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Bible Study Classes
Classes are held every Wednesday
in the Multi-Purpose room at 4.00 p.m.
Wednesday, February 8th at 4 p.m. in the Music/Multi-Purpose room
Faith, Superstition, Divine intervention, Magic, and Faithful Prayer. Prayer is concerned with energizing the means so as to achieve ends of worth. Magic's end is to produce to exercise powers that can influence outcomes. The need to learn distinguish prayer from magic. Faithful prayer is part and parcel of an ongoing relationship, a lifelong conversation, a prolonged attempt not to control God but to discern God's presence and activity in all that befalls us—the good and the bad, the desired and the undesirable. Faithful prayer is first of all about finding and placing ourselves in God's story, and God's story is about the redemption of the world.
The study of the Bible is absolutely necessary to the development of the Christian life. This study, by Dr. Sam Sawitski, D.Arts., Th.D., with profound references to the original languages, history, and the deep knowledge of the ancient Middle Eastern culture, was designed to afford suggestion and assistance to those who desire a fuller and more accurate knowledge of the Bible.
The facts which the Scriptures present are basis of faith in the Christ and in the whole series of providential events which prepared the way for His final disclosure of the life and purposes of God. Only by acquaintance with these facts and the prophetic, devotional discourses and meditations to which they gave occasion is one able to understand the Old and New Testaments as the records of our Christian faith.
The necessity of a daily return to the Scriptures as a means of spiritual nourishment and culture is the more apparent when one notes the fact that a great part of our religious life is made up of activities. This is true of the people of all walks of life, whose organizations with their various committees and departments lay emphasis on service; it is true of the devoted members of the church, before whom is constantly placed the responsibility for the active ministries to which the Gospel calls; and particularly is this true of the church workers and others whose lives are consecrated to Christian service. Where the visible ministries of the church are so largely devoted to the expenditure of spiritual vitality there must be some means of nourishment and recuperation. The nourishment of the Scriptures is as necessary to the spiritual life as that of food to the body.