Parents’ Symposium M A R K C A N N I S T E R y r t s i n M i t n e h c d r u u t h S C g in the n k i a M y t r i o i P r a S R E G A MATTER N E E T
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Adele Adkins ! Someone Like You Ornamental note that clash with the melody just enough to create dissonant sounds that produce tear-triggering moments This cycle of tension and resolution ! actually creates something new.
Tension between acceleration and balance produces stability Tension between ideologies creates a system of checks and balances
n o i t a m r Achievement Confidence o f s n a r T Moratorium Foreclosure Diffusion
n o i t a m r Confidence o f s n a r T Moratorium Foreclosure Diffusion
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Recognizing Moratorium ✦ A person will be seen pursuing new information or experiences to resolve a faith issue. ! ✦ A person will be seen considering a variety of alternatives to resolve a faith issue. ! ✦ A person will show emotional intensity and a hunger for a quick resolution. " 10
I grew up in the Episcopal Church in Alaska, but my belief was superficial and flimsy. It was borrowed from my archaeologist father, who was so brilliant he taught himself to speak and ! read Russian. When I encountered doubt, I would fall back on the fact that he believed. ! Leaning on my father's faith got me through high school. But by college it wasn't enough, especially because as I grew older he began to confide in me his own doubts. What little faith I had couldn't withstand this revelation. From my early 20s on, I would waver between atheism and agnosticism, never coming close to considering that God could be real. ! Kirsten Powers
Creating an Environment ! for Moratorium ✦ Acceptance ! ✦ Safe Environment ! ✦ Offer New Perspectives ! ✦ Understand faith as something much larger than any single belief " 12
How would you feel about your faith if you learned that the Bible was not true?
2 Timothy 3:14-17: “But as for you, continue in what you have learned and firmly believed, knowing from whom you learned it, and how from childhood you have known the sacred writings that are able to instruct you for salvation through faith in Christ Jesus. All scripture is inspired by God and is useful for teaching, for reproof, for correction, and for training in righteousness, so that everyone who belongs to God may be proficient, equipped for every good work.”
Luke 1:1-4: “Many have undertaken to draw up an account of the things that have been fulfilled among us, just as they were handed down to us by those who from the first were eyewitnesses and servants of the word. With this in mind, since I myself have carefully investigated everything from the beginning, I too decided to write an orderly account for you, most excellent Theophilus, so that you may know the certainty of the things you have been taught.”
Matthew 28:18-20 Then Jesus came to them and said, “All authority in heaven and on earth has been given to me. Therefore go and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, and teaching them to obey everything I have commanded you. And surely I am with you always, to the very end of the age.”
Textual Problems ! Mt. 17:21 Mk. 16:9-20 Mt. 23:14 ! Jn. 7:53-8:11 Mk. 7:16 Mk. 9:44, 46 Mk. 11:26; 15:28 Lk. 17:36; 23:17 Ac. 8:37; 15:34; 28:29 Rom. 16:24
How many relatives did Jacob Have? ! Text
Take the staff or leave the staff? !
Who was the father of Joseph? !
Dead or Almost Dead? ! Text
What time was Jesus crucified? ! Text
1. When students lose confidence in the Bible, they lose confidence in their faith. s m e l b 2. When students have to constantly defend o r P the Bible, they lose confidence in their faith. ! a. Increase your confidence in the Bible. Solutions b. Increase your understanding of Faith.
“Faith” Provides meaning for who I am and direction for what I do. Special ! General Belief About Conviction Belief In Experience Witness Revelation ! Revelation ! Conviction Our Having Creation Belief that Coming to The Bible of truth ! conviction confidence reveals a certain know that orients us that seeks s are in and God of things are something ! to the knowledge, supported beauty, trusting in true about is true story of engages through God and order, God, ! through God and the the God’s design, the world, experience the people evidence, confirmat- promises. goodness. ourselves. . of God. entertains ion of doubts. others.
Connect to a Community of Faith Acts 2:41 The disciples devoted themselves to one another in a community of faith. ! Students fall away from their faith when they are not connected to a community of faith. ! Jesus doesn’ t just call people to himself, he calls people to community.
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