Thursday, June 14, 2018

week 4

WE DID ALL THREE PHILEMON WORKSHEETS IN CLASS


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    We had you write this "text" in your non-writing hand. Great job. Next week we'll explain why
    previous class:
    What do you remember about THIS?:


    See this video 2:10 to 2:41 to review


    Who is the letter written to?
    HMMM:

    John Knox (at Univ of Chicago) thought Archippus (not Philemon) was the slave-owner and that Paul publicly shamed Archippus into forgiving Onesimus (see Col 4:17)… link
    complete book by Knox here
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    Knox offered a completely different reconstruction of the occasion for the letter identifying the master as Archippus who was the host of the church mentioned in verse one, and Philemon as the one to plead reinstatement of Onesimus. He considers the epistle of Philemon to be the letter from Laodicea in Colossians 4:16, and the exhortation for Archippus to “fulfill his God-given ministry” (Col. 4:17) to be the request of Paul concerning Philemon (see John Knox, “Philemon” in The Interpreter’s Bible, vol. xi [New York, 1955], pp. 555ff; Knox,Philemon among the Letters of Paul: A New View of its Place and Importance; Guthrie, NTI, pp. 635-638; Bruce, Paul: Apostle, p. 401-406; O’Brien, Philemon, pp. 267-268).  link
    7 Tychicus will tell you all the news about me; he is a beloved brother, a faithful minister, and a fellow servant[b] in the Lord. 8 I have sent him to you for this very purpose, so that you may know how we are[c] and that he may encourage your hearts; 9 he is coming with Onesimus, the faithful and beloved brother, who is one of you. They will tell you about everything here.
    10 Aristarchus my fellow prisoner greets you, as does Mark the cousin of Barnabas, concerning whom you have received instructions—if he comes to you, welcome him. 11 And Jesus who is called Justus greets you. These are the only ones of the circumcision among my co-workers for the kingdom of God, and they have been a comfort to me. 12 Epaphras, who is one of you, a servant[d] of Christ Jesus, greets you. He is always wrestling in his prayers on your behalf, so that you may stand mature and fully assured in everything that God wills. 13 For I testify for him that he has worked hard for you and for those in Laodicea and in Hierapolis. 14 Luke, the beloved physician, and Demas greet you. 15 Give my greetings to the brothers and sisters[e] in Laodicea, and to Nympha and the church in her house. 16 And when this letter has been read among you, have it read also in the church of the Laodiceans; and see that you read also the letter from Laodicea. 17 And say to Archippus, “See that you complete the task that you have received in the Lord.”
    18 I, Paul, write this greeting with my own hand. Remember my chains. Grace be with you.[f]








  • Headsup One of the best ways to PRACTICE interpreting a text is by doing in class something you do all the time:
    Interpreting the text of a song/music video..especially when you can "Venn it" with two versions.  This is forum 4.1 Teacher's pick.\
    Notes from previous cohorts on the 2 versions of the song:

     



      Songs as text: 



      TEXT reading practice.. Song interp ..
      Sleep Like a Baby version 1

      Morning, your toast
      Your tea and sugar
      Read about the politician’s lover
      Go through the day
      Like a knife through butter
      Why don’t you
      You dress in the colours of forgiveness
      Your eyes as red as Christmas
      Purple robes are folded on the kitchen chair

      You’re gonna sleep like a baby tonight
      In your dreams everything is alright
      Tomorrow dawns like someone else’s suicide
      You’re gonna sleep like a baby tonight

      Dreams
      It’s a dirty business, dreaming
      Where there is silence and not screaming
      Where there’s no daylight
      There’s no healing, no no

      You’re gonna sleep like a baby tonight
      In your dreams everything is alright
      Tomorrow dawns like a suicide
      But you’re gonna sleep like a baby tonight

      Hope is where the door is
      When the church is where the war is
      Where no one can feel no one else’s pain

      You’re gonna sleep like a baby tonight
      In your dreams everything is alright
      Tomorrow dawns like a suicide
      But you’re gonna sleep like a baby tonight
      Sleep like a baby tonight
      Like a bird, your dreams take flight
      Like St. Francis covered in light
      You’re gonna sleep like a baby tonight

     "Sleep Like A Baby   ALTERNATIVE PERSPECTIVE VERSION

    In the morning when you wake up

    You won’t have much
    But you’ll have enough
    When you are weakest
    I’ll be strong enough for you

