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Read Acts 18:23-20-38 and Bruce, pages 286-299, concerning Paul’s Third Missionary Journey. Use the internet to research and view images of the ruins of Ephesus.
Answer the following questions
1. How did Paul deal with the former coverts of Apollos?
2. What is the significance of the city of Ephesus? What archaeological remains are there today?
3. What does it Corinthians 11:23-27 imply about an Ephesian imprisonment? What do some scholars about letters to churches written by Paul during the two years he was in Ephesus?
4. Discuss the Sons of Sceva. From a modern perspective, what are your thoughts, observations, beliefs about demon possession and exorcism?
5. Who was Artemis (Diana)? Describe the Riot of the Silversmiths, and explain why this happened.
6. What might all Christians learn from Paul’s farewell speech to the church elders in Ephesus?
Read Acts 18:23-20-38 and Bruce, pages 286-299, concerning Paul’s Third Missionary Journey. Use the internet to research and view images of the ruins of Ephesus.
Answer the following questions
1. How did Paul deal with the former coverts of Apollos?
2. What is the significance of the city of Ephesus? What archaeological remains are there today?
3. What does it Corinthians 11:23-27 imply about an Ephesian imprisonment? What do some scholars about letters to churches written by Paul during the two years he was in Ephesus?
4. Discuss the Sons of Sceva. From a modern perspective, what are your thoughts, observations, beliefs about demon possession and exorcism?
5. Who was Artemis (Diana)? Describe the Riot of the Silversmiths, and explain why this happened.
6. What might all Christians learn from Paul’s farewell speech to the church elders in Ephesus?
Reading Response: God as ‘Merciful and Gracious’ in Exodus 34:6-7
Overview
We have spent time reading through the books of Genesis and Exodus. You have read the stories of God creating the heavens and the earth, of promising Abraham and Sarah a son, and of blessing them with descendants which would outnumber the stars in the sky. We already see a pattern of God’s benevolence, this desire to bless and give, in all of these stories. You also read of God using his servants Moses, Miriam, and Aaron to rescue the Hebrews from oppressive slavery in Egypt to bring them into the land of Canaan. But there is a very special place we would like to camp out on in Exodus which captures core ideas we will use during our Educators Roundtable discussion this week. That passage is when God gives Moses very specific details about the kind of God he is, how he is to be known and remembered by his people. Watch the following videos about what is meant by the word ‘Grace’ in this passage of Exodus 34:6-7 and follow the instructions below.
Instructions
Summarize the concept of ‘grace’ as presented in the videos.
Connect what you watched in the videos with a relevant section from our required textbook readings this week. Identify and summarize that section from our readings in approximately 300-400 words, to reacquaint me with that specific section from our reading. Note: Your selection cannot be strictly a summary of the videos or a passage of the Bible required to be read this week or related online readings which are not from our required textbooks. Your summary must be from a section in the required textbooks on the syllabus for this week.
Designate an additional 200 to 400 words responding with your insights and/or analysis of how that section of our required reading connects with this idea of God’s kindness, compassion, and grace.
Read carefully Acts 15, Galatians 2:1-21, as well as Galatians 3-5. Then read Bruce, pages 148-202.
Then answer the following questions (six pages).
In light of Masenya’s reading of Job 3, discuss how she might comment on Ezekiel 16.(minimum 400 words)
In light of Koller’s reading of Ezekiel 16, discuss how he might comment on Job 1-3. (minimum 400 words)
In light of Appler and Smith’s reading of Ezra 9 and Nehemiah 13, discuss how they might comment on the book of Ruth. (minimum 400 words)
Compare the female in Ezekiel 16 with Job’s Wife in Job 2 and Job’s Mother in Job 3 in terms of their roles, portrayals, relation to men, relation to the deity, power/agency, etc. (minimum 400 words)
In light of West’s reading of the book of Ruth, discuss how she might comment on Ezra 9 and Nehemiah 13. (minimum 400 words)