Adult Sunday Classes - Winter, 2010

January 10 - March 14

9:45 AM

Discovery/Membership Class
Bob Mark, Robbie Griggs, Clay Smith
Classroom A

The Discovery class is offered three times a year for those interested in learning more about Central. The winter session starts Friday, January 8 with a dinner at 6:30 p.m. in the parlor. The class will then meet for four consecutive Sunday mornings starting on January 10. Discovery does not obligate a person to join Central, but it is a prerequisite for the membership class. The membership class will follow on Sunday mornings February through April.

Mad About You and Family Planet
Marriage: The Challenge of Oneness
Clay Coffee - Fellowship Hall

This interactive marriage enrichment class will consider the design and challenge of marriage from a biblical perspective in our contemporary context. Whether your marriage is a delight or has hit a rough patch, you’re invited to hear a biblical framework integrated with the best of sound contemporary couples’ research. This class will include a mixture of teaching, group discussion, experiential exercises, movie clips and discussion with your partner.

It’s A Wonderful Life
That The World May Know
Various Teachers - The Gathering Place

This video series filmed in Israel is taught and narrated by Ray Vonder Laan, a now famous tour guide and teacher. He studied and worked in Israel in addition to Trinity Seminary. The Promised Land given by God to Israel was a major crossroads at the time and His efforts were to see “That The World May Know” who He is. His Words as written in the Bible are from a different culture and time than our Western thinking and Vonder Laan addresses the differences to explore its true meaning to awaken us with an excitement to study God’s Word.

We will be in the New Testament this term. Our team of teachers includes Randy Mayfield, Alan Shaffer, Jeff Waller, Jerry Christensen, Steven Hurst and Thom Avery.

Gleaners - The Gospel of Mark
Neal Nielsen - Parlor

What is your relationship to Jesus Christ? Is it a code of conduct? No, says the writer Mark! Jesus calls us into a relationship of discipleship. Fellowship is the heart of the disciple’s life. Fellowship means trusting Jesus, confessing Him, following His teaching and being shaped by a relationship to Him.

The Gospel of Mark gives us the nearest thing we will ever get to a report of Jesus’ life. Mark’s aim was to give us a picture of Jesus as He was. No gospel gives such a human picture of Jesus. All the while Mark never forgot the divine side of Jesus. One of the great characteristics of Mark is that over and over again he inserts the little vivid details of an eyewitness. Join us as we continue the study of the Gospel of Mark where we hear the very sound of Jesus’ voice as passed on to us by Mark.

College Central
Genesis - Letting God’s Word Make Sense of Our World
Marc Hunsaker - 824 Biltmore

At College Central we love to explore life’s deepest questions and we look to God’s Word to help us make sense of the world that we live in. This semester we will dive into the book of Genesis asking, “What were we put in the world to do?” We gladly invite all college students to join the discussion every Sunday morning at 9:45 in the 824 Biltmore building, three houses south of the church. Afterward, we will attend the new 11:15 worship service together.

SonLife and Synthesis
Room at the Table
Jay Thomas Hewitt - Classroom B

We will study the gospel through the lens of God’s hospitality toward His people by examining the biblical texts of the creation, the incarnation, religious feasts of the Old Testament, feasts in the life and parables of Jesus, Psalms, the sacrament of communion, and visions of the New Heaven and New Earth. By seeing that in Jesus, God has made “room at the table” for us, we will discover the empowerment, motivation, and model for extending this same welcome of Jesus to those around us. While this class is specifically for the SonLife and Synthesis communities, it is open to anyone.

11:15 am

Mosaic - How People Change
Scott Chaplin - Gathering Place

Sometimes we think the gospel is just for beginners, and then the Christian life is fueled by trying harder. But the accomplishment of Christ’s finished work is the basis for the entire Christian life. This class aims to help us experience the transforming power of Christ’s work in our day-to-day struggles.

General - The Gospel of Luke
Dave Fillman - Classroom B

The third Gospel is a vast and living portrait of our great Savior Jesus Christ and was written by Dr. Luke, the man whom the apostle Paul called “The Beloved Physician.” His Gospel is at once theological, historical and pastoral. Join us as we consider and discuss the magnificent themes and various applications of what has been called "The Most Beautiful Book in the World.”

Adult Sunday Classes - Spring, 2010

March 21 - May 23

9:45 am

Discovery/Membership Class
Bob Mark, Robbie Griggs, Clay Smith
Classroom A

Mad About You
Proverbs/Wisdom
Josh Crane - Fellowship Hall

Family Planet
Isaiah
Sam Chimento - CCS Gym

It's A Wonderful Life
That the World May Know
Alan Shaffer and Various Teachers - Gathering Place

Gleaners
The Book of Mark
Neal Nielsen - Parlor

College Central
The Book of Genesis
Marc Hunsaker - 824 Biltmore

Synthesis/SonLife
Lenses for Looking at the Bible and the World
Jay Thomas Hewitt, Walker Cosgrove, Joe Gruneisen
Classroom B

11:15 am

Mosaic
Philippians
Scott Chaplin - Gathering Place

General Studies
Acts: Characters Throughout the Bible
Dr. David Calhoun - Classroom B

General Studies
Missions Dilemma
Randy Mayfield - Parlor