Wow, I really appreciated the sharing you all participated in tonight!
Remember how Paul..the same Paul who wrote Philemon..used the "S" word in Philippians 3? In the original Greek he used the word "skubala," which your class Bible translates "rubbish," but the word is much close to the English S-word. More on that word use here
Stars"..
Read this, if you missed class, or want to see this video again
Unfortunately, the hour-long video we watched in class on suffering (Drops Like Stars) was the assignment for forum 1...and they have taken the video offline (I showed it in class on DVD.).
Unfortunately, the hour-long video we watched in class on suffering (Drops Like Stars) was the assignment for forum 1...and they have taken the video offline (I showed it in class on DVD.).
I will try to see if it will upload to Moodle tonight, but it probably will not, due to copyright. . Do check soon. If I can't upload, i will find an alternative assignment. Of course, there is the small chance you have or have access to the "Drops Like Stars" DVD. We watched the first half. (hour and 7 minutes), and it explains the soap assignment. You can stream and watch it live on Rob Bell's website, but it would cost ten dollars, so I can't require that. It's at this link: https://robbell.com/drops-like-stars-tour-film/
We will watch the second half next week, and I would hate for you to miss the first hour. You can see the trailer above.
Also, if you make up the class session with cohort 34 in Visalia Thurs night, they completely absolve your absence. So do do that if you can, as the experience of Week 3 is powerful, and you see the video
Also, if you make up the class session with cohort 34 in Visalia Thurs night, they completely absolve your absence. So do do that if you can, as the experience of Week 3 is powerful, and you see the video
- The Art of Disruption
- The Art of Honesty..
- The Art of Elimination..
more of these here
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Note:
Note:
-a Prodigal Son paradoxical hemistiche
"-we live in the hallways"
-the liminality (see "Radical Loving Care," pp, 82ff) and Moodle article from last week of the hospital hallway
-removal of "insulators"
-removing the boundary (or "box") of a bounded set.
-how "texting" can literally save lives
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Here are your genius soap arts! This had to do with art #3 above,
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It has been hugely productive, revelational and (even) fun to, as part of a class that several others and I teach, have students plot out (on the whiteboard) their timeline.
As Pastor/Trucker Franks suggests below, sometimes it's "more about the journey than the destination." See also "What if Torah/ מלכות השמים, is more 'journey than 'doctrine'?"
We then take time to interweave/intertext our personal timelines with the timeline/trajectory of Jesus' life in Matthew's gospel (the thrust of the class).
Especially helpful is the suggestion by Donald Kraybill ("The Upside Down Kingdom") and Ray Van Der Laan ( video) that throughout his earthly life, Jesus was revisited by remixes of the original three temptations ("testations" ) of the devil"in chapter 4.
Our timelines:
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Here are your genius soap arts! This had to do with art #3 above,
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It has been hugely productive, revelational and (even) fun to, as part of a class that several others and I teach, have students plot out (on the whiteboard) their timeline.
As Pastor/Trucker Franks suggests below, sometimes it's "more about the journey than the destination." See also "What if Torah/ מלכות השמים, is more 'journey than 'doctrine'?"
We then take time to interweave/intertext our personal timelines with the timeline/trajectory of Jesus' life in Matthew's gospel (the thrust of the class).
Our timelines:
Timelines from other classes:
More:click here
We did a "venn it" with
- a)Dave Matthews' "Bartender" (2 versions):
This week';s "COMMUNITY" topic is Greatness
Jesus came to serve.
The last shall be first.
That's who is great in the Kingdom economy:
Jesus said in it yet another chiasm:
But those who exalt themselves will be humbled,
and those who humble themselves will be exalted
(Matt 23:12)
ONE GREAT PERSON SURVEYS
" I Deny the Resurrection and I am not straight."
(uh, better click that title and get the context!)
we apply some "Three Worlds" theory to Matthew 18 and the topic of "Who is great?"
As we study, apply as many literary world symbols as you can
A video on that chapter featuring Keltic Ken:
Related outtakes:
KKKOf LITERARY WORLD note:
- -There is a hyperinked account in Matthew 16, there only Peter receives power to bind and loose, here all the disciples do. Remember 'ustedes va"?
- -The sheep parable hyperlinks to Luke 15, but with a different context
- Structurally, the last section of chapter 17 is connected
- Two inclusios place this section in the middle of a unit about taxes/rights and children. Implications---
Of Historical World note:
- What did you learn about a millstone from tonight's video clip?: Half the clip is below, and notes from complete video here:
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Faith Lessons by Ray Vander Laan: The Weight of the World
“Gethsemane” means olive press. The film shows an image of an ancient olive press at Capernaum. The olive press symbolizes the crucifixion.There is a synagogue in Capernaum from the 3rd or 4th century, which is likely along the same plans as was used in the First Century.Jesus was asked to heal a centurion’s servant. The centurion had built the synagogue and was highly esteemed by the people.(Luke 7:2-5) There a centurion’s servant, whom his master valued highly, was sick and about to die. 3 The centurion heard of Jesus and sent some elders of the Jews to him, asking him to come and heal his servant. 4 When they came to Jesus, they pleaded earnestly with him, “This man deserves to have you do this, 5 because he loves our nation and has built our synagogue.”Jesus was amazed at the faith of the centurion.In Matthew 11, Jesus pronounces a curse on Capernaum for failing to repent.(Mat 11:20-23) Then Jesus began to denounce the cities in which most of his miracles had been performed, because they did not repent. 21 “Woe to you, Korazin! Woe to you, Bethsaida! If the miracles that were performed in you had been performed in Tyre and Sidon, they would have repented long ago in sackcloth and ashes. 22 But I tell you, it will be more bearable for Tyre and Sidon on the day of judgment than for you. 23 And you, Capernaum, will you be lifted up to the skies? No, you will go down to the depths. If the miracles that were performed in you had been performed in Sodom, it would have remained to this day.RVL: We’ve been taught the miracles of Jesus. Therefore, we will have no excuse. The most severe curses in the Bible are against those who knew better — not those who sinned in ignorance.
