The Adult Education program is designed to provide a wide range of opportunities for Bible study, discussion, and fellowship each week. We offer at least one Sunday morning class during our Education Hour and you'll be sure to find one that piques your curiosity. We also offer several classes that meet during a designated day each week depending on your schedule and your interests. Our goal is to provide you with opportunities to reflect upon your relationship with God and your calling as a disciple of Christ. Classes promise to challenge participants with difficult questions that relate their faith to the issues they encounter in everyday life. Come join us!
This Year's Theme
Our theme for the year is "What is Discipleship?" Our class offerings will be tailored loosely around that theme, with the emphasis on answering that question in a variety of ways. What does being a Disciple mean for our lives? How do we live our faith in the secular world? What are the ways in which we should emulate Christ? How can we use our time, talent, and treasure in the service of others?
Come join our classes as we discover what it means to be a disciple of Jesus Christ.
Weekly Programming
Tuesdays
Bible 101: Reintroducing the Book You Figure You Ought to Know (but don't)
Resuming in the fall, join our own Kent Organ as he leads this extensive yearlong study of the Old and New Testaments. A bonus in having Kent as our Interim Pastor is that he loves to teach. Classes are held in John Calvin Hall, Tuesday evenings, 7:00-8:00 p.m. Plan to join us.
Part 1: Reintroducing the Old Testament (cont.)- Sept. 14: Israel's Return and Restoration (Ezra; Nehemiah)
- Sept. 21: Voices of Protest and Apocalypse (Ruth, Jonah; Esther; Daniel)
- Oct. 5: Old Testament Final; The Unfulfilled Drama
- Oct. 12: The New Covenant; The Apostolic Preaching (C. H. Dodd)
- Oct. 19: Mark's Jesus: The Lion's Roar (Mark) (This session and the next three are based on Richard Burridge's Four Gospels, One Jesus)
- Oct. 26: Matthew's Jesus: The Teacher of Israel (Matthew)
- Nov. 2: Luke's Jesus: The Bearer of Burdens (Luke)
- Nov. 9: John's Jesus: The High-Flying Eagle (John)
- Nov. 16: What Crucified Jesus? The Resurrection (all four Gospels)
- Nov. 30: The Story Continues: Ascension, Pentecost, Saul/Paul (Acts 1-9)
- Dec. 7: The Christian Movement Extends: Jewish Sect or Universal Religion? (Acts 10-28)
- Jan. 4: Letters to Young Churches: Advice, Counsel, Admonition (I & II Corinthians, etc.)
- Jan. 11: The Mess We're In, "Righteousness by Faithing" (Romans, 1, 2, 5; Galatians 2, 3)
- Jan. 18: "Righteousness by Faithing" (cont.), To Be In Christ (Romans 6, 7, 15)
- Feb. 1: Organizing for the Long Haul; the Cosmic Christ (I & II Timothy, Titus, Colossians)
- Feb. 8: Other New Testament Writings (Ephesians, Hebrews, James)
- Feb. 15: Other New Testament writings (I & II Peter, I, II, III John, Jude)
- Feb. 22: Persecution and the Apocalypse (II Thessalonians, Revelation)
- March 1: Summarizing a Year with the Book
Recommended: Harper Collins Study Bible (NRSV, 1003), The New Oxford Annotated Bible (NRSV, 2001) or The New Interpreter's Study Bible (NRSC, 2003).