Join us as we explore the righteousness of God in
the light of absurd evil, suffering, pain, and
death.
Disciple I
During
DISCIPLE I, we will move through the biblical stories of Creation to the New
Jerusalem, following the chronological movement of the biblical story during
thirty-five weeks. This course is the prerequisite for all studies in
the DISCIPLE series and gives equal time to both the Old and New Testament,
covering 80% of the Scriptures, and emphasizing the wholeness of the Bible
as the revelation of God. DISCIPLE aims at transformation, not just
information, and calls on us to submit to examination by Scripture, to put
ourselves under the power of God's Word, and to be changed by God's Word
through daily study and weekly group discussion. COME, AND GROW IN
THE FAITH!
Led by Pastor Dwayne Craig
Every Wednesday at
6:30 - 8:30 PM, in the Fellowship Hall (Begins Sept 16)
New Member Class
*What Does It Mean to Be United Methodist?
A
Six-Session Video Based Study that examines some frequently asked questions
about what United Methodists believe and how United Methodists are different
from members of other denominations.
In six sessions,
persons attending new member classes and refresher classes will explore the
following six aspects of United Methodism by viewing a video session and
discussing afterward:
*Wesleyan Heritage
*John
Wesley's Theology
*Wesleyan
Quadrilateral
*Sacraments
*Blacks in
Methodism
*How do
United Methodists "Do" Church?
Next class is
scheduled for Saturday, October 3rd at 9:30 AM in the Library (Room 12).
Please contact the church office at 407-699-8155 for any additional information.
"Jesus:
The New Way"
This
is a new series that presents Jesus as you have never seen him before. For
Christians, Jesus has been seen through centuries of doctrinal development and
creedal formulations. For Jews, Jesus has been seen through a frightful
history that understandably creates suspicion. For the indifferent, the
question is, legitimately, Who cares? What difference does Jesus make
anyhow?
This six-part video
curriculum approaches all three responses from a different perspective, from the
vantage point of what Jesus meant, indeed, how he understood himself, in his
original context, in the setting of first century Judaism.
Watch.
Disagree if you will. But do not deprive yourself of a new look at the one
who is the Normative Gaze of our Existence.
This six week study will explore the following:
*Getting the Kingdom Started *Why Did
Jesus Die?
*Startling Surprises
*Who was Jesus?
*Longing for a King
*The New Claim
"John Wesley
and Saving Grace"
This class will
give primary attention to the theology of grace as articulated by John Wesley.
Theology, for John Wesley, was intended to transform life. The grace of
God, as the redeeming activity of divine love, is the center of Wesley's
theology and the Methodist movement. The theological motif that Wesley
emphasized came from a deep conviction that God's gracious love is the dominant
reality in human life and that love is expressed concretely in and through Jesus
Christ. You will not want to miss this class as it will change your life!
COME, AND
GROW IN THE FAITH!
"Christian Believer"
Christian
Believer
assumes that most church folk - though faithful followers of Jesus they intend
to be - know little of the content of the central teachings of the Christian
faith and its ties to Scripture. But they want to know more. They
want to know what is at stake in what the church teaches and how it makes a
difference in their own lives, what it means to be Christian, and where
we as Christians stand. Christian Believer aims at addressing the
uncertainty about the substance of the Christian faith and the connection
between believing and living.
The
goal of Christian Believer is to make available to people the substance
of the Christian faith that the church has confessed as a way of connecting to
God and living faithfully. This thirty-week study of the classical
doctrines of the Christian faith aims at presenting, explaining, and
interpreting Christian doctrine as the basic teaching of the church to the end
that informed believing leads to committed discipleship.
During
DISCIPLE I, we will move through the biblical stories of Creation to the New
Jerusalem, following the chronological movement of the biblical story during
thirty-five weeks. This course is the prerequisite for all studies in
the DISCIPLE series and gives equal time to both the Old and New Testament,
covering 80% of the Scriptures, and emphasizing the wholeness of the Bible
as the revelation of God. DISCIPLE aims at transformation, not just
information, and calls on us to submit to examination by Scripture, to put
ourselves under the power of God's Word, and to be changed by God's Word
through daily study and weekly group discussion. COME, AND GROW IN
THE FAITH!
This
is a new series that presents Jesus as you have never seen him before. For
Christians, Jesus has been seen through centuries of doctrinal development and
creedal formulations. For Jews, Jesus has been seen through a frightful
history that understandably creates suspicion. For the indifferent, the
question is, legitimately, Who cares? What difference does Jesus make
anyhow?
Christian
Believer
assumes that most church folk - though faithful followers of Jesus they intend
to be - know little of the content of the central teachings of the Christian
faith and its ties to Scripture. But they want to know more. They
want to know what is at stake in what the church teaches and how it makes a
difference in their own lives, what it means to be Christian, and where
we as Christians stand. Christian Believer aims at addressing the
uncertainty about the substance of the Christian faith and the connection
between believing and living.
The
goal of Christian Believer is to make available to people the substance
of the Christian faith that the church has confessed as a way of connecting to
God and living faithfully. This thirty-week study of the classical
doctrines of the Christian faith aims at presenting, explaining, and
interpreting Christian doctrine as the basic teaching of the church to the end
that informed believing leads to committed discipleship. 