Olive oil was used for lubricant, for fuel, for lamps, for cleaning, as a preservative, and in cooking. Olive oil production was a major industry.A massive stone rolled over the olives to produce olive oil. The crushed olives were then placed in another container and a massive stone column crushed the rest of the oil out of them. The olives were repeatedly crushed to get all the oil out.Only the wealthy, typically the aristocrats, could afford the equipment needed to press the olives, and so they had control over local agriculture.The Messiah is the “annointed one,” which refers to annointing with oil — olive oil.Every few hundred years, an olive tree will stop bearing fruit and so must be cut down, and a new tree will grow from the stump.(Isa 11:1) A shoot will come up from the stump of Jesse; from his roots a Branch will bear fruit.The Jews taught that the new “shoot” was the Messiah — the shoot or branch out of Jesse.Paul teaches that the Gentiles are grafted into the stump, meaning that out roots are Jewish.And if God will cut down the natural tree for not bearing fruit, what will he do with the grafted-in tree?“Nazareth” means shoot. Hence, Jesus is from “shoot” or “branch.”Parents of children brought children to be blessed by the rabbi Jesus. Jesus insisted that the children come.(Mat 18:2-6) He called a little child and had him stand among them. 3 And he said: “I tell you the truth, unless you change and become like little children, you will never enter the kingdom of heaven. 4 Therefore, whoever humbles himself like this child is the greatest in the kingdom of heaven.5 “And whoever welcomes a little child like this in my name welcomes me. 6 But if anyone causes one of these little ones who believe in me to sin, it would be better for him to have a large millstone hung around his neck and to be drowned in the depths of the sea.Children had no status in that culture. To become like a child was to give up status and rights.Jesus felt strongly about those without status, who are unimportant. These are the “little ones.” If we don’t care about the little ones, the unimportant, the unloved, we’ll be tossed into the Abyss with a millstone (from an olive press) tied around our necks.
The column or pillar of stone used to squeeze the last of the oil out of a crushed olive was a “geth semane.” After telling the disciples to take on the gates of hell, he led them to Jerusalem, and then he went to the Garden of the Olive Press. There he felt the weight of the olive pressed — to the point of sweating blood.The burden of carrying our sins was enormous. The “olives” are Jesus. The “weight” is us — we are the weight that squeezed the blood out of Jesus.
NOTE A RECURRENCE OF the phrase "little one."
Watch
this (click)
video, "Weight of the World," and be prepared to discuss what these two items are
Remember Jesus said a lost sheep was great, Wow.
Page 22 of Syllabus,Matthew 18 Outline
(by Greg Camp/Laura Roberts):
1 Question #1: Who is Greatest?
2-17 Responses (each are counter proposals):
2-10 Response #1: Children
2-4 Counter Proposal: Accept children
5-9 Threat: If cause scandal
10 Show of force: Angels protect
12-14 Response #2: Sheep
12-14 Counter Proposal: Search for the 1 of 100 who is lost
15-17 Response #3: Brother who sins (counter proposal)
15a Hypothetical situation: If sin
15-17 Answer: Attempt to get brother to be reconciled
17b If fail: Put him out and start over
18-20 Statement: What you bind or loose
21-22 Question #2: How far do we go in forgiveness?
23-35 Response #1: Parable of the forgiving king/unforgiving servant
----------------Read verses 15-17 and then ask yourself:
"What did it mean in their historical world to treat people like
"tax collectors and sinners?"
"What did it mean in their historical world to treat people like
Two answers
1)Don't allow them in your bounded set.
2)How did Jesus treat tax collectors and sinners? In a centered set way. Tony Jones writes:
but because anyone, including Trucker Frank, can speak freely in this church, my seminary-trained eyes were opened to find a truth in the Bible that had previously eluded me.”...That truth emerged in a discussion of Matthew 18's "treat the unrepentant brother like a tax collector or sinner.":"And how did Jesus treat tax collectors and pagans?" Frank asked aloud, pausing, "as of for a punchline he'd been waiting all his life to deliver,"....., "He welcomed them!""
Philemon:
HMMM:
John Knox (at Univ of Chicago) thought Archippus (not Philemon) was the slave-owner and that Paul publicly shamed Archippus into forgiving Onesimus (see Col 4:17)… link
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Knox offered a completely different reconstruction of the occasion for the letter identifying the master as Archippus who was the host of the church mentioned in verse one, and Philemon as the one to plead reinstatement of Onesimus. He considers the epistle of Philemon to be the letter from Laodicea in Colossians 4:16, and the exhortation for Archippus to “fulfill his God-given ministry” (Col. 4:17) to be the request of Paul concerning Philemon (see John Knox, “Philemon” in The Interpreter’s Bible, vol. xi [New York, 1955], pp. 555ff; Knox,Philemon among the Letters of Paul: A New View of its Place and Importance; Guthrie, NTI, pp. 635-638; Bruce, Paul: Apostle, p. 401-406; O’Brien, Philemon, pp. 267-268). link
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