Minutes to Memories

Randy Harris (the Church of Christ's "man in black") is easily one of my favorite speakers, and his sessions at Pepperdine's Lectures were no exception. It seems I'm not alone: Randy delivered each lecture to a packed house in the Smothers Theater.

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I have a headache. I've spent most of today trying to assemble a plan for my new "forty-something" class in Ocean Springs. I have high hopes for this brand new group, and I met with the class for the first time yesterday with absolutely no agenda for the upcoming class. I opened the floor for ideas, and by the time class ended I had a general idea of an approach to the class. Today, I tried to flesh it out.

After practically a full day of wrestling, I'm now prepared to teach "Counter-Cultural Christianity" this teaching quarter. It's sort of an "introduction to postmodernism" meets "the way of Jesus." Or something like that.

But I'm especially thankful today for Randy Harris' second session at Pepperdine where he outlined seven concepts gleaned from his study of ethics as to what a "new humanity" (prompted by Jesus) looks like. His depth of insight arrived just in time for me.

And now I'm tired. I have to get some sleep.