    Dreams
    Yeah, the ones where you are fearless
    Can’t break what’s broken
    You are tearless
    Steal back your innocence
    That’s what they stole from you

    You’re gonna sleep like a baby tonight
    Not everything can be so black and white
    There are demons in the broad daylight
    But you can sleep like a baby tonight

    Stop
    Where you stand right now
    Just stop
    Don’t think or look down at the drop
    The people staring from the street
    Don’t know what you’ve got

    You’re gonna sleep like a baby tonight
    No, not everything can be so black and white
    There are demons in the broad daylight
    But you can sleep like a baby tonight

    Hope is where the door is
    When home is where the war is
    Where nobody can feel no one else’s pain

    You’re gonna sleep like a baby tonight
    Not everything can be so black and so white
    There are demons in the broad daylight
    You’ve got to sleep like a baby tonight
    Sleep like a baby tonight
    Where you stand
    Where you fall is where I kneel
    To take your heart back to where you can feel
    Like a child, a child
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    isalian, and filmmaker (and Fresno Pacific grad) told this   story at the first "Gathering to Bless Christians in the Arts":

    Blake Snyder, the screenwriter behind the classicSave The Cat"  book became a Christian not long before he died. 

    Often at this point in such a story, folks ask "Who led him to Christ?" 

    Go ahead and ask. 

    The answer is: 

    Chiasm. 

    It happened in large part because Mike, not even knowing if such a well-known and busy writer would respond to his email,  asked him if he had heard about chiasm. 

    Turns out Snyder was fascinated with it all, and Mike was able to point out chiastic structure and shape in scriptwriting....and one thing led to another...and then in Scripture. 

    All roads, and all chiasms, lead to the Center and Source. 


    Mike, of course, learned chiasm in THIS CLASS.
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    Headsup One of the best ways to PRACTICE interpreting a text is by doing in class something you do all the time:
    Interpreting the text of a song/music video..especially when you can "Venn it" with two versions.
    Notes from previous cohorts on the 2 versions of the song:
     



      Songs as text: 



      TEXT reading practice.. Song interp ..
      Sleep Like a Baby version 1

      Morning, your toast
      Your tea and sugar
      Read about the politician’s lover
      Go through the day
      Like a knife through butter
      Why don’t you
      You dress in the colours of forgiveness
      Your eyes as red as Christmas
      Purple robes are folded on the kitchen chair

      You’re gonna sleep like a baby tonight
      In your dreams everything is alright
      Tomorrow dawns like someone else’s suicide
      You’re gonna sleep like a baby tonight

      Dreams
      It’s a dirty business, dreaming
      Where there is silence and not screaming
      Where there’s no daylight
      There’s no healing, no no

      You’re gonna sleep like a baby tonight
      In your dreams everything is alright
      Tomorrow dawns like a suicide
      But you’re gonna sleep like a baby tonight

      Hope is where the door is
      When the church is where the war is
      Where no one can feel no one else’s pain

      You’re gonna sleep like a baby tonight
      In your dreams everything is alright
      Tomorrow dawns like a suicide
      But you’re gonna sleep like a baby tonight
      Sleep like a baby tonight
      Like a bird, your dreams take flight
      Like St. Francis covered in light
      You’re gonna sleep like a baby tonight

     "Sleep Like A Baby   ALTERNATIVE PERSPECTIVE VERSION

    In the morning when you wake up


    You won’t have much
    But you’ll have enough
    When you are weakest
    I’ll be strong enough for you

    Dreams
    Yeah, the ones where you are fearless
    Can’t break what’s broken
    You are tearless
    Steal back your innocence
    That’s what they stole from you

    You’re gonna sleep like a baby tonight
    Not everything can be so black and white
    There are demons in the broad daylight
    But you can sleep like a baby tonight

    Stop
    Where you stand right now
    Just stop
    Don’t think or look down at the drop
    The people staring from the street
    Don’t know what you’ve got

    You’re gonna sleep like a baby tonight
    No, not everything can be so black and white
    There are demons in the broad daylight
    But you can sleep like a baby tonight

    Hope is where the door is
    When home is where the war is
    Where nobody can feel no one else’s pain

