So at this point my profesora de communicacción en Cal Poly would be very proud. I am actually applying, or trying to apply, a rhetorical theory to my life. I realized recently that I had a problem here. All the pieces of my life didn´t fit together. Not like I was living differnt lives, but I was having a hard time processing information and understanding what I think, and what I am doing, etc. And the thought came to head that I don´t have the proper paradigm for living here. A paradigm is basically a basis of organization. It is like a standard of truth. I know, it is easy to say, "oh well the Bible is the standard of truth". Okay, but saying "the Bible" is not enough for a paradigm. And I realized that the paradigm that I lived under in the States was not able to process the information that I was recieving here in Chile. For example the whole church thing. I experienced so much confusion from the whole church experience because I was trying to understand it through the paradigm that I had developed in California. It didn´t work and I was just left confused.
So yesterday, I spent the afternoon formulating a paradigm. This sounds wierd, but it was great. For once, things began to make sense here. So I realized that I could no longer use the paradigm I had back home. It is really intersting because I cannot even reconstruct the paradigm I had. I am not really sure what it looks like. It is all theoretical but I would be so interested in trying to uncover what it was. Anyways, i knew that I needed a new one and I remembered discovering a very interesting one a few months before I left. I had just finished reading Goldsworthy´s Gospel and the Kingdom (which I highly recommend to anyone who loves Biblical theory). And I realized that there is a paradigm for life in the theory of the Kingdom of God. Anyways, I am not going to bore everyone who reads this with all the technical stuff, but I am wroking on this and I think I will send a copy to my professor who I worked with on my Senior project. She doesn´t believe in Jesus but she sure learned alot about the Gospel through my paper, and maybe she can help me refine this theory. I think it could be a great tool for trainig missionaries.
How is it that I really want to serve hands on, and yet this academic stuff is SO EXCITING to me?
So yesterday, I spent the afternoon formulating a paradigm. This sounds wierd, but it was great. For once, things began to make sense here. So I realized that I could no longer use the paradigm I had back home. It is really intersting because I cannot even reconstruct the paradigm I had. I am not really sure what it looks like. It is all theoretical but I would be so interested in trying to uncover what it was. Anyways, i knew that I needed a new one and I remembered discovering a very interesting one a few months before I left. I had just finished reading Goldsworthy´s Gospel and the Kingdom (which I highly recommend to anyone who loves Biblical theory). And I realized that there is a paradigm for life in the theory of the Kingdom of God. Anyways, I am not going to bore everyone who reads this with all the technical stuff, but I am wroking on this and I think I will send a copy to my professor who I worked with on my Senior project. She doesn´t believe in Jesus but she sure learned alot about the Gospel through my paper, and maybe she can help me refine this theory. I think it could be a great tool for trainig missionaries.
How is it that I really want to serve hands on, and yet this academic stuff is SO EXCITING to me?
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