Burney talked on Timothy and Titus. She really loves the Bible, and talk about it like a story book that she has read... I love it :) The class also discussed the controversial scripture of women needing to be silent in church and not teach... many good points were made... the main ones that stood out to me was that women were unschooled in that culture, and that the church was experiencing a lot of false doctrines... so the last thing that Paul wanted was for untaught women to teach in church.
Another point was that the word used for having women "over" men, actually was more close to 'domineering'. So its not really about women not teaching in the church... but more about women actually learning good doctrine (like everyone else), so that they may not be swayed by different doctrines. So it is for a very specific application. The Practice changes, but the Principal behind the Practice stays the same :)
After that, Bill spoke on how he has a history with God through the scriptures... That he goes to the scriptures every day and reads until he hears God's voice in them... then he meditates on that scripture till the situation is resolved. So he encouraged us to do the same... to build a history with God.
How he does it is: He starts to read Psalms... anywhere... until God speaks through the scriptures... except if God brings another scripture to mind...
its something that is easy to do...
Then after school we went to Wiskey town lake for camping :) Our revival group (RG) made an outing... and those that wanted to camp brought tents to spend the night. There was a fire, and we had some burgers, and had a good time socializing :) Its funny that there is this segregation between men and women every time our RG gathers... but it goes away after a while... It feels like highschool again, and I don't like it... so i'm one of the first to go to any guy that is 'mixing' with girls... just to break the segregation... anyways... good times.
It started to drip rain a bit, but cleared later in the night... we were there till 7:45pm... it felt more like 9pm... got a lift back with Toby, Christian and Scotland. Then had an early night... slept till 9:45am. Its nice to sleep in on Saturdays... get enough body rest... makes me feel like i can take on another week to come.
Its still weird to start on Tuesdays... and have church on Sunday. Next week our schedule changes to Friday night Twin view at 7:30. So we will have that, and Sunday mornings 11:30am at Twin view... so no Bethel :( Adjusting to church on Friday will be interesting... because I am spent on Friday nights... maybe I should take a power nap just before going... eat, sleep, set an alarm, then go. Think thats the only way I will get through service without zoning... Then Sunday night will be free... so maybe we can do stuff then...
anyway :)
I'm glad that i'm ahead with homework... to some degree... currently reading Experiencing Father's Embrace (Jack Frost). It looks like it covers a lot of topics... many of the things that you can miss why just being a 'normal' Christian. Keen to see how well he handles the topics... so far it is good.
well... God is Good :) So be blessed :)
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