{"id":3566,"date":"2008-08-02T23:30:00","date_gmt":"2008-08-02T23:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/religionprof\/2008\/08\/when-christians-disagree\/"},"modified":"2008-08-02T23:30:00","modified_gmt":"2008-08-02T23:30:00","slug":"when-christians-disagree","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/religionprof\/2008\/08\/when-christians-disagree.html","title":{"rendered":"When Christians Disagree"},"content":{"rendered":"<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><head><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><\/head><body><p><a href=\"https:\/\/4.bp.blogspot.com\/_BtqUSG7RCA0\/SDwtwLeZwzI\/AAAAAAAAAJg\/yx1MHxy0Frs\/S660\/church.jpg\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/4.bp.blogspot.com\/_BtqUSG7RCA0\/SDwtwLeZwzI\/AAAAAAAAAJg\/yx1MHxy0Frs\/S660\/church.jpg\" border=\"0\"><\/a> <\/p>\n<div>Tomorrow the Sunday School class I teach at <a href=\"http:\/\/crookedcreekbaptistchurch.blogspot.com\/\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Crooked Creek Baptist Church<\/a> will finish working through the Gospel of John. A week from then we\u2019ll begin a new series for which the title is \u201cWhen Christians Disagree: Dealing with and delighting in our differences\u201d. I posted a draft of the idea a while back <a href=\"http:\/\/exploringourmatrix.blogspot.com\/2008\/05\/delighting-in-our-differences.html\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">here on the blog<\/a>. I\u2019m planning on perhaps recommending those who attend tomorrow to read Galatians 1-2 (a great part of the Bible for talking about Christians disagreeing) and doing a survey through some instances in which authors seem not to have seen eye to eye. I expect that will lead quite naturally into our first main topic about which Christians disagree, namely different view Christians have of what the Bible is and how it should be approached.<\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>I\u2019d love to make some video clips to go along with the series, as well as some handouts, links and other materials, and make them available here (as well as on the <a href=\"http:\/\/crookedcreekbaptistchurch.blogspot.com\/\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">church\u2019s blog\/site<\/a>, which I recently created and still need to expand on and develop). In practice, I think I\u2019ll be lucky if I have an outline ready beforehand! \ud83d\ude42<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div class=\"blogger-post-footer\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" src=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/tracker\/7622297540113836091-6338478757958458608?l=exploringourmatrix.blogspot.com\" alt=\"\"><\/div>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tomorrow the Sunday School class I teach at Crooked Creek Baptist Church will finish working through the Gospel of John. A week from then we\u2019ll begin a new series for which the title is \u201cWhen Christians Disagree: Dealing with and delighting in our differences\u201d. 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