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- Up early, off to NCC - dealing with the youth, hmm - insufficient
thought applied to the task - achieved little. Played man-hunt until exhausted.
Back for lunch, lazed in the sun in the garden much of the afternoon &
chatted.
- Gordon
sermon on
Acts 17:1-15 - "Check it out".
- Amazing that Paul gained a hearing at all ? - wasn't a
member of the synagogue staff, elders, etc. 1st time ever in these
Synagogues. Paul's message offensive - method was not; similarly in
the marketplace - many other philosophers & thinkers there. At
the time - travelling Rabbi's would be there - Paul a trained Rabbi
at the feet of Gameliel.
- Acts 13: Pisidian Antioch, after the reading - synagogue
rulers: brothers, if you have a message of encouragement for the
brothers - please speak. Marvelous sermon - servey of redemptive
history - as they were leaving - invited him to speak at the next
sabbath. Not the medium, but the message.
- The appeal yes to the heart, but also the mind - Jesus
wants it all. on 3 sabbath days, he reasoned with them from the
scriptures, explaining and proving that Christ had to rise from the
dead.
- The reasoning - dialog derived from this, dialog,
questioning, rather than a monologue: the original Alpha course ?
not just in terms of abstract philosophy - but in terms of the
scriptures too.
- He explained, opened up the scriptures - showing what is
there. As on the road to Emmeaus - where Jesus opened the scriptures
to his disciples. This Jesus I am proclaiming to you, is the
Christ. The result - infuriated 1/2 the crowd, and persuaded some
others.
- Doesn't have to prove there would be a Christ, but
instead that he had to suffer & rise from the dead. Paul didn't
even have to prove that he had come - the standard view was that he
would come during the Roman empire.
- Although the idea of the Messiah prevalant in the OT, only
in 2 verses is the name Christ/Messiah unambiguously of the coming
deliverer - both in the book of Daniel. Peter said - you are the Christ.
A faith based on facts, faith that cost them, as the whole city was
mobilised to persecute them.
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In case it's not painfully obvious: the reflections reflected here are my
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Novell, The Document Foundation, Spaghetti Hurlers (International),
or anyone else.
It's also important to realise that I'm not in on the Swedish Conspiracy.
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Michael Meeks (michael.meeks@collabora.com)
