Post date: Sep 18, 2012 4:41:55 PM
TO-DO
email faculty, find Ian
ping leaders for subscription
various LT meeting formats
prep FC
email FVTC -- sent prop. to leaders
speaker contact wk 4
John Hartley sp? -- LM
Last weekend -- no IV stuff except talking with Christian for a while Sat., driving students Sunday. Also set up FVTC shared folder and worked on constitution.
Mon. -- no IV stuff except a few emails. Also typed in FVTC mailing list and shared with LT
Tues. -- visit Mark (speak at LG & borrow Westermann books). FVTC emails. Team leader emails.
Wed. -- Fac. disc.: Alan, Ken, Joanne, Arnie, John, Lindsay (sp?)
Went to visit Charles (goes by Ben) Watson (new classics guy). Wasn't in. MH411. Left a note inviting him to meeting
LG -- about 40 people
Winnie
Helina - jr. blk str hr
A-day Jr.
Corine Math? music? upperclassman. worked in tech. green hr
MaryRose MR
Ivy vocal perf. catholic, now evangelical
Noble Willis -- Josie's new boyfriend
Josh BA music
Wesley government
Kevin
Katie His House person
Brianna psych - sh brwn hr
Katie also psych -- str bl hr
Erin math
Matt theater
Alex (F) comp. sci. & clarinet ll barb paz
Jaime (high-may) anthro.
Thurs. see notes SGL, LGT -- include SG breakouts next week
Three-fold purpose of Fri. lunch discussion (Tim's proposal):
to be a safe place for Christians to ask honest questions about their own faith (we aren't going to jump on each other for being "religiously incorrect")
to practice "discipleship of the mind" (honoring God with our best intellectual abilities) in a practical way, by discussing challenges to Christianity that Lawrence classes and students bring to us.
to be a welcoming place for seekers (people who are being drawn by God but who have not yet trusted and committed to following Christ) to ask their honest questions (again, with a spirit of service to those people not an attempt to "straighten them out")
A few corollaries are: (1) we should always affirm questions, e.g. "I think that is an important question too, because..."; (2) we shouldn't make assumptions about where people are at with their faith (i.e. sometimes we are gracious in responding to a comment from someone we think isn't a Christian, but jump to fix him if we think he is a wrong-headed Christian); and (3) we may need to talk about assumptions that underlie those purposes, such as the assumption that "all Truth is God's Truth" or that it is possible to think in a Christ-like way, or that God cares about such things in the first place.