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So tonight was the first night of an experiment.<\/b>  Well, all right – just about everything about being a missionary feels like an experiment!  But – this was one of them.<\/p>\n

We’re trying to put together a sequence of studies that people can take, and tonight we restarted one we’d done before (the Chronological Bible Study) and started a new one (Discovering Life).  There are a number of experimenty things about it all, but one is that we’re having two studies at one time.<\/p>\n

That means that, as people come in, they have to be sent to one study or another.  We started about 20 minutes late, but most people arrived after that – so you can imagine how it went.<\/p>\n

Also, this basically cuts our numbers in half.  Which in some ways is good, but it’s just very different.<\/p>\n

Ismael taught the first Chronological Bible Study.  He said it went well, but that there was a lot to cover.  That will vary from week to week.<\/p>\n\n\n
\"Discovering<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n

I taught the first study of Discovering Life<\/i>, all about (some of) the attributes of God.<\/p>\n

It went well – some of it was quite basic, other parts a little more challenging.<\/p>\n

The last question of the night was – Which attribute of God is it most difficult for people you know to accept, and why?<\/i><\/p>\n

The first answer caught me by surprise.  The answer was His Aseity<\/i> (that God is self-existent and doesn’t need anything or anybody else).  Why was it hard for people to accept?  Because they believe that there are many other gods, not just one!<\/p>\n

I admit, that wasn’t the first thing I would have thought of, thinking of the average person on the street in Mexico, but that’s why I asked – I need to keep learning what people actually think.<\/p>\n

The most popular answer was Love<\/i> – people have a hard time accepting that God really is love, or that God could love them.<\/p>\n

We briefly got into some other interesting discussions as well.  For example, here’s one for you – when Jesus was a baby in a manger in Bethlehem – was He omnipresent?<\/i><\/p>\n

Anyway, it went well.  I have in mind a few changes to make, but it’s a new study, so that’s to be expected.  Next week will be quite different, so we’ll see how that goes!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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