Adult Education
We want to love the Lord with all the mind. We want serve God in the interior court by learning to think and understand more clearly in order to worship, witness and serve more faithfully. To this end we try to take people where they are without leaving them the way there were. As a confessionally grounded body of Christians we study the Sacred Scriptures, Ecumenical Creeds and Lutheran Confessional writing. We also study history, ethics, music, philosophy, science and literature to more fully bring the will, word and work of God to bear in the world.
The Book of Job. On Sunday mornings (9:00 – 9:50 in the Fellowship Hall) Pastor Nelson is leading a study of The Book of Job from September through February. We are discussing the depths of suffering and faith, mystery, silence, sovereignty and speaking of God; conflicting perceptions of morality; and such questions as : Is there any one on earth who is faithful to God for the sake of God? “What is the Almighty that we should serve Him? And what profit do we get as we pray to Him (21:15)? Will you condemn God that you may be justified (40:8)?
Martin Luther’s Theology – A Contemporary Interpretation by the renowned German Systematic Theologian Oswald Bayer. On Wednesday evenings (6:30 – 7:30 in the Church Library) we are discussing this wonderful book. We are covering one chapter per week. The reading and discussion will continue through December 16th. Copies of the book are available from Pastor Nelson.
God vs. The Gavel: Religion and the Rule of Law by Marcia Hamilton. Copies of this book will be available from Pastor Nelson in December. We will be discussing the book and church – state issues in January and February.
Whitebread Protestants: Food and Religion in American Culture by Daniel Sack will be our book discussion focus in March.
