Western evangelical Christianity has largely been defined by what appear to be simple, direct, and easy pathways to heaven, things like the Roman Road and the ABC’s of faith. But sooner or later, those easy recipes fail us. Life throws us a curveball to which the Roman Road doesn’t know how to respond. Our lives are too complicated for simplistic faith formulas. Guided by Pete Enns book Curveball, we will take life’s curveballs seriously by asking questions like: What are we to do with contradictions in scripture? What about people who have never heard of Jesus or lived before our story began? How should our faith adjust to new realities? How do we imagine a God big enough to create our universe? What do we do when God is unpredictable? We hope you’ll join us as together we embrace some of the tough questions of our faith.
AUGUST 2
I Love You, Bible—Just Not ‘That’ Way
2 Timothy 3:16-17, Proverbs 26:4-5
AUGUST 9
The Other 99 Percent
John 14:1-6, Acts 4:12
AUGUST 16
Adjusting for Jesus
Matthew 5:17-18, Galatians 3:10-14
AUGUST 23
A Cosmic Curveball
Genesis 1:14-19
AUGUST 30
A Quantum Curveball
1 Corinthians 3:18-20