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Re: Lesson Study # 6 - Ethnicity and DISCIPLESHIP
[Re: Daryl]
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02/05/08 06:57 AM
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Jim felt called to take the gospel to a foreign country. Upon arrival, he discovered that the people had a test for foreigners to earn the right to stay among them. The foreigner had to swallow, and not regurgitate, a potion. If the person failed the test, he or she had to leave immediately; otherwise, they could be eaten by the tribe. Jim watched the tribe prepare the potion of milk, human saliva, blood, chewed-up herbs, and other herbal concoctions. It looked and smelled sickening. All he could do was pray—and drink. To everyone's amazement (especially his own), Jim drank it and held it down, earning the right to remain.
Making disciples might require us to do strange things: eat or drink strange mixtures, and be all things to all people so we can win some. This is the call and challenge of discipleship, especially as the gospel goes around the world and into cultures sometimes radically different from our own. We know about the prohibition against ingesting blood. Did Jim do the right thing? When he gets around to teaching that prohibition, will he look like a hypocrite? I have encountered some people who argued that one must sometimes break the Sabbath in order to teach the Sabbath. Does that make sense?
By God's grace,
Arnold
1 John 5:11-13
And this is the testimony, that God gave us eternal life, and this life is in his Son. Whoever has the Son has life; whoever does not have the Son of God does not have life. I write these things to you who believe in the name of the Son of God, that you may know that you have eternal life.
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Re: Lesson Study # 6 - Ethnicity and DISCIPLESHIP
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02/05/08 12:23 PM
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Jim felt called to take the gospel to a foreign country. Upon arrival, he discovered that the people had a test for foreigners to earn the right to stay among them. The foreigner had to swallow, and not regurgitate, a potion. If the person failed the test, he or she had to leave immediately; otherwise, they could be eaten by the tribe. Jim watched the tribe prepare the potion of milk, human saliva, blood, chewed-up herbs, and other herbal concoctions. It looked and smelled sickening. All he could do was pray—and drink. To everyone's amazement (especially his own), Jim drank it and held it down, earning the right to remain.
Making disciples might require us to do strange things: eat or drink strange mixtures, and be all things to all people so we can win some. This is the call and challenge of discipleship, especially as the gospel goes around the world and into cultures sometimes radically different from our own. We know about the prohibition against ingesting blood. Did Jim do the right thing? When he gets around to teaching that prohibition, will he look like a hypocrite? If he does things in their proper order and starts with the gospel, I think that might be a lesser problem by the time it acctually comes up for discussion.
I have encountered some people who argued that one must sometimes break the Sabbath in order to teach the Sabbath. Does that make sense?
Depends on what your take on keeping the sabbath is. If you stop on road to church to help your neighbour change a tire, did you break the sabbath then? If your answer is yes, then you may have to break it to teach.
Galatians 2
21 I do not frustrate the grace of God: for if righteousness come by the law, then Christ is dead in vain.
It is so hazardous to take here a little and there a little. If you put the right little's together you can make the bible teach anything you wish. //Graham Maxwell
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Re: Lesson Study # 6 - Ethnicity and DISCIPLESHIP
[Re: vastergotland]
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02/05/08 03:07 PM
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I have encountered some people who argued that one must sometimes break the Sabbath in order to teach the Sabbath. Does that make sense? Depends on what your take on keeping the sabbath is. If you stop on road to church to help your neighbour change a tire, did you break the sabbath then? If your answer is yes, then you may have to break it to teach. If one's Sabbath-keeping precludes him from helping a donkey out of a ditch (the ancient equivalent of a flat tire), then perhaps he is not qualified to teach what true Sabbath observance is. Such Sabbath-breaking rests on the same faulty premise that leads some to conclude that Jesus broke the Sabbath. But the specific argument I was talking about is hiring someone to work for you during the Sabbath, then teaching him to abstain from work on the Sabbath.
By God's grace,
Arnold
1 John 5:11-13
And this is the testimony, that God gave us eternal life, and this life is in his Son. Whoever has the Son has life; whoever does not have the Son of God does not have life. I write these things to you who believe in the name of the Son of God, that you may know that you have eternal life.
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Re: Lesson Study # 6 - Ethnicity and DISCIPLESHIP
[Re: asygo]
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02/08/08 12:28 AM
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It seems to explain the Memory Text.
"I have become all things to all men, that I might by all means save some" (1 Corinthians 9:22, NRSV).
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