The Vancouver CSBS is back in class this morning after a 3 day retreat. We were blessed with a trip to Camp Squeah near Hope where we were able to celebrate completion of the first 4 weeks of the school enjoying some of British Columbia's great outdoors. During the first 4 weeks the students have learned and practiced each of the steps we use to study God's Word and from here on out we will repeat these steps for each book. We call this retreat our 'Wilderness Wandering' and the students reenact the narrative of the Israelites as they trek from Egypt to the border of the Promised Land and have a little healthy competition testing their knowledge of the books they've studied through so far.
So in the last couple weeks we have made it through the 2nd, 3rd and 4th books of the Bible and today we've begun the 5th. We have our first guest speaker, Mr. Michael Packard, from the Turner Valley YWAM base, here to share with us the book of Deuteronomy.
We've spent a lot of time in class this past week and a half learning the several steps of the inductive Bible study method. The students have been very ambitious and dug right into the home work. We are currently learning different methods of observing the text and finding the main points the original audience and original readers would have understood in their historical context.
Genesis is done and we are on day 2 of our Exodus teaching by Einar Kro, our Norwegian staff team member. The grading has started and it is always rewarding to see the students hard work revealing deeper understanding of God's Word.
