What should a start of year theological college retreat be?
We enjoyed hearing each others' testimonies and praying for each other.
We heard a cracking Bible talk on Gen 4 about the ill fate of jealousy and the word of forgiveness spoken by the blood of Jesus.
We heard about the need for personal formation as well as intellectual endeavour.
We heard about the need to rightly engage a changing culture with an unchanging message.
We sang to our great God together.
We thought about the nature of true knowledge, and that it is relational as well as objective.
It was all really good.
Unfortunately, the thing we didn't enjoy together in the program was the beauty of laughter and levity together. I just wish we'd have been able to add not taking ourselves too seriously to taking God's word, mission and ministry seriously.
Nearly :) but just a tiny bit :|