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Life after job

Tuesday, 01 April, 2003

Even on holidays life is busy. On Saturday Ben and I borrowed Irwan's car and drove up to Koorong to return the rest of the books from the Commencement Camp bookstall and pick up the $15 paperback ESV's that Koorong had ordered for us a month ago (so if you're wondering why the West Ryde branch have none, it's because we've got them). We decided to have yum cha for late lunch and then went to visit some friends. Greater Union were having a deal for subscribers to their electronic newsletters whereby we could get two tickets to see Chicago for only $8 each. The last time I went to the cinemas to see a movie was for The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers on Boxing Day. We bought tickets for the 6:30 session and then sat in Miranda Fair's food court, brainstorming ideas of how to run a course on writing for TEAM (Training in Evangelism And Ministry). TEAM is run by ECU and is comprised of several training groups to teach Christians how to do things like share the gospel, follow up new Christians, lead Bible Studies and give children's talks. We brainstormed for an hour before going in to see Chicago. Predictably, Ben hated it and I really enjoyed it. I enjoyed the singing (Catherine Zeta-Jones was better than I thought she'd be), the dancing, the glitz and the glamour. The storyline, however, is quite outlandish and the film seems to imply that you could, so to speak, “get away with murder”. I couldn't understand why it won Best Picture this year at the Oscars; compared to Moulin Rouge, it wasn't anything special. We drove back to Wollongong (and it was raining AGAIN; it rains every time we drive back to Wollongong from the Shire) and returned Irwan's car. Irwan and Andrew invited us to stay and watch Kung Pow with their friends. I found it incredibly stupid; Ben laughed himself silly. Which says something about our respective taste in movies. On Sunday morning we had a Bible Study leaders' meeting at church. It was really good to find out how all the different grounds were going and what we could pray for each other. I think our Bible Study group is radically different to everyone else's as we have a lot of overseas students and a range of people at different stages of Christian growth. We are going to try to do social things with one of the other Thursday night Bible Study groups so that the Aussies can get to know the internationals and vice versa. Shaun spent a bit of time during that meeting talking about evangelism and why or why not evangelism should be a key focus in our Bible Study groups. It was a very interesting discussion. Ben and I are not sure what to do about it in our group given the current mix of people. Our friend Matthew came over for lunch and I made the mistake of serving him food with stuff in it he doesn't like. I think I'm going to have to start making notes and, perhaps, keep a file on all my friends because I keep getting all their likes and dislikes mixed up and it's a complete disaster every time they come over for meals. He didn't mind too much and it was good to catch up with him. In the afternoon we had Sunday school and I did the mission spot on Ethiopia. It was hard to get the kids to listen. Some of the leaders said that they were more hyperactive than normal because of daylight saving but I didn't notice the difference. The K-2's are doing Genesis and the 3-5's are doing Acts. I'm not sure how much the K-2's took in about Abraham but hopefully they had fun. Straight after Sunday school I had band practice (my first ever at St. Michael's!) It was probably the fastest band practice I've ever been to (30 min). I helped lead singing during the service along with two others. Richard preached on 1 Peter 4:12-19 and what it means to suffer as a Christian. After church we had supper and then After Supper Supper which was at Trevor's place. On Monday Ben was running around like a headless chicken, being very stressed. He hadn't prepared Bible Study yet and it was on at 12:30. I went with him to Uni and sat in the chaplaincy writing for Issue 07 while he and Miriam prepared. I went with them to Arts/Creative Arts Bible Study where we studied Leviticus 1. Then I walked back to the chaplaincy where I spent the rest of the afternoon writing. I also managed to sell three paperback ESV's during that time. At 4:30 everyone had Bible Study leaders' training and I sat in on the session. Andrew talked about doing walk-up evangelism and how to introduce the topic in Bible Study groups. Afterwards we had TEAM and I sat in on Richard's group which was about writing children's talks. I was able to ask all my questions about how to teach children the Bible and what do you do when you disagree with the source material you've been given. He said that it was best to go with what the passage says instead of what the resource material says. Upon hearing that, I felt much better about leading Sunday school, which I'll be doing for the first time next Sunday (*gulp!*). Must get back to writing ...

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