[57] As they were walking along the road, a man said to him, “I will follow you wherever you go.”

[58] Jesus replied, “Foxes have holes and birds of the air have nests, but the Son of Man has no place to lay his head.”

[59] He said to another man, “Follow me.”

But the man replied, “Lord, first let me go and bury my father.”

[60] Jesus said to him, “Let the dead bury their own dead, but you go and proclaim the kingdom of God.”

[61] Still another said, “I will follow you, Lord; but first let me go back and say good-by to my family.”

[62] Jesus replied, “No one who puts his hand to the plow and looks back is fit for service in the kingdom of God.”
Jesus Christ comes before everything. Nothing in my past life gave me any lasting peace or satisfaction. I was always looking, searching; all my vain attempts to be noticed, appreciated, loved, or respected, ended in ashes. I’ve had it all – marriage, kids, house, car, & job security – & lost it all through, sin. My purpose in life is to proclaim the kingdom of God, without looking back on my past life. I am a sinner who deserves to go to hell but Jesus has delivered me from my inequities, through his death on the cross. His love lasts forever. I was lost but was found by Jesus. I love Jesus, so much. Oh! Merciful Jesus! Praise the Lord!!

Peace Be With You
Patrick

I really thought these were some good concrete examples,
“I think we should start meeting at the local skate park regularly. We should meet at school if it is possible. And we also need to continue in perseverance our love for each others families.”

Just remember that you need to explain how these are Kingdom-of-God-like and why you’re doing them. Also you need to be realistic in your approach and recognize where you may have some obstacles to moving in the proposed direction.

Start pulling in some stuff from your class texts and you should be good.

Also bring a hardcopy of your paper monday to turn in.

You can improve on it more by citing page references which will help you later when you’re looking for specific things within the book, and it helps the reader follow the arguments as they are laid out. Give a couple specific examples of how the book does a “good job.”

You said, “there are a lot of practical applications and examples to sort out, all of which any church would be blessed to be a part of.”

Tell me one or two of those things and cite it.

Also for next week – think about “What question does this book answer for my project?”

Keep up the hard work.

In both comments you get close to some of the main themes and ideas in the book. I need you to do more of this. Don’t just write about the sections of the book, instead tell me about the most important ideas in those sections – what stands out to you as most significant?

You first paragraph reads really roughly, you could easily edit down (and would save some words) to make it really concise — “Veli-Matti Karkkainen’s thesis in this book is…and he accomplishes it by covering such and such topics.” Then launch into those main ideas.

Also I need you to have page references and a well placed quote makes all the difference.

Finally – there is no mention of the class project here, something that is essential to the review.

Hopefully these tips will help.

I’d like for you to keep these things in mind for next time:
-Cut down the length of the post
-Be sure to use citations throughout the post so I can follow where you are in the text.
-Use the text to dialogue with your project in hopes of helping and even critiquing what you’ll be working on.