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As you know, if you are part of the family of Grace Community Church, it's been our custom for many, many years to have a time of family sharing. At times when we take a little bit of a break from our series and by the way, next Lord's day evening we'll be going back into James, a tremendous section on true wisdom...James chapter 3. We've looked at the section on the tongue and what a life changing experience that was. And I know we'll be back in full enthusiasm next Lord's day as we look at the matter of true wisdom, a test of living faith. On Sunday morning we'll be back in 1 Timothy again, so I know you'll be anxious for that.
But for tonight as we do customarily from time to time, letting you have an opportunity to share what's on your heart and I want to do my best to answer the questions that you have. This really began about 17 years ago when I first came to Grace Church because I was studying the book of Acts and found that Paul reasoned with people out of the Scripture. He dialogued with them. There needs to be a place where those who preach and teach the Word can know what's on the heart of those who hear. And so, that's what we want to do tonight. And your questions should surround the Word of God, your own spiritual experience, something about the life of the church, whatever it is that relates to those things that we want you to feel free to ask.
And don't be embarrassed. Don't feel, "I don't want to go up there and ask a simple question," because you may ask a question you think is simple and three hundred people may say, "Boy, I wish I'd have asked that question, that's what's been on my heart as well."
We have folks here who've been a Christian...been Christians a long time. Anybody here been a Christian for 30 years, put your hand up. Been saved for 30 years. Okay, that's good. All right, put them down. Anybody whose been a Christian for three years or less, put your hand up? Three years or less...okay. A few more than that. So there's a lot of space in between, right?
Some of you have been a Christian within a years, is that right?
Put your hand up if you've been a Christian within a year. Okay, so there are all kinds of things that are on the hearts of many people. Some of you are trying to figure out the wart on the nose of the beast of Revelation. And what it signifies. And others of you are just trying to figure how to get your prayer life together. And just about everything in between. So you feel free to ask what's on your heart.
I'm going to ask some of our pastors to stand by those microphones and they're going to ask you to ask them the question so we can help to speed the process. Sometimes folks mean well but they come up to ask a question and it sort of starts out...I was born in St. Louis, and then we moved to Kansas City. And by the time we get here in 1987 to the question, lots of time has transpired. So, we want to try to expedite that and no more than two or three people can line up behind a microphone. Okay? Once you see two people there, don't get in line or they'll just send you back to your seat because it means you have to stay there for a long time. So just two or three and that's it. And you need to find a seat near by...okay? Boy, we have a real stampede tonight. I have the feeling I'm in for it. But...that's good.
No more than three in line. If you see there are three there, don't get in line, just find a seat someplace...okay?
All right...Okay...and he'll, the pastor there will just help you with your question. Okay, and if you do want to ask a question, we'll hope you get the time and opportunity to do that.
But let me say this, if you do not have the opportunity to ask your question tonight, write me a letter, put your question in the letter, and I will be more than happy or one of our staff will be more than happy to answer whatever question you might have. Okay? And give me your name first so that I know who you are. Sometimes I can't see that far. Okay...is that Ronna? I thought so.
QUESTIONER: Hi, John. One thing I just wanted to thank you.
Not only are you the coup de grace of Bible teachers and I have the privilege of learning under you, but I have increased my vocabulary probably a hundred fold just by listening to you. You know, you say probably four words...four words in a sermon and I don't know them and I write them down and I go home and I look them up. And I...and in all seriousness, it helps me when I read other books because I know what the context means.
For instance, today I got home, you used a word this morning, today I got home and my mom and dad were watching football. And it was the Giants and the Forty-niners and we're just kind of talking about the team. And in my mind I was trying to get straight, there's such an amalgam of teams and leagues that I said, I was trying to find out what this game represented.
So finally I just said, "Dad, is this game a precursor to the Superbowl?" You used that this morning. And my dad...he just said yes, I don't know if he said yes to placate me and didn't know what I mean, but he answered me so I guess apparently he knew what I meant.
But all that to say that this, John, I really appreciate that. So thanks a lot, keep using those words. My question is...
JOHN: Thank you, Ronna. I usually am quoting someone else and I have to go home and look them up myself.
Q: Well, whatever, it helps. And I know some other people have gotten on the ball, too. So it's good. My question is probably so fundamental, try not to laugh a lot when I ask this. But in Romans chapter 1, it talks about, verse 18, it talks about, I know it's talking about the sin of man. But verses 18 through 32, I don't understand it when verse 21 says, "For they knew God," and verse 22, "They became fools, therefore God gave them over." Verse 25, "For they exchanged the truth." The "theys"
and the "thems" and then it says in verse 28, "God gave them over to depraved minds." I thought we were born utterly depraved.
Who is the they and when did this happen?
J: That's a good question. What you're asking about Romans chapter 1 is is this...is this the personal experience of every unbeliever? Or is this a chronological picture of human history?
And personally I would opt out for the fact that what you're seeing here is a chronological picture of world history. And so that what you have from the beginning is that man after he was created was obviously created with the knowledge of God. Adam knew God, right? And Eve knew God. And their family knew God.
And so, in that earliest generation of human history, God had planted in the heart of man and in the environment of man, the evidence of His existence, His power, His God-head and so forth. But man then began to decline. And what you have here is the chronology of man who originally worships God, knows God, even looking at Adam. And even Adam after the Fall still knew who God was, still recognized the voice of God, that's why he hid from Him, still understood the law of God. His children, Cain and Abel, understood the revelation of God. Abel obeyed the revelation of God. Cain violated the revelation of God.
But then you have as you move toward the Tower of Babel, I mean toward the flood, the terrible decline of the human race.
And by the time you get to Genesis 6, God drowns the whole civilization because they have gone so fast from the knowledge of God to a reprobate mind.
That moved very fast. And from that point on, the whole of civilization really has been in that situation. When you have a restored civilization from the loins of Adam after the flood, still by the time you get to Genesis chapter 11, they're building a ziggurat, a temple of false idols and God has to scatter them and change their language. So I...what you have to see here is not the pilgrimage of every person from the knowledge of God to ignorance, but the pilgrimage of mankind from an intimate unfallen state to idolatry and that reprobate process ending up with a whole civilization of reprobate people who just keep reproducing each other. Okay?
Q: Thanks.
J: Sure.
QUESTIONER: Yeah, my name is Joseph. And a couple of weeks ago, or a few weeks ago, you were talking in...teaching in 1 Timothy. You were teaching about widows indeed. And in verse 9 and 10 it gives the qualifications for the widows indeed.
JOHN: Uh-huh...1 Timothy 5:9 and 10.
Q: Right, okay.
J: Well, this is not the qualification of a widow indeed...
Q: The requirements...I'm sorry, these are the requirements for who may be on the list.
J: This is...right.
Q: Okay. He says in verse 10, it has to do with, "And if she has brought up children..."
J: Right.
Q: That particular requirement. And I think you said something to the fact that this meant bearing and rearing children. I don't know if that was correct. That's the way I wrote it in my notes, anyway. Anyway, the question comes up "bearing and rearing children" as to bringing up children, in other words, this is the requirement, she has to have had children and also raised them. And it's really a little confusing because suppose that there is a lady that gets married and cannot have children, all right? So they decide to adopt their child. And later on she becomes a widow indeed. She raised a child, but she couldn't have the child. Would she be qualified to be on this list?
J: Well, let me answer the question this way. By saying what it says here as I remember is that if she has raised children or brought them up...the emphasis here, of course, is for a very unique role in the church's ministry. Okay, now you have to understand something very important, a widow indeed, or a truly bereft woman is to be cared for by the church...whatever might be her situation relative to children. In other words, when you have a woman who has lost her husband, the word "widow" in the Greek language has nothing to do with death, remember that? It has only to do with being bereft. It literally can be translated "having been left alone." So a woman may lose her husband many ways...death, desertion, divorce, separation, whatever.
That woman then needs to be cared for because God has not designed women to care for themselves but women to be under the care of a man. So we said then that women of any kind who have no human resources, no husband, no brother, no man in the family who would care for them, the church would care for them as well.
Now additionally, when he comes to verses 9 and 10, he is discussing what some have chosen to call a semi-official function in the church. And that is women over 60 who having lived their life to the glory of God and having exemplary testimonies are called on to form a group of women for the purpose of instruction, example and ministry to others in the church. Now, in no way does that official group limit anyone else's service.
