My cover is blown! The people at the course on Acts now all know I am a Baptist minister on sabbatical! I don’t think it has particularly affected anything…
The lecturer still thinks that the teaching in evangelical churches is very shallow. And I am intrigued by one lady there who has very strong views that the whole Bible is not very believable, and that the message of Paul has swamped and eradicated the true church on Jerusalem led by Peter and James, and the true message of Jesus has been lost.
It is helpful to go on a course like this, but I can’t help comparing this to the two Baptist services I went to yesterday where there was a real sense that Jesus makes a difference, and that following him affects every area of our lives, without needing to look for conspiracy theories and take a Dan Brown view all the time.
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