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Here’s your subject outline

Wednesday, 02 March, 2005

Of course Moore was nothing like that. On Monday we started the day with morning tea because there were no classes scheduled for before then (isn't Moore considerate!) We also had an hour to spare before our first class. Then Ben went off to Hebrew and I went off to New Testament Survey with Philip Kern who was dressed in a suit and a tie and looked very much like a school teacher. Most of the hour was spent reviewing the subject outline and then he started his lecture on John which sounded just like a church sermon (he exegeted verse by verse). I can't get over the fact that I'm going to have to sit exams and write essays on the Bible; that's just weird. I've never studied anything that was really important and I'm afraid I'll just have a blasé attitude towards it all.

Lunch was straight after (very odd), then a double of New Testament 1 with Bill who is no longer taking us for Greek. Bill used to be a teacher and so, instead of talking at us for two hours, he had a bit of interactive stuff at the beginning where we had to write down stuff like

• What is the Book of Mark about? (I ought to know since it was the main book for the talks at ECU last year but I don't!)
• What is (are) the main idea(s) coming out of Mark? (*Gulp!*)
• What are some of the controversial areas of Christian life today addressed by Mark? (???)

and then wander around the room asking different people their answers to the following questions:

• What is the most memorable story for you from Mark?
• What is one verse that you remember from Mark?
• What is the hardest part of the book to understand? (A few cited Mark 13)
• Who is your favourite (most memorable?) character from Mark and briefly why ...
• Why would you preach a series from Mark (apart from the fact that it is the word of God)?

You may want to have a go at answering those things in the comments.

We also had to pretend that we were an editor publishing the gospel of Mark and that we had to write the blurb that appears on the back of the book to entice people to read it. I wrote:

Imagine if the printing press had been around in the first century and The Palestinian Times was regular fodder for the average Jew. Mark, I think, would have been one of their star reporters: “Leper of 20 years miraculously cured!”, “The Case of the Vanishing Storm” and “Pigheadedness of swine results in drowning: pork industry at crisis point” might have been some of his headlines.

But Mark would not have been just a newsreel journalist—he would have been more interested in the real “story”—the man behind the headlines— the man Jesus who, in the face of Roman oppression and political turmoil, Mark dared to call the King. This Jesus was certainly no Elvis—he was not a crowd-pleaser and he never produced any No. 1 hits—but he altered the face of the religious and political landscape forever as none had done before, simply by living and dying.

(Yes, I cleaned it up a bit from Monday.) Bill gave us Nick Cave's introduction to have a look at as well.

We're going to be spending a lot of time in Mark so we've been advised to read it regularly with the aid of a commentary. Bill spent the first lesson giving us the history behind Mark and the different opinions that scholars have about how it came to be written.

My Oscar party got cancelled because no one could make it so I decided to stay for the evening meal. I went to the library to check my email but the network was down. I sat on the grass in the courtyard with Ben and Pete until of the upper years came out asking for someone who could sing to sing for the afternoon chapel service. Myself and one of the many Andrews volunteered and were whisked off to practise. Amongst the band members was Philip Swan who wrote that funky but melodically boring song, “By the Cross” (which we weren't singing). Chapel began at 4:30 and, like all chapel services at Moore, they used the prayer book. John Woodhouse gave a talk from 1 Samuel 8 (I was falling asleep in the last five minutes but that wasn't because it was boring, it was because I was tired and the air conditioning in DBK was making me feel numb). We had the Lord's Supper together with pew service and then there was dinner afterwards (collected from the dining room and eaten on the lawn). It was nice to see the wives of friends who are studying and I was able to catch up with a few people before Ben declared that he'd had enough and it was time to go home.

At home we watched Law and Order and I flicked between that and the Oscars. I should have exercised more self control and gone to bed earlier but as it was, I shut off the box at 10:30.

Phew! Didn't realise Monday would take so long. New post.

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