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
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Thank you, Daniel, for initiating this forum. Though I find humor in the fact that we communicate online directly after leaving the dinner table where we've just had 1.5 hours of discourse, I do believe this format can be quite useful. I also find that writing helps my thought processes along. Good idea.
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