"Amen."

Week 4 of All Things New

Teacher: Megan Stibrich

Amen means “it is true.” But “amen” is not just a mental assent, it is a pledge; it is joining a community and sharing in its dangers and tasks as well as its blessings. For many in the Church, this amen is costly, because it is a “yes” you say with your whole life.

“We look for the resurrection of the dead, and the life of the world to come.”

Week 3 of All Things New

Teacher: Devynn Brankel

Becoming a Christian is sometimes marketed as a “Get-out-of-Hell-free” card, or as eternal insurance in your back pocket for when you die. But Jesus’ conception of the Gospel and Heaven was very different than a lot of our evangelical “go to heaven when you die” gospels. How does the richness, resurrection, and resonance of Jesus’ Gospel and Heaven impact not just someday, but this very day that I’m living in? What if Heaven is closer than I think it is?

“We acknowledge one baptism for the forgiveness of sins.”

Week 2 of All Things New

Teacher: Brad Miller

When we are baptized into new life with Jesus, we are also adopted into a new family – a wonderful, weird, crazy family. And what’s both great and awful about family is that you don’t get to pick who you’re related to. As Christians, we are not united by our love of the same music, same political views, socioeconomic class, families of origin, or what we like to eat for breakfast, but rather, we are united by one thing: Jesus. How do we navigate family relationships in the new family of Christ we are a part of? What does it mean to live as a brother or sister in the family of God?