Thursday, August 1, 2013

Chapter 5

1.     How do the truths in this chapter apply to your personal spiritual life?
I am always learning more about my Lord and Savior.  As I learn, I should continue to remain humble and not act as if I know more than another.
2.     How do the truths in this chapter apply to your leadership role within Classical Conversations?
As a director while I continue to search for knowledge, wisdom, and understanding I should always seek Christ first.  That the disciples, with all their training about Christ (which should have made them resolutely humble) they still showed pride in the form of who was the greatest, most trained, etc.  As my knowledge of CC increases I am to still be humble.
3.     What parallels in literature do you see that apply or reference these same truths from this chapter?

This reminds me of a Grimm Brothers Fairy tale…The Fox and the Cat.  In it, the cat meets the fox whom the cat believes is “clever and full of experience, and much esteemed in the world”.  However, the fox is so full of himself that he is the one that gets eaten by the hounds while the cat springs to safety.  The fox said he was a master of a hundred arts and the cat knew only one…”how to spring into the tree”.  We can know hundreds of bits of knowledge but unless we are humble we will perish just as the fox.

~Holli

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