The Eden Podcast with Bruce C. E. Fleming

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Bruce C. E. Fleming Part 3 | Launching a High School and two Foundations! Feb 07, 2024

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Back then, my wife Dr. Joy Fleming, and her mother, Grace Elasky, prayed that God would raise up a high school for Christy to attend when she reached 9th grade. Joy then recruited me to see if we could put one together. God wonderfully raised up a founding core group and we worked together to design and launch, just in time, Southwest Christian High School (swchs.org). From our opening class of 30 students the school has grown to 500+ students in what came to be labeled a "Discipleship Christian High School."

And now God is leading us and a new team to grow the Tru316 Foundation to "true" the verse of Genesis 3:16 and related passages on women and men. What a joy to watch God bless this new institution as it grows in strength and outreach!

The Tru316 Foundation (www.Tru316.com) is the home of The Eden Podcast with Bruce C. E. Fleming where we “true” the verse of Genesis 3:16. The Tru316 Message is that “God didn’t curse Eve (or Adam) or limit woman in any way.” Once Genesis 3:16 is made clear the other passages on women and men become clear too. You are encouraged to access the episodes of Seasons 1-11 of The Eden Podcast for teaching on the seven key passages on women and men. Are you a reader? We invite you to get from Amazon the four books by Bruce C. E. Fleming in The Eden Book Series (Tru316.com/trubooks). Would you like to support the work of the Tru316 Foundation? You can become a Tru Partner here: www.Tru316.com/partner

Bruce C. E. Fleming Part 2 | To France and then Africa!! Feb 06, 2024

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Nobody else had volunteered to run for Student Body President at the seminary. They were all busy with their master's level studies. I was too but when I learned the four student officers would have a private lunch every Friday with the Dean, Dr. Kantzer, I signed up. What a mentor he was to us!

Because of that, it turned out I was chosen to represent the school the next summer at the Lausanne Congress on World Evangelization! What an experience that was. 4,000 evangelists and ministry leaders from around the world. It blew out the walls of my limited world view.

And because of that I learned of the first evangelical graduate seminary that was going to launched in French-speaking Africa. I didn't see it coming, but later I was picked to become a professor in that very school.

This is Part 2 in the pilgrimage of Bruce C. E. Fleming, co-founder of the Tru316 Foundation and host of The Eden Podcast!

Bruce C. E. Fleming Part 1 | I learned how to let the Bible speak! Feb 05, 2024

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In my early years as a speaker in Youth Ministry I developed the bad habit of picking my ILLUSTRATIONS FIRST and burying the message of the passages that were assigned to me to speak on! It took me a year and a half in seminary to learn how to let the passage speak for itself! At the Tru316 Foundation we take great care to let God speak to us through word studies and through analysis of the literary patterns that are present in the 7 key passages on women and men related to Genesis 3:16.

I had a handful of illustrations I always used. But the Bible speaks to us about more than that! I'm afraid many others in ministry haven't carefully let the original 11 Hebrew words in Genesis 3:16 speak to us. What my wife clearly revealed in her research on Genesis 2-3 we carefully included in two of our books (see Tru316.com/trubooks),

Man and Woman in Biblical Unity: Theology from Genesis 2-3 by Dr. Joy Fleming (available as a free audiobook from the top section of Tru316.com, and as an eBook on Amazon)
The Book of Eden, Genesis 2-3 by Bruce C. E. Fleming (available as a hard copy and an eBook from Amazon and as an audiobook on Audible)

Go Deeper? Sign up for the next cohort to go through two-week hour-long Tru School Eden Workshop on Genesis 2-3 here: Tru316.com/workshop

Tru Friends Friday - Dr. Mike Davis. Echoes of Slavery "justification!" Feb 02, 2024

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It is stunning how slave holders before the American Civil War tried to justify their actions with arguments similar to those used by those who restrict women in the church and the home! Christy is stunned as she and Bruce talk with Rev. Dr. Mike David on this Tru Friend Friday episode of The Eden Podcast!

Here are some of books Mike referred to on this episode.

The Civil War as a Theological Crisis, by Mark A. Noll
Slavery, Sabbath, War and Women, by Willard M. Swartley
Slaves In The New Testament: Literary, Social And Moral Dimensions, by J. Albert Harrill
Theology and Slavery: Charles Hodge and Horace Bushnell. by Dr. David Torbett
“Defensing Slavery: Proslavery Thought in the Old South: A Brief History with Documents, by Professor Paul Finkelman
The Trinity and Subordinationism: The Doctrine of God and the Contemporary Gender-Debates, by Kevin Giles (specifically part 3: The Slavery Tradition chapters 10-13)
“The Religious Defense of Slavery before 1830" (online article), by Larry R. Morrison

Here's a link to his previous appearance on The Eden Podcast: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-eden-podcast-with-bruce-c-e-fleming/id1536987547?i=1000635141113

Beyond Eden - Chapter 5. Ephesians 5:25b clears up the confusion! Feb 01, 2024

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The relationship of believers is meant to be modeled after Christ's two actions referred to in Ephesians 5:25b. He loves and gives of himself.

