Mid-Week Discipleship

ADULT CLASS:Each and every spring, Major League baseball teams gather their entire roster of players together for a 6–8 week ritual known as Spring Training. During this training period, rookies and seasoned veterans alike work on fundamental skills and fine-tune common strategies because it’s impossible to compete at the highest levels if their basic skills are lacking.

The ironic thing is that while we recognize this need in sports, we don’t always recognize it in our Christian lives. And even worse, sometimes we simply assume everyone already knows the fundamentals (or can pick them up along the way) as we plan ministries in the church.

This is one of the primary reasons that we are devoting our Winter-Spring semester to a single study– First Principles: How to Understand and Apply God’s Word. We want to hold a class that will help every person move one or two steps forward in their ability to faithfully handle God’s Word. To accomplish this, we will:

1. Follow a 7-week video series that will teach us the foundational principles of Bible study and proper application.
2. Apply the principles we learned from the study in guided study of Jonah.
3. Apply the principles we learned from the study in a guided study of a NT Epistle.
4. Learn how these principles can help any Christian prepare and share a short devotional from the Bible itself.

And if any of these tasks seems daunting, don’t worry. Our primary goal in this class is to help you move one or two steps forward in your ability to handle God’s Word— even if you have never learned how.

For your ever-increasing Joy in Jesus Christ,
Pastor Mark