It's just a unique group.
Now I would go so far as to say also, and I need to go back and check my notes to be specific, but when it says in verse 10 she is to have a reputation for good works and to have raised children, the idea here is, of course, if she is going to go out like in Titus 2 and instruct younger women to love their husbands, love their children, be keepers at home, etc., etc., chaste and all of that, she's going to have to come from that vantage point and that experience to have the credibility that it takes to get into that kind of ministry.
So I would say this. That if a woman...and I don't think the text forbids this...if a woman has raised adopted children and she has proven herself to be a godly woman, I don't think she would be disqualified. If a woman had never had children or never raised children, then you can debate and argue about whether they would qualify or not. The simple fact here says she is to have brought up children. So I would say a woman who didn't bring up children wouldn't qualify to be in this group as I tried to point out in Titus 2, because I think one of their primary roles was in helping younger women know how to handle children and the situation in the home. But that in no way eliminates or limits anybody's ministry.
I tried to say this when we were studying about elders. An elder is not better than, an elder is not superior to, an elder simply has a unique function in the church. And I'll be very honest with you and say that there are many layman across this nation who are more effective at winning people to Jesus Christ than many elders and pastors. There are some laymen who are more effective and more gifted teachers of the Word of God than many pastors are. So we don't want to put some kind of premium on an office in the church and make it a symbol of spiritual status, or make it a sort of an elite group. If a woman qualified to be in this kind of group to do this kind of ministry, so be it. If she didn't, then let her minister in any other way where she was gifted, where she was experienced and where she could be used by God. So let's not get this boxed in where we think people might be second-class if they don't fit that certain pattern. Okay?
Q: That answered my question, yes.
J: Let me add a footnote to that. You know what it says in 1 Corinthians chapter 7, Joe. You know the passage because you probably got into it when you used to be single, before you got married, but in that passage in 1 Corinthians 7 it talks about singleness, you know, being to the glory of God. A person who is single has not the cares of this world and doesn't have to worry about spouse and family and all of that. And is free to serve the Lord. So we could just as well say that a person...a woman who never got married and never had children, never had a lot of the baggage that some of the rest of us have had that in many ways can limit the service you could give to the Lord. So we don't want to undercut the fact that any person in any state, totally abandoned to the power of the Spirit of God and walking in obedience to God's holy will is going to be able to be used to the maximum capacity of their God-given ability. Okay?
QUESTIONER: My name is Hollis. Now correct me if I'm wrong in any statement I make, John. But my understanding is there are two degrees, two classes of decreed events within the predestined plan of God.
JOHN: Now say that again, Hollis. Two what?
Q: Two classes of decreed events in the predestined plan of God.
J: Two classes of the...and then I missed it.
Q: Decreed...decreed events, those events which are divinely caused and those which are divinely permitted. Now my question has to do with prayer in this regard. Moses prayed and supposedly God did what he...what Moses wanted, he repented.
Elijah prayed that it wouldn't rain for three and a half years.
And then God repented toward... Now, of course, I believe in prayer and the New Testament teaches us that and God has answered prayer in my life and so on. Now could you comment on, does God allow His means of obtaining His will to be altered by prayer, or...just, you know?
J: Yeah, just a simple question like that. Ha-ha, oh, you've...you see, whenever you ask a question that's poking around in the divine mind, I'm a little bit at a loss to handle it. But let me see if I can help you with that, Hollis, cause I know what you're saying.
What you said at the beginning I think is important, that there are two elements within the predestined sovereigned determined will of God. One is a direct act of God by which He determines and effects a certain cause. And the other is an indirect act of God by which He permits without directly affecting a certain cause.
Yes, I would say from the human viewpoint, that's a fair distinction to make. I mean, I think we would have to say that there are some things, for example, in the Scriptures reveal that God directly did, He just did them. There are other things that would not reflect the moral will of God. For example, any sin, right? Or any act of evil. And yet God allows that to happen.
So whatever we tend to see, whatever is good and whatever is holy and just and righteous as being directly attributable to the work of God, whatever is evil or whatever is neutral being within the tolerance of God though not the direct expression of His will.
If that helps you to make that distinction, that's fair. It probably isn't as accurate as we would think it is, but from our limited human perspective it works to think of things in that way. I mean, I see, for example, I see a soul converted to Jesus Christ and I say there's the direct act of God. I see the Word of God preached and a family put together and there I say is the direct act of God.
On the other hand, I see someone walk away from obedience to Christ, get involved in an adulterous affair in the church, wind up in church discipline, I have to come up here and read their name. I don't say there's the direct act of God. I say within God's tolerance He has allowed that to happen and has an effecting purpose for that in the future. So that's fair enough.
Now, let me just tell you. As you get into the nuts and bolts of your Christian life, you really don't want to...you don't want to try to deal with that two-fold perspective or you'll get yourself very confused. Just let that be if it helps you to perceive certain things as to why God allows evil and so forth, then fine. But when it comes to the matter of prayer, or it comes to the matter of obedience, you cannot play with those things on the level of sovereign predetermined will. You have to function on the level of human responsibility and obedience. So the issue in prayer is not how do I figure out how this thing works. The issue in prayer is to be obedient. And since the Scripture says pray without ceasing, and since James says the effectual fervent prayer of a righteous man availeth much, and since there are illustrations after illustrations of God having His will moved in one direction or another apparently by prayer, we have to bank on that. When the saint of God raises his prayer to heaven, God responds.
Somebody used to say prayer is the nerve that moves the muscles of omnipotence. Now I don't know how that works. And I don't know how that is contained within the absolute sovereignty of God, but it is. The fact that I don't understand that doesn't really bother me. It means God has a greater mind than I do and that's the kind of God I want. But my responsibility as a Christian is not to figure out what God's sovereign will is, and how my prayers may or may not work within the framework of that will, my responsibility is to be sure that without ceasing I pray. And I believe with all my heart that what James says is true, the effectual fervent prayer of a righteous man availeth much. How that functions with God's sovereign predetermined will, I don't know. But it does. And it's no problem for Him, it's only a problem for me because I have a puny pusillanimous little pea brain that cannot grasp the infinite mind of God in which all apparent paradoxes are instantly resolved. Okay?
Q: Okay...I won't let it bother me. Thanks.
J: Good. I'll tell you, the footnote to that, the footnote to that is that, I suppose from the...your viewpoint, you look at someone like me and say, "Well, you know, you know your theology and all," but I want you to know that when I go to a time of prayer and I call upon God, I call upon God out of a...out of a concerned heart, not out of a theological context. And I can just tell you this, that through the years of my life and even more so I think in recent days, I have seen the direct answer of God in prayer that...that just...it just continues to overwhelm me...it continues to overwhelm me.
I'll give you one just simple illustration. We...I told you that...and this is family talk...but I told you toward the end of December that we were struggling financially. And I can remember on several occasions just saying to the Lord, "Lord, this church has been here a long time. And here we are way behind. And we don't have the resources we need to have. And how are we going to meet our needs? And here we come to the end of a year, it's a time of prosperity, it's not a time of recession, everything is going good and we just don't have the funds and where's it going to come from, Lord?" And we were just falling behind week after week and then it came to...I think it was...yes it was the Christmas Sunday and we had an offering on Christmas Sunday that equalled two times the annual budget of this church the first year I was here. Absolutely astronomical.
And then I was praying that the Lord would somehow meet the need in our radio ministry and God was just seemingly taking it all the way to the end. And a man came in and said I want to give a hundred thousand to the church and a hundred thousand to the radio ministry, you know, and you just sort of stagger and fall back. And I can only tell you that God answers prayer. And I'm not going to sit around trying to figure out how He does it because if He told me I wouldn't understand it. So I just do it.
QUESTIONER: My name is Gordon.
JOHN: Hi, Gordon.
Q: I have a question regarding the gospel of John chapter 20 verse 17 when Jesus appeared to Mary Magdalene. Why did He say, "Stop clinging to Me."
