I have been to SLC for three times now. It has always been great to come to conference to be strengthened by other brothers and sisters. During SLC, I always looked forward to "Tim Tim", the small group in the afternoon studying 2nd Tim and Nigel's talk in the evening.
It was so awesome to study the passage with others because you just learn so much. We went bak to the book of Acts, other Paul's letters, and some bible dictionaries trying to understand how was back then and there. We had so many questions abt d passage and helping each other to answer them. Personally, I was amazed to identify the history and culture behind the letter and how the letter became sensible. It's really exciting.
Going back to the persecutions that Paul suffered in Iconium, he and Barnabas were almost stoned but they found out and fled. In Lystra, Paul was stoned but then he managed to survive and went back to the city. After all this, Paul acknowledged that God rescued him from all the troubles which was true. He wasnt freed from all troubles, he went through it and was saved from it.
Other questions I had was how Paul knew that his time of departure has come. I was reminded that paul was in prison that time and the caesar ruling was Nero which was threathened by Paul's message. At that time, Caesar was worshipped as god and to preach persuasively about worshipping Christ was regarded as a crime. Paul had escaped his first trial and sensed that his life on earth was near the end. These are some of the answers I got during Tim Tim group.
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Hmmm..well, as i promised I'm reading it now, this first post, i do understand what you are trying to say. There are just some sentence structure which i'm not too sure about. Not too crucial for a blog but if you want to know just give me a buzz...hehe..
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