Monday, June 9, 2008
APC Knowledge
I wondered often during the APC how this knowledge could be applicable to real life issues. But as I walked on the path of my journey to some parts of Africa, I realised that it is indeed needed not because having the knowledge gives you an edge over "them" but because having the knowledge gives you the ability to connect into deeper levels and break tougher grounds that you wouldn't necessary break without such vital tool. Thanks to the word of God because if it wasn't for it YWAM and the APC would have never been in place for me at this point. Now, I am left with the challenge to study the word from a lot of perspectives and also to apply it. I wonder if I should tell Colleen that I actually cheated so that she would make me do the APC again for me to be able to stay away from the challenge of studying the word on my own! Lord give me the strength and grace!
Saturday, January 12, 2008
Dialogue
Hi Friends,
Congratulations on surviving our first week of lectures! Am I the only one swimming a bit?? The material we've covered so far has definitely struck a chord in my heart--sometimes resulting in emphatic agreement and sometimes resulting in protest and a desire to scrape a few layers further beneath the surface. It has occurred to me how much I'm going to need to wrestle through our teachings, readings, and conversations beyond the context of our lecture time alone.
I'm hoping that this blog may be a means to do so in conversation with each of you. Given the diversity of our school, I'm genuinely excited about this opportunity. If you think about it, we almost all represent different nations, languages, cultures, and ways of thinking with fairly little overlap (between the 15 of us, we represent 8 countries and an age span of 30 yrs!). And, though we may have little else in common, we all have a heart after Jesus and for the transformation he calls to bring in and through us. That's big.
Given this foundation, I feel that we have an enormous opportunity to glean from each other's understanding and experiences, as well as digging into shared questions and interests.
Practically, I've invited each of you to be co-authors, which means that you can post and comment as you like. Please share insights, stories, and questions, as well as research and study you feel are beneficial to everyone. Make yourself at home, but also use discretion in the content, nature, and length of your posts. If you're responding to a specific post, doing so as a comment will help to keep things organized.
If we work together at this, it just may help us each digest the APC!
- Daniel
Congratulations on surviving our first week of lectures! Am I the only one swimming a bit?? The material we've covered so far has definitely struck a chord in my heart--sometimes resulting in emphatic agreement and sometimes resulting in protest and a desire to scrape a few layers further beneath the surface. It has occurred to me how much I'm going to need to wrestle through our teachings, readings, and conversations beyond the context of our lecture time alone.
I'm hoping that this blog may be a means to do so in conversation with each of you. Given the diversity of our school, I'm genuinely excited about this opportunity. If you think about it, we almost all represent different nations, languages, cultures, and ways of thinking with fairly little overlap (between the 15 of us, we represent 8 countries and an age span of 30 yrs!). And, though we may have little else in common, we all have a heart after Jesus and for the transformation he calls to bring in and through us. That's big.
Given this foundation, I feel that we have an enormous opportunity to glean from each other's understanding and experiences, as well as digging into shared questions and interests.
Practically, I've invited each of you to be co-authors, which means that you can post and comment as you like. Please share insights, stories, and questions, as well as research and study you feel are beneficial to everyone. Make yourself at home, but also use discretion in the content, nature, and length of your posts. If you're responding to a specific post, doing so as a comment will help to keep things organized.
If we work together at this, it just may help us each digest the APC!
- Daniel
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