Adult Discipleship for January
Jul 27, 2011
Are you looking for the opportunity to:
• Study the Bible in greater depth?
• Discuss and apply the scripture in community?
• Receive same gender accountability on a weekly basis?
• Practice in the disciplines that lead to spiritual growth?
• Gain a greater vision and ability to serve your neighbor?
If any or all of these describe you, keep reading!
This year, Park Slope Presbyterian Church has been offering a new format for adult discipleship. Our goal is the increasing the maturity of our church community, and we believe the most effective means to that end is the active study of, meditation on and obedience to scripture within community. To that end, we will be using a format designed to immerse us communally in scripture and to help and encourage us in practical obedience.
Our new session of these courses will begin January 8th, and will continue through March 25th. A few changes are being made in the new semester to enable as many people to participate as possible. January 8th and each subsequent first Sunday of the month will be open to all who wish to participate in a large group study and discussion, even if not previously signed up. On these weeks, special activity based classes will be offered for children! Those who wish to engage the material further may then sign up to participate small, single gender discipleship group of 3-4 people. Each group will meet together at John Jay High School from 9:30 AM to 10:15 AM on the 2nd, 3rd and 4th Sundays of each month. Those with children have the opportunity to leave their children in Sunday School during that time. A guide e-mailed each week will facilitate each group’s discussion. The guides will be based on the book of Jonah, and will lend dimension to and expand the larger group study taking place on the first week of each month (see below). These guides are a strongly suggested course for the discussion, but each group is free to improvise as the needs of the group dictate. In these groups, everyone will be encouraged to read and memorize portions of scripture, as well as honestly seek to be obedient to those scriptures with the community, sometimes in creative and risky ways.
Each participant will be asked to commit to a relational covenant and be asked to participate for the entire session, from January 8th to March 25th. The session will culminate with a breakfast on Sunday, March 25th. The breakfast will provide an opportunity to celebrate together the ways God has been at work in our lives over the previous 3 months.
Please note that there is no fee for this session of adult discipleship.
For any further questions, or to sign up, please email Amy Bowser, .