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An Evening With Dr. Christoph SteurerChristoph remembers meeting CityGate’s director, Marsh Moyle, more than twenty years ago, over coffee in the twenty second district of Vienna. Marsh and Tuula were still working with Operation Mobilisation. All of them were excited about the work of L’Abri and how the Bible should influence our society. As part of the Gospel in Society Summer Session, participants are exposed to Christians working in different professions. Christoph joined us for an evening and answered our questions. |
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How Do We Know God |
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Lost in Space One of the first Soviet cosmonauts to orbit Earth exclaimed at a press conference upon his return, “I have circled the planet and looked out into space. I must tell you, I saw neither angels nor God!” One wonders what the relevance of this statement was in terms of the space race. What it does show, it seems to me, is hubris and silliness—both of which are more than evident some four decades later. |
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1 Corinthians |
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The culture of the city was thoroughly anti-Christian. It was marked by the cult of personality and celebrity. The leading figures did all they could to attract followers and their money. The cult of the body beautiful and the sporting image was prominent. How a person looked was critical. |
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A Biblical View of the World |
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Every country has its landmarks of geography and history that give its culture shape and direction and are essential for understanding its story. Our questions of the Bible need to be asked in the context of its big landmarks, its big story or meta-narrative. A lot of devotional reading concentrates on the mini-stories, and misses the panorama of salvation history in which they should be understood. As we seek a Biblical view of ‘the world’ we need to set our question in the meta-narrative context of the whole of Scripture. |
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A Hook to Hang Your World On |
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From early childhood on we strive to understand the world around us. Birth brought us out of security into a situation that needs to be discovered, to be made secure. We try to make sense of all experiences, impressions and insights. Being on our own, we try to make the place inhabitable. We want to gain power over it, understand it and control it to some extent. We want to see whether the multiple experiences, sounds ands sights are part of a coherent grid. Their repetition, from the familiar faces and objects to specific sounds and words attached to things and even facial expressions, seem to indicate an order. |
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The Authority of Scripture |
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Introduction - I once had a student in one of my philosophy classes that I could tell didn’t seem to particularly care for me. There were clearly felt negative feelings coming from her. When she responded to a question I asked, or when I called on her, she tended to answer with an angry tone in her voice. This went on for a few weeks until I had had my fill of her “attitude,” as it is referred to in the U.S. |
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Ethics in the Circle of Life |
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Introduction – We do not know how much time Paul spent in Thessalonica. Possibly he was there only for a few days when a mob of jealous people drove him out of town. He had pointed out that the Bible everyone read in the synagogue spoke of the Messiah coming in history. The person Jesus, who had lived, taught, was crucified and raised from the dead in Israel during their own lifetime, was that Messiah. He had drawn for them a whole picture of understanding to explain what was the truth about Jesus. He used their prophecies as well as events in their own historic time to make his case. |
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Every Knee Shall Bow |
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Everything in the universe is either orbited or orbits something else. The moons orbit the planets, the planets central stars, central stars whole galaxies and everything in orbit around a spot assumed to be the centre of the universe. Only this Centre orbits nothing else. All of us have a centre to our own personal universe. Here we find authority for what to think, what to believe and how to live. Whatever we identify as the plumb line in our lives—whether it is a personal deity, science or philosophy, our lusts or ambitions, our fears or our conquests, our knowledge, personal morality, our mood—whatever it is that we consider the ultimate authority in our lives, that thing is our god. I have never met an atheist. |
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Expectations and Dreams |
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There are many who would say that Christianity itself is a denial of reality. To them I would ask, “How are you doing?” Does your life have meaning, value and significance, does your description of reality take into account all the facts and or are you alone in a universe of fragmented things. Christianity has had a bad press, for much of this Christians are to blame; but it has also had an ignorant press and the non-Christian’s understanding of it may well be woefully incomplete. |
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