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===Topic: ''About the Master''===
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===Group: [[Nashville TeaM]]===
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==Facilitators==
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===Teacher: [[Ham]]===
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===TR: [[Rebecca]]===
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==Session==
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===Opening===
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Ham122301AboutTheMaster
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Greetings, children, I am Ham and I am pleased to be here with you this evening. This week marks another celebration of the Master's incarnation and buried in the myths of 2 millennia still is the power of the hope his life bestowed on your world, the power that is made visible when men enshrine the love of God in their hearts and dedicate their lives to their fellow men as he did. Some day, your world will know more of his perfected life experience and through this knowledge, each person can follow him in their own way, in their own time.
 
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Group: Nashville, Tennessee
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Teacher: HAM
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Topic: About the Master
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===Lesson===
 
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Dec 23, 2001
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Greetings, children, I am Ham and I am pleased to be here with you this evening. This week marks another celebration of the Master's incarnation and buried in the myths of 2 millennia still is the power of the hope his life bestowed on your world, the power that is made visible when men enshrine the love of God in their hearts and dedicate their lives to their fellow men as he did. Some day, your world will know more of his perfected life experience and through this knowledge, each person can follow him in their own way, in their own time.
      
The Master had a simple exhortation to his apostles, follow me. And, each man searched his own heart and made his own decision. The Master was a man among men, but the purity of his love exerted a drawing power to all those who met him. Those people who sincerely searched for God, those who wanted a better life, those who wanted to find out about true morality were always loath to leave his side and desired to stay with him.
 
The Master had a simple exhortation to his apostles, follow me. And, each man searched his own heart and made his own decision. The Master was a man among men, but the purity of his love exerted a drawing power to all those who met him. Those people who sincerely searched for God, those who wanted a better life, those who wanted to find out about true morality were always loath to leave his side and desired to stay with him.
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As you go through this week, think deeply on this subject, on the Master's life and how he lived it. Think about his calling for you, beckoning, follow me.
 
As you go through this week, think deeply on this subject, on the Master's life and how he lived it. Think about his calling for you, beckoning, follow me.
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===Dialogue===
    
What are your questions?
 
What are your questions?
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Q: Yes. It leads me to wonder. I know there are a lot of people in the west who want to go over and save the Muslims and give them western Christianity. Will there be a time when we don't have this missionary attitude that they are going to hell? In our lifetime will we see it die out where people are on a more individual quest.Ham: Well yes, you are already seeing it to some degree. Even 100 years ago, even 50 years ago, your president would have suffered dire consequence for embracing and accepting the Islamic religion into the white house. But at this time, at this juncture in your world history, there is less harsh judgementalism and that kind of thinking is becoming more and more marginalized and there is a great movement toward respect for all human beings wherever they come from and whatever they believe and this my children is true Christianity, that is following him. . . . .
 
Q: Yes. It leads me to wonder. I know there are a lot of people in the west who want to go over and save the Muslims and give them western Christianity. Will there be a time when we don't have this missionary attitude that they are going to hell? In our lifetime will we see it die out where people are on a more individual quest.Ham: Well yes, you are already seeing it to some degree. Even 100 years ago, even 50 years ago, your president would have suffered dire consequence for embracing and accepting the Islamic religion into the white house. But at this time, at this juncture in your world history, there is less harsh judgementalism and that kind of thinking is becoming more and more marginalized and there is a great movement toward respect for all human beings wherever they come from and whatever they believe and this my children is true Christianity, that is following him. . . . .
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[[Category: The Teaching Mission: Dialogues]]
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