ADULT

Formation

Growing in faith is a lifelong journey.

Growing in faith is a life-long journey and we offer many opportunities for adults to explore the Christian faith and discover how to live out their faith in the world. At Good Samaritan, we value questions, wrestle with doubts, and don’t settle for easy answers. Learning together in community helps us understand more about God, the world, and ourselves. Our formation opportunities for adults are safe places to wrestle with real life and discover how God is present through every stage, experience, or challenge.

Adult formation is offered in a variety of ways, including Sunday morning formation during the academic year, small groups, retreats, and weekly Bible studies.

Adult Formation Series:

Seek God in All Things: Finding God with Our Senses

In her book For the Time Being, Annie Dillard makes the statement: “Holiness lies spread and borne over the surface of time and stuff like color.” In other words, God and God’s presence is everywhere, we just need to search for it. This Lent, as we explore living fully in our Lenten Devotional and as we pray our way to a fuller understanding of God with inclusive language in our worship services, you are invited into a time of exploring the fullness of God’s presence in our world using your senses. Each week we will examine one of the five senses and how it can help us to encounter God in the tangible messiness of our daily lives. Join us on Sundays at 9am in the narthex to learn and practice our way to truly finding God in all things.

February 18: Sight
February 25: Hearing
March 3: Smell
March 10: Taste
March 17: Touch

Past Sessions:

Previously we covered a broad range of topics. Here is a sampling of the sessions we had:

  • The Wild and Surprising World of Angels
  • Light of the World: Looking at Advent with New Eyes
  • Surprising Saints
  • Habits and Spiritual Practices that Support Resilience
  • Church History: A six week study of questions and issues with which the early Church had to grapple and how that influenced what we practice today
  • Advent Series: The Proto-Evangelium and Its Influence on Tradition; The Voice of Isaiah; John the Baptist; and Poetry of the Incarnation
  • What is a Priest?
  • What is Happening at a Eucharist?
  • Lenten Series on Prayer: Praying the Psalms; Praying the Old Testament Canticles; Different Methods of Contemplative Prayer; Poetic Language for God
  • Church History: How the Romans viewed the Early Christians; How Christianity went from a Sect to a Major Religion
  • Grappling with Racism within the Episcopal Church
  • The Difference Course – a five week study exploring how to follow the example of Jesus within a deeply divided world
  • How we Engage in Theological Reflection

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