Continued...Bible study, OCF Chill and Good Friday cleaning

Continuing on from my last post...

So the bible studies this week at AUTCF were amazing I think. We're up to Galatians 2:1-11. Quite confusing at first and a lot to unpack in 11 verses. We had 9 people on Tuesday, 7 on Wednesday and 11 on Thursday. On Tuesday we only got through interpreting the first 5 verses, and on Weds and Thurs we got through all the verses. There were a lot of subtle hints in the text and it took me a while to get my head around it even though I had read a commentary on the passage.

I'm really enjoying taking the Thursday Bible studies now. I go along to the Tues and Weds ones also, so by the time I'm observing the passage for the 3rd time I have a good idea of what I'm doing. It's been challenging for me to lead these Bible studies, and I've only led 3 but I'm enjoying it more and it's been encouraging; stepping up to this role. I have learnt to not just blurt out what the "answers" are but to hold back and let the students struggle with the passage a bit, and I've learnt to pose questions that will steer the study onto the right track. I don't confess to know everything.. in fact I don't know the Bible as well as some of the students at all and that is something that I'm working on this year.

Going into Thursday's Bible study I was a bit hesitant... it had been a hard passage the past two days and I wasn't sure whether I would be able to lead it effectively. Praise God, definitely, for an answer to prayer - one that one of the Jeffs had prayed for me during the team meeting. The study was amazing... God was truly working within the students and they wrestled with the passage and when things came to light, they were right onto it. It was so encouraging and I was so thankful at the end of the study, my hands were shaking and I felt like crying!

After the phenomenon that was Bible study, Sarah, Kate and I went along to Maclaurin Chapel for the OCF Chill event. There was dinner (YUM!), board games, and live music by Shi Ern. Being extremely tired and with brains that weren't functioning enough for Taboo/Scrabble/Monoply, we decided to stay in the kitchen and do the dishes instead - which was quite therapeutic and didn't require any brain function at all... well, barely any anyway!

Today is good Friday...and I cleaned the oven and the stove and the exhuast fan thing... a lot of grease splatter I tell you.. and lots of food-stuff on the stove. Luckily, I learnt from my mother and trying to preserve/not damage the stove in the apartment, it's always lined with foil... so all I have to do is peel off the foil and chuck it in the bin. I do clean the stove top still though.. just getting rid of that lil bit of grease that gets through. Oh.. which reminds me, a part of the exhaust fan thing is still outside on the balcony... I'd better go take it in (I can't believe I just wrote that much on cleaning my kitchen! So sorry!).