Sunday, December 15, 2013
Pavilion Student Study
The student study at my university gained momentum in November. Dan invited two of his friends Will and student Elaine. Forrest invited one of his friends, but they were sleeping late that morning, and didn’t make it. Jackie, one of my graduate students, asked if I could help his English in preparing for the IELTS test. Sure, we have a Bible discussion each Friday. You are welcome to join. Jackie has been coming each week, and as a result Dan told him about Angela Thrasher’s Saturday night (good) book reading club. We have the student study in a pagoda sitting on the side where the warm sun shines in. One week another of my graduate students, Yuan (Chinese money), was walking by. Yuan stopped in the pagoda to say hi and stayed to listen to the Bible study. Yuan came again the next week. Ironic that Yuan would be studying the Bible with us. He delivered a beautiful communist propaganda speech in my English class. Certainly Yuan is not the student I would have chosen to take part in our study, but perhaps the Lord has chosen Yuan. We have studied through John 15 now. The students take turns preparing questions from the text to lead our discussion.
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It's awesome that you guys are out there doing this, and having them prepare questions and lead is great. Those Yuan-type people are always the strangest ones to figure out; I hope he is being called and can some day give an impassioned speech about his faith and how he got in touch with God out there.
ReplyDeleteLove that the students are preparing the questions and taking an active part in leading the study each week. God will use each of them to speak to the others in the group. Thanks for sharing the picture too!
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