District Gathering

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District Gathering What kind of God do you
preach?
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What kind of God do you preach?
God Wizard, Gambler or intelligent designer?
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What kind of God do you preach?
How did God create, and how is he at work in our
world?
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6 day Creationism
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Cosmology Theistic evolution
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Intelligent Design
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William Paley 1743-1805 Natural Theology (1802)
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Behes Mousetrap Irreducible Complexity infers
the presence of God in our universe.
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What kind of God do you preach?
The Asian Tsunami Compelling us to question how
God is at work in our world.
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What kind of God do you preach?
Living as part of a multi-faith nation Aware of
tensions and opposing beliefs.
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What kind of God do you preach?
Aware of divisions within individual religious
faiths
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What kind of God do you preach?
Wrestling against a stereotype of conflict
between science and faith?
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BBC Newsnight Thursday 14th March 2002.
School attacked over evolution
teaching (Emmanuel College, Gateshead City
Technology College Privately Funded)
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What kind of God do you preach?
The myth of conflict between science and religon?
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What kind of God do you preach?
The Asian Tsunami Compelling us to question how
God is at work in our world.
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What kind of God do you preach?
W. Bruggemann Our theology is defined by how we
respond to suffering
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What kind of God do you preach?
Challenging us emotionally and intellectually
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What kind of God do you preach?
Two forms of evil Moral and Natural
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Moral Evil Evil perpetrated by humans
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Natural Evil Suffering with no human
intervention
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What kind of God do you preach?
Natural Evil The philosophers logical
argument..
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What kind of God do you preach?
The scope of natural evil brings into question
Gods existence
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What kind of God do you preach?
Challenging our faith Does God have the power to
intervene?
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What kind of God do you preach?
How should science inform our interpretation of
the scriptures?
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What kind of God do you preach?
Unsatisfactory perspectives on evil and
suffering
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What kind of God do you preach?
Suffering as a punishment
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What kind of God do you preach?
Suffering as a consequence of The Fall
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What kind of God do you preach?
Life as a struggle of good versus
evil (Zoroastrianism, New Ageism)
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What kind of God do you preach?
Evil as the absence of good, or evil as an
illusion
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What kind of God do you preach?
An apologetics response to suffering
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What kind of God do you preach?
Hick Extent of good in the world outweighs the
amount of natural evil
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What kind of God do you preach?
The incarnation God as powerful but vaunerable
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What kind of God do you preach?
Sobrino, Moltmann Wiesel God suffers alongside
humanity
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What kind of God do you preach?
Hick This world as an arena of soul making.
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What kind of God do you preach?
God for me
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What kind of God do you preach?
My opinion God plays scrabble!
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What kind of God do you preach?
Sharing the gospel in a way that relates.
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What kind of God do you preach?
Draw from real life examples.
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What kind of God do you preach?
Keep it simple be honest e.g. I dont know
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What kind of God do you preach?
Think of sound- bytes that have profound
meaning.
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What kind of God do you preach?
Draw on the strengths of incarnational theology
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What kind of God do you preach?
Draw on commonalities between faiths e.g belief
in God.