class notes 1/14

What is worth knowing?

What about his life?

Approach to reconciling people on the margins?

Margins:

Poor/poverty

Structure of the church/focus on people on the outside

Church:

-margins/boundaries

-Purpose

-organization

-reason

-people

-content

-love/God (connection)

-religion/lifestyle/worship

-morals/virtues (striving for)

-connecting with people

-Prayer (connecting everything, most important in Paul’s letters, understated)

-spirituality?! Religion?! Meditation?!

-innocence of children…perspectives? Shaped? Humility? Knowing your place?

-competition

-family (connection) (not even blood ; church, friends, etc.)

-views on religion, spirituality, others

Gal. 1:13….Act’s road to Damascus experience, God revealing His son to Paul

Problems you want to face? Things you want to overcome?

-connecting with the oppressed, praying, loving, living

-How should we do this? Through love.

LOVE: what is worth knowing about love?

Read about love: 5 articles on love (by next Tuesday)

EBSCO Host: ATLA Religion search: love

Google: love

-children

-family

-morals

-connecting with people

-purpose of loving

-competition in love

-shaping love

-psychology of love

-love as a lifestyle