theology cafe @ christ church orpington


Cafe Theolgy

In the home group survey and the 'Reveal' survey, we learned that you want to study your faith more deeply. However, we may not be able to go to theological college or access diocesan training. So, in combination with able and knowledgeable Bible students from within our congregation, we are drawing on the experience of the School of Theology at Holy Trinity Brompton. "Faith Track" has been filmed there so that we can run an introduction to theology within our local community.


The FaithTrack DVD comprises nine separate one hour teaching sessions given by gifted and engaging doctors of theology:- Jane Williams, Michael Lloyd and Graham Tomlin and cover the following topics:


FaithTrack
  • The Character of God
  • Creation
  • Sin, Evil and the Fall
  • Incarnation
  • The Death of Christ
  • Jesus' Resurrection and Ascension
  • The Holy Spirit
  • The Trinity
  • Fulfilment

We will run these sessions over the year September 2010 - June 2011 with some breaks for major festivals and holidays. We may change the order of the talks, but this gives you a flavour.


There will be talk outlines provided for each talk. This will help you to follow, but you can take notes as well. Learning in community is important to us so there is a discussion time to accompany each talk. The questions are there to let discussion flow in the group setting, At each theology cafe session, we hope to have a facilitator and a knowledgeable student of the Bible. That way, we can not only learn from the video material but from one another as well.


So, how can you participate? First of all, we value the home group ministries and we don't want to stop them. Therefore we propose running theology cafe on the 3rd Wednesday morning of the month (in a similar way to the Lent course.) Also, we are going to run it on the 3rd Sunday evening in September, October and Novemeber. (Doing it on the 3rd week allows people to do home groups on the 2nd and 4th weeks.) It may also be possible to do theology cafe in home groups, but that would miss out on the larger group learning experience.


What to Do Now?


We want to encourage every member of the church to consider joining us at theology cafe. We believe that no matter how familiar or unfamiliar you are with the Christian faith, you will find this a great benefit in studying the foundational teachings of the faith Talk it through with any family members & / or members of your home group.Look out for the sign-up sheet or the email in your inbox for theology cafe.


What date and time suits you best?


We look forward to seeing you there!



theology cafe starts on Wednesday 15th September at 10am.
(Grab breakfast, coffee &/or some food in readiness to start.)

theology cafe starts on Sunday 19th September at 6.30pm.
(Grab afternoon tea, coffee from 5.45pm in readiness to start.)



I pray that out of his glorious riches he may strengthen you with power through his Spirit in your inner being, so that Christ may dwell in your hearts through faith. And I pray that you, being rooted and established in love, may have power, together with all the saints, to grasp how wide and long and high and deep is the love of Christ

ephesians 3. 16 - 18

dates-

The Trinity

Wed 15 September @ 10.00am
Sun 19 September @ 6.30pm

The Character of God

Sun 17 October @ 6.30pm
Wed 20 October @ 10.00am

Creation

Wed 17 November @ 10.00am
Sun 21 November @ 6.30pm

Sin, Evil and the Fall

Wed 15 December @ 10.00am
Sun 16 January @ 6.30pm

Incarnation

Wed 19 January @ 10.00am

The Death of Christ

Wed 16 February @ 10.00am

Incarnation

Sun 20 February @ 6.30pm

The Death of Christ

Sun 20 March @ 6.30pm

Sun 15 May @ 6.30pm

Jesus' Resurrection and Ascension

Wed 18 May @ 10.00am

The Holy Spirit

Wed 15 June @ 10.00am

Sun 19 June @ 6.30pm

Fulfilment

Wed 13 July @ 10.00am

Sun 17 July @ 6.30pm
Sun 02 October @ 6.30pm
Sun 30 October @ 6.30pm