This week we spent a couple of mornings doing ‘Walk Thru the Bible’ (in double time, 3 hours for each Old and New Testaments instead of 6) and I have to say it has been fantastic. Our teacher was Paul Keeys, the director of Walk Thru the Bible (although I am sure the other presenters are also very good). It has got me thinking a bit, over the last couple of years in my last post I had started using story a bit more, perhaps because I started doing more primary aged assemblies again and unlike in the past most of them I did on my own. One of the things I really enjoyed was the fact that exploring the bible this way even in such a quick overview it helped you to not only see how things fitted together a bit more but also made things click that I had just not noticed before. I have to say it is a brilliant resource and one that I may well consider looking into training for in the future especially seeing the way it can be used with both school Children and in adult seminars. It could work as a brilliant introduction to a series on the Old or New Testament, could perhaps even work as a whole for a weekend away but it has also challenged me to think a bit more about the use of story in my ministry, we often think of story time as something for the children yet it was Jesus main teaching method, maybe we could all do with a bit more story in our lives?
Email this postOld Testament this week (and last) we have been looking at Jeremiah (among other Prophets) we got onto talking in my group about Jeremiah and music, what would he listen too? If his book were a song (or collection of) what style would it be, this discussion led to the discovery of this:-
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3d_6gx-8PcM
Sorry can’t embed as that option is disabled so you will have to click through, Enjoy…
Had a great Lecture on Friday, the first in a series looking at the story of Theology. We watched a video of Richard Dawkins proving that Christians were a bunch of awful people who went around killing people. He did this of course by taking a couple of verses of Old Testament completely out of context and then finding a dodgy fundamentalist with some different ideas of what scripture says to the rest of Christendom. Of course the man was very convincing, if he wanted to convince people he was a fool. How can anyone take this man seriously when all he does is find a single verse which if read incorrectly sounds really bad, it reminds me of a great quote I heard a few years back, “if you take the text out of context your just left with a con!” This man is supposed to be an intelligent chap yet if you tried to counter his argument with the same depth he uses I’m sure he’d shoot you down in flames yet because he has a PHD and is based in Oxford people assume he must be right, talk about an abuse of power!
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