This Sept. we will be starting what we hope will be a unique and valuable Bible Study. We call it Us & Him. Below you will find some information about our position.
We hope that the Lord will bring the unconverted, the uncomfortable and the unsatisfied who are interested in the Christian faith and want to learn and understand what the faith truly is.
We plan for the study to be on Tuesday evenings from 7:00-8:30 and "brown-bagging" dinner will be fine. Right now we're looking for a place to meet in Greensboro but if push comes to shove we'll start out at Caribou Coffee (my "office").
Please pass this on! I can be contacted at ms@tc2v1.com if there are any questions.
Your prayers and help will be greatly appreciated ---
And --- No, we're not starting a new "church" -
Us and Him, a Bible Study
The purpose of “Us and Him” is to glorify God and offer the
curious, confused and committed the opportunity to study the Christian faith in
a safe and biblically sound setting.
There are so many prejudiced views and confused perspective
of the Christian faith that we felt called to offer an opportunity for
believers and non-believers to become better informed of what the Word of God
teaches about the foundations and priorities of the faith.
Our approach is that all that is most appalling in the
history of the Church is, though not excusable, understandable in light of
Scripture. We believe that the priority
of each believer and hence the Body of Christ is not to change the world but to
be changed by the Word and the Spirit.
We believe that the battle between what Scripture calls the flesh and
the Spirit is the key battle the believer has to fight. We also believe that the world and the devil
have been very successful in distracting believers from this critical
confrontation by getting them to direct their efforts toward establishing a
kingdom which is only His to establish.
Though we are aware of the disturbing issues and debates
that mark American culture and even the church, our focus will be upon what has
been and always will be fundamental to the Christian faith: the believer, the beliefs and the one
believed in. For us it is about “Us and
Him,” not “Us and Them.”
We are called and thereby re-created to be “light.” Light by its very nature changes its
environment. We are not called nor
re-created to be fire. The fire which
will purge is His to employ not ours. It
is the nurturing (living growth) of our new nature that is critical to the
effect our “light” can and will have and it is by God’s Word and Spirit that
our new nature is nurtured.
Doctrinally we are Reformed, believing that this perspective
offers the clearest and most complete understanding of the Scriptures as well
as the duties and obligations of God’s people, corporately and individually.
While we are very aware that doctrinal differences can often lead to ugly
disputes, we believe that Reformed doctrine requires us to be people who engage
in conversations that help everyone involved grow in their love for and service
to God and their fellow human beings.”
Mat 22:36-40 "Teacher, which is the great commandment
in the Law?" (37) And he said to him, "You shall love the
Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your
mind. (38) This is the great and first commandment. (39)
And a second is like it: You shall love your neighbor as yourself. (40) On these two commandments depend all the
Law and the Prophets."
To love God is not easy, He’s really really big. Certainly He has put a love for Himself into
the hearts of believers. But that love
needs to grow in its depth and breadth.
Only through the Word and the Spirit can it do so. This love for God is also what the other
commandment depends upon for fruition.
We believe that without a love for God there is only a love for self to
the exclusion of love for anyone else.
In view of this,
every session will aim at gleaning the “how” of loving God.
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