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Adult Learning Opportunities

Spring 2008

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Welcome to First Baptist Church's 

Adult Christian Education Program.

Sunday school begins at 11:15 following Morning Worship and Fellowship Time.

Please feel free to grab a cup of coffee, say hello to your friends, then join us in one of our Sunday Morning Adult Learning Opportunities.

We promise you will find spiritual enrichment, friendships, support, and chances to share common experiences with others on a similar journey of faith.

If you have always attended a Sunday School, come and see what is new this year.  If you haven't been in a Sunday School since you were a child, come and see what you have been missing!

Some Sunday School Classes also function as Social Organizations.  Each class meets (usually monthly) to praise God, have fun, do good work, and bond deeply with fellow Christians.  

See the Newsletter for social meeting times as well as Sunday morning class subject news.

Note:

If you have questions or would like to start a new class, please contact the church office. 682-7950

Scholarship Memorial Funds: Scholarship Grants are offered to qualifying applicants.

 

Special Learning Opportunities

 

ICE AND SNOW EVERYWHERE!

ARE YOU READY FOR SPRING?

THE FIRST DAY OF SPRING IS MARCH 20

FBC WILL “SPRING” INTO A NEW SEASON WITH AN ALL-CHURCH STUDY

MARCH 30 TO MAY 4

GOD IS CLOSER THAN YOU THINK

BY JOHN ORTHBERG

VIDEO/DISCUSSION STUDY

As depicted in the Michelangelo painting on the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel, man is not only reaching out to God, but God i reaching out to humanity.  The story of the Bible isn't primarily about the desire of people to be with God; It is the desire of God to be with people.  We all share a need to see the constant awareness of the presence of God.  We know God's there 24-hours a day, seven days a week, but we sometimes have difficulty seeing Him.

 

Please think about hosting, facilitating or attending the All-Church study as we learn how to see God at work in our lives.

 

Sunday Mornings

 

The John Nobody Knows:

Study of John I, II, III

Room: Parlor
Leader: Pastor Jim Middleton

Guest Leader: Rev. Jim Middleton

 

Romans: Keeping Grace Alive in the 21st Century

Room:228 -- Connections Class
Coordinator: Dr. Phil Ladd

Some have referred to this Epistle as the "Gospel according to St. Paul," because he presents the importance of Grace and the Gospel for the world.  The epistle was addressed to all of God's beloved in Rome.  Rome was the military, political and economic capital of the world in the first century.  It is good for all Christians to study, especially those of us living in a military, political and economic power such as the USA.

This Letter has had a profound effect on many people in history.  St. Augustine finally accepted Christianity and committed his life to Christ after reading Romans.  Romans helped Martin Luther finally find peace of mind and heart that had escaped him as he searched in vain the doctrines, relics and monasteries of the medieval church.  He would later call Romans the chief part of the New Testament and the very purest Gospel.  Like Luther, Romans had an effect on Calvin's expression of the Reformation.  He would lean on Romans in his attempt to figure out how to organize the church so the Lordship of Christ could remain central.

 

 

The Sermon on the Mount 

Room: Chapel
Coordinator:  Pastor Tom Bayes

Anyone approaching the Sermon on the Mount is wise to remember a saying from Mark Twain.  He had heard people complain that the Bible is hard to understand.  Twain said he was mothered more by the parts of the Bible he could understand than by the parts he could not understand.

This class will look at the meaning of Jesus' teachings in the context of his day, and we will seek to discern its meaning for us within in the context of our lives.