Eblow part 2: Christ as a teacher

I was reading my The Best of Charles Spurgeon today and the passage was this:

As Jesus sat at the table in the house, many tax collectors and sinners came and sat down with Him and His disciples. And when the Pharisees saw it, they said to His disciples, 'Why does your Teacher eat with the tax collectors and sinners?' When Jesus heard that, He said to them, 'Those who are well have no need for a physician, but those who are sick ... For I did not come to call the righteous, but sinners, to repentance.' Matthew 9:10-13

Good, encouraging stuff.

So what can we learn from this? What can we learn about how teachers interact with their students?

I'm not one for sweeping statements, so more forts later.

Amanda Palmer: Readers of Her Blog and the News

"Dude, WE WENT TO THE MOON. Seriously, we can pretty much do anything, once we stop talking ourselves out of it."

John C Welsh, from Amanda Palmer's blog

Finally ...

I'll tell you about it. First thing that happened was I read Peter Dray's blog (Scribblings from My Desk). He was commenting on Ed Clowney's The Message of 1 Peter: The Way of the Cross -- the quote was basically saying how we need to be both 'Bible people' and 'experience people'. "Interesting," I thought.

And then it actually happened. I was in church and PJ was preaching on Acts 4: 23-31 -- a passage which I love anyway as it reminds me fondly of Ridge Lane prayer meetings.

It is not just a case of "looking for God". God is looking for us all, waiting with arms wide open. He has made himself known in the Bible, in the presence of Jesus and through experiencing the Holy Spirit, as Peter and Ed point out.

Today was a combo of the two: the word and the experience of God saying "Yep. This is me."

Just what I needed. It has taken me a long time to get here though. Recognising who God is who he says he is in the Bible, who Jesus says he is, and the Spirit (see "worshipping in spirit and truth", John 4). I had to be exposed to God, He had to show me who he was over days, months, years.

So there we go. One day, a lot to think about.

Cheers.