One thing I love about our class is that we hardly ever just sit there and listen to a lecture. He always has us listening to something, reading something, and doing something hands on. I learn so much better that way, it just seems to open up different parts of my brain and allows things to sink in and stay in. where as listen to a lecture, the words seem to bounce off my brain, never sticking.
He did this hand on learning with the house of cards. In trying and trying to build a house of cards we all saw how hard it was and how much work and focus it took to just build two stories! I don’t know how many times my group tried and how many different ways we tried to just make a full second story, we never really succeeded. But I did succeed in something with the house of cards; I got such a better understanding of what C.S Lewis was referring to when he used that metaphor in his book.
We talked about similes and metaphors in class and I have also been talking about that in another class as referring to the Bible. So much of how Jesus taught was trying to get us to understand divine things through our everyday human activities. I would like to know how many times it is said in the divine subject x is like human understanding y. It is one way we can began to even touch the tip of understanding the divine nature. I think that we need to remind ourselves of this when we are trying to witness to people. So many times we through facts at them like, “your going to hell”, “repent of your sins”, “God is love” “The kingdom of Heaven is near” and so on. We need to go back and see how Jesus taught so often, through stories and parables, or in our words, similes and metaphors.
That's so good. I feel like I kinda had that same thought but never really put it into words. I feel like you articulated it very well and that your right. How often do we throw facts at people when we take our flawed attempts to witness? They are in fact going to Hell if they don't repent and accept that Love God has to offer us. But it's so irrelevant to them, that it's just like listening to a lecture... Good thoughts...
ReplyDeleteI agree with you and Seth. I know people who think that they are doing the "right" thing by throwing those phrases and even more at people and think that they will want to know Jesus. That is not true. It is almost like we are pushing them farther and farther away from the thought of following Christ. We are supposed to allow Christ to work through us. It is not us whom saves, it is our Father in us whom saves.
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