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Week 5 – The Good Shepherd
John 10:11…I am the good shepherd. The good shepherd lays down his life for the sheep.”
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• All begins with Duality
• Who knows Alex?
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• The western world is a Greek influenced world
• Canada, US, Europe, South/Central America
• Thinks Abstractly
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• To Abstract means to pull out data
• To study it
• To understand it
• Then to put it back
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• Western thought likes to…–DEFINE
–PROPOSE
• Think about your textbooks from school
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• Who/What is God?–Love
–Everywhere
–Omniscient
–Holy
–Righteous
–Powerful
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• Eastern Answers–Shepherd
–Rock
–Living Water
–Shade
–Bread
–Eagles Wings
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• Eastern thought is concrete, pictures, story language
• Not Abstract
• Doesn’t pull out of real life, but enters into real life
Some Examples
• Festival of Lights
• Festival of the Promised Land
• Bethlehem
• Manger
Some Examples
• Western Thought tries to reach the heart by changing the mind
• Eastern Thought tries to reach the mind by touching the heart
• The Bible is written by Easterners to Easterners
Some Examples
• Eastern Thought – Numbers are symbols first then quantities
• Western Thought – Numbers are quantities first then symbols
Some Examples
• Interpreting Stories
• Barak & Deborah
• Sisera & Jael
• To the Eastern mind it is not about Data its about Experience
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The Story of John 9
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John 10…11 I am the good shepherd. The good shepherd lays down his life for the sheep. 12 He who is a hired hand and not a shepherd, who does not own the sheep, sees the wolf coming and leaves the sheep and flees, and the wolf snatches them and scatters them.
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13 He flees because he is a hired hand and cares nothing for the sheep. 14 I am the good shepherd. I know my own and my own know me, 15 just as the Father knows me and I know the Father; and I lay down my life for the sheep.
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16 And I have other sheep that are not of this fold. I must bring them also, and they will listen to my voice. So there will be one flock, one shepherd. 17 For this reason the Father loves me, because I lay down my life that I may take it up again.
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18 No one takes it from me, but I lay it down of my own accord. I have authority to lay it down, and I have authority to take it up again. This charge I have received from my Father.”
19 There was again a division among the Jews because of these words
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20 Many of them said, “He has a demon, and is insane; why listen to him?” 21 Others said, “These are not the words of one who is oppressed by a demon. Can a demon open the eyes of the blind?”
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Luke 15:1 Now the tax collectors and sinners were all drawing near to hear him. 2 And the Pharisees and the scribes grumbled, saying, “This man receives sinners and eats with them.”
3 So he told them this parable:
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4 “What man of you, having a hundred sheep, if he has lost one of them, does not leave the ninety-nine in the open country, and go after the one that is lost, until he finds it? 5 And when he has found it, he lays it on his shoulders, rejoicing.
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6 And when he comes home, he calls together his friends and his neighbors, saying to them, ‘Rejoice with me, for I have found my sheep that was lost.’
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7 Just so, I tell you, there will be more joy in heaven over one sinner who repents than over ninety-nine righteous persons who need no repentance.
