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We see the words spoken to new Christians and look at many warning passages.
We might be prepared and ready to give a gospel outline…but no-one ever asks us! In this second session we will explore how we intentionally relate and communicate the good news of Jesus to the real lives and cultures of those who never think about him.
Everything that humans say and do and make tells us something about their view of the world, their commitments and their gods. In this first session we will explore what the Bible says about culture and its relationship to the pervasive biblical theme of idolatry.
We will look at the most politically incorrect and treacherous issues of the present: human identity, gender, and transgender. There is a growing belief in the West that Christians are on the wrong side of history when it comes to sexuality, marriage and gender. We will look at the various issues related to the contemporary “debate” using the transgender question as our case study. We will consider what the scripture has to say to these things and how it helps us to engage our world is a smart, counter-cultural manner.
We will consider how we have arrived in the iWorld and what it looks like. More specifically we will examine how the iWorld functions and how it has come to be a place where the good of the individual as determined by each individual is our reason for existence. We will consider how we got here, the ethics of the world, and will use the book of Judges as a way to gain some Biblical perspective on what it means and its viability for the future.
We will explore the question of whether there is an alternative to the iWorld that is forward looking and counter-cultural: namely the rWorld (relational world). We will examine the scriptural teaching on relationship and examine how it is that relationship is sown into the very nature of the universe and how it is that Christianity, rightly understood, is not merely a religion of the past, but also a religion of the future.
A look in the rearview mirror to consider the tWorld (the traditional world from which we came), and especially its worldview as it pertains to sexuality, identity, and human flourishing. This seminar will look at the various elements of the traditional world, including philosophy, theology and the religions of the “Book.” We will also consider the “overlap” between the teachings of Aristotle and Old Testament law.
Sin brings us destruction by its consequences, not only legally, but in our nature. To reject the creative word of God is to cut off the basis of our own existence. We are distorted and marred by sin in a way that forgiveness alone cannot fix. Jesus paid the price for sin, he also made us new.
This seems obvious, but we often fear what we might lose when we let go of sinful habits or rule out sin as a coping/defence mechanism. We instinctively treat sin as though it has something to offer us. In this session we will examine our misconceptions and consider how we can learn to love what is truly good.
“Against you, you only, have I sinned.” Fundamental to understanding the problem of sin, is recognising that sin is ultimately against God, it is relational (against him as a person) and regal (against his rights as king). This session will set the scene and help us to see some of the central biblical perspectives on sin.
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