Our Religious Dialogue Class-1

Learn Buddhism? You must visit a temple and talk with a monk face to face, at least. We did that this afternoon on our Religious Dialogue class. We went to Hunan Buddhism School and our students had a talk with their students face to face. Students were extremely excited!

After that, I asked some students on the content of their talk with the monks, following are some I take from their sharing:

C=Christian B=Buddhist

Mr. B: What do you eat every day?

Ms. C: Pork, beef, cheken, mutton and sometimes dog's meat, and of course some vegetable together.

Mr. B: Do you kill the animals by yourself?

Ms. C: Yes, sometimes we have to do it ourselves.

Mr. B: Are you a foreigner?(for Mr. C has some accent not belong to Hunan)

Mr. C: No, I am from Guangxi. Do you exercise Kung Fu everyday?

Mr. B: No, we play basketball sometimes and learn some Tai Chi.

Ms. C: You were just so lovely when you answered our question just now.

Mr. B: (smile and no words).

Mr. B: What is the content of the Bible?

Ms. C: See, this is the Bible that later after our school will send your school as a gift. Let me show you. It includes Old Testament, New Testament. In a word, the OT talk about Jesus will come and NT talk about Jesus has come to save everyone of us.

Mr. B: Do you teach how to go to Heaven?

Ms. C: No. Every Chirstian know they will surely go to Heaven because they trust in Jesus. After we received we then can pay no attention on how to go to Heaven. We just serve people from our love to our Lord.

Mr. B: We have to work it out and depend on ourselves.

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The class was hot when one of our girl students asked them to sing their worship song. They sang. And then they also invite us to sing one and we sang.

"Do you have piano?" before we sang, one of our students asked them. It was obvious that they did not have a piano.

Here is another dialogue I heard about later:

Ms. C: I feel your song with be heard much better if you just put a dot there.

Mr. B: We know nothing about music.

Was this a successful class? I am thinking.

What do you think?