J: Ha-ha, well you have to understand that...that's a good question, Gordon. But let me tell you. You have to understand a little bit of the emotional dynamics that are going on. All right? Mary Magdalene had a background that would make a black mark on a piece of coal...she was a bad woman. Okay? She was a very wicked and a very sinful woman. And along came the Lord Jesus Christ and made her as Isaiah said as white as wool, as white as snow, purified her, took her sin away. And then she became one of that little entourage of women who along with the disciples accompanied Jesus at all times through His ministry.
They were there, I'm sure, performing many wonderful and gracious services to the traveling band whenever they were able to do that.
You have to understand that the resources Jesus provided for those around Him were beyond anything we could imagine. We know how wonderful it is to know Christ in the spiritual relationship, and it was equally and in some ways distinctly differently wonderful to know Him in the physical as well. And so there He was providing for them every resource they needed. And then all of a sudden in an absolutely unbelievable and to them an explicable act, He was killed. And it was if the bottom came out of everything in their world. Where would they go? Peter said it, "Lord, to whom shall we go? You alone have the words of life." And they had put all their eggs in one basket and this was a terrible and terrifying disaster.
And then when Jesus comes back from the dead, the natural response is just to hang on. And that's what...that's in effect what she's doing and He is saying to her, "Look, you can't keep Me here, I have to go to My Father. And when I go to My Father, I'm going to send you the Holy Spirit." And if you remember, the Holy Spirit is called by Paul in Romans 8 the Spirit of Christ, so in a very real sense, also, He is called another Spirit earlier in the gospel of John and the word is...it's the word from which we get homo which means the same rather than hetero which means different. So He says I'm sending you the Spirit who is the same as I am, it's the same concept as that. And so Christ says I'm going back and I'll send one whose just like I am. And you remember back in John 14 He said whatever you ask the Father in My name, He'll do it. So the resource will still be there. But it won't be Me, you can't hold onto Me, I have to ascend to My Father and then, of course, to send back the Holy Spirit. So it was the idea that she was emotionally involved in holding on to Christ because she had suffered through an absolutely horrible painful existence in seeing Him crucified and didn't want to lose Him again. Okay?
Q: Thank you.
J: Good question, Gordon. Yes...
QUESTIONER: Hello, my name is Laura Takagi(?) and my question is there's a lot of false religions from Mormonism for example, where they...archaeologists haven't found any evidence of this great civilization that was supposed to be here on this continent. I was just wondering as far as Christianity is concerned, I know that there's a lot of historical evidence as far as, you know, Jesus' existence. I was just reading in Acts yesterday about the account of Herod when he died...
JOHN: Acts 12, he was eaten by worms.
Q: Yes, eaten by worms for five days and I know that Josephus recorded this event. I was just wondering whether other historians at that time for events like this or other events that, you know, give us empirical evidence or scientific evidence or something for witnessing sake? And also, for faith building sake.
J: Sure, boy, that's good. You need to come out to the Master's College the next two weeks and take the course on Christian apologetics. That's wonderful. Or go to the bookstore and buy a book called Evidence that Demands a Verdict...is that the title of it? Yeah, written by one of my classmates in seminary, Josh McDowell...Evidence Demands a Verdict, very helpful along that line.
Let me just...let me just respond to your...in a simple simple way, all right? I wrote also a little book on it, I can't remember the name of it...I can't..something about the Bible. But anyway...what is it? Why I Trust the Bible, or what is it? Ask the bookstore people, these people don't know either. But anyway, it will take you through science, archaeology, and some things like that. And it will give you some..some good little handles. One of the best exercises I had in seminary was Dr.
Bask before he died was a fine apologist, and he had us memorize a sort of self-contained small paragraph on every major issue of Christianity with a logical kind of defense. And that's very important in witnessing when people ask questions. But look at it from several viewpoints. Okay? The best means of defending Scripture...I'll give you just a little...a little handful of it.
Number one, these are the five best means of defending the veracity of Scripture. In my judgment they go from the least effective to the most effective. Okay, the least effective but a good one is experience. One of the things that's very convincing to people about the truth of the Bible is its impact on your life. In fact, I would venture to say that most people who come to believe the gospel are initially drawn to that belief not because they've been intellectually convinced but because they've seen somebody's changed life. Is that not so? And that's the initial attraction. How do you get to be so happy? Where did you find peace? How did you get an answer to your needs? And so forth... So experience is a valid one.
In other words, you say the Bible can change your life, you say the Bible can bring the knowledge of Christ and you can experience the forgiveness of sin, the hope of heaven, joy and purpose, da-da-da-da. And you did it and it happened in your life. That's evidence. Okay? But it's not the strongest evidence because Mormons have experiences. Jehovah's Witnesses have experiences. Hindus have experiences. Some people think they see pink elephants and they don't, so you don't want to build truth on human experience, but it still has a very strong emotional appeal.
The second in the five would be science. The Bible is remarkably accurate when it comes to science. For example, you read eastern literature and you'll find that the earth sits in a pile of honey. You can find even in Pliny, the Greek, all kinds of bizarre descriptions of the earth we know aren't any...remotely related to truth...flat earth on the backs of certain things, sitting on pillars and all of that. So from a scientific viewpoint the Bible is amazing.
The oldest book in the Bible, Job, says, "He turns the earth like the clay to the seal." And what that means is you had a piece of clay with your signature on it, you took soft clay and the little stick through it and just rolled that across the soft clay and it imprinted your signature. And that when he says He turned the earth like the clay to the seal means the earth rotates on an axis.
It also uses the Hebrew word klug(?) which means sphere and when people were saying the world was flat, the Bible was saying it is a sphere. The whole issue of the water cycle is in the Scripture. How He draws up the seas and carries them with the clouds over the land and sends it back down again. It talks about the earth being in perfect balance. The depth of the sea and the water weight, the height of the mountain and the mountain weight keeps the earth from going like a bent, you know, ball or, you know, completely out of kilter and throwing everybody off after each cycle.
So there are a lot of things like that. One of the ones that's most dynamic is the fact that in 1903 Herbert Spencer died and he was...he received a great prize for discovering classification. In other words, all the knowable, Herbert Spencer said, could be classified into five categories which is pretty marvelous to reduce it down to five. He said everything that exists is either time, force, action, space or matter...time, force, action, space or matter. And in 1903 he died and he died hailed as one of the great scientists because of that discovery.
What he didn't know was Genesis 1:1, "In the beginning (that's time), God (that's force) created (that's action) the heavens (that's space) and the earth (that's matter)." Now you can go from Genesis 1:1 right on through the Scripture and find some pretty remarkable things.
The third and very powerful impactful evidence of Scripture's veracity is the person of Christ. You study the person of Christ and come up with any other conclusion than that He was God...and you have testimony after testimony after testimony, eye witness after eye witness, the man's life could never be denied...it's there for the world to see. It is verified not only in the biblical record but in extrabiblical record as well such as Tacitus, Josephus and so forth. How can you argue with the perfect life?
The fourth would be the matter of miracles...the matter of miracles. By the way, in the science category you put archaeology, the discovery of archaeological data that verifies biblical history. And then you take the miracles. How do you explain the miracles of Scripture? How do you explain 500 people seeing a resurrection?
And then the final and most impactful of all apologetic categories is prophecy. The Bible says something is going to happen, and it happens to the very letter. Predominantly that's Old Testament prophecy being fulfilled within the biblical record.
And so those are the things you want to look at. And as I say, you can get a lot of good resources for that because there's just myriads of things that can help you prove that. The best thing I think is Evidence that Demands a Verdict. Okay?
Q: Thanks, I needed that.
J: You're welcome...you're welcome. Yes.
QUESTIONER: Hi, John, I'm Glenn Adams.
JOHN: Hi, Glenn.
Q: My question concerns the so-called ministry of Dr. Gene Scott, perhaps you've heard of him.
J: Yes.
Q: A friend of mine was watching him a couple of months ago and he made a statement that I found quite disturbing and that was that if he ever got his hands on Jimmy Swaggart or Jerry Falwell, he'd punch them right in the mouth for being such hypocrites.
J: Hmm?
Q: So I decided to watch him last week and the band on his program were...one of the songs they were playing was called "Kill a Piss Ant for Jesus," and another song they were playing was the old Beatles song, "Money...Give me, give me, give me money." I'd like you to comment on the dangers of say a young Christian watching something like that and how it's going to affect their faith in Christ and how that might impede an unbeliever from coming to know Jesus Christ.
