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Birthday: 9/27/1978
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| OsakaEveryone, I'm in Japan with an outreach team. We got in last night and
we were going to try and immediately head over to a church, but we ran
into alot of traffic on the bus ride into downtown Osaka from the
airport. That delay coupled with the sleepiness of everyone (else) made
it an unwise decision to spend forty minutes walking (roundtrip) to
visit the church an hour late. So we went straight to the base. I
thoroughly enjoy the fact that I did not have to stumble around
trying to find my way. It is a nice feeling to just grab the
right bus and train and walk straight to the door of the base. I think
the best part is the team not getting worried and antsy over wondering
if we are going the right way.
Catch you later,
Eric
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| Three days leftWell, I'm off to Japan for two months on the 21st. We get there on the 22nd (I love the international dateline).
We get in at 4p.m. and if we get through customs quickly and if we can
easily ship our bags to the base then we might be able to make it into
downtown Osaka by 6 or 6:30 and then a twenty minute walk and we can
attend a church service geared at unreached Japanese college
students. And then we could stay as long as we are able to stay
awake and then head over to the Osaka base and fall asleep. It should
be a great way to start outreach if it works out.
Unfortunately, I have three days before that happens and all the
typical outreach prep stuff to get done before that happens. Including
my personal stuff.
However, I don't have to pack up my entire life this time around. Which is pretty dang cool.
A travel backpack, a carryon pack and maybe a laptop case for two
months. oh and something like 12million people of whom only at most
like 5 % know God. Life for the next two months. God is good.
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| It's been awhileOK., for once my parents won't blame me for not putting a post up here
for awhile. They know the reasons why. And being the impish person I am
I shant tell you my reasons.
Get Over It. Jeez.
So we are just at three weeks before we head off for outreach in Japan.
As per the usual I am once again trying to set things up three weeks
before outreach. Not that I just started now, but even when we work way
in advance the places to stay don't seem to materialize until this last
couple of weeks. I think it has to do with the priority being on what
is happening in lecture and the students.
Right about now is when the pressure starts to shift towards
outreach. It might have3 to do with momentum as well. If we start
focusing to early then by the time outreach hits the excitement
has worn off and we would start on a downward turn.
In other news we have had to dismiss one student. That is/was hard to do, but I think necessary.
Alright, catch you later.
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| PaulMy friend and current boss (sort of), Paul Childers, is teaching on the Bible this week. We are talking about Inductive Bible study which is near and dear to the hearts of anyone who has done SBS or SBS core course.
SBS stands for school of Biblical studies for those not proficient in YWAMese.
Today we started using the tried and true starter book - Philemon. I enjoy watching people start to ask the interpretation questions. Paul wouldn't let me answer anything before that because I have done SBS CC. :(
But everyone in the class asked good interpretation questions. Some of them would have been answered without being asked with background information, but this was good for getting everyone involved.
And I have figured out a way for us staff to put Japanese subtitles on movie clips the speakers want to use. Luckily I won't have to be the person translating. so I can figure out the process and then let another master it.
Well, I was up till around two last night figuring it out and it is ten- thirty now so I'm gonna go to bed.
Peace, good night and goodbye, Oyasumi. whatever...
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| Christ?David Hamilton was speaking yesterday about how God limited Himself by
becoming wholly human. He took on a physical body thus limiting himself
to learning one language as a baby. being in one place. Walking
to and from the temple where he learned about God and memorized the
Torah. It's a crazy idea on the surface.
It challenges concepts that we just sort of internalize as we grow up.
It makes the verse about "emptying Himself..." much more meaningful.
What would it be like to empty yourself of infinite knowledge to
then learn over the course of two or three years how to speak just one
language?
Did Jesus retain his infinite knowledge and understanding when he became a man?
If He did would this have made it a fair testing of his perfectly choosing God's Will and not sinning?
And a bigger question raised yesterday was that He retains his physical
body even now. That for the rest of eternity Jesus limited himself to a
redeemed perfected body.
The finite can never become infinite for it has a beginning, but the
infinite can become finite. So if this is true then can the infinite
that became finite become once again infinite as it was originally? And
if it can then did it ever truly become finite?
This is not what David Hamilton said but it is where my mind went. Although he is touching on it right now.
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