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 ====== Is History important for ME? ... ====== ====== Is History important for ME? ... ======
  
-Tuesday, Oct 26, 2019. Let us talk about history and its relationship +Tuesday, Nov 26, 2019. Let us talk about history and its relationship 
 to my own life. What is my involvement? Is history really important? to my own life. What is my involvement? Is history really important?
  
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 to determine our position today.  to determine our position today. 
  
 +But let us come back to the question, why history might be important
 +for me today. 
  
 +The New Testament teaches that the story about Jesus is important since
 +Jesus lives today. He is there, here and now. You could talk to him. He 
 +is there by his spirit, the holy spirit. 
  
 +The biblical books are not historical in the sense that the things they
 +talk about are dead now. They are not dead, they are alive! The experiences
 +of the people of the Old Testament are alive, since God is alive and the
 +holy spirit is alive. 
  
 +It is good to ask why history is important. To me, it became very important
 +when I started to understand that the experiences of the people in the past
 +are my own experiences. They can help me today, since the situation is the
 +same. God is the same. And God still wants to link up with humans. 
  
 +The history becomes very interesting when it is the history of someone
 +you love. Or when a good friend appears there, acting and talking. This is
 +world history to me now. Christ Jesus has been there. His spirit talked
 +to the church fathers, to the people of Israel thousands of years ago. And
 +he is still talking today, through his spirit. These are far reaching 
 +claims. They are not my claims, these are the biblical claims. They 
 +coincide with Christian experience ever since. There is a lot to explore!
 (Roland Potthast) (Roland Potthast)
  
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