Q 10:11

Last night's class dealt with Jesus' early Galilean Ministry:
-Jesus and John the Baptist
-the importance of Jesus' baptism
-the Temptation of Jesus in the wilderness
-repentance
-the restoration of Israel in Jesus' teaching and ministry
----the Kingdom of God
----the call of the Twelve
----healings and exorcism
----pronouncement/conflict stories
----redefining the family
----Sermon on the Mount

"Any questions from the first eleven chapters?  No comments?  No controversies?  Completely memorized?"

"Feel free to use social memory.  Also known as: work with a partner."

"Preached and teached... inquiring foreigners would like to know.  Praught and taught?"

[A project of John Meyer (sp?)]
"It is the single largest project on the pre-ministry life of Christ.  Single with a double-sense.  [John Meyer] is a priest!"

"Gotta keep our Johns straight here."

"'But Jesus answered him, "Let it be so now, for thus it is fitting for us to fulfill all righteousness."'  Well, I'm glad that was clear."

[On the Temptation in the wilderness]
"Jesus in the water, the Father in heaven, and the Spirit descending as a dove.  This would make for a great video clip.  He's just been baptized, rides into Jerusalem, defeats the armies of Rome... not.  Right when you expect something triumphant, not some severe, life-threatening tests in the wilderness."

"Counselors... and... anyone who else cares for people - which I hope is all of you - do not forget to go back to this passage."

"I think Jesus had the hardest task that any of us ever will have or our clients ever will have - gotta stop having so many pity parties!"

"...Blombergian paraphrase..."

"'Ralph before breakfast' says some frat at CU.  That means 'barf'."

"If you grew up Southern Baptist, you'll struggle with this: wine was a symbol of joy!"

"Then, He cleanses the temple... or... makes a mess of it, to be more precise."

[Russian believers do not use terms like, "The day I asked Jesus into my heart..."]
"They would say, 'The day I repented..." "When I repented..." Now that's got some teeth in it. "

"Well, then, we mix all the letters up.  Did you miss that?  It's the restoration of Israel... or... at least of its letters."
(His Powerpoint had some... excessive animation in its lettering.  And he made it "mix" twice.)

"I'm just wearing my historian's hat.  Not my believer's hat at this moment."

[Why twelve disciples?]
"You know, we've got Two and a Half Men, why not eight and a half disciples?"

"It's... the microphone falling apart.  It's the Jewish favorite number!  I got so excited I'm just falling apart!"

"While I'm writing Greek, I'll do it again!  For the sake of the elect in our midst."

"Jesus never said, 'In My Name, come out,' He just said, 'Come out!'"

"What's that all about?  We'd better solve this before break."

"Have you learned the 'C' word yet? ...Context!  WRite in on your foreheads, inscribe it on the tablets of your hearts!"

[The Unforgivable Sin]
"If you're that worried about it, that's almost a guarantee you haven't committed it."

"Let's take 15... then we'll come back and do more fun things!"

[He gave a statistic reporting the percentage of students who do not go into ministry because their parents do not approve of such a low income]
"How can I say this lovingly...?  BLOW OFF THOSE PARENTS!  [Whispers in lapel mic] I'm sorry about that."

[The term 'disciple' was not used outside of the Gospels, or of people other than Jesus' disciples - a student asked what we should make of Jesus' commission to 'make disciples']
"It's not like, make-people-that-you'd-call-that and then not call them that!"

[Sermon on the Mount]
"That's not a bad start to a religion."

"Then comes the zenith."

"This is Jesus' Kingdom Manifesto.  Marx isn't the only one who gets to use that term - Jesus can have a manifesto, too!"

"'I came not to abolish the law, but to preserve it unchanged.'  Hmmm... still not there."

"Wait!  Where's chapter two??  Flip flip flip flip."

[In an attempt to use the picture-capture feature of the projector, and speaking into the microphone, which, presumably, was transmitting to someone who would aid him in his technological dilemmas]
First, uses a stapler to hold the page down
Second, captures the picture as the pages flipped
Third, captures a picture of his tie covering the page of the book
"Nevermind!  ...Yes, and, Aaron, I know that you're listening and there's a button I can push. Immediately, the phone rings!  And the class dies.  Some discussion on the phone, some more attempts at a picture.  He gives up and THROWS the book.


"The best laid plans of mice... and people!"

[Dispensationalism]
"Bring your lambs and bulls to church, let the blood run out under the pulpit... would definitely attract a crowd!"

"Suppose you were a normal Christian and didn't have this wonderfully titillating little resource!"

"Christian friends, Christian parties, Christian balloon launching... it's heaven on earth!"

"I would much prefer that you would all enter class next week with hatred in your hearts for the instructor administering the exam than if you all entered with weapons and fired at me.  Not all sin is equal!"

[On the 'turn-the-other-cheek' passage, right-handed back-hand insult in culture]
"Even with my double-jointedness, it's just not quite possible."

"If you will indulge me... for I know you can't possibly have a class next!"

"Don't parade your piety!"

[Health and wealth teachings of Christianity...]
"A reference to the prophet Joel... and not the Old Testament one."