Christian Believer assumes that most church folk – though faithful followers of Jesus they intend to be – know little of the content of the central teachings of the Christian faith and its ties to Scripture. But they want to know. They want to know what is at stake in what the church teaches and how it makes a difference in their own lives, what it means to be Christian, and where we as Christians stand. Believer aims at addressing the uncertainty about the substance of the Christian faith and the connection between believing and living…Believer emphasizes the head as well as the heart.
 

Believer recognizes that Christians say the creeds without understanding everything or even assenting to everything in them because in saying them they identify with the people and the tradition shaped by the confession. They recognize that “faith seeking understanding” belongs to Christian experience. Believer allows space for questions, doubts, dissent.
 

The goal of Believer is to make available to people the substance of the Christian faith that the church has confessed as a way of connecting to God and living faithfully. This thirty-week study of the classical doctrines of the Christian faith aims at presenting, explaining, and interpreting Christian doctrine as the basic teaching of the church to the end that informed believing leads to committed discipleship.
 

Coming to faithful understanding of the teachings of Christianity through Believer begins with disciplined daily reading of Scripture and of writings of early and modern church leaders and continues in weekly group discussion on the relation of Scripture beliefs, and daily living.


We hope you’ll join us in this study. Classes meet Wednesdays at 7:30 pm, Thursdays at noon, and Saturdays at 8:30 am. You can join at any time! 
 

Books are for sale in the church office during office hours only from 8:30 am – noon and 1:00 – 4:00 pm. A set of books (which consists of a text and study manual) is $50/set.
 

For more information, contact Teri Biedke, Director of Christian Education at 847-823-3164 x 114.