J: Well, of course I appreciate your concern and I have a great, great aversion to and anxiety about false teachers. You know the flip side of the coin is that if Christians can use the media, so can everybody else. I mean, we say so much about getting good Christian television and good Christian radio programs out there and I'm 100 percent for that, but of course it's out there for the bad as well, but that's nothing different. You know, in the time of Christ when people were preaching in the street, they were both good and bad. Jesus warns in Matthew 7 about the false teachers, beware of...he says wolves in sheep's clothing...that's not wolves dressed up like sheep, that's wolves wearing wool garments and the wool garment was the garment of a prophet. So false prophets...he warns about the lying...the hypocritical lie speakers of 1 Timothy 4 who are energized by seducing spirits propagating doctrines of demons.
So we shouldn't think that because false teachers are on television, because false teachers are on radio, because false teachers are putting out books there's anything different. There are many false Christs, Jesus said. There are going to be many more false Christs. Even now John tells us it is the last time, antichrists are everywhere.
Now the question comes, is this dangerous? Of course it is dangerous...it's exceedingly dangerous. And particularly dangerous to young Christians because of Ephesians...the principle of Ephesians 4:14, "Be no more children tossed to and fro and carried about by every wind of doctrine."
It is basic to a child that children have...are not discerning. For example, in 1 John chapter 2 verse 13, 14, he says, "I write unto you fathers because you've known Him from the beginning. I write unto you young men because you're strong and the Word of God abides in you and you've overcome the wicked one. I write unto you little children because you have known the Father."
And he gives us three categories of spiritual life, spiritual growth. Fathers who know the God who is from the beginning, in other words, you've gone beyond the page and you've really become intimate with the living God, that's spiritual maturity. The second level, spiritual young men, are strong in the Word and they overcome the wicked one. Why? Because the wicked one is primarily a false teacher, he is disguised as an angel of light. So the spiritual young man knows doctrine, knows theology, can answer the critics, fights against them and so forth. Then he says, "Little children you have known the Father." And all a little child knows is just the Lord, it's just sort of spiritual "da-da" and there's a great spiritual vulnerability. I believe that this is primarily the responsibility of the church to take those on and nurture them.
That's why today what disturbs me even more than false prophets is an unchurched kind of Christianity where people think that all they need is a radio or a TV or a few books and they're not loyal and committed and bound by love bonds and by accountability and responsibility to a redeemed community of people. And if we allow people to just float around, that's why I don't like the church page where it's who's playing where on Sunday and people pick where they want to go and visit here and visit there and go see this and watch that and hear this guy. And without that accountability and without that nurturing and shepherding, there is a great vulnerability.
So, having said that let me say this...I don't believe, and I hope I'm right about this, I don't believe that people who are tied in to the life of a church like Grace Community Church are fooled by Gene Scott. Why? Because they're taught the Word of God. If they start popping up with his theology, somebody in the Bible study is going to pull them down real quick and say, "Where are you getting that? Who are you listening to?" Because there's accountability there. So having said that I'm greatly exercised over false teachers and I want you to know that if I'm concerned about them you can imagine how concerned the Lord is and I have to promise you that I have sometimes been on my knees praying imprecatory prayers. I'm not going to say which ones I have prayed would die but I have actually prayed that. Now I've prayed that based upon the prayers of David, "Lord, how long are you going to let these people live and disgrace Your name?"
But what concerns me, the Lord's going to take care of them...what concerns me is this growing coterie of people who say they're Christians who feel that they can sit out there and pick and choose at random based upon what kind of emotional impulses they feel and have a tremendously high level of vulnerability.
So what do we do about it? What we do about it, I think, is preach not only the gospel of Jesus Christ but the gospel of the church...the forsaking not of the assembling of yourselves together under the proper teaching of the Word of God and under the proper leadership of a plurality of godly men. And you want to make sure that the life of these men backs up the message.
And so I just think we need to call people to the church. We have a funny kind of day today. You know, we have really bred a lot of independence, haven't we? I mean, it's do your own thing time. And for people to lock in to a community of people and have accountability is tough in our culture. And so we need to work very hard at that. So preach not only the gospel of Christ but the gospel of the church.
And if you want to know how to recognize a false teacher, remember the tape I did on Matthew 7:15 to 20, I went through all the ways that you can recognize a false teacher. And then you might want to get 1 Timothy 4, that little section there would be helpful to you as well.
Q: Thank you.
J: Thank you.
QUESTIONER: My name is Lois. And I need some help with the chronology of events surrounding the birth of Christ. Every year when I study this for my Sunday School class, I'm a little bit confused. The account in Matthew 2 is quite different than the account in Luke 2. And it seems that in Matthew they were told to go to Egypt after the wise men had been there. And this is probably when He was, you know, maybe a toddler, maybe a year old or something. Now had they been in Bethlehem all that time?
They were in a house at that point. And yet the other part of my question is in Luke 2 the days of Mary's purification, they presented Jesus in the temple with Anna and Simeon and then it says, "And when they had performed all things according to the law of the Lord, they returned into Galilee into their own city Nazareth." And I'm trying to fit the Egypt trip in between Bethlehem and Nazareth.
JOHN: That's a good question. And I'm not sure there's a dogmatic way to express the answer. If you take the simple chronology of Luke, verse 21 of chapter 2, the eight days were accomplished, the circumcision of the child, the name called Jesus, and when the days of her purification according to the law of Moses were accomplished, they brought Him to Jerusalem. I would think that the...that that is immediately after the birth.
The wise men don't come for a while. So what you have is the birth of Christ, the purification of Mary, the meeting with Simeon and Anna in the temple, back to Bethlehem because the child is two young to travel. They find a home, they stay there.
Over a period of perhaps a year, we can't be sure, the wise men come. At the time the wise men come they are staying in a house, the text is clear on that. The wise men present the gifts, don't go back to Jerusalem because they don't want to tell Herod that they found the child. The angel comes to them, sends them to Egypt. They go into Egypt until Herod is dead. And from that point, the text picks up in verse 39 of Luke 2, and they then go on their way to Nazareth.
So I would see the trip into Egypt after the purification, after the meeting of Anna and Simeon.
Q: I think so, too. The only verse I really have trouble with is Luke 2:39 because it sounds like it's right after...
J: Well, "When they had performed all things according to the law of God," you know, that's pretty general. Don't be...don't get stuck on that because I think it's pretty general. When they had done all that God had prescribed them to do and they went back to Nazareth.
Q: Okay. Thanks.
J: Thank you.
QUESTIONER: Hi, I have a question regarding Acts chapter 2.
JOHN: Okay.
Q: Now is this just an historical account or did God lay this pattern out how the church should function. Cause I notice you mentioned the complacency, you know, how we need to be held accountable and people don't like that, it's pretty comfortable being in our own little capsules.
J: Now which...
Q: Go ahead...
J: Which part of Acts 2 are you...
Q: Forty-two, excuse me...day after day.
J: Oh, okay, sure, Acts 2:42, let's look at Acts 2:42. This...
Q: Forty-six, excuse me.
J: Forty-two to forty six...okay, well let's just go through the whole thing....we'll just look at all of it. Peter gets up on the day of Pentecost and preaches a great sermon. The primary focus of the sermon is to tell the people of Jerusalem that they have killed their Messiah. And that didn't settle well with them. It wasn't that they got angry, it's that they became very convicted.
Verse 36 sort of sums it up. He says that God has made the same Jesus whom you've crucified both Lord and Christ, when they heard it they were pricked to the heart. They said to Peter and the rest of the Apostles, "Men and brethren, what do we do?" In other words, there's a certain admission of guilt here, what are we going to do? And then Peter says to them, "Repent and be baptized every one of you in the name of Jesus Christ with regard to the remission of sins and you'll receive the gift of the Holy Spirit." In other words, he calls for salvation. The symbol of salvation, the baptism outwardly...and then the gift that comes along, the gift of the Holy Spirit will belong to them, so forth and so on. His message comes to a conclusion. In verse 41 it says they that gladly received his word were baptized the same day they were added to them about 3,000 souls. So the church is born with 3,000 people, okay? This is the first church.
