Tuesday 9-18 and Wednesday 9-19

Tuesday 9/18/12

Classes today were really good. The main questions were “What is the purpose of the Gospel?” and “Do we really need a God?”. “Why?”. Then we looked at secularistic, animistic, and theistic views of God. Like A.W. Tozer says that our view of God defines us. The results of our studies lead to a huge realization that with out a solid foundation of beliefs the value structure will fail and then the actions will be negative producing bad character. It was like a tree where the beliefs were the roots, the values are the trunk, the actions are the branches, and the character is the fruit. So your beliefs essentially make your character. And by studying the different world views it is shows that only in Christ there is value in life, because if our beliefs are not solidly founded what use are good values? This led to a discussion on abortion and euthanization that really allowed us to challenge even some members of our teams beliefs and gave me a new perspective on how to talk to to people about it in love and in kindness rather condemning and judgemental which is sometimes something I know I can forget.

Wednesday 9/19/12

Hello! Yah so today we had classes today and it went really well. It was more focusing on learning what is the character and nature of God. How to define it and what is the difference. We separated into groups and then had a section of Scripture (Gen:1:1-26) and we had to (based on that passage) create a list of attributes of God and define them as either His nature or His character. It was hard than expected, but it was really good. Then we had to define it which my groups ideas were very different from the other groups but we were both right essentially. Really deep stuff that just makes my head hurt :) Tomorrow we have a new student coming named David. Pretty excited :D