5/31: NT Wright cont/"S" Words cont.

Devotions: -Bruce Almighty:  

 This brings up the topcs of signs and wonders, and surrendering to God's will even ehen they don't happen. See: and

pp, 42-43 here
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a couple pics taken in class here and here..

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Review the week's outline:
Tues 

• Spiritual
• Structure
• Saul
• Samaria

Thurs 

• Steven's Sermon
• Sheet  of Pete
• Sircumicison
• Signs and Wonders

We'll save SAMARIA and CIRCUMCISION for the rabbi's visit next Thurs.
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FIRST>> To finish most of the S words....We'll continue on with the NT Wright series, "Acts: The Heaven on Earth Show"
with parts 7-13, which take us through the first half of Acts (or in Stott's outline, through Module B).


For each part below, look for answers to the questions listed.



Part 7:

1)How might our Myers-Briggs personalty difference affect how we read the Bible/Acts?
(particularly STs vs  NFs...for explanation, see this).
2)Why is resurrection important?
3)Why is the Spirit poured out?
4)What does it mean for Jesus to bring a theocracy?
 5Which Old Testament book is helpful to understand this section of Acts?


Part 8: 


1)In the first half of Acts, Jesus is announced as ____________.
This leads inevitably to a conflict with _________/
2_two key themes: a)K________  b)T_________
3)What do kings do?  They _____________temples.
4)Reading the OT, even the last book (Malachi), what was the state of the temple?
5)What is the tension in Acts 2?  If Jesus and the______ are the temple, problems exist with ______________.
6)Draw and label  chart of this first half of Acts which includes the bookends, the capstone, and the events on either side of the capstone.  Give chapter and verse references.
7). If the __________ is the alternate __________, then __________________________________________________.
8(What are the four SIGNS of the church living as the new ________?
The signs result in a)__________________  b)_________________
9)The church is a family business, not ____________________/

Part 9: 
1)"No needy among them" is a reference to Deut 15 and 16.  The reason no one was in need 
is because they saw themselves as living in _____________.
2)They were behaving as people who  ____________________.
3)Maybe the fact that we don't see a lot of ________________ today is related
to the fact that we don't see a lot of _____________.
4)Tension: disciples were going to __________ yet living as if they were __________.
5). "It's not us; it's what God has _________________."
6)It's more about where we are in the story, than about ____________________.

Part 10: 
1)What's more important than your individual resurrection someday is 
_____________________
2)Resurrection splits into two: a) ______  b)_____
3)Again, we learn how important it is the get the context and historical world
of which  Old Testament book?



Part 11:
1)Draw a chart labeling the two extremes of a New Testament political theology, and
the two  candidates for the possible balancing components which prevents  the extremes.
2)They/we need to learn to navigate being faithful to _____________ and
obeying _________.
3)Pattern: When the church trusts God, they find _______________.
4)The Hebrew vs. Hellenist problem only existed because the believers were ___________.
5)Steven's sermon is the ___________ of this whole section, and its whole point is that we are the true ________.  Within this main point, two subpoints: a)God sends _______________
b)People are always guilty of ______________, particularly of the __________.
6)______________ is only an advanced signpost.  Signposts are saying "Don't ___________."

Part 12:
1)The specific is to benefit the __________.
2(Draw a chart which places Paul's conversion in between two other episodes.
The point: Paul's idea of reaching the Gentiles was not a new idea.
3)Phillip quotes Isaiah 53, which we think is all about the cross and individual salvation (and
it is, but this leads to Isaiah 54 which is about _____, and Isaiah 56, which is about membership granted to ___________ and __________.

Part 13:
1)On his way to conversion, Paul may well have been practicing the meditation of the
_____________________.
2)Paul realized that --regarding everything he stood for:
a)Everything is ______________  b)Everything is ________.
3)When Wright talks about clean/unclean, draw this as a bounded set.




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• SHEET OF PETE  
•  SIGNS AND WONDERS,
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SIGNS AND WONDERS

GROUP 1 STRETCH:
: Watch  Mr and Mrs. Craig Keener.   Read the article below. What do you think? Include and draw  Hiebert's "Middle Zone" grid as you discuss. Report to class:

related:


Finally...Read: It's Okay to Expect a Miracle | Scholar Craig Keener rediscovers the reality of divine intervention.


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GROUP 2 STRETCH:Read about and watch  Heidi Baker. What do you think?: Include and draw  Hiebert's "Middle Zone" grid as you discuss Report to class:

Miracles in Mozambique: How Mama Heidi Reaches the AbandonedThere are credible reports that Heidi Baker heals the deaf and raises the dead. One thing is for sure: She loves the poor like no other in this forgotten corner of the planet............ by Tim Stafford |

Watch the slideshow at end of above article,
and this interview below:

GROUP 3 STRETCH:

Go with Dave . Report back Tues.