Verse 42 then tells us the four elements of church life in which they engaged. But the first key idea is they continued steadfastly. Continuity in the faith is always the mark of true salvation, John 8 says if you continue in My Word, verse 31 to 34, if you continue in My Word, then you're My real disciple. So they continued. There was continuity. Three thousand saved, three thousand continued, that's the kind of evangelism that every one would want to do. There's no loss.
Four things they engaged in. One, the Apostles' doctrine, that means simply the revelation of God, the teaching of the new covenant. Obviously they didn't ignore the Old Testament but the focus of their life as a church was on the doctrine taught and articulated by the Apostles, the new covenant. People ask me all the time why I spend so much time in the New Testament and why I seem only, or mostly to use the Old Testament as an illustration source? And that is because I believe from the very beginning of the new...of the church, the apostle's doctrine and the new covenant teaching was the matter with which they were mostly preoccupied. So they studied the Apostles' doctrine, that is the revelation and the teaching of God coming through the Apostles because it had not yet been written down.
Secondly, they engaged in koinonia. That's the partnership of life. Now what do we mean by that partnership? Koinonia means partnership. I think the very best way to understand that is an intimate sharing on a spiritual level in life. If you want to know what that partnership is, it's a partnership of love, it probably could be summed up best by the "one anothers" of the New Testament...pray for one another, edify one another, love one another, build one another up, comfort one another, whatever.
And they were engaged in mutual ministry.
Thirdly, breaking of bread most likely has to do with the Lord's table. It may also have to do with food, with eating together in a meal but it certainly has the tone of the Lord's table as well and then in prayer. So there was teaching, there was fellowship, there was eating together, including the Lord's table, and there was prayer. And I believe to this day that is still a viable model for the life of the church.
Furthermore, it says a sense of awe came on every soul...this was an awesome group of people. Any group of people who are so totally preoccupied with divine truth, with loving intimate Spirit-filled fellowship with the sharing of life and a gathering around the focal point of our faith, the cross of Christ, and diligently committed to prayer are going to have a dynamic impact. And they did. Many wonders and signs were done by the Apostles...note, it was the Apostles who did them, not the people...for these were the signs and wonders that came as gifts to the Apostles, according to 1 Corinthians...very clear on that, chapter 12.
Now it says in verse 44, "And all that believed were together." And that's a general statement, together in heart and soul and mind and spirit..."And had all things common." What that means is that if I had something you needed, I gave it to you. There's a certain sense in which we hold in trust everything together within the community of faith. It doesn't mean communism, it doesn't mean that everybody took what they had, liquidated it and somebody sat on the seat and doled out equal shares to everyone. And we can prove that by verse 45.
The imperfect verb form is used, "And they were selling their possessions and goods and they were parting them to all men as every man had need." When you read in the Authorized "and they sold and they parted" it kind of sounds like at one point in time they sold everything and split it all up in a kind of Christian communism form. But the Greek verb says they were selling...it's a..it's a continual thing, and they were parting as people had need. So here in this community of people, if I have something and a resource that's an abundance to me, and you have a need, my resource of abundance becomes the meeting of your need. Verse 46, "They continuing daily with one accord in the temple." Why?
Well, the temple was the only place of worship there. They didn't have a building and that's where everybody worshiped and this wasn't something different, this was the consummation of the old covenant, this was that of which every temple sacrifice spoke. And so the place to go to worship God was the temple.
And they went there every day. It was not uncommon for the Jew to go there every day anyway, some devout Jews. They went there every day. And then they were sharing meals and that again I think implies the Lord's table, though it's not explicitly stated, from house to house in each other's homes...and they ate their food together with gladness and singleness of heart, praising God and having favor with all the people. The result was the Lord added to the church daily such as should be saved.
Now that's a general overview. Having said that, is there a specific thing that you want me to hit?
Q: Yeah, the church doesn't seem to meet very often like...
J: The present church...
Q: The church in America. Cause I notice that the church in America has a certain thrust. The church in Korea meets more often and they pray and God's dynamics is just incredible difference.
J: Sure...well, let me see if I can answer that for you. The church in my judgment...you have to identify what you mean by the church. I don't think that when they were breaking bread from house to house, the whole three thousand came to everybody's house every day.
Q: No, okay...right.
J: I think what was happening was believers were congregating as a manner of the daily course of life. And it could have been here or there or everywhere. Life was very communal, there were no freeways, there were no highways. I mean, you lived in the city...if you were to go to the city of Jerusalem today, which would be a wonderful thing for you to do, you could...in the old city where the wall is, you could walk anywhere in the city and, you know, be with anybody you wanted within a matter of a few minutes. So life was a bit different.
But this, of course, is behind really behind the home Bible studies that we have. And the cultivating of flocks and fellowship groups and all the things that we do to stimulate that continual intercourse of spiritual intimacy that ought to be going on all the time among Christians. My...as long as you're asking, I'll jump on the soapbox for a minute. But one of my pet peeves and concerns is the fact that people treat particularly Sunday worship as if it were an option. I mean, it grieves my heart that there are people who will come here two out of four Sundays and think they've done God a favor. I mean, and it isn't a question of whether the sermon is interesting. I mean, let's face it, folks, I might be interesting now and then but I'm not going to be...I'm not going to be exhilarating every time I open my mouth. But the commitment of people today is the commitment that says, "Hey, you've got something that interests me...I'll be there." It's not the thing that says how can I go and offer my praise to God and how can I go and expose my life to His Word so that it can be a better person and how can I go so that someone can minister to me and I can minister to them? And how can I go not to take but to give God the honor due His name if the sermon was a "two" on a "one to ten" scale? See, but we don't have that mentality. We have that deal that says, "Hey, what have you done for me lately?" And, you know, when you've been the same place like I have for 17 years, it's old hat...Him again? I'm like the poor, you always have me with you.
And, you know, so...and I'm grieved by that. You know, we live in a society with so many options. I can remember as a little boy, the hottest thing going in town was the Sunday night church service. I mean, it was great. It was either that or sit home and listen to a crackling radio. And it was exciting. And the place was packed. It's a different age and I think your question is well put, we..I mean, we need to spend our life with people of like precious faith. We don't ignore the world but we need that intimate fellowship.
Well, I'm preaching now...so that's enough...okay?
Q: Thank you.
J: Thanks for asking. One more question.
QUESTIONER: My name is Robert. And my question concerns the issue of parental authority and it's almost like I should have this resolved when I was 15, but a lot of Christians, especially adults, who are getting married or pursuing a career will read the Bible's admonition to obey your parents in all things for this is well and pleasing to the Lord. I don't know if that's a verbatim quotation, but that's pretty much the gist of it. And so my question is as adults, how much credence do we give to our parent's authority?
As a for instance. I went to another church and a college pastor taught us that we had to obey our parents in all things, no matter what station we were in life. And he gave the example of a college student who was thinking of entering full time ministry and asked his father what he thought he should do.
Well, his father was an alcoholic and was drunk all the time and said no, I don't think you ought to go into the ministry. Do something else. And he did that and all these blessings came upon him for having obeyed his father.
And another is a couple I know here at church and they were engaged and broke off the engagement because either one or both sets of the parents objected to the marriage...they were both growing believers, so there's no biblical reason why they shouldn't have been married. So I just want to know how...where do we draw the line as far as obeying our parents?
JOHN: If your my children, you always do what your father says.
But now we'll go beyond that and talk about everybody else's children. No, that's a very good question. I would say that your friend who has been talking to you has probably been to a Bill Gothard Seminar because that sounds very familiar.
Q: Exactly.
J: Yeah. Let me say this. As a child growing up in the home, it is very very obvious and apparent that children are enjoined to obey their parents in the Lord. I mean, this is clear from the Old Testament, this is reiterated in the New Testament as well in Colossians and Ephesians. So it's very clear that a child living in the home under the parents'...within their realm of responsibility and under their provision is to obey them. But I believe it is also very clear in Scripture that there may come a time when a child who has reached the point of making an adult decision has to go directly against the will of their parents.
