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Hearts and Hands
Posted in Calendar, Mission, Social activities on April 30th, 2015
Practical Christianity for those in need. Come and join us for this workshop in the Church hall from 10.00 am onwards.
Church Bulletin ~ 2 May 2015
Posted in Calendar, Church Bulletin on April 30th, 2015
Church Bulletin ~ 25 April 2015
Posted in Calendar, Church Bulletin on April 30th, 2015
CAP 2015 ~ Annual Business Meeting
Posted in Calendar, CAP ~ blog, Mission on April 28th, 2015
Come along and hear about the proposed projects for 2015. Plus reports from the 2014 projects.
See the 2015 section of CAP page for details of the proposals.
Plus we have a number of reports:
Sabbath Service ~ Pastor Marcel Ghioalda
Posted in Calendar, Sabbath Service, Worship on April 18th, 2015
Worship service led by Pastor Marcel Ghioalda.
Sabbath Service ~ Dr Jean-Claude Verrecchia
Posted in Calendar, Sabbath Service, Worship on April 18th, 2015
Worship service led by Dr Jean-Claude Verrecchia.
Church Bulletin ~ 18 April 2015
Posted in Calendar, Church Bulletin on April 18th, 2015
Sabbath Service ~ Keith Thompson
Posted in Calendar, Sabbath Service, Worship on April 9th, 2015
Worship service led by Keith Thompson.
Church Bulletin ~ 11 April 2015
Posted in Calendar, Church Bulletin on April 9th, 2015
Adventurer Club
Posted in Calendar, Pathfinders on April 8th, 2015
Adventurer Club at 3.00 pm in the Church Hall.
“Reading and Interpreting Scripture” ~ Dr Jean-Claude Verrecchia, the Crieff 2015 Study Weekend
Posted in Calendar, MP3, Study, Study Conferences on April 7th, 2015
The Crieff 2015 Study Weekend was presented by Dr Jean-Claude Verrecchia.
Dr Verrecchia is Principal Lecturer in New Testament at Newbold College where he specialises in the Gospels, Hebrews and Biblical Hermeneutics.
His subject was
“Reading and Interpreting Scripture”
and more specifically
“Adventists: Between a mere reading and the risk of interpretation”
The schedule ran as follows:
- Friday
- 6pm, soup and bread at the church
- 7-8:30pm, ‘The Reliable Bible, but God is not the Author’.
Manuscripts, variants, authorship, the ‘myth’ of the original text, translations.
- Sabbath (Saturday)
- 10am: ‘The End of the Gutenberg Galaxy’. The Bible as an oral piece of literature.
- 11:15am: ‘Do You Understand What You Are Reading?’
- 2:30pm: ‘Reading Behind the Text’. The author-centred approach of the Bible (with examples).
- 6pm: General discussion! Informal gathering at Steve and Muriel’s house
- PowerPoint slides for various Sabbath presentations
- Sunday
- 10am: ‘Reading at the Text and in Front of the Text’. Text-centred approach and reader-centred approach (with examples).
Reading List
Jean-Claude recommends the following titles:
- Understanding Scripture: an Adventist Approach, ed. by W. Reid, Biblical Research Institute (Silver Springs, 2006)
- Anthony C. Thiselton, Hermeneutics. An Introduction (Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 2009)
- James D.G. Dunn, The Living Word (Minneapolis: Fortress, 2009)
- John Barton, The Nature of Biblical Criticism (Louisville: John Knox, 2007)
- N.T. Wright, Scripture and the Authority of God (London: SCPK, 2005)
- John H. Walton and D. Brent Sandy, Ancient Literary Culture and Biblical Authority (Downers Grove, IVP, 2013)
- Jean-Claude Verrecchia, Reading the Bible with our Ears, in Faith in Search of Depth and Relevancy. Festschrift in Honor of Dr Bertil Wiklander (Trans European Division, 2014).