Paul uses these words in the SAME linchpin pattern used in Genesis 2 and 3 in Ephesians 5:25. He had the Garden of Eden very much in mind for he later quotes from Genesis 2:24. What these lookbacks to Eden mean in this passage helps us understand the parts that have puzzled many for so long!

This passage is much like Handel's gloriously complex Hallelujah Chorus. as we study the literary patterns woven together from Ephesians 5:15 all the way to 6:9 we get clarity on Paul's great message of reciprocal care in the body with Christ!

Go Deeper? You can sign up for the next Tru School Workshop on Ephesians 5-6 here: Tru316.com/workshop

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The audiobook of Beyond Eden by Bruce C. E. Fleming is available on Audible!

Tru Team: Emily and Mimi - The Beyond Eden Workshop on Ephesians 5-6! Jan 31, 2024

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No, Ephesians 5-6 is NOT primarily about marriage. No, it does NOT teach wifely submission or that a man is the head of the house. This passage DOES teach how Spirit-filled believers are to walk out their life in Christ. Believers are to teach and admonish other believers from the Word of God. In turn they all are to submit to the teaching and correction they receive from one another. This passage is about RECIPROCAL SUBMISSION and unity with Jesus in the Body of Christ! Dive Deeper? Join the next Beyond Eden Workshop on Ephesians 5-6. Click www.Tru316.com/workshop!

Go deeper! Join the next Workshop offered by Tru School here: Tru316.com/workshop.

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Tru Team: PART TWO. Joanne - now in a doctoral program. Jan 30, 2024

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Joanne has "a wonderful story on how God uses the Internet!" And hers is a wonderful story how she volunteered to help spread the Tru316 Message.

She set up the @Tru316 YouTube Channel.
She volunteered to write the "BSF style" Study Guides for the chapters in The Eden Book Series.
She co-hosted Seasons 6-9 of The Eden Podcast
She wrote the Study Guides for Dr. Joy Fleming's foundational book Man and Woman in Biblical Unity, Theology from Genesis 2-3.
She is one of the co-hosts on the Interview episodes of Seasons 12-13 of The Eden Podcast

Any wonder that we have named her to receive The Tru316 Medallion Award for the celebrations of 3/16 Day 2024 on March 16 in Minneapolis!

Tru Team: PART ONE. Joanne. Church doors were closed to her. Jan 29, 2024

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Joanne Hagemeyer recalls how doors were closed to women for ministry in many ways. "I didn’t have a place in the church but I had a place in this Bible study." (It was Bible study Fellowship where eventually she was a Teaching Leader for many years). She has continued to use her gifts where there was an open door.

Joanne Hagemeyer went on to build up the Tru316 ministry by launching the @Tru316 YouTube Channel, writing the Study Guides for the 4 books in The Eden Book Series and also Dr. Joy Fleming's book, Man and Woman in Biblical Unity - Theology from Genesis 2-3. (You can get copies from Tru316.com/trubooks).

The 4 Tru School Workshops based on Genesis 3:16! Jan 24, 2024

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Part 3. Mimi and Christy talk about the 4 Tru School Workshops that are inspired by the insights of the Tru316 Message - "that God didn't curse Eve (or Adam) or limit woman in any way." These hour-long small group Zoom Sessions open up the meaning of Genesis 2-3, Ephesians 5-6, 1 Timothy 2-3, and 1 Corinthians 11 & 14 and 1 Peter 3.

Altogether, in just 48 hours of Workshop participation, you will gain clarity on these key passages on women and men!

Enroll now to be a part of the next cohort of The Eden Workshop on Genesis 2-3! Or click here: https://tru316-truschool.mykajabi.com/offers/4DLHUAfq/checkout

Part 2. Tru Team Interviews - Mimi Ouimet, Tru School Workshop Lead Jan 23, 2024

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Part 2! Raised in a difficult home life. Then ministering without mentoring. She served as a pastor's wife for 38 years. Now leading the Tru School Workshops she Mimi thanks God for being faithful. She is sensitive to each student as they consider the Tru316 Message and find freedom in Christ. in the Tru School Workshops like The Eden Workshop on Genesis 2-3.

Go deeper? Click Tru316.com/workshop!

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