Author Dane Ortland observes in his book Gentle and Lowly, “The Christian life, from one angle, is the long journey of letting our natural assumption about who God is, over many decades, fall away, being slowly replaced with God’s own insistence of who he is.” This rings so true to me as a lifelong Christian. My assumptions, grounded in a sin nature that does not easily allow me to see truth, are usually based on my view of people and how they operate. Over time, God has shown me again and again that He is not like us. And in shifting my view of God to his truth, I have found that my views of the world and of myself have shifted too.
Our next Adult Sunday School series will focus on God’s heart for us. Yes, we all know that God loves the world. John 3:16 is ubiquitous. But how does God feel about me? Does He simply put up with me? Is He constantly annoyed but has to continue to love me because He’s God? Is He stuck with me? Is He disappointed in me?
Join us as we unpack just a tiny bit of God’s “insistence of who he is” found in Scripture, illustrated and explained by a few books and a video series we as a team have found immeasurably helpful. These include Gentle and Lowly by Dane Ortland, “Reformation Truths” and Delighting in the Trinity by Michael Reeves, and The Heart of Christ by Thomas Goodwin. Each of these books will be available to you during the course of the study.
Our first session will be this morning at 11:15 am in the auditorium, and the class will run through the month of March.
