NT Wright option

NT Wright:

Wright is continued at this link (part 2)  and then this link (part 3) ..Required. 

Martoia option

MARTOIA : Ron Martoia talks about moving beyond a bucket/"owner's manual" approach  to an "improv" approach.

Read this article, and watch his videos.

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Note: the final two Martoia videos are here and here )

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week 4

We did all the  "Three Worlds" worksheets for Philemon in class.  See syllabus 23-24

We did the mechanics pre-test for signature paper.  See Forum 4,4

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Sample paper:

Not since Moses’s day had there been a leader like Paul.  In a sense, Paul was the most important leader mentioned in the bible.  Not only was he an Apostle, but the most prominent  and clear headed one ever mentioned by God in his Word.   Maybe the most prominent character in Christianity’s history.  Due to his special calling, his ability to face prosecution and abuse, his status as an Elder and his great Faith, he ranks highly, even though he is not one of the original 12 Disciples, and wasn’t even mentioned in the Biblical texts that discuss Jesus’s earthly days.

In a way, you could compare him to today’s Pope, or the President of the United States—or more appropriately, the Senior Pastor of a large church or the Bishop of a denomination.  Think of him like a modern Saint, a person that has great Spiritual courage and skill.  A person that  loves God and His ways.  Which makes him all the more remarkeable in the way he treated Onesimus’s owner, Philemon.  Philemon was a humble man, that had a Church in his house, and that owned Philemon as a slave.    In its own unique way, the paradox of Paul the great leader being kind and compassionate to people of lower Economic status like Onesimus (a lowly Slave) shows that he was also a great sheperd not one who would Lord it over people.  He had no allusions of being the King.

Let's examine in detail the world of Paul, Philemon and Onesimus--the 3 key players in a story with abundent  lessons for our day.  In a funny verse, the Bible says "a dog returns to it's own vomit."     Thinking about an animal being attracted to there own vomit is a strong image and thought provoking. This remind's me of  the religous leaders Jesus confronted in the Temple.  One Sunday, my Pastor preached on this.  Matthew 11:15, " Jesus said, "My house shall be a House of prayer, but you have made it a den of robbers."  When people think they're more imporatnt then others based on Religion or Race,  the affect is  divine anger.  I have thought alot about why Followers of God would ever think they are holier then other people.   Or how they could justify hating a person that was innocent or poorer then them.  It's a mystery to me, and a headscratching one at that.   I sometimes literally loose my mind over things like these.

Think about someone that dessecrated the Alter of a Church, or think's it's alright to have a prejudist attitude.  What an extordinary embarassment for priviledged people to act that way; witholding grace from a person that is in need.  Our professor talked about this one day when we did a practise for this signature assignment.

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part b))DON'T GO ANY FURTHER UNTIL YOU HAVE FINISHED THE CORRECTIONS IN PART A and posted .Then scroll down.

HERE is a video with Dave pointing out most of the corrections.  Watch it (ignore any comments  specifically for a previous class )and see how you did. ink Post below on how you did. Would your paper flunk? How do you feel about this?  Then read below.

Songs as text: 







TEXT reading practice.. Song interp ..
Sleep Like a Baby version 1


Morning, your toast
Your tea and sugar
Read about the politician’s lover
Go through the day
Like a knife through butter
Why don’t you
You dress in the colours of forgiveness
Your eyes as red as Christmas
Purple robes are folded on the kitchen chair

You’re gonna sleep like a baby tonight
In your dreams everything is alright
Tomorrow dawns like someone else’s suicide
You’re gonna sleep like a baby tonight

Dreams
It’s a dirty business, dreaming
Where there is silence and not screaming
Where there’s no daylight
There’s no healing, no no

You’re gonna sleep like a baby tonight
In your dreams everything is alright
Tomorrow dawns like a suicide
But you’re gonna sleep like a baby tonight

Hope is where the door is
When the church is where the war is
Where no one can feel no one else’s pain

You’re gonna sleep like a baby tonight
In your dreams everything is alright
Tomorrow dawns like a suicide
But you’re gonna sleep like a baby tonight
Sleep like a baby tonight
Like a bird, your dreams take flight
Like St. Francis covered in light
You’re gonna sleep like a baby tonight

