MAKING SENSE OF THE PERPLEXING JUSTICE OF GOD
A study through the book of Habakkuk

Our one-day intensives with The Way College are designed to make meaningful, theological learning accessible and attainable for the wider church community. If you are interested in The Way College or engaging in theological studies, this is an opportunity to go deeper in your learning, while just getting a taste of what being a full-time student could be like.

Join Darrell Johnson on February 21 as he leads us in a study of the Prophet Habakkuk.

Habakkuk was a prophet of Judah, a contemporary of the Prophets Nahum and Jeremiah, during the turbulent years of 608-598 B.C. But whereas his fellow Prophets primarily spoke God's Word to God's people, especially 'speaking truth to power', Habakkuk spoke to God about God's Word. That is, Habakkuk is not, like the other prophets, calling people to repent of their ways, but calling on God to explain His ways in the face of continued unrepentance. "How long, O Lord, will I cry for help and You will not hear? I cry out to You, 'Violence!', yet You do not save! Justice is never upheld, justice comes out perverted." Habakkuk presses the Living God into dialogue, indeed debate(!), about His apparent lack of concern about injustice and violence. And then hears God's surprising response!

In the seminar, we first learn how the prophet's work is composed. And then we will work through how God takes Habakkuk's concerns seriously, entering into dialogue/debate with him. And in the process taking him, and us, to a level of faith he, and we, would not have otherwise learned. And in the process, bringing him, and us, to an unexpected place of comfort in the face of the present state of the world, moving, as others have put it, "from fear to faith," "from Why to Worship," to deeper trust in God's sovereign governance of His world.

FEBRUARY 21
9:00AM-12:30PM
The Way Strathcona