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SAILS at Bayside - CURRENT EVENT STATUS : 15 May 2012
This page outlines the latest information regarding the next series of Sailing and Kayaking Events being held by SAILS at Bayside.
It also provides the Team and any Participants with an outline of upcoming events plus an update on the morning of the event, as to whether it will be proceeding or not based on the prevailing weather.
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MEN'S BREAKFAST - St James' Wellington Point - 7:30am June 9th 2012 : 07 May 2012
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SHAME THE CREDITOR GIVE ALL YOUR CLOTHES, Discussion of the Bible Analysis Group : 01 May 2012
“A creditor has taken a poor man to court over an unpaid loan. Deuteronomy 24 provided that a creditor could take as collateral for a loan a poor man’s outer robe, but it had to be returned in person so that the poor man could have something in which to sleep. Jesus is not advising to add something to their disadvantage by renouncing justice altogether, He is telling impoverished debtors that when they have nothing left but the clothes on their back, to use the system against itself. Heavy debt was not so much a natural calamity that had overtaken the incompetent; it was the direct result of imperial policy.
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TURN THE OTHER CHEEK, a Biblical Analysis Group discussion paper : 20 April 2012
Remember the left arm was not used in any public action. It was used for unclean tasks.
The only possible way to hit the right cheek with your right arm is as a backhander whose purpose is to humiliate people. Masters backhanded slaves, husbands backhanded wives, and parents backhanded children, Romans, Jews. That’s how it goes on down.
It indicates the one so struck is an inferior. The point is to force someone who is out of line to get back into line. Jesus audience here, slaves, were used to being thus degraded. He is saying to them; refuse to accept this type of treatment anymore. If they backhand you, turn the other cheek, but it won’t work this way.