Last night was our last session dealing with the text of Romans.
Now we take a week off (May 11), and the final two sessions (May 19, 25)
will be devoted to summary/applications...and your presentations.
Remember, this project can be a paper (4-6 pages) or a 2o minute class presentation (sermon, teaching, drama, video, interview, art, etc.) Also: between this project and your journal, I will expect you to interact with at least three of the books or articles on the website links (Note: I have added more; there are plenty of great options).
Please let me know if you have a preference on which night you would prefer;
they are working out pretty evenly so far.
Here are some of the suggestions we came up with for possible themes; but you are not limited to these:
- -Shifting our understanding from an individualistic emphasis on justification by faith to a corporate understanding of the righteousness of God.
- -A model for Jewish/Gentile unity and mutual understanding.
- Discussion of the "heaping hot coals" and love of neighbor/enemy. My audio here.
- -The implications of the Gentile offering to the Jerusalem church
- -Cross-cultural issues in the letter, and implications for contemporary church.
- -A sermon on a common "memory verse" in Romans, but bringing in the context of the passage, and the letter ( 3:23, 5:1, 8:28, 11:29, 12:1-3 etc)
- Role of women in chapter 16, and elsewhere in Paul.
- Interview with a Jewish person, or a non-believer, around issues raised in Romans.
- In-depth look at the problems of Romans 7
- Trace bounded, centered, and fuzzy sets throughout Romans, and offer application for today
- Dialogue with Rabbi Adam (how amazing to have a messianic rabbi in the class) around issues of theology and practice discussed in Romans.
- Importance of Paul's use of diatribe/ first order discourse.
- Use a certain church or ministry as case study related to issues in Romans