Jesus said, "I have come to bring a sword to set a man against his father, to set a brother against..." and he went through the whole family. I am not come, He said, to bring...what?..peace but a sword. He says this is to be expected because the gospel is divisive...it's just the way it is. The gospel tears apart, it cuts and it must do that. I believe that we would be going way too far to say that God will lead you through an unregenerate parent in every circumstance...I just don't see that that's biblically accurate. I think if a man, Jesus said, is not willing to leave his father and mother to be My disciples, he's not worthy to be My disciple. I mean, the teaching of Jesus is yes as a child, submit to your parents, but yes as an adult...mark it...I will bring a sword and there will come times when you will have to defy your parents in order to obey my will.
Peter sums it up in Acts when he says to the Sanhedrin, they were the authority, they were the religious authority, they were the political authority in that place, Jerusalem, and they said to him, "You stop speaking, you be silent," and he said you judge whether we ought to obey God or man. And I think when you come to adult decisions about spiritual matters, it is vastly over simplification, over simplified to assume that your parents will always reflect to you the will of God. I just don't see that at all. I think that's..that's not rational and I think it's not biblical. When a young person comes to the point in time when they must make a decision, they must respond to the prompting of the Word of God and the will of God.
Now, this idea of throwing up illustrations, you can find an illustration for anything. I can tell you an illustration of a man who went out and married a wonderful Christian lady and was unhappy...miserable. And he divorced this Christian woman and married a harlot and is ecstatic. Now do you want to use that as a model to tell all? You see, whenever you try to determine truth on the basis of an analogy, you can prove anything...all you have to do is find the right analogy. That's all. So don't ever let anyone use that kind of leverage to convince you of something....it's very, very...by the way, it's very convincing, but it shouldn't be. Here's a guy who did this, and he got blessed. Well, that's just an illustration of something, not an illustration of divine truth necessarily. So children should respond to their parents' authority, children should obey their parents in the Lord, parents should be responsible to give their children the right kind of leadership. I would imagine that there's a time when a child ought not to obey his father. If his father says do something that is against the law, something that is abusive, if his father says to him to a daughter, I want to have an incestuous relationship, is she supposed to obey him? I mean, that's ludicrous. If he says to a son, I want you to go with me, help me rob a bank. Is he supposed to obey him?
So, if you're going to draw the line there, then why can't you draw the line in the spiritual dimension? Okay?
Q: Thank you.
J: All right.
Well that takes us to a good point to kind of wrap our thoughts up tonight. Boy, these have been good questions, I hope they've been helpful to you.
You know, what excites me is I've been doing this for a lot of years and I always know...I don't always know the best answer to the question but I always know there's an answer...isn't that wonderful? And you say, "Well, how do you...how can a person be so well read, I mean the L.A. Library's got two million five hundred thousand books, how can you know everything?" Look, isn't it wonderful...I mean, it's all in this little book.
You say, "You mean that book deals with everything?"
Listen, that book deals with every area of human life that is necessary to be considered. It will deal with anything you can think of in terms of principle if not in terms of actual objective data or fact. And that's...I guess that's what appeals to me. I've always been a sort of one-track person and the thrill of ministry for me is it's all reduced to this one book and it's so simple to pour your life into one book and to know that whenever there's a question in your heart, that book contains a right answer. Are we rich or are we rich...who possess this book? And the ultimate crime of all crimes is to have it and not know what it says...amen? Try that again.
ALL: Amen.
J: To have it and not know what it says. Spend your life here.
I'm no smarter than anybody here, I'm not going to give you my GPA when I was in college...but it wouldn't shake anybody loose.
I was...I was not a great student, but somewhere along the line in my life I...the Lord did something to change my heart. I basically went through college never letting my books get in the way of my education. I was..I went from one game to the next...football, basketball, baseball. I was involved in student activities, I was involved in so many things and it wasn't study that had a priority with me until I got to seminary and got a small taste of the Word of God. And then I got this almost consuming appetite for the Scripture. And there were many people in seminary who were so much more able to study and learn than I was. I had to slug it out. But I think over the years because my own particular mind demands such repetition in order to retain, that constantly pounding the same things into my own head has resulted in some of them sticking in there. And I just praise God for that. I feel like the richest man in the world because more than anything else, because God has allowed me the privilege by the grace of His Spirit to commit to my heart the truth of His Word. And I just tell you, that's the joy of life.
You know, when you become a Christian, that seems like the greatest thing that could ever happen...and really it is. But there's another time in your life when you wake up and realize that you have a grip on the Word of God that will be almost as exciting to you. To put it in the words of the Holy Spirit through Paul..."Let the Word of Christ dwell in you...what?...richly."
Well, let's pray.
Gracious Father, we thank You so much for what You've given us in Your Word. We thank You for who You've given us in Your Spirit so that we have an objective revelation and a subjective teacher, so that we have the Word in our hands and the Spirit in our souls. Truly we need not that any man should teach us with human wisdom who are taught of God by the Word and the Spirit.
May it dwell in us richly. And I pray, Lord, tonight that all the unanswered questions might be answered, all the longings of the hearts of those who are still asking might be put to rest.
Lord, I pray that each of us though in the great measure dependent on each other will find a sense of independence in our own study of Your Word because of the availability of the Spirit.
Help us to be diligent enough to study and read, patient enough to let the answers come as we faithfully digest Your truth. And help us ever and always even as Mark Twain once said to be more concerned to put into practice what we do know than to worry about what we don't know. Help us not to struggle on the fringe of speculation while being disobedient to those things that are patently obvious. Lord, help us to take what we do know and live it and protect us from the evil one and the doctrines of demons that come under the energy of seducing spirit through..spirits through hypocritical liars who would deceive us. And make us faithful to Your Word, to Your people, to Your gospel. And may we ever and always balance the intake with prayer. Forgive us for our prayerlessness, forgive us for our cold prayers, forgive us for our heartlessness in not praying. Forgive us for those light-weight prayers that are nothing more than duty. And make us the people you want us to be for the name of Christ we pray.
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The Eagles had the better of the chances overall, and some nice work by VUHS goalie Steven Paquette, especially in that first half, helped keep his team within striking range.
In the first 40 minutes Mount Abe got strong goals from Ira Fisher and Alex McCormick from clever setups by Cale Thygesen and Theo Weaver, respectively.
MIDDLEBURY — Organizers of the 2012 Addison County CROP Hunger Walk are hoping this year's event on Oct. 7 exceeds the record $25,161 raised last year toward the local and worldwide campaign to end hunger.
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GREENSBORO, N.C. --- Lees-McRae College men's soccer player James Smith (Eastbourne, England) got off to a flying start in his first appearance of the summer for the Carolina Dynamo of the United Soccer League's Premier Development League, scoring on his debut to help the Dynamo open the season with a 3-0 victory over the Virginia Beach Piranhas.
Smith played just seven minutes in the match, coming on as a substitute in the second half, but wasted little time opening his account for the campaign. The Eastbourne, England native capped the night's scoring for the Dynamo six minutes from time in the 84th, chipping the keeper for his first goal of the season.
Thomas Rusling (Sheffield, England), James Galvani (High Wycombe, England), and Yago Xavier (Rio de Janeiro, Brazil) have yet to make their first appearance of the summer for their respective sides; Galvani and Toronto Lynx open the campaign on Wednesday, May 22, while Xavier and Chesterfield United of the National Premier Soccer League take the pitch on Saturday, May 18.
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The South Downs SCITT
Chemistry (35WF)
PGCE with QTS full time
- Financial support
- Scholarship, bursary or student finance if you're eligible
- Qualification
PGCE with QTS
A postgraduate certificate in education (PGCE) with qualified teacher status (QTS) allows you to teach in England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland. It's also recognised internationally.
Many PGCE courses include credits that count toward a Master's degree.
- Course length
- 1 year
- Date you can apply from
- 9 October 2018
- Date course starts
- September 2019
- Website
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About the course
Aim of Programme:
Provide trainees with an education of high quality at post-graduate level within an environment of school-based research and enquiry.
Deepen trainee teachers' knowledge and understanding of their field of study and secondary/primary education and the relationship between the two.
Improve the skills of trainees and enable them to meet the Teachers' Standards.
Enhance trainee teachers' ability to analyse critically and apply theories, research and personal values which underpin professional practice.
Create opportunities for trainee teachers to begin to define their own positions with respect to their own developing professional and philosophical frameworks.