    You’re gonna sleep like a baby tonight
    Not everything can be so black and so white
    There are demons in the broad daylight
    You’ve got to sleep like a baby tonight
    Sleep like a baby tonight
    Where you stand
    Where you fall is where I kneel
    To take your heart back to where you can feel
    Like a child, a child
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We did this from 4.5:
Song
Watch this video of a song called "Maranatha" (means "Oh, Lord, come!").
Note: the video title makes it look like the singer is Peter Rollins,  It's not, he is Padtaig O'Tauma.
Don't research the singer or song, and don't read anyone else's post ,until you have posted.
Pay attention to comments before the song.
Post a few paragraphs where you :
do your best to interpret the song using Three Worlds Skills
and 
review the song
Important: mention anything controversial or surprising, and wnhat you thought about it




  • We read Psalm 22  in class translation,and revealed that you can choose it as an alternative to Philemon for paper:

    My God, my God, why have you forsaken me?
        Why are you so far from helping me, from the words of my groaning?
    2 O my God, I cry by day, but you do not answer;
        and by night, but find no rest.
    3 Yet you are holy,
        enthroned on the praises of Israel.
    4 In you our ancestors trusted;
        they trusted, and you delivered them.
    5 To you they cried, and were saved;
        in you they trusted, and were not put to shame.
    6 But I am a worm, and not human;
        scorned by others, and despised by the people.
    7 All who see me mock at me;
        they make mouths at me, they shake their heads;
    8 “Commit your cause to the Lord; let him deliver—
        let him rescue the one in whom he delights!”
    9 Yet it was you who took me from the womb;
        you kept me safe on my mother’s breast.
    10 On you I was cast from my birth,
        and since my mother bore me you have been my God.
    11 Do not be far from me,
        for trouble is near
        and there is no one to help.
    12 Many bulls encircle me,
        strong bulls of Bashan surround me;
    13 they open wide their mouths at me,
        like a ravening and roaring lion.
    14 I am poured out like water,
        and all my bones are out of joint;
    my heart is like wax;
        it is melted within my breast;
    15 my mouth[a] is dried up like a potsherd,
        and my tongue sticks to my jaws;
        you lay me in the dust of death.
    16 For dogs are all around me;
        a company of evildoers encircles me.
    My hands and feet have shriveled;[b]
    17 I can count all my bones.
    They stare and gloat over me;
    18 they divide my clothes among themselves,
        and for my clothing they cast lots.
    19 But you, O Lord, do not be far away!
        O my help, come quickly to my aid!
    20 Deliver my soul from the sword,
        my life[c] from the power of the dog!
    21     Save me from the mouth of the lion!
    From the horns of the wild oxen you have rescued[d] me.
    22 I will tell of your name to my brothers and sisters;[e]
        in the midst of the congregation I will praise you:
    23 You who fear the Lord, praise him!
        All you offspring of Jacob, glorify him;
        stand in awe of him, all you offspring of Israel!
    24 For he did not despise or abhor
        the affliction of the afflicted;
    he did not hide his face from me,[f]
        but heard when I[g] cried to him.
    25 From you comes my praise in the great congregation;
        my vows I will pay before those who fear him.
    26 The poor[h] shall eat and be satisfied;
        those who seek him shall praise the Lord.
        May your hearts live forever!
    27 All the ends of the earth shall remember
        and turn to the Lord;
    and all the families of the nations
        shall worship before him.[i]
    28 For dominion belongs to the Lord,
        and he rules over the nations.
    29 To him,[j] indeed, shall all who sleep in[k] the earth bow down;
        before him shall bow all who go down to the dust,
        and I shall live for him.[l]
    30 Posterity will serve him;
        future generations will be told about the Lord,
    31 and[m] proclaim his deliverance to a people yet unborn,
        saying that he has done it.
  • Here's what you wrote for this translation:


Psalm 22 The Message (MSG)

