{"id":147,"date":"2010-04-22T08:46:42","date_gmt":"2010-04-22T15:46:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/belzglobal.com\/ministry\/2010\/04\/22\/good-times-in-dar\/"},"modified":"2025-12-23T13:03:38","modified_gmt":"2025-12-23T20:03:38","slug":"good-times-in-dar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/belzglobal.com\/ministry\/2010\/04\/22\/good-times-in-dar\/","title":{"rendered":"Good times in Dar!"},"content":{"rendered":"

Salama, praying friends!<\/o:p><\/span>These are full days as we are moving full speed ahead with life in Dar. Right now, my good, long-time friend Chet is here in Dar on his way back to America from China. He’s looking for a job, and is taking in some of the local life in Dar. As a connection with my past, it is nice to look back\u00a0and reflect on God’s grace over the past many years.<\/p>\n

Looking ahead, I\u2019m preaching and doing trainings this weekend of leaders in the church\u00a0in Buguruni, followed by 5 weeks of preaching and training at an international church, followed by a weeklong workshop of trainings for pastors in northern Uganda. There we will be covering a variety of theological issues and hot topics the Ugandan pastors deal with, such as the following:<\/p>\n

1.<\/font>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <\/span><\/span><\/span>Bibliology \u2013 Inerrancy \u2013 Authority \u2013 Inspiration \u2013 Revelation- Illumination – Canonization \u2013 Translations – Overview of biblical record (torah, historical, poetic, major\/minor prophets, Gospels, epistles, apocrypha) \u2013 How to study and understand the Bible (hermeneutics, methods of interpretation, contextualization, authorial intent, context, background, writing styles, culture, application, descriptive or prescriptive, etc.), role of OT for believers today<\/font><\/p>\n

2.<\/font>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <\/span><\/span><\/span>Characteristics of God \u2013 Existence – Trinity \u2013 Communicable and Incommunicable traits, the will of God<\/font><\/p>\n

3.<\/font>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <\/span><\/span><\/span>Creation \u2013 Evolution – Dominion of man in relation to creation \u2013 responsibility<\/font><\/p>\n

4.<\/font>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <\/span><\/span><\/span>Angels and demons – Satan<\/font><\/p>\n

5.<\/font>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <\/span><\/span><\/span>Fall \u2013 sin \u2013 curse \u2013 depravity of man (spiritual death) \u2013 original sin vs. hereditary sin vs. common sin, are the heathen lost?<\/font><\/p>\n

6.<\/font>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <\/span><\/span><\/span>Messianic prophecies \u2013 Gen.3, Gen.12, etc.<\/font><\/p>\n

7.<\/font>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <\/span><\/span><\/span>Man \u2013 Anthropology \u2013 Where languages came from, people groups, etc. How is man like rest of creation and distinct from rest of creation.<\/font><\/p>\n

8.<\/font>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <\/span><\/span><\/span>Free will<\/font><\/p>\n

9.<\/font>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <\/span><\/span><\/span>Election \u2013 sovereignty \u2013 predestination<\/font><\/p>\n

10.<\/font> <\/span><\/span><\/span>Covenants<\/font><\/p>\n

11.<\/font> <\/span><\/span><\/span>History of Israel \u2013 Abraham <\/font>\u00e0<\/span><\/span> prophets \u2013 Jews and Gentiles<\/font><\/p>\n

12.<\/font> <\/span><\/span><\/span>Law \u2013 Moses<\/font><\/p>\n

13.<\/font> <\/span><\/span><\/span>Christology \u2013 person of Christ \u2013 work of Christ \u2013 pre-incarnation, homeostatic union, true God and true man, kenosis, incarnation, immaculate conception, life, miracles, preaching, purpose, death, resurrection, appearances, commissioning, ascension, present activity<\/font><\/p>\n

14.<\/font> <\/span><\/span><\/span>Soteriology \u2013 regeneration, repentance, redemption, reconciliation, justification, propitiation atonement, grace, works, forgiveness, faith, legalism, sanctification, eternal security, salvation in OT vs. NT<\/font><\/p>\n

15.<\/font> <\/span><\/span><\/span>Spiritual disciplines \u2013 Bible study – prayer \u2013 worship \u2013 fasting, etc.<\/font><\/p>\n

16.<\/font> <\/span><\/span><\/span>Pneumatology \u2013 Role of Spirit \u2013 Work of Spirit \u2013 in church, in individual, in world \u2013 filling of Spirit vs. baptism of Spirit<\/font><\/p>\n

