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Who Then is This? Fall 2024

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Time has revealed more confusion and disagreement about the person of Jesus than can be charted. How can it possibly be that a community of people would worship and believe in a King Who was shamefully crucified? Might there be more to this Man and to the Kingdom He said He was bringing? Who then is this Jesus?

September 8 – November 24

Be Disciples: Fall 2024

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Featuring a brief video lesson from Rick Burgess, a nationally syndicated radio talk show host and founder of The Man Church discipleship strategy.
Investing in Discipleship
Requirements of being a disciple (Luke 9:23)
Driving force behind being a disciple (Deuteronomy 6:4-5)
Multiplication of disciples (Matthew 28:19-20)
Growing toward spiritual maturity (Ephesians 4:11-16)
Committing to making disciples (Romans 10:9-15)
Knowing God
Having a hunger for God (Psalm 63:1-2)
Embracing the truth of God (Philippians 3:7-8)
Knowing and following God’s ways (Psalm 1:1-2)
Prayer aligns us with God’s heart (Philippians 4:6-7)
Developing a heart of the lost (Colossians 4:2-4)
Pursuing Holiness
Our lives must reflect God’s holiness (1 Peter 1:13-16)
Pursuing holiness honors God’s grace (1 Peter 3:15-16)
Sexual immorality hinders holiness (1 Thessalonians 4:1-8)
Pursuing holiness, fleeing habitual sin (1 John 3:4-10)
Being filled with the Holy Spirit, God can use our lives to bless others (2 Timothy 2:20-26)
 

Know the Words of Jesus: Fall 2024

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Go the extra mile.
Turn the other cheek.
Lord it over someone.
Practice what you preach.
Eat, drink, and be merry.

All over the world, millions of people quote the words of Jesus without realizing their origins. These and other sayings of Christ, including parables, conversations with his disciples, miracles, and scuffles with the Pharisees, will bring us all closer to the heart and mind of Jesus. We will shed light on hard-to-understand sayings and provide cultural insights, character close-ups, and did-you-know facts.
 

The Bible in Context: Fall 2024

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Ray Vander Laan outlines a handful of tools for students to use in their approach to reading the Bible as disciples. These include: learning the Eastern way of communicating; 6 categories of context and how to recognize them in scripture; the use of allusion in the Bible; recognizing theological chronologies; how parables were used, and so on. Once these tools have been introduced, RVL ends this unit by outlining the “central thread” that ties the Bible (and the mission of a disciple) together: the idea of bringing shalom back to chaos.
Season 1 of 4
· The Commitment—the Shema as foundational
· The Pond—an Easter vs Western mindset
· The Tree—the 6 categories of context
· The Coals—John 21:9, 2 Sam 22:7-9, Rom 12:20
· The Wine—John 2:7-9, Joel 2:1, 18
· The Stone—experiential knowledge, join the story, we are invited to be a part of it
· The Blind Man—Mark 8:22-26, do we get it?
· The Sand—parables, house, sand, Matt 7:24-27
· The Tohu—in the beginning, Genesis 1
· The Shalom—bringing shalom into chaos

This class includes a 113 page workbook to get the most from this ground-breaking study.