goal
2. Pray for it
3. Be willing to do what's requried
4. Visualize it
5. Building regular feedback mechanisms
-avoid legalism
Critical Thinking:reasonable and reflective thinking focused on deciding what to believe or do.
-purpose: the purpose of critical thinking is, therefore, to achieve understanding, evaluate view points, and solver problems.
-it uses reason, intellectual honesty, open midedness
-blindspots=things we dont see because we're stuck in one paradigm
-assumptions=things we just assume, take as true without proof
-viewpoints and assumpitions arise naturally through interactions with others and the world.
-embedded theology: the impolicit theology that christians live out in their daily lives\
-deliberative theology: the understanding of faith that emerges from a process of carefully reflecting upon ebedded theological convictions.
-put your values into action.
Two types of Goals
1. Result focus goals
2. Action focus goals: a goal to do a specific action on a regular basis
How to set action focus goals
1. Work backward
2. Set daily and weekly goals
3. Ask for help
-think and pray about what two goals i should set-
Characteristics of a good action focus goal (BASIC)
-B: bold
-A: achievable
-S: specific
-I: incremental
-C: clear
To be successful
1. Believe in the goal
2. Pray for it
3. Be willing to do what's requried
4. Visualize it
5. Building regular feedback mechanisms
-avoid legalism
Critical Thinking:reasonable and reflective thinking focused on deciding what to believe or do.
-purpose: the purpose of critical thinking is, therefore, to achieve understanding, evaluate view points, and solver problems.
-it uses reason, intellectual honesty, open midedness
-blindspots=things we dont see because we're stuck in one paradigm
-assumptions=things we just assume, take as true without proof
-viewpoints and assumpitions arise naturally through interactions with others and the world.
-embedded theology: the impolicit theology that christians live out in their daily lives\
-deliberative theology: the understanding of faith that emerges from a process of carefully reflecting upon ebedded theological convictions.
Tuesday, September 11, 2007
CLFM: tues 9.11.07
Atttudes if the Heart: Congruency
-integration=living out of the core convictions
-function atheism: saying there is a God but living as if there isnt.
"By their daily lives most "christians" regularly commit treason. With their mouths they claim that Jesus is Lord but with their actions the demonstrate allegiance to money, sex, and self-fulfillment."
-congruency=your life on the inside the same as on the outside
-integrity=being the same person at work and home, good and bad. and no matter the situation.
-Deut 6:4-8 love the Lord your God with all your soul might and heart....
-Mark 12:28-3 jesus adds mind and love your neighbor as yourself
-integrate EVERY AREA OF OUR LIVES
-Orthodoxy: right doctrine
-Orthopraxy: right practice
-Orthokardia: right heart
*Do things because your heart is in it. Because it SCARES YOU TO DEATH. it encourages faith.*
*do you believe God will do what you pray...what you ask*
-1 Peter 2:9 (imporatnt theme in Reformation)
You are a chosen race, a royal priesthood, a holy nation of people belonging to God that you may declare the praises of Him who called you out of darkness into His wonderful light.
*he gives us an identity in HIM, we are HIS people.*
Threefold call of God:
-to belong to God (conversion)
-to be God's people (community)
-to do God's work (ministry)
-Vocation is Latin for "voice"
*NOTE: there is a train track outside the classroom...i saw it*
What does servant ministry look like?
1. Practical
2. Humble
- Phil. 2:3-8 Do nothing out of selfish ambition or vain coneit, but in humility regard others better than yourselves...
-(can also use BECAUSE instead of THOUGH...different view..)
3. Rooted in relationship
4. Incarnational
-not detatched...God was THERE with people. INVOLVED. lead by action. give time. enter into their experience and their world. going to them. them being those who we are reaching toward.
5. Growing
"vocation is the place where your deep gladness meets the world's deep need" -frederick buechner
- How does your major meet your deep gladness?
- How does it meet the world's deep need?
-integration=living out of the core convictions
-function atheism: saying there is a God but living as if there isnt.
"By their daily lives most "christians" regularly commit treason. With their mouths they claim that Jesus is Lord but with their actions the demonstrate allegiance to money, sex, and self-fulfillment."
-congruency=your life on the inside the same as on the outside
-integrity=being the same person at work and home, good and bad. and no matter the situation.
-Deut 6:4-8 love the Lord your God with all your soul might and heart....
-Mark 12:28-3 jesus adds mind and love your neighbor as yourself
-integrate EVERY AREA OF OUR LIVES
-Orthodoxy: right doctrine
-Orthopraxy: right practice
-Orthokardia: right heart
*Do things because your heart is in it. Because it SCARES YOU TO DEATH. it encourages faith.*
*do you believe God will do what you pray...what you ask*
-1 Peter 2:9 (imporatnt theme in Reformation)
You are a chosen race, a royal priesthood, a holy nation of people belonging to God that you may declare the praises of Him who called you out of darkness into His wonderful light.
*he gives us an identity in HIM, we are HIS people.*
Threefold call of God:
-to belong to God (conversion)
-to be God's people (community)
-to do God's work (ministry)
-Vocation is Latin for "voice"
*NOTE: there is a train track outside the classroom...i saw it*
What does servant ministry look like?
1. Practical
2. Humble
- Phil. 2:3-8 Do nothing out of selfish ambition or vain coneit, but in humility regard others better than yourselves...
-(can also use BECAUSE instead of THOUGH...different view..)
3. Rooted in relationship
4. Incarnational
-not detatched...God was THERE with people. INVOLVED. lead by action. give time. enter into their experience and their world. going to them. them being those who we are reaching toward.
5. Growing
"vocation is the place where your deep gladness meets the world's deep need" -frederick buechner
- How does your major meet your deep gladness?
- How does it meet the world's deep need?
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