Month: October 2012
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Wandering Sheep IX: Kinds of Sheep
Don: The description of Jesus as being The Way is not just about Jesus but about his methods, teaching, humility, love, sacrifice, etc., and is more descriptive than prescriptive. The Way (the door to the Kingdom) is through the message and the medium of Jesus, but if you don’t know that, it does not deprive…
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Wandering Sheep VIII: Is Christianity Necessary?
[somewhat rough notes this week.] Alice introduced her friend Hosia (sp?) visiting from Egypt. Don: We have been looking for many weeks at the metaphor in Matthew18 … The parable of the sheep and the shepherd, especially the 99 sheep that stay vs. the 1 that strays. John 10 espouses the same metaphor. We’ve…