Happy Sunday night, GFMers! Hope your weekend was as much fun as ours was, although unless your grandma also turned 90, or you also took a bunch of teenagers through a haunted corn maze, it probably wasn't. Sorry, chums, some of us are just born lucky. Here's what's on the docket for this week:
TOMORROW MORNING (Monday): Wake up and pray with us! We'll meet at 9:00 a.m. in the Charter Room at the Memorial Union. If you've never been, you're missing out, as we have some champion intercessors among us! Don't start your week without balm for your soul if you don't have to.
Tuesday: Thinking about Faith, 7:30 p.m. at at Tim O'Connor's home, 3119 S. Forrester. We will discuss Ch.3 of Mark Noll's new book, *Jesus Christ and the Life of the Mind.* The 22-page chapter is entitled, Jesus Christ: Guidance for Serious Learning." Noll writes: "In this chapter the focus is on four general expectations that might inform intellectual life if the grand [Christological] laims of John 1, Colossians 1, and Hebrews 1 are taken seriously, and if the formulations in the major creeds could functionas guides to understanding the world. The four concern duality or doubleness, contingency, particularity, and self-denial." He suggests that each of these themes are prominent in the Christian revelation and that it will be natural for the Christian scholar to expect to see these features in the area of her study or, in the last case, to see its importance to serious scholarship (and the great difficulty of consistently practicing it).
If you haven't gotten the book yet, join us anyways, you'll be able to follow the thread of discussion. Hope to see you all there this week!
Wednesday: Manuscript Bible Study, 7-9 p.m., Ballantine Hall 004
We'll take some time to read this week's passage (no homework!) from the book of Acts, pray, and discuss. Kerilyn Harkaway-Krieger and Dr. Tarez Graban lead. Manuscript Study aims to take in the Biblical text in context, including discussion of its literary style, audience, history, and other cool stuff like that. Come and join us!
Sunday: GFM Fall Women's Event: Sunday, October 9th from 6:00 to 8:30 p.m. at Kerilyn's house, 3442 N. Stoneycrest Road. In the tradition of early American Methodism, the GFM Women will be celebrating a "Love Feast" or Agape Meal. A Love Feast is a Christian fellowship meal that is meant to remind us of the meals Jesus shared with his disciples and expresses the bonds of love enjoyed by the family of Christ. We will pray, read scripture, sing hymns, and share about what God is doing in our lives.
Our Love Feast will be a potluck, so please bring a dish to share. If your last name is A-M, please bring a dessert. If N-Z, please bring a side dish. Main dishes and drinks will be provided. As always, if it comes down to the wire and you absolutely can't bring something, please come and be welcome at our table!
As part of our Love Feast, we will be praising God by giving back through donations to the Hoosier Hills Food Bank. Please bring one (or more) non-perishable food item(s). The Hoosier Hills Food Bank works with local agencies to distribute donated food to food pantries, soup kitchens, shelters, and low-income daycare centers.
And finally: Did you know you can also follow us on our blog? If you're reading this, probably so! We post the weekly email, and you can also view (or download!) our Google Calendar. Or, if you're feeling less productive, leave snarky remarks in the comments. It's a world of possibilities!
TOMORROW MORNING (Monday): Wake up and pray with us! We'll meet at 9:00 a.m. in the Charter Room at the Memorial Union. If you've never been, you're missing out, as we have some champion intercessors among us! Don't start your week without balm for your soul if you don't have to.
Tuesday: Thinking about Faith, 7:30 p.m. at at Tim O'Connor's home, 3119 S. Forrester. We will discuss Ch.3 of Mark Noll's new book, *Jesus Christ and the Life of the Mind.* The 22-page chapter is entitled, Jesus Christ: Guidance for Serious Learning." Noll writes: "In this chapter the focus is on four general expectations that might inform intellectual life if the grand [Christological] laims of John 1, Colossians 1, and Hebrews 1 are taken seriously, and if the formulations in the major creeds could functionas guides to understanding the world. The four concern duality or doubleness, contingency, particularity, and self-denial." He suggests that each of these themes are prominent in the Christian revelation and that it will be natural for the Christian scholar to expect to see these features in the area of her study or, in the last case, to see its importance to serious scholarship (and the great difficulty of consistently practicing it).
If you haven't gotten the book yet, join us anyways, you'll be able to follow the thread of discussion. Hope to see you all there this week!
Wednesday: Manuscript Bible Study, 7-9 p.m., Ballantine Hall 004
We'll take some time to read this week's passage (no homework!) from the book of Acts, pray, and discuss. Kerilyn Harkaway-Krieger and Dr. Tarez Graban lead. Manuscript Study aims to take in the Biblical text in context, including discussion of its literary style, audience, history, and other cool stuff like that. Come and join us!
Sunday: GFM Fall Women's Event: Sunday, October 9th from 6:00 to 8:30 p.m. at Kerilyn's house, 3442 N. Stoneycrest Road. In the tradition of early American Methodism, the GFM Women will be celebrating a "Love Feast" or Agape Meal. A Love Feast is a Christian fellowship meal that is meant to remind us of the meals Jesus shared with his disciples and expresses the bonds of love enjoyed by the family of Christ. We will pray, read scripture, sing hymns, and share about what God is doing in our lives.
Our Love Feast will be a potluck, so please bring a dish to share. If your last name is A-M, please bring a dessert. If N-Z, please bring a side dish. Main dishes and drinks will be provided. As always, if it comes down to the wire and you absolutely can't bring something, please come and be welcome at our table!
As part of our Love Feast, we will be praising God by giving back through donations to the Hoosier Hills Food Bank. Please bring one (or more) non-perishable food item(s). The Hoosier Hills Food Bank works with local agencies to distribute donated food to food pantries, soup kitchens, shelters, and low-income daycare centers.
And finally: Did you know you can also follow us on our blog? If you're reading this, probably so! We post the weekly email, and you can also view (or download!) our Google Calendar. Or, if you're feeling less productive, leave snarky remarks in the comments. It's a world of possibilities!
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