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M a k i n g S t u d e n t M i n i s t r y a P r i

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Parents’ Symposium

Up and to the

Adele Adkins

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Someone Like You

Ornamental note that clash with the melody just enough to create dissonant sounds that produce tear-triggering moments This cycle of tension and resolution ! actually creates something new.

Tension between acceleration and balance produces stability Tension between ideologies creates a system of checks and balances

Diffusion Foreclosure Moratorium

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Achievement Confidence

Diffusion Foreclosure Moratorium

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Recognizing Moratorium

✦A person will be seen pursuing new information

• r experiences to resolve a faith issue.!

✦A person will be seen considering a variety of

alternatives to resolve a faith issue.!

✦A person will show emotional intensity and a

hunger for a quick resolution.

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I grew up in the Episcopal Church in Alaska, but my belief was superficial and flimsy. It was borrowed from my archaeologist father, who was so brilliant he taught himself to speak and read Russian. When I ! encountered doubt, I would fall back on the fact that he believed.! Leaning on my father's faith got me through high school. But by college it wasn't enough, especially because as I grew older he began to confide in me his own doubts. What little faith I had couldn't withstand this revelation. From my early 20s on, I would waver between atheism and agnosticism, never coming close to considering that God could be real. ! Kirsten Powers

Creating an Environment ! for Moratorium

✦Acceptance! ✦Safe Environment! ✦Offer New Perspectives! ✦Understand faith as something

much larger than any single belief

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How would you feel about your faith if you learned that the Bible was not true?

2 Timothy 3:14-17: “But as for you, continue in what you have learned and firmly believed, knowing from whom you learned it, and how from childhood you have known the sacred writings that are able to instruct you for salvation through faith in Christ Jesus. All scripture is inspired by God and is useful for teaching, for reproof, for correction, and for training in righteousness, so that everyone who belongs to God may be proficient, equipped for every good work.”

Luke 1:1-4: “Many have undertaken to draw up an account of the things that have been fulfilled among us, just as they were handed down to us by those who from the first were eyewitnesses and servants of the word. With this in mind, since I myself have carefully investigated everything from the beginning, I too decided to write an orderly account for you, most excellent Theophilus, so that you may know the certainty of the things you have been taught.”

Matthew 28:18-20 Then Jesus came to them and said, “All authority in heaven and

• n earth has been given to me. Therefore go

and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, and teaching them to obey everything I have commanded

• you. And surely I am with you always, to the

very end of the age.”

Textual Problems

• Mt. 17:21
• Mt. 23:14
• Mk. 7:16
• Mk. 9:44, 46
• Mk. 11:26;

15:28

• Lk. 17:36; 23:17
• Ac. 8:37; 15:34;

28:29

• Rom. 16:24

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• Mk. 16:9-20

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• Jn. 7:53-8:11

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How many relatives did Jacob Have?

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Take the staff or leave the staff?

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Who was the father of Joseph?

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Dead or Almost Dead?

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What time was Jesus crucified?

• 1. When students lose confidence in the Bible,

they lose confidence in their faith.

• 2. When students have to constantly defend

the Bible, they lose confidence in their faith.

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• a. Increase your confidence in the Bible.
• b. Increase your understanding of Faith.

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“Faith”

Belief About Conviction Belief In Experience Witness Special! Revelation!

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General Revelation

Conviction

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that seeks knowledge, engages the evidence, entertains doubts. Having confidence in and trusting in God and God’s promises. Coming to know that something ! is true through experience . Our conviction s are supported through the confirmat- ion of

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The Bible

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to the story of God and the people

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Creation reveals a God of beauty,

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design, goodness. Belief that certain things are true about God, ! the world,

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Provides meaning for who I am and direction for what I do.

Acts 2:41 The disciples devoted themselves to one another in a community of faith.! Students fall away from their faith when they are not connected to a community of faith. ! Jesus doesn’ t just call people to himself, he calls people to community.

Connect to a Community of Faith

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