Christian Education

Adult Sunday School Classes

Sundays at 11 am, after the worship service and fellowship time.

During this time where we cant gather, well be posting videos for Adult Education that our pastors have recorded.

Spiritual Formation in an Age of Anxiety:

Lesson 1: Introduction to Spiritual Formation

Lesson 2: Corporate Worship

Lesson 2 interview: Katie Polski

Lesson 3: Listening to Gods Voice

Lesson 3 interview: Courtney Doctor

Our Approach to Christian Education

Christianity at its heart is a restored relationship with a transcendent, personal, relational, and infinite God: the same God who walked with Adam and Eve in the Garden; the same God who led Moses and the Israelites through the Red Sea; the same God who whispered softly on the wind to Elijah. This God wants you to know him. How do we know this? He says so! For I desire steadfast love and not sacrifice, the knowledge of God rather than burnt offerings. (Hos 6:6 ESV)

The expectation of God for this restored relationship with him is that his children would love and know him as the God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob. How is this possible? How can we really know an infinite and transcendent God? Only through the Bible, His Word, and he promises that the Son of God has come and has given us understanding, so that we may know him who is true. (1Jo 5:20 ESV) Not only do we have the revelation of God, the Bible, but we also have a promise that Jesus himself will give us understanding.

That sort of promise calls us to a responsibility that requires a concerted response. As J. I. Packer puts it in Knowing God, We must seek, in studying God, to be led to God. It was for this purpose that revelation was given, and it is to this use that we must put it.

With this expectation set, it is our belief that Christian learning is:

Unending in scope, effort, and inexhaustible in-depthit is, after all, the study of an infinite God

Essential to glorification and enjoyment of God

Rooted in scripture and a biblical view of the world around us

Communal in general practicemost learning is done together in Christian fellowship

Experiential in natureit requires doing the right thing as much as it requires knowing the right thing

Interactive in methodwe are curious creatures in the image of God and knowledge is best acquired through dialog and other interactive methods

Theological in purposemeaning we are designed to know God and operate best as we come to know him

We believe the majority of learning happens in the community because we are to be like living stones being built up as a spiritual house. (1Pe 2:5 ESV) We are called to be a community set on beginning the restoration that Christ will finish when he returns.

The actual Sunday School classes are planned and taught in order to reinforce the preaching theme chosen at the beginning of the year. They very often providentially echo or reinforce the message of the sermon. You need nothing but a Bible (we have copies) and an open ear to attend, though you may want to ask questions as they occur to you during the learning time. We seek out trained teachers to create a healthy learning experience and invite feedback and suggestions to help create a better learning environment within the church.

Our goal is to glorify God in this learning experience and provide learning so that you may proclaim the excellencies of him who called you out of darkness into his marvelous light. (1Pe 2:9 ESV)