Adult & Youth Bible Studies
As older children and youth transition from childhood to adulthood, we want to help them make that transition by incorporating them into our adult Bible study classes and corporate worship gatherings. Please note: children are also welcome to attend Adult Bible Studies with their parents or guardians.
Sunday Bible Study (9:45 am – 10:30 am)
Faithful Presence: Living and Speaking the Gospel in a Post-Christian Culture
The church has not been called to retreat from the world, nor has it been called to conform to it. Christ sends His people into the world as a distinct people who love their neighbors, seek their good, demonstrate compassion, speak truth, proclaim the gospel, and make disciples.
In this study, we will examine how to live faithfully in a culture that increasingly knows little or nothing about God, truth, humanity, morality, identity, or meaning.
The course is fundamentally a biblical study of Christian presence, witness, evangelism, and disciple-making. Francis Schaeffer’s The God Who Is There will serve as an important resource for the class to aid in understanding the intellectual and cultural changes that have shaped the modern world and for learning how to communicate Christian truth to people who think differently.
Teacher: Bobby Smith (October – December)
Israel Returns
The people of Israel were carried away to Babylon and lived as exiles and outcasts. This was God’s judgement because of their unfaithfulness. But God did not leave or utterly forsake them. He called them home!
When they returned, they found the temple in ruins and the great walls now piles of rubble. Maybe even more daunting, was the fact that the land had been taken over by people who despised them and did not want them there. What they found was a call to hard work and faith.
We will study this time through the scriptures of Ezra and Nehemiah making note of the prophets God raised then and even the story of Esther which occurred in this time span.
In the end, we will discover our Sovereign God at work as always in both the great and small moments of the life of His People.
Teacher: Mike Davis (October – December)