My Musing about Suffering

Good evening y’all! My name is Iwan. Tonight, I had a privilege to lead our bible study. I am an engineer not a seminary student or a pastor. I am not fool enough to suppose that I can preach like Mulenga or Aaron.I am just a husband of a seminary student. I will be a discussion leader instead of a preacher. I will give everyone an opportunity to share your story. Our topic tonight is about pain and suffering. I will ask all of us to share story about our suffering. While y’all preparing your story about how suffering in your life affects your belief and how your belief and your culture gives meaning to your suffering, I will start by sharing my story and my musing about pain and suffering. My musing is more like a lecture type but I still hope I can amuse and entertain y’all. Later, I will give you chance to share about your suffering that shape your identity and your belief.

First, let us have some review. On the first bible study we learn from Mulenga on the importance of the Bible, God’s word. If we can enjoy and delight in ice cream which contains God’s work, how much more can we delight in Mulenga’s sermon which is from God’s word. Do you still remember the verse? I still remember it because it is one of the 3:16 verse. Donald Knuth’ a very famous mathematician and computer scientist try to apply stratified sampling to Bible. He gather all the 3:16 verse from every books in the bible and assign world famous calligrapher to make a beautiful calligraphy from every 3:16 verse.