A David Psalm

22 1-2 God, God . . . my God!
    Why did you dump me
    miles from nowhere?
Doubled up with pain, I call to God
    all the day long. No answer. Nothing.
I keep at it all night, tossing and turning.
3-5 And you! Are you indifferent, above it all,
    leaning back on the cushions of Israel’s praise?
We know you were there for our parents:
    they cried for your help and you gave it;
    they trusted and lived a good life.
6-8 And here I am, a nothing—an earthworm,
    something to step on, to squash.
Everyone pokes fun at me;
    they make faces at me, they shake their heads:
“Let’s see how God handles this one;
    since God likes him so much, let him help him!”
9-11 And to think you were midwife at my birth,
    setting me at my mother’s breasts!
When I left the womb you cradled me;
    since the moment of birth you’ve been my God.
Then you moved far away
    and trouble moved in next door.
I need a neighbor.
12-13 Herds of bulls come at me,
    the raging bulls stampede,
Horns lowered, nostrils flaring,
    like a herd of buffalo on the move.
14-15 I’m a bucket kicked over and spilled,
    every joint in my body has been pulled apart.
My heart is a blob
    of melted wax in my gut.
I’m dry as a bone,
    my tongue black and swollen.
They have laid me out for burial
    in the dirt.
16-18 Now packs of wild dogs come at me;
    thugs gang up on me.
They pin me down hand and foot,
    and lock me in a cage—a bag
Of bones in a cage, stared at
    by every passerby.
They take my wallet and the shirt off my back,
    and then throw dice for my clothes.
19-21 You, God—don’t put off my rescue!
    Hurry and help me!
Don’t let them cut my throat;
    don’t let those mongrels devour me.
If you don’t show up soon,
    I’m done for—gored by the bulls,
    meat for the lions.
22-24 Here’s the story I’ll tell my friends when they come to worship,
    and punctuate it with Hallelujahs:
Shout Hallelujah, you God-worshipers;
    give glory, you sons of Jacob;
    adore him, you daughters of Israel.
He has never let you down,
    never looked the other way
    when you were being kicked around.
He has never wandered off to do his own thing;
    he has been right there, listening.
25-26 Here in this great gathering for worship
    I have discovered this praise-life.
And I’ll do what I promised right here
    in front of the God-worshipers.
Down-and-outers sit at God’s table
    and eat their fill.
Everyone on the hunt for God
    is here, praising him.
“Live it up, from head to toe.
    Don’t ever quit!”
27-28 From the four corners of the earth
    people are coming to their senses,
    are running back to God.
Long-lost families
    are falling on their faces before him.
God has taken charge;
    from now on he has the last word.
29 All the power-mongers are before him
    —worshiping!
All the poor and powerless, too
    —worshiping!
Along with those who never got it together
    —worshiping!
30-31 Our children and their children
    will get in on this
As the word is passed along
    from parent to child.
Babies not yet conceived
    will hear the good news—
    that God does what he says.
Here's what you wrote for this translation:


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    Do by Sun night, replies to 2 others by class

     Church and Culture Survey again
    As a follow-up to Week 3  Church and Culture  survey, and class discussion, do your best to retake it according to the discussion/suggestions from class. Post your  new results, and a significant response about how you think/feel about this challenge.  Answer all questions below at some point.  
    Remember to think cross-culturally this time.   Example:If you were a missionary to a tribe, and the chief of the tribe ..who had five wives, as this is what chiefs do in that culture--converted to Christ, would you ask him to divorce four wives? Ask him to only sleep with one, so he doesn't commit adultery? (See the dilemma; which "sin" do you ask him to commit (adultery, divorce, or polygamy?)
    Post your new results, and mention how they are different from two weeks ago.
    At some point, answer the following questions:
    • How did you feel about this?
    • Are your “essential” items so important to you that you could not associate with a group that did not practice all of them?
    • Are there some “essential” items that are a little more “essential” than others?
    • Are there any items that have nothing explicitly to do with Scripture at all?
    •  Was your E count lower?
    • Name one of your E items, and make your case why it is E across all cultures and times.
    • Compare your new answer to Part Two (the principle) to your previous answer.
    • Were any items hard or impossible  (on your conscience or convictions) to remove from the E column, and why? 


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    SURVEY
    Gospel and Culture
    This exercise is intended to help you test your own theological consistency on a number of issues that Protestants in various denominations have felt important. As a Christian in a cross-cultural setting, you will need to learn the differences between
    those elements essential to the church in every culture, and those elements which are not.


    Part One

    Separate all the items that follow into two categories, based on these definitions:


    Essential: These items (commands, practices, customs) are essential to the church in
    every age and place. [Mark these. “E” on the list.]
    Negotiable. These items (commands, practices, customs) may or may not be valid
    for the church in any given place or time. [Mark these “N” on the list.]


