META24 WORKFORCE LAB · GRADED TO THE CORE · PROJECT-BASED · A COURSE IN CHRISTIAN STUDIES & PREACHING · MIDDLE SCHOOL · UPPER SCHOOL · GRADE 6–12 · 0.5 CREDIT · META24 LAB COMPETENCIES
Exegesis
The Interpreter · in The Call · Preaching & Christian Studies
10 weeks of The Call · Preaching & Christian Studies: How Meaning Works — The Bridge · Translation — Why Your Bibles Disagree · Narrative — Most of Your Bible · Law & Covenant · Poetry & Wisdom — The Psalms Week …
The weeks are the course’s own, read from the lab; the catalog pads the last weeks with the capstone and the floor so the course fills a whole term.
THE MIX · HOW MUCH OF EACH CORE SUBJECT THIS COURSE CARRIES · IN ORDER
HISTORY, GEOGRAPHY & HUMANITIESREADING & WRITINGART & DESIGNMATHSCIENCETECHNOLOGY & TRADESCODING & AIBUSINESS & ENTERPRISE
The squares are a picture of a course — how much of each core subject its own rooms carry, read from the rooms’ text — never a score of a student. Every course in a lab is graded to the core across the board; the squares say which columns it feeds most.
WHAT YOU WILL BE ABLE TO DO
- A text means what its author meant
- Every translator made a thousand judgment calls
- Narrative RECORDS what it does not RECOMMEND
- The Law is a relationship document, not a random rulebook — and the text doesn’t label its own verses
AT A GLANCE · 18 WEEKS
Q1 How Meaning Works — The Bridge → Word Study & the Toolbox — The assignments · weeks 1–9
Q2 Theology & the Capstone — The Exegesis → The capstone, then the floor — The capstone · The Interpreter
ALSO IN CHRISTIAN STUDIES & PREACHING · THE CALL · PREACHING & CHRISTIAN STUDIES
A semester
18 WEEKS · TWO QUARTERSQuarter 1 · How Meaning Works — The Bridge → Word Study & the Toolbox
WEEKS 1–9 · IN THIS OFFERINGTHE WEEKS · THE ROOMS EACH ONE OPENS
WK 1How Meaning Works — The BridgeTHE INTERPRETER
A text means what its author meant. The alternative to building the bridge is jumping the canyon — and the canyon floor is littered with verses that got jumped.
WK 2Translation — Why Your Bibles Disagree
Every translator made a thousand judgment calls. Comparing translations exposes exactly where the calls were hard — which is why the parallel view is a hermeneutics instrument, not a convenience.
WK 3Narrative — Most of Your Bible
Narrative RECORDS what it does not RECOMMEND. The only consistent hero of biblical narrative is God — read David as the model and Bathsheba breaks your method; read God as the actor and it holds.
WK 4Law & Covenant
The Law is a relationship document, not a random rulebook — and the text doesn’t label its own verses. Quoting Leviticus selectively cuts both ways; a consistent method is the only honest one.
WK 5Poetry & Wisdom — The Psalms Week
Nearly a third of your Bible is poetry, and almost nobody reads it as poetry. Hebrew poetry rhymes IDEAS, not sounds — which is why it was built to survive translation. Let’s open the hood.
WK 6Prophets & Apocalyptic
Prophets are covenant prosecutors, not fortune-tellers. Read Revelation like a newspaper about YOUR decade and you’ll miss it — like the Pharisees missed the Messiah.
WK 7Gospels & Parables
The differences between the Gospels are data, not damage. And a parable usually has ONE main point — over-allegorize it and you preach your cleverness, not Jesus.
WK 8Epistles — Reading Someone Else’s Mail
We’re reading the answers without the questions. Epistles ARGUE — when you see a “therefore,” find what it’s there for.
WK 9Word Study & the Toolbox
A word means what it means HERE, decided by usage — not by its parts, its history, or all its possible meanings at once. And if every translation missed it, the odds are you did.
THE PROJECT · WHAT THE QUARTER IS FOR
The assignments · weeks 1–9
The question. What does The Interpreter ask you to be able to do by week 9?
The make. Every week's assignment and the quiz as practice: How Meaning Works — The Bridge · Translation — Why Your Bibles Disagree · Narrative — Most of Your Bible · Law & Covenant …
The evidence. Handed in through The Interpreter inside The Call · Preaching & Christian Studies, kept in My Work; the Report reads it from there.
Quarter 2 · Theology & the Capstone — The Exegesis → The capstone, then the floor
WEEKS 10–18 · IN THIS OFFERINGTHE WEEKS · THE ROOMS EACH ONE OPENS
WK 10Theology & the Capstone — The ExegesisTHE INTERPRETER
Systematic theology is the church’s organized answers — learned best through the fights that forced them. No doctrine rests on one verse; Scripture interprets Scripture.
WK 11–18The capstone, then the floor
The capstone the track ends in, then the floor: the work is done in the room, logged in the room, kept in My Work.
THE PROJECT · WHAT THE QUARTER IS FOR
The capstone · The Interpreter
The question. What does The Interpreter ask you to be able to do by week 10?
The make. Every week's assignment and the quiz as practice: Theology & the Capstone — The Exegesis · The capstone, then the floor
The evidence. Handed in through The Interpreter inside The Call · Preaching & Christian Studies, kept in My Work; the Report reads it from there.
A course is a quarter, a semester or a year — nine, eighteen or thirty-six weeks — a project a quarter. Offered as the year, a semester or a quarter, it is the same course seen through a window. A lab is a family: its year, each of its tracks as a course, and its rooms. The evidence is what a student hands in through the room; the Report reads it from there. Nothing in the catalog is a grade.
THE PASS · THIS COURSE AND EVERY OTHER ONE
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