Handouts: None given
Reminders:
- Service Project: The 10 hours, 2 forms, and 1 essay are due on Apr 23, 2018
- Devotion 2 Presentations: Be ready for your presentation day!
- Devotion 3 Outline: Due March 13th. Re-read the instructions (this lists your Devotion 3 Book Choices). Learn from your previous ones & start this early & make it good!
Journal 7-1: Study Packet, Page 16
- Which do you think is most important:
- - A country’s way of life (traditions , institutions, etc…) , or the individual persons within the country?
- - Another way to ask this: Should individuals suffer to keep the traditions and institutions of a society going or should the traditions and institutions change to help the individuals? Why?
- Explain your answer in 5 or more sentences.
- Which do you think is most important:
- - A country’s way of life (traditions , institutions, etc…) , or the individual persons within the country?
- - Another way to ask this: Should individuals suffer to keep the traditions and institutions of a society going or should the traditions and institutions change to help the individuals? Why?
- Explain your answer in 5 or more sentences.
Quiz Preparation:
- Your Verses: Matthew 16:15-18
- - Christ: Messiah or “Anointed One;” One chosen by God for the special purpose in saving His people
- - Bar-: “Son of”
- - Hell: ‘Hades,’ used here as a symbolic reference to death & all of the forces of evil
- - Prevail: To win in battle against
- Your Questions: Based upon class discussion & your personal reflection of these verses, use complete sentences & your own words to specifically answer:
- - 1) Why can the church survive such horrible opposition?
- - - It is built by Jesus
- - - It is built on…. (There are multiple things here!)
- - - - Who Jesus is
- - - - What Jesus did
- - - - The work of the Apostles (e.g. Peter) in preaching to & teaching others about Jesus!
- - 2) Describe who Peter says that Jesus is.
- - - Messiah: “The Anointed One” (Messiah),
- - - - A special person chosen by God to save His people
- - - Son of the Living God:
- - - - Living God: A declaration of the one true God
- - - - Son of God: Referencing Jesus’ nature as God & His special relationship w/God the Father
The Society vs. Individual: Study Packet, Page 2
- Atheist: They generally believe…
- - Social Institutions are more important than individuals. Why?
- - - Social institutions: Last for thousands of years (e.g. China!)
- - - Individuals: Lasting for ~80 years
- - Therefore: Society is responsible to shape individuals for the good of the society
- - - Humans must rely on their own reason, common sense, & science to advance the human race & save us from our problems
The Society vs. Individual: Study Packet, Page 2
- Christian: They generally believe…
- - Individuals are more important than social institutions. Why?
- - - individuals is made in the image of God as beings with a never-ending spirit!
- - - Comparatively, Social Institutions last for a short moment!
- - Therefore, individuals should shape societies to…
- - - Foster healthy institutions that will truly help the individuals.
- But what are your views? Why?
Introducing the Christian Worldview: Study Packet, Page 3
- Christians seek to find hope & direction for social problems through Jesus and what He has taught through the Bible.
- In the Bible we see three institutions set up
- - Each should foster love, respect, discipline, work, & a peaceful community
- - Each should properly do its own role while letting the others do the same
- Discussion Time:
- - What do you think this means?
- - What are some examples of when institutions don’t do this?
- These are important to the physical, spiritual, mental, & moral well-being of all humans.
- Atheist: They generally believe…
- - Social Institutions are more important than individuals. Why?
- - - Social institutions: Last for thousands of years (e.g. China!)
- - - Individuals: Lasting for ~80 years
- - Therefore: Society is responsible to shape individuals for the good of the society
- - - Humans must rely on their own reason, common sense, & science to advance the human race & save us from our problems
The Society vs. Individual: Study Packet, Page 2
- Christian: They generally believe…
- - Individuals are more important than social institutions. Why?
- - - individuals is made in the image of God as beings with a never-ending spirit!
- - - Comparatively, Social Institutions last for a short moment!
- - Therefore, individuals should shape societies to…
- - - Foster healthy institutions that will truly help the individuals.
- But what are your views? Why?
Introducing the Christian Worldview: Study Packet, Page 3
- Christians seek to find hope & direction for social problems through Jesus and what He has taught through the Bible.
- In the Bible we see three institutions set up
- - Each should foster love, respect, discipline, work, & a peaceful community
- - Each should properly do its own role while letting the others do the same
- Discussion Time:
- - What do you think this means?
- - What are some examples of when institutions don’t do this?
- These are important to the physical, spiritual, mental, & moral well-being of all humans.
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