This is the last class, it seems a bit ironic that a class on church practices do not have a session on teaching, so here we go.

The following are my notes but obviously the discussion went in many different directions but the notes still hold as the gist of what we discussed.

Teaching in the church

1. Why?
Great commission: (Mt 28:19-20, Mk 16:15-18, Lk 24:45-49, Jn 17:18,20:21 Acts 1:8)

In a nutshell Jesus left us with a two part commission, make disciples and proclaim the gospel.

In retrospect, I’ll call this session: “the reality of the worship experience”

1. Recap what we have done with worship in the past weeks, Carlin gave a summary from his class last week and Michelle read from her notes on Nolan’s class on worship with the Word.

2. To set some context for discussion we read: “9.5 theses on worship” by Gary A. Parrett from Ct

3. We focused on one single theses: “worship should be a life style not just a time slot”

Carlin lead today with this handout.

Carlin's leading this section of the class and he brought in a special guest, Pastor Nolan! Here is Pastor Nolan's handout (with the blanks filled in).

Toby lead the class again and recapped last week's discussion on worshipping in spirit and truth and how worship has changed over time and from the OT to the NT. Individuals were given slips of paper with verses. We specifically looked at John 4:23-24 and Heb 9:1-10. Malachi 1:10-11, Act 2 and 1 Cor 6:19 illustrate the spiritual side as does 1 Co 3:16; Ep 2:19-22, 1 Pe 2:5,9; Ro 12:1; He 13:15, Re 5:8 and Ep 5:19.

Toby lead last Sunday's class. Here's an outline.