LENTEN STUDY 2OO8
DISCERNING THE HEART OF CHRISTIANITY
Meeting in the Chapel - Wednesdays -- 10:00 - 12:00 NOON
Our journey through Lent and on into Eastertide will focus
on Marcus Borg’s book, The Heart of Christianity,
and explore the question: what does it mean to be Christian today? Taking a
chapter a week, we will delve into the following themes;
Wednesdays
1. The Heart of Christianity in a Time of
Change February l3th
2. Faith - The Way of the Heart
February 20th
3. The Bible-The Heart of Tradition
February 27th
4. God - The Heart of Reality
March 5th
5. Jesus - The Heart of God
March 12th
6. Born Again -A New Heart
March 19th
7. The Kingdom of God -The Heart of Justice
March 26th
8. Thin Places - Opening the Heart
April 2nd
9. Sin and Salvation - Transforming the Heart
April 9th
10. The Heart of the Matter - Practice
April 16th
11. Heart and Home - Being Christian in an Age of Pluralism April 23rd
12. In the End - A New Beginning
April 30th
Each participant should have - or have
access to - a copy of Borg’s book, available in paperback for $14.95. The
class will begin at 10:00 AM and end by 12:00 NOON. (Occasionally, the class
may run only 90 minutes.) Because of the format, class participation will be
limited to 16 persons. Join us in the chapel for our meetings.
The class will be lead by the Rev. Gary D. Bryant, who was our Sabbatical
Replacement Minister a year ago. He recently joined our congregation and is
currently serving as the part-time Interim Pastor of Collbran Congregational
United Church of Christ.