    1. Greet each other with a holy kiss.

    2. Do not go to court to settle issues between Christians.

    3. Do not eat meat used in pagan ceremonies.

    4. Women in the assembly should be veiled when praying or speaking.

    5. Wash feet at the Lord’s Supper (Eucharist).

    6. Lay on hands for ordination.
    7. Sing without musical accompaniment.
    8. Abstain from eating blood.
    9. Abstain from fornication.
    10. Share the Lord’s Supper (Eucharist).
    11. Use only real wine and unleavened bread for your Eucharist meals.
    12. Use only grape juice for Eucharist meals.
    13. Anoint with oil for healing.
    14. Women are not to teach men.
    15. Women are not to wear braided hair, gold, or pearls.
    16. Men are not to have long hair.
    17. Do not drink wine at all.
    18. Slavery is permissible if you treat slaves well.
    19. Remain single.
    20. Seek the gift of tongues.
    21. Seek the gift of healing.
    22. Lift your hands when you pray.
    23. People who don’t work don’t eat.
    24. Have a private “devotional time” every day.
    25. Say Amen at the end of prayers.
    26. Appoint elders and deacons in every congregation.
    27. Elect the leaders.
    28. Confess sins one to another.
    29. Confess sins privately to God.
    30. Give at least ten percent of your income/goods/crops to God.
    31. Construct a building for worship.
    32. Confess Christ publicly by means of baptism.
    33. Be baptized by immersion.
    34. Be baptized as an adult.
    35. Be baptized as a child/infant.
    36. Do not be a polygamist.
    37. Do not divorce your spouse for any reason.
    38. Do not divorce your spouse except for adultery.

    Part Two
    Reflect on the process by which you distinguished the “essential” from the
    “negotiable” items. What principle or principles governed your decision? Write out the
    method you used, in a simple, concise statement. Be completely honest with yourself
    and accurately describe how you arrived at your decisions. Your principle(s) should
    account for every decision.

    Review your decisions again


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    Remember the Prodigal Son and the forgotten famine?

    See it  here in the original book.

    The big idea:

    What goes without being said for us can lead us to miss important details in a Bible passage, even when the author is trying to make them obvious. Mark Allan Powell offers an excellent example of this phenomenon in “The Forgotten Famine,” an exploration of the theme of personal responsibility in what we call the parable of the prodigal son. Powell had twelve students in a seminary class read the story carefully from Luke’s Gospel, close their Bibles and then retell the story as faithfully as possible to a partner. None of the twelve American seminary students mentioned the famine in Luke 15:14, which precipitates the son’s eventual return. Powell found this omission interesting, so he organized a larger experiment in which he had one hundred people read the story and retell it, as accurately as possible, to a partner. Only six of the one hundred participants mentioned the famine. The group was ethnically, racially, socioeconomically and religiously diverse. The “famine-forgetters,” as Powell calls them, had only one thing in common: they were from the United States.

    Later, Powell had the opportunity to try the experiment again, this time outside the United States. In St. Petersburg, Russia, he gathered fifty participants to read and retell the prodigal son story. This time an overwhelming forty-two of the fifty participants mentioned the famine. Why? Just seventy years before, 670,000 people had died of starvation after a Nazi German siege of the capital city began a three-year famine. Famine was very much a part of the history and imagination of the Russian participants in Powell’s exercise. Based solely on cultural location, people from America and Russia disagreed about what they considered the crucial details of the story.

    Americans tend to treat the mention of the famine as an unnecessary plot device. Sure, we think: the famine makes matters worse for the young son. He’s already penniless, and now there’s no food to buy even if he did have money. But he has already committed his sin, so it goes without being said for us that the main issue in the story is his wastefulness, not the famine. This is evident from our traditional title for the story: the parable of the prodigal (“wasteful”) son. We apply the story, then, as a lesson about willful rebellion and repentance. The boy is guilty, morally, of disrespecting his father and squandering his inheritance. He must now ask for forgiveness.

    Christians in other parts of the world understand the story differently. In cultures more familiar with famine, like Russia, readers consider the boy’s spending less important than the famine. The application of the story has less to do with willful rebellion and more to do with God’s faithfulness to deliver his people from hopeless situations. The boy’s problem is not that he is wasteful but that he is lost.
    Our goal in this book is not, first and foremost, to argue which interpretation of a biblical story like this one is correct. Our goal is to raise this question: if our cultural context and assumptions can cause us to overlook a famine, what else do we fail to notice?  link

    --Philemon:
    Click this to see how our translation and three others compare.  Extra credit if you text Dave by beginning of Week 3 and explain how they change it.
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