Develop trainee teachers' ability to evaluate and analyse their academic and professional progress in order to understand that teaching is a process of lifelong professional learning, including developing transferable skills as appropriate for employment in education.
Programme Content:
School Experience: typically 4 days a week.
SCITT Experience: SCITT Training Days will be at Durrington High School on Fridays. These will include Professional Studies and Subject Study.
Some secondary trainees will be based at The Angmering School on Friday afternoons for Subject Study.
PGCE (Post Graduate Certificate in Education):
All trainees will undertake the academic award of Post Graduate Certificate in Education (M Level). The University of Chichester moderates and awards for the PGCE.
School Partnership:
The school will deliver some of the professional and subject study in accordance with the programme requirements and documentation and jointly assesses the trainee against the Teachers' Standards.
The SCITT will deliver aspects of training and provides academic support with the preparation and assessment of the three PGCE assignments, tutor visits, quality assurance and assessment against the Teachers' Standards.
Interview process
During the interview candidates are introduced to the SCITT programme and to the school. They complete a written task, a presentation, a subject knowledge task, a teaching activity and a formal interview. You have the opportunity to meet SCITT colleagues and ask questions about the course.
How school placements work
School Based Experience:
All trainees are expected to work in school for the entire academic year – September 2018 through to July 2019.
For the recommendation of QTS, all trainees will be formally assessed in 2 consecutive Key Stages:
Primary (5-11) Key Stage 1 and Key Stage 2
Secondary (11-16) Key Stage 3 and Key Stage 4
The time in school will include the following:
Majority of time in First School with 6 weeks in Second School
3-5 days in Early Years (Primary)
3-5 days in Key Stage 3 (Primary)
3-5 days Special School experience
3-5 days Primary (Secondary)
3-5 days KS5 (Secondary)
All of our partnership schools are based in West Sussex and have good transport links. This means our trainees typically travel less than 30 minutes to reach their placement school. We organise placement 1 and 2 for you.
Financial support
You could be eligible for either:
- a scholarship of £28,000
- a bursary of £26,000
To qualify for a scholarship you'll need a degree of 2:1 or above in Chemistry or a related subject. For a bursary you'll need a 2:2 or above in any subject.
You can't claim both a bursary and a scholarship - you can only claim one.
Find out how to apply for a scholarship. You don't need to apply for a bursary - if you're eligible, you'll automatically start receiving it once you begin your course. Find out how you'll be paid.
Standard equivalent to a grade 4 in the GCSE examinations in English and Mathematics, and Primary trainees will have achieved a standard equivalent to a grade 4 in the GCSE examination in a Science subject.
First Degree of a United Kingdom University, Higher Education Institution or an acceptable equivalent at 2.2 or above. For Secondary, if the degree is not in the subject that applicants wish to teach then they must hold an A Level in that subject and the offer will be subject to completion of a Subject Knowledge Enhancement programme prior to starting their training.
Personal qualities
An ability to listen to and act on feedback;
An effective communicator;
A true passion for teaching and your subject;
A genuine interest in how children learn;
High expectations for yourself and for our students.
About the training provider
The South Downs SCITT is based in West Sussex. We deliver school based training for QTS (Qualified Teacher Status). We work in collaboration with The University of Chichester which awards the PGCE (Post Graduate Certificate in Education). There is a strong partnership with local schools. You will have access to the facilities at the SCITT, Research School, your placement schools and the University library. You will typically have a day each week working with other trainees to reflect and develop your practice and four days each week in schools working with the young people in our locality. We provide a high quality cross phase and bespoke training programme which is full time for one year and commences in September. Upon successful completion of your training you will be awarded Qualified Teacher Status, along with a Post Graduate Certificate of Education (PGCE). You will teach across two consecutive age ranges/phases and experience teaching in at least two contrasting schools as well as completing training in SEND. You will be guided to complete an action research project as part of your training. The South Downs SCITT is based at Durrington High School (The Boulevard, Worthing, West Sussex, BN13 1JX). The SCITT is part of the Durrington Multi Academy Trust (DMAT). DMAT has a Primary, Secondary and Research School as part of the Trust. The SCITT offers places for Primary and Secondary. At Secondary we offer Art, Biology, Chemistry, Computing, Drama, English, French, Geography, German, History, Mathematics, PE, Physics and Spanish.
Training with disabilities and other needs
We will discuss how we can support each applicant individually. Our schools all have appropriate facilities to accommodate candidates with physical impairments. We have specialist teachers in some of our schools that are expert in working with physical and hearing impairments and can support with making reasonable adjustments to our training. Candidates with dyslexia can access extra time for assignments.
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Good health keeps wealth in old age
Ruth H. Clark of Pompano Beach, Fla., is a 95-year-old aerobic wonder, working out seven days a week.
But Clark is not just flexing her muscles, she's protecting her retirement nest egg by staying healthy.
Economists say health care will become more crucial in retirement planning as medical expenses climb for the elderly.
People on Medicare already spend three times more as a percent of income out-of-pocket for health care compared to non-Medicare households — 14.7 percent vs. 4.9 percent, according to the National Council on Aging.
"The financial burden is highest for beneficiaries who are older, in relatively poor health, and have low or modest incomes," said council spokesman Ken Schwartz.
Medicare recipients 85 and older spend an average of 30 percent of their income for out-of-pocket medical expenses, or $4,615 a year, according to an analysis on the website NewRetirement.com.
Many seniors who have higher retirement savings and income pay even more: Older clients of Boca Raton financial planner Mari Adam spend about $10,000 to $20,000 per year for medical expenses, she estimated.
"High dental bills are not uncommon," Adam said.
The nonprofit Employee Benefit Research Institute estimates a 65-year-old couple will need $271,000 to give themselves a 90 percent chance of having enough savings to cover their out-of-pocket medical expenses during retirement.
Clark said she has managed to stay out of the hospital since the mid-1970s, except for a nasty bout with a nose bleed a few years ago. She has saved tens of thousands of dollars in medical costs, from hospital bills to paying for home healthcare nurses.
Clark, for example, "treats" arthritis by bending, stretching and moving about during her daily 30-minute workouts in her apartment at the John Knox Village. She adds 2-pound weights to her regimen every other day.
"Every single joint gets moved," Clark said.
To keep her good health, Clark stopped bad habits early. She quit smoking in 1960, four years before the U.S. Surgeon General issued a warning about the dangers of cigarettes.
The former Connecticut state senator also sticks to mostly fruits and vegetables. She has avoided diabetes, heart problems and other chronic ailments, partly thanks to such a healthy diet. Indeed, Clark thinks her parents' meat-and-potatoes diet may have contributed to their relatively early deaths.
Clark attributes her health to staying active, whether it is walking or researching about Florida's water.
"It gives me energy," Clark said.
"The best thing to do is keep your health," said Jorge Salazar-Carrillo, an economics professor who directs the Center of Economic Research at Florida International University.
Seniors might end up paying more of their medical expenses, especially higher-income retirees, Salazar-Carrillo said. The Medicare Trustees Report has predicted that the program's hospital portion will go broke in 12 years, although some experts say it could be as soon as 2016.
Edith Lederberg, 82, said she is trying to stay healthy so she can continue working full time as executive director of the Aging and Disability Resource Center of Broward County.
"I don't smoke, I drink sensibly and I exercise so I don't have to run to doctors," said Lederberg.
Others, especially baby boomers, will need to stay healthy so they can work longer and avoid retiring to allow their nest egg to keep growing, added Tony Villamil, dean of the School of Business at St. Thomas University.
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Handy 'Good Sandwich Guide' Reveals the Secret of Total Bread Coverage
We love tasty sandwiches as much as the next guy, but one thing about making them always drives us crazy -- no matter how you overlap the meat, it's darn near impossible to cover the entire piece of bread. Well, sandwich lovers, rejoice! That eternal problem has finally been solved thanks to this handy image.
While we can't positively identify the type of cold cut used in this picture (bologna? liverwurst?), we definitely appreciate the technique. By slicing two pieces of meat in half and strategically placing them one on top of the other, this sandwich-maker has created a snack with total bread coverage. Ingenious! It's so simple. Why didn't we think of that?
Now, if you'll excuse us, we're going to take this new-found knowledge and go create the Dagwood of our dreams.


