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Christian Believer - Classical doctrines of the Christian
faith
 Christian Believer assumes that most people – though faithful
followers of Jesus they intend to be – know little of the
content of the central teachings of the Christian faith and its
ties to Scripture. But they want to know. They want to know what
is at stake in what the church teaches and how it makes a difference
in their own lives, what it means to be Christian, and where we
as Christians stand. Christian Believer aims at addressing the
uncertainty about the substance of the Christian faith and the
connection between believing and living. Christian Believer assumes
that participants are already followers of Jesus and that they
come to study to understand the faith they already have. Christian
Believer emphasizes the head as well as the heart. This study recognizes
that Christians say the creeds without understanding everything,
or even assenting to everything in them, because in saying them
they identify with the people and the tradition shaped by the confessions.
They recognize that “faith seeking understanding” is
a part of Christian experience. Christian Believer allows space
for questions, doubts, and dissent. The goal of Christian Believer
is to make available to people the substance of the Christian faith
that the church has confessed as a way of connecting to God and
living faithfully. This thirty-week study of the classical doctrines
of the Christian faith aims at presenting, explaining, and interpreting
Christian doctrine as the basic teaching of the church - to the
end that informed believing leads to committed discipleship.
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general information about Christian Believer CLICK
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