Christian Panel Discussion - November 11, 2024

[Ernie]

I do think your answer to one of the audience questions could have been better. It was something along the lines of "what traditions from the New Testament does your tradition still carry out". I think talking about nonresistance and how it was an apostolic tradition would have been good; or, for a more tangible example, you could have mentioned the headship order/head covering (Paul refers to this as a "tradition" or "ordinance" in 1 Cor. 11).

Yes, I am not good thinking on my feet, and I wish I could have done better with that question. I hope to get better at this with practice. I had just got done describing traditions that are unique to so I wasn't sure what they were looking for and what sorts of traditions they might have been asking about. But it would have been good to just reiterate some of those in a traditional/scripture context (here are things that all Christians used to do) but I wasn't prepared for that one.

[Praxis+Theodicy]

Yes, I am not good thinking on my feet, and I wish I could have done better with that question. I hope to get better at this with practice. I had just got done describing traditions that are unique to so I wasn't sure what they were looking for and what sorts of traditions they might have been asking about. But it would have been good to just reiterate some of those in a traditional/scripture context (here are things that all Christians used to do) but I wasn't prepared for that one.

I think your response to "The Chosen" question was really good... talking about the medium as distinct from the message, and worthy of consideration in it's own right. Not enough people actually give thought to that. My wife and I rewound that portion to listen to your answer a second time. Something about the medium that someone first hears the gospel in will be the medium they return to later on for some reason (evangelizing or discipleship or something). Anyway, I appreciated it.

I also really liked your end note quoting someone else, along the lines of reading the Bible, and knowing there are some things that are hard to understand, and there are some things that are painfully easy to understand. I think I have heard that from a brother in my church, so maybe it was Denny K. or someone else that had an influence back in the day.

[Praxis+Theodicy]

A Christian Panel Discussion featuring representatives from Orthodox, Evangelical, Anabaptist, and Anglican faith traditions.

Here is a YouTube link.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=yrr1Zy4yVD4

Here is the bulletin.
https://lifeq.org/wp-content/uploads/20 ... lletin.pdf

Here is a link to a handout I prepared for distribution at these events. (At earlier events, we were each asked to share what we love about being part of our particular faith tradition.)
https://lifeq.org/wp-content/uploads/20 ... andout.pdf

Hey Ernie, I went looking for this and realized it's almost a year old! November is next month... is the college sponsoring another one of these? Actually, is it LifeQuest that sponsors these, the college, the Religion Department, the Student Spiritual Center, some sort of interfaith society on campus or someone else?

Anyway, I hope it is happening again this year. Let us know if it is happening!

[Ernie]

A Christian Panel Discussion featuring representatives from Orthodox, Evangelical, Anabaptist, and Anglican faith traditions.

Here is a YouTube link.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=yrr1Zy4yVD4

Here is the bulletin.
https://lifeq.org/wp-content/uploads/20 ... lletin.pdf

Here is a link to a handout I prepared for distribution at these events. (At earlier events, we were each asked to share what we love about being part of our particular faith tradition.)
https://lifeq.org/wp-content/uploads/20 ... andout.pdf

Hey Ernie, I went looking for this and realized it's almost a year old! November is next month... is the college sponsoring another one of these? Actually, is it LifeQuest that sponsors these, the college, the Religion Department, the Student Spiritual Center, some sort of interfaith society on campus or someone else?

Anyway, I hope it is happening again this year. Let us know if it is happening!

Student organizations and their affiliate staff take turns planning and hosting these panels. LifeQuest helped host the last event.
The Anglican group is hoping to host one in November but they haven't given me the dates yet.

[Praxis+Theodicy]

A Christian Panel Discussion featuring representatives from Orthodox, Evangelical, Anabaptist, and Anglican faith traditions.

Here is a YouTube link.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=yrr1Zy4yVD4

Here is the bulletin.
https://lifeq.org/wp-content/uploads/20 ... lletin.pdf

Here is a link to a handout I prepared for distribution at these events. (At earlier events, we were each asked to share what we love about being part of our particular faith tradition.)
https://lifeq.org/wp-content/uploads/20 ... andout.pdf

Hey Ernie, I went looking for this and realized it's almost a year old! November is next month... is the college sponsoring another one of these? Actually, is it LifeQuest that sponsors these, the college, the Religion Department, the Student Spiritual Center, some sort of interfaith society on campus or someone else?

Anyway, I hope it is happening again this year. Let us know if it is happening!

Student organizations and their affiliate staff take turns planning and hosting these panels. LifeQuest helped host the last event.
The Anglican group is hoping to host one in November but they haven't given me the dates yet.

Any updates on this? We're mostly through November. Did it happen already? Not this year, but in future I'd love to come to this event in person. And I'd love for more events like this to happen.

[Ernie]

Hey Ernie, I went looking for this and realized it's almost a year old! November is next month... is the college sponsoring another one of these? Actually, is it LifeQuest that sponsors these, the college, the Religion Department, the Student Spiritual Center, some sort of interfaith society on campus or someone else?

Anyway, I hope it is happening again this year. Let us know if it is happening!

Student organizations and their affiliate staff take turns planning and hosting these panels. LifeQuest helped host the last event.
The Anglican group is hoping to host one in November but they haven't given me the dates yet.

Any updates on this? We're mostly through November. Did it happen already? Not this year, but in future I'd love to come to this event in person. And I'd love for more events like this to happen.

I haven't heard anything so I don't think it will happen this semester. The Anglican upheaval is probably consuming a lot of time for the local church. I'll try to post something if something gets scheduled.