Introducing Myself

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Introducing Myself

• Keith Stiller, Parish Pastor at St Pauls
  Lutheran Church, Nundah
• Family wife (Jan) and 2 children
• Pastor for 32 years
• Mount Isa, Christchurch, Noosa, Ipswich, Nundah
  (ACU Lutheran Chaplain)
• Phone [phone]
• Email keith.stiller_at_lca.org.au

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Introducing one another

• Name
• Background
• Family
• Religious background/journey
• Interests/hobbies
• One other fascinating thing about you

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The course Outline

• Check dates for assignments Review (1500 words)
  Research Paper (2000)
• Weekly Journal (100)

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My ambitions / purposes

• To walk with you to learn with you
• To dialogue and debate
• To value each opinion
• To explore tangents of interest
• To come closer to our Lord
• Have some fun

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Introduction

• Help you begin an exciting life long journey
• So much to know dont expect it all
• Its about relationship
• Return to the basics

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Theology

• Study of God/Word?
• God reveals self to us, we respond. Dialogue
  throughout life.
• Journey - Map, both important

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Theology

• Basis Bible
• Sermon rather than history. Written by people of
  faith
• Who do you say I am?

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Lutheran

• Reformation Origins
• Video Martin LutherThe Protestant Reformer

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Brief introduction to the LCA
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The heart of Christianity

• What is the main message of Christianity? (List
  answers)
• Not the same as other isms not a human idea
• Jesus Christ
• Not just a teaching but HIM. The Word of God.

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God?

• Word association
• human beings
• God
• me (you)
• creation
• evolution

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From chaos to cosmos

• What is Genesis trying to tell us?
• Read Genesis 11-24a

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From chaos to cosmos

• Introduction
• Command
• Note of completion
• Evaluation
• Time frame

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From chaos to cosmos

• highly structured
• concerned with who and why
• faith
• basis of worship
• other

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From chaos to cosmos

• What is Genesis trying to tell us?
• Read Genesis 24b-9

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From chaos to cosmos

• story style
• second account
• different purpose

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Creation Theology

• Creation out of nothing
• Gods creation is good
• Human beings are creatures
• Human beings (made in Gods image) are special
• Gods creation continues

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Creation Evolution

• Good science looks only at evidence (without
  reference to faith/God)
• Good theology does not limit God to a God of the
  gaps

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Creation Evolution

• The science of Genesis seems to accept a young
  (flat) world, different from the one we now know.
• The purpose of Genesis is not science but faith
  and worship cf Psalm 10427-30

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Creation Science Intelligent Design

• If the Bible is not a reliable in everything then
  it is not reliable
• Gods existence can be proved by unexplained
  intricate designs in creation

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Journal Entry 1

• Share your thoughts when you ponder the creation
  of this world, and your own place in creation.