Adult Education Opportunities
Adult Education at White Memorial
White Memorial offers a number of opportunities for Christian Education for adults so they can continue their study of the Bible and their spiritual development. Classes are offered on Sunday mornings and during the week. Often the insights gained in adult Christian Education activities lead to a fuller, richer faith journey, fellowship and more active involvement in the ministry of the church.
Feasting on the Word
A drop-in church school class for adults. The coffee is hot and plentiful. Based on the scripture text of worship for the day, education and worship are mutually supportive in helping God’s word in scripture come alive in the Sunday morning experience. Drop-ins are welcome.
Sundays, 9:30-10:30 in Geneva Hall (NOTE: in Pickard Hall April 7, 14, and 21)
Can Christian education and Christian worship be mutually supportive in helping God’s word in scripture come alive in your Sunday morning experience? YES!
Our new adult study will engage in a deeper exploration of the biblical text used in our worship services. Our Christian faith will be enhanced when the Scriptures read and proclaimed in worship are reinforced and expanded on through what we have been discussing during the class. Each lesson will approach the worship lectionary text from four perspectives:
What? (Exegetical)
Basic information about backgrounds and meanings of Scripture is essential to understanding. This stream asks “What?” are the important things to know about the contexts, language, and settings of the biblical passage.
Where? (Theological)
To understand the meanings of passages, we also need to ask “Where?” is God in this passage? Where are God’s will and activities being expressed? Theological questions about where God’s word comes to us in the passage are significant.
So What? (Pastoral)
The implications of the passage for our Christian lives makes the biblical passage come alive. We ask, “So what?” What does this passage mean to me? What does it mean for my relationship with God and other people?
Now What? (Homiletical)
Biblical passages shape our understandings and lives in the church. They connect us with needs in God’s world. So we ask, “Now what?” This prompts us to reflect on how our life and the church’s life can live out what the passage is saying.
White Memorial offers a number of opportunities for Christian Education for adults so they can continue their study of the Bible and their spiritual development. Classes are offered on Sunday mornings and during the week. Often the insights gained in adult Christian Education activities lead to a fuller, richer faith journey, fellowship and more active involvement in the ministry of the church.
Feasting on the Word
A drop-in church school class for adults. The coffee is hot and plentiful. Based on the scripture text of worship for the day, education and worship are mutually supportive in helping God’s word in scripture come alive in the Sunday morning experience. Drop-ins are welcome.
Sundays, 9:30-10:30 in Geneva Hall (NOTE: in Pickard Hall April 7, 14, and 21)
Can Christian education and Christian worship be mutually supportive in helping God’s word in scripture come alive in your Sunday morning experience? YES! Our new adult study will engage in a deeper exploration of the biblical text used in our worship services. Our Christian faith will be enhanced when the Scriptures read and proclaimed in worship are reinforced and expanded on through what we have been discussing during the class. Each lesson will approach the worship lectionary text from four perspectives:
What? (Exegetical)
Basic information about backgrounds and meanings of Scripture is essential to understanding. This stream asks “What?” are the important things to know about the contexts, language, and settings of the biblical passage.
Where? (Theological)
To understand the meanings of passages, we also need to ask “Where?” is God in this passage? Where are God’s will and activities being expressed? Theological questions about where God’s word comes to us in the passage are significant.
So What? (Pastoral)
The implications of the passage for our Christian lives makes the biblical passage come alive. We ask, “So what?” What does this passage mean to me? What does it mean for my relationship with God and other people?
Now What? (Homiletical)
Biblical passages shape our understandings and lives in the church. They connect us with needs in God’s world. So we ask, “Now what?” This prompts us to reflect on how our life and the church’s life can live out what the passage is saying.
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