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Sometimes, even on Wednesday nights, we don’t have time to cover all of the topics that may come up. This page has been made to help address topics and ideas that perhaps need further discussion or are difficult to fully address in a single lesson or Q/A session.
Scenario 3: The question Posed as a Sincere Inquiry About the Fate of the Unevangelized
In his book, Questioning Evangelism: Engaging People’s Hearts the Way Jesus Did, Randy Newman does an excellent job addressing the rather difficult issue of what we are to do with those in the “unreached” or even “unreachable” parts of the world. Are those in the unreached places to be condemned within the parameters of a Gospel they have never heard? Via a simulated conversation, Newman presents a compelling argument for a Christian response to this issue.
The Role of Suffering in Holiness
Every worldview is challenged with answering the question of suffering. However, regardless of its inescapable difficulty, the Christian worldview presents profound and comprehensive answers to suffering – an issue unresolved and simplified in the inconsistent and reductionist methods found in other worldviews. The solution is centralized in the centerpiece of the Christian confession: the suffering of Jesus Christ. The goal of this theological query will be to use the suffering of Christ as a lense by which suffering moves beyond evil and into a refining agent for holiness
Chronic Shame and Infancy
In lesson 2 of our series Shame 101: Retelling the Rival Story, we covered the anatomy of shame, wherein we consulted observations from Curt Thompson, MD, and Dr. Stephen Pattison on the development of shame in adolescence. The following are the slides that we used to trace the development shame when it is graduated to a role beyond its function. The slides and the portion of the lesson manuscript where these slides are addressed are below.
Textual Criticism and Mark 16:9-20
The Bible is comprised of thousands upon thousands of manuscripts. However, we don’t have complete editions of books – simply fragments of books here and there. So, in the world of biblical scholarship, there is what is known as textual criticism, which is the practice of puzzling together all of the pieces of the Bible that have been discovered throughout history. Occasionally we come across something like Mark 16:9-20, which – as your very own Bible tells you – is not found in two foundational manuscripts. What does this mean? In his book, A Theology of Mark’s Gospel, David E. Garland presents a comprehensive overview of the ideas around textual Criticism that help clarify this question.