The Sojourners Class
(for the Season 2008 / 2009)
(An adult discussion group
about the Bible and our Beliefs)
(Teacher and Moderator)
Notes: Dates have
been arranged to display the latest first.
The Bible that we use is the Good News Bible published in
1976.
(That’s Pam at the end of
the table in the yellow blouse)
Pam puts a lot of effort in
class preparation and is quite happy at the popularity and participation in her
class. She invites all adults to
attend. She spent four years in college
studying the Bible and has a BA in Religion.
She knows this stuff and has an excellent presentation. We may criticize what you say but we will
not criticize you for saying it. We
have a lot of fun while we learn and talk about the Bible and our beliefs.
11/08/09
Today we continued our
discussion of the Book of Mark. Mark
talks about the miracles that Jesus performed and the effect they had on the
People of that day. Some were impressed
and believed what Jesus was teaching them.
The heads of the Jewish religion and the Tax Collectors realized that something
was going on and planned to kill Jesus.
11/01/09
Today we started a new
topic. We will study the Book of
Mark. Pam suggests that the other
Gospels may have used this as a reference.
As usual we got diverted on to something else, defining evil. This took the rest of the time. Evil can be defined as the absence of good
or God’s plan since both good and evil can not exist at the same time about the
same thing. (There may be a philosophical problem with this but I hope you know
what it is that we are getting at.)
10/18/09
Today we continued our
discussion of I Corinthians Chapter 15.
We reviewed what we had said before and added a few comments. Pam added that she thought that the body did
not go to Heaven because it was filled with sin. A question was raised. Do
we think that the good part of the spirit was saved while the bad part was
disguarded? (A partial save?) Does the Bible negate this? Pam will be away next week but will return
the following week.
10/11/09
Today we showed the first
half of a movie about the life of the Apostle Paul. Pam will return next week 10/18/09.
10/04/09
Today we talked about topics
discussed in I Corinthians Chapter 15. The
resurrection of Christ, our Resurrection, the resurrection of our body and
spirit etc. There were varying opinions
from the old atoms actually get together to we are resurrected in spirit only. Some people can really be dogmatic about
their beliefs and allow no variation from the words in the Bible. This isn’t the case in our class.
Pam will not be here next
week, Oct.11. We will try to show a
movie about the Life of Paul. Pam will
return on Oct. 18.
9/27/09
Today we discussed why we go
to church and a few other related topics.
9/20/09
Today is the second meeting
of our class and we had a good attendance considering some people were still on
vacation.
Pam wanted to finish up
where we left off last year. The
discussion centered around the events leading up to the crucifixion of Jesus.