New Sunday School Class

This Lord's Day we begin a new Sunday School quarter with a class on recovering the wonder of the ordinary. We will examine what it means to cultivate attentiveness to God in the daily press of life. The class begins at 9 a.m.

Hearing the Grass Grow and the Squirrel's Heartbeat: Recovering the Wonder of the Ordinary

The novelist George Eliot says at the end of Middlemarch, "If we had a keen vision and feeling of all ordinary human life, it would be like hearing the grass grow and the squirrel's heart beat, and we should die of that roar which lies on the other side of silence. As it is, the quickest of us walk about well wadded with stupidity."

You and I breathe the air of a world which equates the "spiritual" with the "extraordinary". Supposedly, following Jesus puts us on a higher plane and takes us out of our ordinary lives. Because of this view we are trained to be Pentecostal paparazzi, chasing after the glamorous works of God and hoping to get a snapshot of glory. This Sunday School class aims to improve our vision for God's holy presence in the ordinary aspects of human life - matters such as friendship and food, names and places, work and play, sex and death. Reflecting together on God's word, we will explore how the full range of human life is included in the call to follow Jesus.

Sunday School

Sunday School resumes January 29 at 9am. Specific course offerings will be announced soon.