Study Groups at the Church
Join
us for two new discussion groups
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Eat with us
around the
Kitchen table
discussion to follow
cost:
Dinner -- free!
our minister makes
a simple meal for us
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Date
and Time
TBA
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Thusday
Evenings
6:30 - 8:30 pm
September 25
October 9
October 23
November 6
November 20
December 4
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A Study of the Readings for
Sunday
"This study will use material produced by our Church School Curriculum
as a starting point for some lively discussion of the readings for this
week's sermon.
Leadership will be offered by our minsiter Stephen Fetter and by Jan
Fraser, a member of our congregation with some training as a diaconal
minsiter.
Our readings for Sunday are taken from the Revised Common Lectionary --
together with Christians around the world, we allow this cycle of
Scripture passages to shape our church year and focus our devotions.
This group will be an opportunity to get a first crack at the readings
-- even while our minister is still doing his own prep. We'll have a
chance to think about what they mean, what their context might be, and
how they have an impact on our faith and life.
We're still unclear
about
exactly when this group will meet.
Please check back here soon for more details.
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The First Christmas
This study group meets every other Thursday evening. We're reading a
chapter of the book for each evening, and the discussion is lively and
provocative.
Here's what the publisher says about the book:
"In The First Christmas, two of today's top Jesus scholars,
Marcus J. Borg and John Dominic Crossan, join forces to show how
history has biased our reading of the nativity story as it appears in
the gospels of Matthew and Luke. As they did for Easter in their
previous book, The Last Week, here they explore the beginning
of the life of Christ, peeling away the sentimentalism that has built
up over the last two thousand years around this most well known of all
stories to reveal the truth of what the gospels actually say. Borg and
Crossan help us to see this well-known narrative afresh by answering
the question, "What do these stories mean?" in the context of both the
first century and the twenty-first century. They successfully show that
the Christmas story, read in its original context, is far richer and
more challenging than people imagine."
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Study Groups