SUNDAY CLASSES
Sunday Morning
During the month of April, Barry’s sermons will focus on God’s call to Christ Church to start a South Campus. We invite you to come together as a church family and explore God’s amazing love for us and what our response might be as individuals, as families, and as the Body of Christ. We will look at this through the lens of The 3:16 Promise by Max Lucado, and Barry’s Scripture references and sermon points.
9:00 am
Christian Believer - Knowing God with Heart & Mind (LT - 30 weeks)
This 30-week study emphasizes approaching Scripture with the heart as well as with the head, and its focus is to help us better understand why we believe what we believe. It emphasizes the relationship between worship, belief, and daily life. Every question about life is a question about God. What is the meaning of life? What does it mean to live as a Christian? Why do Church doctrines matter? Come, and discover the Church’s answer to questions that grow out of human life and Christian experience.
| Leader: Ed Loper | Room 274 |
9:30 am
3:16 He Loves He Gave We Believe We Live
Come and reflect on God’s unfathomable love with insights from the Bible and stories from everyday life, and what it might mean for us as individuals and as a church family. This study will also follow Barry’s sermon series and invites us to open our hearts to Jesus’ twenty-six-word parable of hope – 3:16 “For God so loved the world that He gave His one and only Son, that whoever believes in Him shall not perish but have eternal life.”
| For Families with children K-4 | Deep End |
10:00 am
Serendipity (ST)
Our next study will be Stumbling Blocks to Faith, a five-week exploration of the things which can be insurmountable stumbling blocks to our faith. This program presents the most common ones: hypocrisy; intolerance/other religions; science and faith; suffering; and sacrifices. Here is a candid presentation of the allegations and Christian responses from theologian Robert Norris; missionary Hope Kim; pastors Lon Solomon and Jim Byrne; American Enterprise Institute scholar Michael Novak; and C. S. Lewis Institute fellow Art Lindsley.
| Leader: Rotation | Room 272 |
Come and reflect on God’s unfathomable love with insights from the Bible and stories from everyday life, and what it might mean for us as individuals and as a church family. This study will also follow Barry’s sermon series and invites us to open our hearts to Jesus’ twenty-six-word parable of hope – 3:16 “For God so loved the world that He gave His one and only Son, that whoever believes in Him shall not perish but have eternal life.”
| Leader:TBA | Room 202 |
This ongoing small group meets through the year, and explores varied themes and topics relating faith to contemporary issues. Starting May 11, we will begin a study entitled Apocalypse Now!, a ten-week exploration of apocalyptic writings including Daniel, Revelation, and the Dead Sea War Scroll. Often misused as formulas for calculating the end of time, these writings actually convey veiled messages of hope for the persecuted peoples of God. Come and see what the Kingdom of God has in store for us al (sometime in the future).
| Leader:Bob Downs & John McCall | Room 272 |
10:45 am
Women’s Small Group Bible Study (ST)
This ongoing small group of women meets through the year, with a summer break, to explore God’s Word, and to grow in faith and intimacy with Jesus Christ. They will be embarking on a 12-week study of the Book of Ephesians from Max Lucado’s Life Lesson Series, and invite you to join them on a journey that will strengthen your understanding and appreciation of the Bible. This series provides intriguing questions, inspirational stories, poignant reflections, excerpts from Max Lucado’s books, and 12 lessons with space for journaling in each chapter.
| Leader: Tricia Botkin | Room 201(Library) |
Sunday Afternoon
4:00 pm
(LT)
Participants in this study will read the Major and Minor OT Prophets and the thirteen letters traditionally attributed to Paul. Several themes weave their way through the study: the call to remember, the call to repentance, the need for renewed vision (eyes to see, ears to hear), and the place of community. The Prophets and Paul are continually calling hearers and readers back to their God and to a sense of who they are as a “people set apart.” The driving theme in this study is the connection between memory and identity as the people of God. It confronts persistent questions like “What are my priorities?”
| Leaders: Janice & Jerry West | Room 202 |
For more information, or to express interest in any of the above, please call Dominique Alban (937-293-3151) or e-mail: Dominique@Christumc.org