 "Sleep Like A Baby   ALTERNATIVE PERSPECTIVE VERSION

In the morning when you wake up

You won’t have much
But you’ll have enough
When you are weakest
I’ll be strong enough for you

Dreams
Yeah, the ones where you are fearless
Can’t break what’s broken
You are tearless
Steal back your innocence
That’s what they stole from you

You’re gonna sleep like a baby tonight
Not everything can be so black and white
There are demons in the broad daylight
But you can sleep like a baby tonight

Stop
Where you stand right now
Just stop
Don’t think or look down at the drop
The people staring from the street
Don’t know what you’ve got

You’re gonna sleep like a baby tonight
No, not everything can be so black and white
There are demons in the broad daylight
But you can sleep like a baby tonight

Hope is where the door is
When home is where the war is
Where nobody can feel no one else’s pain

You’re gonna sleep like a baby tonight
Not everything can be so black and so white
There are demons in the broad daylight
You’ve got to sleep like a baby tonight
Sleep like a baby tonight
Where you stand
Where you fall is where I kneel
To take your heart back to where you can feel
Like a child, a child

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We offered Psalm 22 as an alternative text for signature:

Psalm 22 New Revised Standard Version (NRSV)

To the leader: according to The Deer of the Dawn. A Psalm of David.

1 My God, my God, why have you forsaken me?
    Why are you so far from helping me, from the words of my groaning?
2 O my God, I cry by day, but you do not answer;
    and by night, but find no rest.

3 Yet you are holy,
    enthroned on the praises of Israel.
4 In you our ancestors trusted;
    they trusted, and you delivered them.
5 To you they cried, and were saved;
    in you they trusted, and were not put to shame.

6 But I am a worm, and not human;
    scorned by others, and despised by the people.
7 All who see me mock at me;
    they make mouths at me, they shake their heads;
8 “Commit your cause to the Lord; let him deliver—
    let him rescue the one in whom he delights!”

9 Yet it was you who took me from the womb;
    you kept me safe on my mother’s breast.
10 On you I was cast from my birth,
    and since my mother bore me you have been my God.
11 Do not be far from me,
    for trouble is near
    and there is no one to help.

12 Many bulls encircle me,
    strong bulls of Bashan surround me;
13 they open wide their mouths at me,
    like a ravening and roaring lion.

14 I am poured out like water,
    and all my bones are out of joint;
my heart is like wax;
    it is melted within my breast;
15 my mouth[a] is dried up like a potsherd,
    and my tongue sticks to my jaws;
    you lay me in the dust of death.

16 For dogs are all around me;
    a company of evildoers encircles me.
My hands and feet have shriveled;[b]
17 I can count all my bones.
They stare and gloat over me;
18 they divide my clothes among themselves,
    and for my clothing they cast lots.

19 But you, O Lord, do not be far away!
    O my help, come quickly to my aid!
20 Deliver my soul from the sword,
    my life[c] from the power of the dog!
21     Save me from the mouth of the lion!

From the horns of the wild oxen you have rescued[d] me.
22 I will tell of your name to my brothers and sisters;[e]
    in the midst of the congregation I will praise you:
23 You who fear the Lord, praise him!
    All you offspring of Jacob, glorify him;
    stand in awe of him, all you offspring of Israel!
24 For he did not despise or abhor
    the affliction of the afflicted;
he did not hide his face from me,[f]
    but heard when I[g] cried to him.

25 From you comes my praise in the great congregation;
    my vows I will pay before those who fear him.
26 The poor[h] shall eat and be satisfied;
    those who seek him shall praise the Lord.
    May your hearts live forever!

27 All the ends of the earth shall remember
    and turn to the Lord;
and all the families of the nations
    shall worship before him.[i]
28 For dominion belongs to the Lord,
    and he rules over the nations.

29 To him,[j] indeed, shall all who sleep in[k] the earth bow down;
    before him shall bow all who go down to the dust,
    and I shall live for him.[l]
30 Posterity will serve him;
    future generations will be told about the Lord,
31 and[m] proclaim his deliverance to a people yet unborn,
    saying that he has done it.

