Sunday Morning Class
Cup of Choice Sunday
There is a new Sunday morning gathering for folks of all ages. You may be a parent that
brings their child or children to Sunday school at 9AM. You may be a spouse of someone
who sings in the choir. You may be looking for ways to deepen your own spiritual walk. You
may be curious about what this new pastor is up to on Sunday mornings. If so, come to the
Education Lounge for some thoughtful discussion, spiritual support and prayer.
In Lent, we will be using the book "Gospeled Lives" by John Indermark as the springboard for discussion. What does it mean to be gospeled? John Indermark suggests that an encounter with the living Christ demands response. Gospeled Lives covers biblical characters who had such an encounter. Some of these persons responded with joy and gratitude. Some ignored or rejected Christ’s offer of good news.
John Indermark talks about the title in his Introduction: "The title of this book, Gospeled Lives, might sound odd. In English, gospel is a noun and occasionally an adjective. In the New Testament, however, gospel is more often a verb. Gospel expresses action. To speak of 'gospeled' lives, as I do in this work, speaks of lives that have been acted upon by their encounter with Jesus. . . . And in every case, the story of gospeled lives remains open-ended. That is, response to encounter with Jesus continues to unfold in ongoing choices and unfinished stories. The book intentionally ends on that note; for that is truly where you and I enter the picture as we live out the unfinished stories of our response to encounter with Jesus."
Study Guides and Class Materials for Past Classes
Select the "Past Classes" link above to go to materials created for some of our classes in the past---a lot of really good material in there! They include study guides for Marcus Borg's "The Heart of Christianity" and Huston Smith's "The Soul of Christianity", links to the Five Practices study and materials for our "Methodism 101" series.
Pastor Karen will lead the "Gospeled Lives" study on Wednesday evening at 6:30 PM and Thursday mornings in the Lounge of the Education Building. Call the church office for further details
Walk To Emmaus
The Walk to Emmaus is a spiritual renewal program intended to strengthen the local church through the development of Christian disciples and leaders. The program's approach seriously considers the model of Christ's servanthood and encourages Christ's disciples to act in ways appropriate to being "a servant of all." Beginning with a 3-day retreat and following up with regular small group meetings, Emmaus participants seek to Christianize their environments of family, job, and community through the ministry of their congregations. For information about Walks in our area see the Southern San Joaquin Emmaus contact page (but note the displayed email addresses have been modified to foil the spam robots trolling for email addresses) or any one of the several people in our congregation who have been on Walks.
