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November 29th, 2007 by Jaybrams

English Comp II is officially over as my final paper’s grade was just posted. The class was highlighted by two papers really. The final paper was about contemporary poets using technology to bring more exposure to the art. I’m not even that serious of a poet anymore, but it was still a fun paper to write… cause i’m a dork i guess.

The other paper that I enjoyed much more than I expected was our analysis of the Greek drama “Oedipus the King.” I am not a fan of reading plays, especially ancient ones. Seriously, why must we read the ancient’s in old english… it was written in Greek in the first place, can’t we just translate it to modern english instead of using the old english translations?? Anyway, I digress… so the discussion came up about Greek culture and if the early church had a tough task ahead of them when evangelizing such a polytheistic people. The overwhelming response was ”yes” but I disagreed… mostly because I like disagreeing.

So birthed from that I used “Oedipus the King” to show that the Greeks were actually ripe for conversion, or at the very least had a foundation of spirituality that Paul could pull from while learning to be all things to all people in order to share Christ. Granted the Oedipus series was written 400 years before Paul, but history and the account of the Greeks in Acts shows that not too much had changed as far as their religious views were concerned. Fast forward 2000 some odd years later and Greece is around 98% Christian… perhaps Paul laid a nice foundation…

perhaps one day I’ll post the essay. It was limited to 1200 words so I actually only got through about 1/3 of the play before wrapping it up hastily…

Tonight is How To Study the Bible. 3 Thursday nights left in this one (Dec. 13th). By far this has been my favorite class this semester. It helps that it’s biblical in nature and not just a core/generic class, but beyond this reason I’m thoroughly enjoying it because it is changing how I read and study the word more than I thought it would. I was familiar with most of the concepts and methods before the class started, but I had difficulty putting it into practice. This particular text book is greatness if you want to refresh, rethink, or re-envision the method you use for studying God’s word.

p.s. - winter break will bring new songs (which will just bore you and prove further that my wife is my biggest fan only because she loves me).
p.p.s - Rick was so kind to get me Divine Nobodies. He answered the call to action. And he is so pimpin’. None of you other people are… jerks.

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