Footnotes:

1. Psalm 22:15 Cn: Heb strength
2. Psalm 22:16 Meaning of Heb uncertain
3. Psalm 22:20 Heb my only one
4. Psalm 22:21 Heb answered
5. Psalm 22:22 Or kindred
6. Psalm 22:24 Heb him
7. Psalm 22:24 Heb he
8. Psalm 22:26 Or afflicted
9. Psalm 22:27 Gk Syr Jerome: Heb you
10. Psalm 22:29 Cn: Heb They have eaten and
11. Psalm 22:29 Cn: Heb all the fat ones
12. Psalm 22:29 Compare Gk Syr Vg: Heb and he who cannot keep himself alive
13. Psalm 22:31 Compare Gk: Heb it will be told about the Lord to the generation, 31 they will come and

New Revised Standard Version (NRSV)

New Revised Standard Version Bible, copyright © 1989 the Division of Christian Education of the National Council of the Churches of Christ in the United States of America. Used by permission. All rights reserved.

week 3

Remember this sign that I had you research in class to discover what it was?
It's the soreq that was posted outside the Jewish temple.
Read the two links below to learn what it was and to learn what it says. This will help you in your Moodle assignment later in course.

http://www.bible-history.com/archaeology/israel/temple-warning.htmlhttps://www.thattheworldmayknow.com/soreq-temple-courts

Agenda:

• Song as Text
• Moodle results: TV post/Peter Popoff
• Timelines and Testations
• Matthew 18/Great Person
• Review, View, Preview
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Peter Popoff. Great discussion on this, as followup to your TV assignment:

    

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NT Wright  PHREEEE Philemon class online  here

To illustrate set theory, we did an in'class exercise. Students had to decide which side of the rppm to stand on. based on which of each pair they preferred.

Pick a side of the room to stand on for each pair:

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• Target or Wal-Mart
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• Jew or Gentile
•   extrovert or introvert
• Lenno or McCartney
• rock or country

• innocent or depraved? (text me for extra credit  if you can explain this reference---that is where have you heard those two terms before in class material.  Deadline : 6:10 PM Week 3 class)
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• FUNERAL OR WEDDING?

FUZZY SET:

-When does a mountain begin?

-Is it about predestination or free will?

-Faith or science?

These can be debated...as the border can be fuzzy...Thus :
"Fuzzy sets"

Here below is some help on Fuzzy Sets. These readings will help:

• new nets: bounded sets, fuzzy sets, or centered-sets?
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Timelines

Remember "demise" XXXX0?:

(found this online)

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.

Kraybill provocatively proffers the following taxonomy of the temptations; suggesting that any later temptation Jesus faced (or we face) is at heart in one of these three spheres:

1=  Bread into stones: Economic 

2=Jump from temple and test God:Religious 

 3=Own all kingdoms: Political; 

So, it may be useful to plot out various temptations along your life timeline, and ask which of Jesus' temptation are each is  tied to.

SO..if every temptation can be filed under one of the three categories:

Economic    Religious   Political..

Hmm..

How might virtually all temptations (the three Jesus faced, or others you could name) be fundamentally economic?  Kraybill, you'll remember, calls the bread temptation "economic," but how might any/all others temptations trace to this root/'garbage"?
HINT: We noted that he term economics comes from the Ancient Greekοἰκονομία (oikonomia, "management of a household, administration") from οἶκος (oikos, "house") + νόμος (nomos, "custom" or "law"), hence "rules of the house(hold)".^[1]   

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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

My Dack Rambo story?  Click here  to read all about it, and for the sequel click:
" 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:

Of 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---
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If you have your computer tonight, Scriblink some diagrams with me:

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 Lamb of God

  Renewing Our Worship: Clothing →

  Faith Lessons by Ray Vander Laan: The Weight of the World

   by Jay Guin

  
  

  “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.   by Jay Guin
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  NOTE A RECURRENCE OF the phrase "little one."

  
  

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  video, "Weight of the World," and be prepared to discuss what these two items are
  
  

  
  

  
  

  
  

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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

(Who is temporarily greater?)

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

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"What did it mean in their historical world to treat  people like
"tax collectors and sinners?"

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!""

-Tony Jones, The New Christians, p.92

If you got  bar of soap:

Bring it back next week in a different form

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