Sacred Saga Ministries - Bulgaria 2008

Bulgaria Report #1

Posted on Tuesday, October 21, 2008 at 06:27PM by

Bulgaria Report #1

October 2008

It is early Thursday morning (about 1:40 A.M.) I have been teaching for two days now although I am still fighting the jet-lag. After class today I came back to the room and laid down to rest at about 5:00 p.m. I awakened about an hour ago and thought that this would be a good time to jot down some thoughts about the trip so far.

Kay dropped me off at SFO at about 11:30 a.m. on Sunday. It took about 45 minutes to navigate through the line, check my luggage and get my boarding pass. Going through security I was flagged to have my CPAP machine (for my sleep apnea) checked (this is a regular occurrence-anything that might contain a bomb raises red flags in these days of heightened security.)

Then it was off to get a bite of lunch before the flight. As I was eating my sandwich a young Swedish engineer asked to sit at my table-all the tables were occupied and I was the only one sitting alone. When he found out I was a theologian he started describing the condition of the State Lutheran Church in Sweden noting that most Swedes are church members but only attend for baptisms, weddings and funerals. I told him how without a state church, American churches have far more involvement since there is no cultural expectation for them to belong to a church and the state does not pay the ministers. While we didn't get around to the gospel he thought that our approach that starts with individual faith was far superior to the deadness of the State System still prevalent in much of Europe.

After a long flight from San Francisco, I disembarked at Frankfurt and found my way to Terminal B via an airport shuttle train. Then it was through security again. This time it was about a twenty minute wait. Beside me in line was a Chinese woman with her husband and friends all from San Francisco on their way to Istanbul to take a cruise around the Greek Isles and end up in Venice. We stood in line together. She asked me why I was going to Bulgaria. I told her that I am a seminary professor and was going to teach a class on introduction to Theology. She immediately asked me if I had read the book The Shack. I told her that I had and was having my students at Tozer Seminary read it and write a critique. She indicated that she had read it as had several of her friends-with varying reactions. Some loved it, others particularly a couple of Roman Catholic friends hated it. That sparked a fairly lengthy conversation about God and what we should take away from the book. (see my discussion of issues surrounding The Shack @ http://www.sacredsaga.org/jims-blog/2008/8/2/visiting-the-shack.html )

I had 4 hours before the flight to Sofia-the Frankfurt airport is not passenger friendly! I had to hunt for a place to sit down. They wouldn't let me in the gate area until about 45 minutes before the flight.

There was one more security check to get into the gate area-this time they tested my external hard drive for explosives-I have never had that happen before. The two hour flight to Sofia was a rest.

I was met by our friends Pavel and Evgania as I came out of customs. We hopped in the car and headed out for Stara Zagora-about 150 miles East.

About half way there we stopped at McDonalds for dinner-Pavel's favorite. I was standing waiting for my hamburger and all of a sudden I realized I was standing beside Margie Brown, friend from the Bay Area that is a missionary in Stara Zagora! They were on the way back from taking her parents to the airport.

We started back on the road and I fell asleep. All of a sudden I was jolted awake by a loud clunking sound. Pavel had hit something dark in the road. We spent about 15 or 20 minutes determining that the car was safe to drive. Then we limped the rest of the way at about 50 KPH.

I have finished my second day of teaching today (Wednesday). I have a good group-about one third of the students have been in my classes before. About 2/3 are Gypsy pastors who have had little training. We covered background material yesterday and started looking at theological traditions today. Somehow the question of predestination, freewill and eternal security always comes up even when it is not on the agenda. This was raised by one of the young pastors yesterday. We will address it in some detail today as we look at Calvinism and Wesleyan-Arminianism.

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