hours: 1-youth group, 1.5-church, .5-worship practice, 1-sunday school = 4 hours.
This sunday, I felt was kind of pointless, to be honest. It was an "intro to ephesians" but as we read in Hendrick's book, i feel that it could have been something we could have done for homework. We talked about how in revelation, the church of ephesus had lost their 1st love - their love for eachother. We then started Ephesians chapter 1... how Paul started with spiritual dealings, instead of the typical worldly problems he usually starts with. Basically, for the next couple weeks we are going to be talking about Ephesians, the topic of love, redemption, and how the spiritual world runs parallel with ours. One of our main focuses is going to be on how we see the Spirit leading us. Do humans under analyze the Holy Spirit? Underanalyze the Holy Spirit? What do you think? Do people think their thoughts are the Spirits, and push of the leading of the Holy Spirit as merely their thoughts? And on the topic of this class in particular, how could this have been taught better? How could we have been given sufficient homework to discover the "intro to ephesians" for ourselves.
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i think that when you set out to teach understanding and seeking the holy spirit you have to first start with seeking humility and silence of heart. Now, teaching that is more of a life experience sort of thing that you cant really teach through any sermon or bible study/sunday school class. As teachers we, i suppose, are supposed to call people from the level they are at to a new level, a higher level of maturity, whether that is intellectual, emotional or spiritual. This is also the goal of my dorm, bowman, to call people up into christian maturity; we can do that in classes as well.
ReplyDeleteSome really good points. Ephesian is an awesome book. I think we underanalyze the holy spirit. It does more then what we think it is doing. It's probably got some huge secret job that we don't know about and only God knows about. I think we think our own thoughts and the holy spirit influences us in our thoughts. It is like the devil, he doesn't control our thoughts he just influences it.
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