CTMM 2024 Module 3: Word on the street: transformational Bible study, social justice & peacemaking
Join us for twelve online Zoom sessions that equip participants to better interpret local and global realities in the light of a careful and contemplative reading of Scripture.
This training corresponds to Module 3 of The People's Seminary's Certificate in Transformational Ministry at the Margins-- which we are opening up to the larger community. We have just completed this module in Zambia and S. Africa, and feel an urgency to offer it more broadly now.
In this course we seek to equip Jesus-followers to live out and share a liberating and empowering gospel in this increasingly polarized world-- with a focus on poor, marginalized, and under-reached communities.
This training includes practical steps in how to more carefully and prayerfully read and study the Bible, interpreting difficult, "toxic" texts in the light of the cross (on the Road to Emmaus), and learning to better interpret current political and social realities in the light of God's revelation in Scripture.
While this notice may be last minute for many of you (since the training starts April 9, all the sessions are recorded, and you are welcome to join in when you're available.
12 Sessions:
April 9 Informed from above: Contemplative reading of Scripture
April 16 Prophetic ministry according to John the Baptist
April 23 Steps in interpreting a Biblical text—example “Genesis 16- the call of Hagar”
April 30 Biblical hospitality to strangers according to Genesis 18-19
May 7 Resisting Racism
May 14 Understanding the death of the firstborn in Exodus 12
May 21 Challenging the myth of redemptive violence
May 28 Confronting male passivity in the rape of Tamar
June 4 Exposing the spiral of violence—Judges 19
June 11 Praying the imprecatory Psalms and spiritual warfare
June 18 The end of history- reading the times in the light of apocalyptic Scriptures
June 25 Resistance as strangers and aliens
April 9, 2024
Tuesdays, 10:30am-12:00pm (PST)
Entry Fee:
$250 USD* -LIVE TEACHING WEBINAR ($50.00 of which funds trainings in Africa and the Global South)
$220 USD* -SELF PACE WEBINAR
*Partial and full scholarships are available
What You Can Expect
This CTMM module will be offered via Zoom, combining life teachings with Zoom breakout discussion groups.
Suggested reading will accompany each module.
Participants will have access to audio and video recordings of all sessions.