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Group: Nashville, Tennessee
===Topic: ''Theology & Faith''===
===Group: [[Nashville TeaM]]===
Teacher: HAM
==Facilitators==
===Teacher: [[Ham]]===
===TR: [[Rebecca]]===
==Session==
===Opening===
Ham: Greetings, children, I am Ham your friend and teacher. I am grateful that you all have come here this evening. Our lesson shall discuss the differences between belief systems or theologies on the one hand and spirituality or faith on the other hand.
Ham: Greetings, children, I am Ham your friend and teacher. I am grateful that you all have come here this evening. Our lesson shall discuss the differences between belief systems or theologies on the one hand and spirituality or faith on the other hand.
===Lesson===
Your world has labored for eons of time under systems of belief which fixated faith and so gradually killed that very faith. When faith in God or spirit is reduced to even language it is in some measure killed. The freedom that is faith which is inherently liberating, opening, expanding of the mind can frighten that mind and cause that mind to wish to control it, to reduce faith to a belief in certain tenants which are then no longer faith but fixed ideas.
Your world has labored for eons of time under systems of belief which fixated faith and so gradually killed that very faith. When faith in God or spirit is reduced to even language it is in some measure killed. The freedom that is faith which is inherently liberating, opening, expanding of the mind can frighten that mind and cause that mind to wish to control it, to reduce faith to a belief in certain tenants which are then no longer faith but fixed ideas.
Are there any questions at this time.
Are there any questions at this time.
===Dialogue===
Q: In a couple of weeks, there will be a Billy Graham crusade here in town. It seems to me that they are a group that is focused on belief. Can you help me understand this better and what impact this sort of thing has on people.
Q: In a couple of weeks, there will be a Billy Graham crusade here in town. It seems to me that they are a group that is focused on belief. Can you help me understand this better and what impact this sort of thing has on people.
Q: That's nice, thanks.
Q: That's nice, thanks.
===Closing===
Ham: If there are no further questions, then my love, my prayers are with you each. I am grateful that you have come. Until next week, I bid you all farewell.
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