Adult Education (Sunday School)

Expand your understanding; deepen your walk with Christ. Join with other disciples for an upcoming Adult Education course!

Adult Education courses are offered every Sunday morning from mid-September through May. Normally two courses are offered during the 9:30am block; one or two during the 11:00 am block. A course dedicated to Young Adults meets during the 9:30am block.

Your questions or suggestions for future topics are always welcome! Contact Adult Ministries Pastor Dave Dickey.

The Adult Education department offers a balanced study sequence that includes courses in: Bible book / Theology, Christian Living, Marriage & Family, Current Issues.

Our spiritual formation here at Emmanuel is enriched through having a number of teachers gifted and experienced in the unique challenges and approaches of instructing adults.

New

Current Courses  April 1 – May 27, 2012 

Block 1    9:30 – 10:30 am

Discover Emmanuel

facilitator Pastor David Rafeedie in Room 301  

(Only 6 session March 18 through April 22)

Are you fairly new to Emmanuel and wish to know more about us as a church family? Perhaps you have been attending for some time and are considering membership. If either of these statements describes you, we’d like to invite you to join us for “Discover Emmanuel”. This is a relaxed and informative time where you can enjoy a cup of coffee, ask questions & get answers.

Confident Parenting

facilitator: Leona Doerksen    Room 304

 Be the Parent Your Family Needs: If we are truly honest, most of us don’t really know what we’re doing as parents. We have good intentions, but daily frustrations and ongoing struggles might be evidence that we were better prepared to drive a car or pursue our career than raise children. To counter the usual trial-and-error method of parenting, in his book, Confident Parenting, Jim Burns offers time-tested advice and strategies for today’s busy families. Infused with his signature candidness and practicality, each chapter explores a different aspect of parenting from breaking generational chains of dysfunction and creating a warm atmosphere at home to handling discipline issues and blessing your children with a legacy of faith. Helpful follow-up exercises and questions along the way reinforce the basics of good parenting and provide a foundation for developing your own family plan. You won’t find any quick fixes here, but you will learn how to make a positive difference in your family.  (Description from the book)

Books for sale at the Info Centre or in class.

Beyond Biblicism – A Book Discussion

facilitator: Dennis Hiebert   Room 302

Christians accept the Bible as authoritative, but what that means, or how that is to be taken, is not always clear. The first article of the Evangelical Fellowship of Canada’s seven-article statement of faith states that “The Holy Scriptures, as originally given by God, are divinely inspired, infallible, entirely trustworthy, and constitute the only supreme authority in all matters of faith and conduct.” Yet when Christians read the Bible, they appeal to it, interpret it, and apply it in remarkably, sometimes contradictory ways. In The Bible Made Impossible: Why Biblicism is Not a Truly Evangelical Reading of Scripture (Brazos Press, 2011), Christian Smith first critiques the assumptions, beliefs, and practices of the approach common among evangelicals. He then offers a constructive alternative approach that is a more honest and faithful reading of the Bible. Far from challenging the inspiration and authority of Scripture, Smith critiques a particular rendering of it, encouraging evangelicals to seek a more responsible, coherent, and defensible approach to biblical authority.

The class  format will be a book club style open discussion, in which class participants read the same chapter of Smith’s book each week and then come together to discuss it on Sunday morning. from the church office . Anyone is welcome to join any or all of the discussions.  Full schedule available in class.

The book can be purchased from standard book sources, or from the Info Centre or in class for $15 .

Young Adults

facilitator Norm Schroeder & Kim Coursey  Board Room

This I Know. Whether in sports or in your career, excelling never occurs without a solid grasp of the basics. Through April, we’ll re-examine the truth about Jesus: his purposeful death, his verified resurrection, his presence with believers today, his work through the Church, and his promised return. Excell in your faith walk by solidifying the basics.
Leaving Your Mark in This World. How do we gain influence with others? Not by mastering information, but by demonstrating reliability and insight in real-life situations.   Your life can make a difference … among your family, your friends, even across other cultures.  In May, we’ll be challenged and encouraged from the lives of men and women of influence.

Block 2        11:00am – noon