17.<\/font> <\/span><\/span><\/span>Ecclesiology \u2013 Baptism \u2013 Communion \u2013 church governance \u2013 membership – how to build church \u2013 evangelism \u2013 discipleship \u2013 Ephesians \u2013 church discipline\/ reconciliation\/ restoration – Conflict resolution \u2013 counseling \u2013 the Church and State<\/font><\/p>\n

18.<\/font> <\/span><\/span><\/span>Commission to church \u2013 role of missions \u2013 competing worldviews – Other religions \u2013 Animism, Islam, syncretism<\/font><\/p>\n

19.<\/font> <\/span><\/span><\/span>Church planting<\/font><\/p>\n

20.<\/font> <\/span><\/span><\/span>Transformational Development \u2013 community development \u2013 Christians and the environment – Business – A Christian\u2019s relationship to government \u2013 submission \u2013 politics \u2013 Wealth and the poor\/poverty \u2013 widows and orphans<\/font><\/p>\n

21.<\/font> <\/span><\/span><\/span>Gifts \u2013 Fruit \u2013 Miraculous gifts \u2013 healing \u2013 tongues \u2013 different callings in church<\/font><\/p>\n

22.<\/font> <\/span><\/span><\/span>Hot topics – Apologetics \u2013 Tough questions (HIV\/AIDS, money \u2013 tithing – debt, music, divisive issues, war\/killing\/violence, relativism, pluralism, postmodernism, materialism, homosexuality, role of ancestors, alcohol\/social drinking, abortion\/infanticide, euthanasia, )<\/font><\/p>\n

23.<\/font> <\/span><\/span><\/span>Persecution – bad things happen to good people, problem of pain,<\/font><\/p>\n

24.<\/font> <\/span><\/span><\/span>Tribalism, ethnicity and race – ethnic cleansing\/ genocide<\/font><\/p>\n

25.<\/font> <\/span><\/span><\/span>Spiritual warfare \u2013 power encounter \u2013 demonology \u2013 superstition \u2013 Witchcraft – taboos<\/font><\/p>\n

26.<\/font> <\/span><\/span><\/span>Dreams<\/font><\/p>\n

27.<\/font> <\/span><\/span><\/span>Role of women \u2013 in home, in church, female genital mutilation, circumcision, rape<\/font><\/p>\n

28.<\/font> <\/span><\/span><\/span>Polygamy \u2013 marriage, divorce, remarriage<\/font><\/p>\n

29.<\/font> <\/span><\/span><\/span>Slavery<\/font><\/p>\n

30.<\/font> <\/span><\/span><\/span>Sacrifices \u2013 in OT, in NT, today – blood<\/font><\/p>\n

31.<\/font> <\/span><\/span><\/span>Death and afterlife \u2013 resurrection (of Jesus and people)<\/font><\/p>\n

32.<\/font> <\/span><\/span><\/span>Eschatology \u2013 heaven and hell, eternal state for believers and unbelievers<\/font><\/p>\n

33.<\/font> <\/span><\/span><\/span>Pastoral leadership \u2013 lifestyle matches preaching – purity \u2013 pornography \u2013 how to guard against failure<\/font><\/p>\n

34.<\/font> <\/span><\/span><\/span>Ethical issues \u2013 bribery, etc.<\/font><\/p>\n

35.<\/font> <\/span><\/span><\/span>Statement of Faith – EFCA<\/font><\/p>\n

Please keep our finances in your prayers as some of supporters and a church, due to economy, has had to cut support. We know God will provide. Thanks for praying.<\/p>\n

Also, please keep Adam in your prayers as he continues to struggle with health issues.<\/p>\n

Pressing ever onward,<\/p>\n

Eric<\/p>\n

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Salama, praying friends!These are full days as we are moving full speed ahead with life in Dar. Right now, my good, long-time friend Chet is here in Dar on his way back to America from China. He’s looking for a job, and is taking in some of the local life in Dar. As a connection … Continue reading Good times in Dar!<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-147","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-family-updates","category-mission-updates"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/belzglobal.com\/ministry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/147","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/belzglobal.com\/ministry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/belzglobal.com\/ministry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/belzglobal.com\/ministry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/belzglobal.com\/ministry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=147"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/belzglobal.com\/ministry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/147\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4307,"href":"https:\/\/belzglobal.com\/ministry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/147\/revisions\/4307"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/belzglobal.com\/ministry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=147"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/belzglobal.com\/ministry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=147"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/belzglobal.com\/ministry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=147"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}