#9 - Change

In class Thursday, we started planning out our project. We split into groups and started throwing around ideas and questions that we wanted to use to poll different campus groups regarding their opinions. In keeping with the original "recreating the 1st century" theme (which ironically, I think we discarded), I started thinking about how they solved issues in the first century. There weren't social networking sites, surveys, cell phones, or any other modern media that makes it so easy for us to communicate our ideas and make ourselves heard. They couldn't whip out the camcorder and record an interview with a prominent member of society. There is plenty of literature regarding the Roman Senate and the large scale government, but what other bodies were in place to take care of the mundane, day-to-day issues. If, in this course, we really want to see the world the way Jesus saw it, would it help to look at it with a perspective that we may not be as comfortable with?