Adult Bible Fellowship
Our Adult Bible Fellowship classes meet on Sunday mornings at 9:15. They offer an informal environment to learn systematically about the Bible's teaching on specific topics. We also set aside time each week for corporate prayer.
Current series:
Missions: Embracing God's Heart for the Nations
April 15th
The Scope and Present State of Missions: God’s Love for All Peoples
The scope of God’s mission to establish his kingdom is gloriously defined. When we look at the Great Commission passages (Mt. 28:18-20; Luke 24:46-49) and how they are fulfilled (Rev. 5:9-10; 7:9), we learn that the scope of Gospel proclamation is not the amount of converted people nor primarily territorial geo-political expansion, but rather it is particularly about the redemption of types of people (ethno-linguistic groups).
April 22nd
God’s Heart for Missions: God’s Love for the Nations from Abraham to the Church
To have an abiding heart for missions, we must immerse ourselves in God’s heart for the nations. The whole Bible, from cover to cover, reveals God’s incredible, sovereign plan to bring salvation to all peoples. And yet it climaxes in such a way that it greatly glorifies Jesus Christ. We see this in two ways. First, though the promise of hope for all nations began with Abraham and continued through the whole Old Testament, it was only fulfilled in the ‘True Seed,’ Jesus Christ. Only through him can the nations be saved. And second, the Gospel spread does not center on Jesus’ life generally, but gloriously on his death and resurrection. The Great Commission comes after Jesus’ death and resurrection to explicitly show that it was Christ’s work that secured the hope of the nations.
April 29th
The Great Need for Missions: The Absolute Necessity of Christ for all Peoples
Missions is necessary because all people desperately need Christ. Without Christ, the world is condemned to an eternal place of conscious torment. Because of the work of Christ, we can have confidence that he is the only way to God the Father. Without proclamation of Christ, no one will have faith in Christ and will therefore not be saved or accepted before God.
May 6th
The Ultimate Goal and Fuel of Missions: Worship
Missions flows from worship and aims to increase worship. Only the heart that is richly satisfied in Christ will be the heart that desires to make him known. We also proclaim Christ so that others will be satisfied in all that he is. This circle of worship is the ultimate goal of missions because God’s glory is ultimate.
May 13th
The Penultimate Goal of Missions: Indigenous, Reproducing Churches
Missions exists for believers to be serving disciple-makers, not disciple-making servants. Christ calls us have making disciples the top priority, not to be establishing shalom or social justice. Missions, then, exists not to aim to just do good works or make converts, but to plant new indigenous, reproducing churches.
May 20th
The Cost of Missions: God’s Sovereign Plan in our Suffering and Rejection
Suffering, persecution, and martyrdom is not a setback for missions, but is a primary means by which the Gospel is spread. As witnesses of Christ, we are sent out as sheep among wolves. But it is precisely in and through this suffering that the Gospel will advance. Therefore, all believers must long for boldness rather than safety so they can proclaim Christ regardless of the opposition.
May 27th
The Call for Missions: What Kind of People Ought We to Be to Finish the Great Commission?
All Christians are to participate in the Great Commission with an eye to currently unreached peoples. For our joy and the joy of all peoples, we should radically pray, give, and go so that God’s Kingdom can be established on earth.