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Who was the fan that got ejected from Game 4?
A Cavaliers fan was ejected from the Quicken Loans Arena on Friday night after tussling with Warriors forward Matt Barnes. It was one shocking moment among many during Game 4 of the NBA Finals.
Who was this aforementioned fan? His name is Todd Leebow, reports the New York Times, and he's a friend of Lebron James' agent, Rich Paul.
With 1:10 left in a fiery third quarter, officials paused the game to review an incident between Zaza Pachulia and Iman Shumpert. During the brief reprieve from game play, Leebow, seated near the Golden State bench, got into an argument with Barnes.
Security quickly stepped in and escorted Leebow from the stadium. Unfortunately for Leebow, he didn't get to see the rest of the Cavaliers' sweep-stopping 137-116 victory.
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Visual Learning: Cone in the Cob
Images, photos, and pictures stimulate the mind. For the viewer, they offer a chance to connect and question. They also offer potential for play and imagination, and pulling the observer into purposeful messages.
Most often, newspaper and magazine readers take a quick glance at photos and their captions. With this YES! lesson plan, you and your students can luxuriate—and pause—to truly understand an image, its message, and why it's interesting (or not).
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Step One: What do you notice? (before the facts)
Step Two: What are you wondering? (thinking about the facts)
After you've heard what your students are noticing, you'll probably hear the peppering of questions: Does someone live here? What is the tent-like item draping down? Why are there so many blankets? Is that camping gear on top of the shelf? This is a good time to reveal the photo's caption, accompanying quote, and facts about the actual situation. Watch how the conversation shifts from what they believe to be true to discerning the facts about the photo.
- Photo caption:
"The 'Cone of Silence' is made from a mosquito net hoop and heavy blankets, designed to trap body warmth around the handmade straw mattress on winter nights." Photo by Brian Liloia.
- Photo Facts:
The heavy blankets and netting are atop a built-in bed platform in one of many cob houses in the Dancing Rabbit Ecovillage of northeastern Missouri. Communities like Dancing Rabbit value practices, such as Natural Building, that are based largely on minimizing negative ecological impact and using locally available, renewable resources. They believe that it is functional, enjoyable, and healthy to live a lifestyle that is alternative to the U.S. status quo.
Cob, a material commonly used for house frames in Natural Building, is a mixture of straw, clay, and sand similar to adobe. Lumps of cob are applied wet to build up a wall, bench, or as thermal mass around stoves.
A "living roof" allows plants to grow on top of a roof. Soil is placed over a waterproof membrane on an extra-sturdy roof. The soil and plants can help a building cool in summer and warm in winter by evapo-transpiration, thermal mass, and insulation.
The fabric tent can trap body heat during cold winter months. This natural method of keeping warm has proven to be very effective, raising the temperature from 40 degrees to 60 in just 15 minutes.
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EXPLORE: Dancing Rabbit
LEARN: Building a Hand-Made Cob House
READ: Year of Mud
Step Three: What next? (jumping off the facts)
Learning more about a photo leads to bigger questions and an opportunity to discuss broader issues and perspectives.
- What kinds of skills would you learn by building your own house? Is building a house something you'd be willing to try? Why or why not?
- What are some of the natural resources available for building and creating in your community? What lifestyle would you have if you were limited to using only natural resources available in your own region?
- What does "the U.S. status quo" look like to you? Is it something you're happy to be part of or would you prefer to live differently? Could you see yourself living in a community like Dancing Rabbit?


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A Houma couple wants an unoccupied, state-owned building next door to them cleaned up.
A Houma couple wants an unoccupied, state-owned building next door to them cleaned up.
Carroll Babin and his wife Sandra said they are tired of living next door to the former state unemployment office at 7528 Main St., which closed years ago and has not been maintained. The new office is located in Town Hall.
The Babins said the property is an eyesore, littered with Mardi Gras leftovers and debris from storms, and they said it has a moldy exterior.
Late at night, the Babins said they suspect illegal activity takes place behind the building, where trash has begun to pile.
The Babins said they've made numerous complaints to state and parish officials but were unsuccessful.
Meanwhile, they've appointed themselves responsible for maintaining the property.
"We pick up trash, we cut the grass, but we are tired of it," Carroll Babin said. "We've tried to make contact with the state, the Parish Council, local Congress people, but nothing has come of it."
Sandra Babin said the building is an eyesore, not just for them but also for the parish.
The Babins are not convinced financial woes play into the equation.
"How is it that (Terrebonne Parish has) money for a new Field of Dreams park and a skateboard park, but they can't afford to take care of their own property?" Carroll Babin said. "If it is not a feather in their cap, they won't do anything."
But the building is not the property of Terrebonne Parish. It's owned by the state.
Tom Guarisco, the Louisiana Workforce Commission communications director, said his agency owns the building.
Guarisco said his department is concerned about the usability and condition of the facility, and it plans to develop it.
"We have been out of that building for two to three years now," he said. "We have looked at moving various programs into it since then, but nothing so far has worked out."
Guarisco said the state has tried selling the building for about a year but without any luck.
He also said the state has been trying to maintain the building over the years.
The Babins, however, said they have not seen improvements.
Guarisco said the building sustained some damage, and there was some debris as a result of Hurricane Isaac.
On Oct. 17, Guarisco said, someone from his agency in Baton Rouge was sent to inspect the building.
"Based on that assessment, we decided to do some cleanup work and make the necessary repairs," he said.
Guarisco said work to improve the building should begin any day.
"The work will include cleaning up the grounds, cutting the grass (and) hauling off any debris," he said. "We also intend to pressure wash the exterior of the building."
Guarisco said he would also like to follow up with the Babins to assure them that the work will be done.
Guarisco said he doesn't want his agency's properties to make people unhappy "and we will do what we can to be a good neighbor at all times."


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2 killed, 2 burned in shipping vessel explosion off Cape Cod
Authorities say two crew members are dead after an explosion on a ship in the North Atlantic Ocean.
The U.S. Coast Guard said in a statement that the captain of the Tamar, a 623-foot Marshall Islands-flagged bulk carrier, reported an explosion in the forward storeroom Monday morning.
The captain reported that one crew member was killed and three suffered massive burns. A second crewmember later died. The fire is extinguished but the cause is unknown.
The Coast Guard says New York Air National Guard pararescuers arrived Monday night and will stay with the ship until higher medical authority takes over. The Portuguese Coast Guard is set to pick up the injured.
The ship was headed to the Azores, Portugal, from Baltimore is about 1,300 miles east of Cape Cod in Massachusetts.


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Miss Michigan crowned Miss USA 2010
Despite a near tumble in her evening gown, Rima Fakih, Miss Michigan for 2010, was crowned Miss USA on Sunday. Fakih won the competition after swimsuit, evening gown, and interview competitions. During the interview portion of the event, Fakih expressed her belief that birth control should be covered by health insurance.
Fakih will replace North Carolina's Kristen Dalton as Miss USA, taking away a one-year lease for an apartment in New York, living expenses, health and beauty services, and an undisclosed salary. When asked about the win, Fakih said only, "Ask me after I've had a pizza."
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Three Different tips when launching a Banner Fraternity Event
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1) A scholarship banner design event. Now, this possibly isn't visiting be a celebration, and it shouldn't be merely a honours program. Your fraternity must acknowledge those siblings who succeed academically. Not only must they be recognised for their good scholarship, however, but they also need to be awarded for it. It could be a cost-free dinner for all the bros that got above your phase's specified GPA target, or siblings which got above a 3.5. However reward things that matter.
If a guy acquires a 4.0, his fees one month must be complimentary. It doesn't matter. Scholastic success should be recognised in some way, the siblings need to understand which of their siblings are flourishing in course, and they have to be rewarded.
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Love my Cavaliers
2nd June 2012, 08:58 PM
I am visiting my son and daughter-in-law who live near Canterbury (UK) and this is the only place in my travels that I have not seen a cavalier. This is the second time I have been here, th first was in October and I didn't see a cavalier then either. I thought of all places, I would see one in the UK. I've seen one in Budapest, Prague, Lima, Peru, Stockholm and Upssala, Sweden, but none in Canterbury. Are they in hiding?