Seminar Response

The seminar was a unique learning experience. I gained a great respect for the gospel writters. For years, I thought the gospel writter just sat down and wrote their memories of Jesus. I can clearly see how they crafted their memories into the Gospels. John used the seven miracles and the famous "I am" sayings. Mark used the "Son of God" title to reveal Him to others. The unity and clarity of the four gospel accounts make them masterpieces. I can see that the writter did more than just write; they thought first. We did an excellent job compiling a gospel account, but the final product was not as unified and concise as the four gospel accounts. With more time, we could have produced a more unified text.

It seems crazy to say, but if we had more time think of what we could have done. We could have written a clear unified gospel account. In the end, Dr. Foster accomplished his objective even though our account was inferrior to the scriptures. The group I work with kept stumbbling over twentieth century vernacular and interpretation. We thought a twentieth century gospel would be a cool project. Could we write a gospel account for the twentieth century to be evangelized and edified? Maybe I am going to far, or maybe that was the objective. Can we take our knowledge of scripture and evangelize and edify our twentieth century?