Discipleship Classes are an opportunity for individuals to grow deeper in their faith through a time of invested study of God’s Word with fellow believers. Our next set of classes will meet March 26th through May 28th.
Learn more information about each class below!
Ruth: Loss, Love & Legacy
Led by: Karen Dennis
Located in Classroom diagonally above Conference Center
Most of us like a good rags-to-riches story, especially one that includes a bit of intrigue and a moving tale of love. We can easily get lost in a narrative where, at the beginning of the story, heartache reigned, but it was soon replaced by joy. Perhaps we’re drawn to these tales because they not only provide an escape, but hope.
Many of us struggle through seasons of bitterness, tears, and loss, wondering if there could ever be a happy ending to our stories. The story of Ruth affirms that yes, there is hope. However, it’s not found in a happy ending scribed by a novelist’s pen, but in the power and protection of a sovereign God who never takes His eyes off of us for even a moment.
In this 7-session study from Kelly Minter, we’ll examine Ruth’s journey of unbearable loss, redeeming love, and divine legacy. We’ll see how God proves Himself faithful as the One who rescues, revives, and restores.
Benefits
- Understand how God’s law was and is meant to lead to life and flourishing for His people.
- Learn to trust God’s providence even when redemption in your circumstances may seem impossible.
- Trace shadows of Jesus, the Messiah to come, in Ruth’s story and Boaz’s role as her kinsman redeemer.
Book Cost: $22
A Co-Ed Study
Led by: Bro. Joseph Falcione
Located in Classroom above Conference Center
Anyone who has ever grown up in the church has heard the phrase, “Read your Bible.” But unfortunately, the church has failed in many ways to teach Christians the skills needed to read the Bible. In the same way that we learn rules to a game before playing, Christians must also learn the rules to the Bible. In Grasping God’s Word, you are going to head on a journey to learn how to interpret and apply the Bible to your life daily.
Part 2 of this class will focus on reading, interpreting, and applying the texts of the Bible in their particular genre. Each week will focus on a different genre of Scripture and learning how to read it. In the same way that you can’t play a game well until you learn the rules, you can’t read Scripture well until you learn the rules of the genre!
A Co-Ed Study
Led by: Randy Braden and Harold Cox
Located in Conference Center
Discover Jesus: Son of Man, Son of God
Get up close and personal with Jesus, His teachings, and what they mean for you today. The Smart Guide to the Bible: The Life of Christ takes you on location so you can absorb the historical and prophetic context into which Jesus was born, lived, died, came alive again, and ascended to His rightful place in Heaven.
Learn about:
- Jesus’s Life, Death, and Resurrection
- The Deity of Christ
- Jesus’s Teachings & Parables
- The Kingdom of God
- Redemption
- The Harmony of the Gospels
- The Geopolitics of Jesus’s Day
- And More!
A Co-Ed Study
Led by: Bro. Tommy Fike
Located in Classroom beside Conference Center
The Bible, a worldwide bestseller. It has more than forty authors covering fifteen hundred years in three different languages. How does it all work together? We’ll take a glimpse into seeing the Old Testament in a new light.
We’ve all either heard or said, “I thought I knew the Old Testament because I have heard so many sermons/stories from it so many times.” But do we understand how it all fits together, does it make sense to us?
This study will show the framework of how the Old Testament all fits together perfectly. Once we have that framework in place, our prayer is the books, the stories will become even more significant to us, more highly cherished than ever before because as a child of God, adopted into His family, it’s our history, our heritage.
A Kids Class
Led by: Stephanie Register
Located in Children's Department
Kids will learn that in the beginning, God created everything for His glory and our good. When sin entered the world in the Garden of Eden and spread to people, creation appeared to be ruined. But as God established a covenant with Abraham, He proved that nothing is outside of His plan or control to redeem His creation from sin.
Building on lessons they are learning in Sunday School, this class provides a separate discipleship experience for kids designed around the spiritual disciplines!
A Preschool Class
Led by: Kimmie McKee
Located in Preschool Department
While their parents learn more about God and His Word, preschoolers will be learning how to talk to God! They will grow to learn that when we pray, we are talking to God, just like they talk to their mommy and daddy. We can thank God for things he’s given us, ask him for help, and talk to him when we’re scared.
During their class, little ones will learn that:
- They can thank God for all the great things he has done for them.
- They can ask God for help in every situation.
- They can talk to God whenever they are afraid – he loves us and will help us not be afraid anymore.
- They don’t just pray for themselves but for other people too.