6/12/09

Gospel of Mark: Weekend Dig

Here are just a few snapshots (hopefully, more will be added later) of Friday night's gathering at my house for study of the Gospel of Mark (called a "Mark Dig" or "Mark Dig-in". The purpose of the get-together was twofold: 1) To enage the text for spiritual/theological edification, and 2) To learn how to do exegesis in community. So, this is not a thing where I just talk for hours on end, no, it is a process whereby the average layperson observes, interprets, draws implications, engages commentaries, dictionaries, linguistic resources, dialogues & then works out some applicatory principes. Tonight, we spent a couple of hours on Mk. 1.1-15 and had a lot of good questions, comments and insights. I'm looking forward to tomorrow's 4 1/2 hours.

5 comments:

  1. Hi.

    Will you be posting something about your studies. Would be great to hear different things you talked about and noticed. It's interesting to know others view on a text and specially when you look in a text together like you did in this study.

    God bless!

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  2. Erik,
    If I get the opportunity, I'll try to add some stuff later. We start in about 45 minutes, so, I don't have much time right now. Can't be certain that I'll have the chance to add stuff but like I said, I can try.
    -Michael

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  3. Erik,
    Tomorrow morning at church, the people who were part of the Mk Dig are going to have a talkback session. I will post the audio of that on here as soon as I can acquire it. It should be interesting.
    -Michael

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  4. Thanks Michael.

    Have a good day!

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  5. Erik, I posted the talkback session here: http://michaelhalcomb.blogspot.com/2009/06/mark-dig-in-talkback-debrief.html


    -Michael

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