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Current Message Series
At its core, being a theologian is simply an ordinary Christian believer doing his or her best to think through the faith, to talk (-logy) appropriately about God (theo-). Being a theologian means being someone committed to intellectual honesty. It means being willing to leave our comfortable mental ruts in order to stretch ourselves intellectually. It involves a faithful willingness to go deeper, following God’s glorious truth wherever it leads. In a way, being a theologian is simply fulfilling Jesus’ Great Commandment to “love the Lord your God with all your mind…”
Over the years we’ve worked our way into this identity piecemeal, with a variety of different message series, small group video discussions, and book studies, using the Armchair Theologian series and other resources. All of these are good, useful, and helpful as we’ve learned to think the faith. But one downside to our piecemeal approach is that it can be hard sometimes to connect the theological dots. So, beginning in September, we’re going to try to help each other connect the dots better in an ambitious 20-week message series called “20 Big Questions.”
Inspired by the framework of Shirley Guthrie’s book Christian Doctrine (the book we use for our Theological Foundations course), each week we’ll begin to tackle a key theological question. We’ll then provide discussion questions that small groups can use during the week to go deeper and learn from one another. You can think of it as “Theological ABC’s.” We’re also be asking the “So what?” question – so that we can see how our thoughts and beliefs can profoundly influence how we live day to day.
We began this series in September and will be continuing it through Feb. 5th. In our remaining weeks we'll be rasing the following big questions...
Jan. 1 20 BIG Questions: Who’s in charge here?
Jan. 8 20 BIG Questions: What’s new?
Jan. 15 20 BIG Questions: What makes us right with God?
Jan. 22 20 BIG Questions: What about the religions?
Jan. 29 20 BIG Questions: How can we live a changed life?
Feb. 5 20 BIG Questions: How can we find real community?