Friday, July 18, 2014
Living the Questions 2.0 continues
We're moving on to the 6th session of LtQ2.0. This series offers excellent, heart-warming examples of what it means to be a Progressive Christian Church. You can jump in anywhere. Please join us at 9:45
Thursday, July 10, 2014
More questions! LtQ2.0
We continuing the Living the Questions 2.0 series. This is an excellent introduction to the meaning of progressive Christianity. You'll like it! Please join us at 9:45, downstairs Sunday morning.
Thursday, July 3, 2014
Living the Questions, 4th Sunday
This coming Sunday we'll view and discuss another video session with the Living the Questions series. If you're not familiar with this, the LtQ series is an excellent introduction to the basic tenets of progressive Christianity. Please be warmly welcomed to join us.
Wednesday, June 25, 2014
More Light Sunday in the Adult Forum
The Adult Forum is proud to host our More Light group. Come celebrate More Light Sunday with the newly formed More Light subcommittee here at First Presbyterian. You’ll have a chance to meet us, ask questions, and, most importantly, help us start to figure out how we can best serve lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender people and their families and friends both in the congregation and in the community at large. We need your help to get off to a good start. We need your help to figure out where to start.
It'll also be an opportunity for you to find out just what it means to be a More Light Presbyterian and to hear a report on the fate of the resolution at the 221st General Assembly in Detroit to amend the Book of Order to allow ministers to marry same-sex couples. We'll gather at 9:45, downstairs in Martin Hall. Please join us.
Tuesday, June 17, 2014
Living the Questions 2.0 Continues
We going through the Living the Questions series. This is a good introduction to progressive Christianity, and a great venue for newcomers to find out more about who we are and meet others. All are welcome. Loving childcare is provided.
Friday, June 13, 2014
Living the Question 2.0 continues
This coming Sunday, June 15th, we'll continue our discussion over the Living the Questions 2.0 series. It's about what "progressive Christianity" means, and what it means to us. This is an interesting and popular video series in the general tradition of liberal theology. Please join us.
Wednesday, June 4, 2014
Living the Questions2 -- An Invitation
This summer we'll re-visit the Living the Questions2 video series, shown in the Adult Forum in 2009. The series is an excellent introduction to progressive Christianity. Exemplifying the spirit of the series, Jack Spong wrote:
"....I think certainty is a vice in religion. I really think that we ought to rid ourselves of it. So, I would constantly want to hold this wrestling, this uncomfortableness, I do not have it together, we are struggling in this together, as the proper image of the Christian faith. We walk into the mystery of God. We never arrive. And if we think we arrive we become an idolater.”
and from the series literature:
"Relying solely on doctrines and dogma passed on from others has seldom been a satisfying exercise for those longing for something deeper spiritually or thought-provoking theologically. To not ask questions is tantamount to forfeiting one’s own spiritual birthright and allowing other people’s experience of the divine to define your experience."
"....I think certainty is a vice in religion. I really think that we ought to rid ourselves of it. So, I would constantly want to hold this wrestling, this uncomfortableness, I do not have it together, we are struggling in this together, as the proper image of the Christian faith. We walk into the mystery of God. We never arrive. And if we think we arrive we become an idolater.”
and from the series literature:
"Relying solely on doctrines and dogma passed on from others has seldom been a satisfying exercise for those longing for something deeper spiritually or thought-provoking theologically. To not ask questions is tantamount to forfeiting one’s own spiritual birthright and allowing other people’s experience of the divine to define your experience."
Please join us. You'll be warmly welcome.
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