Ministers struggle to find new and captivating angles on the stories that have been told and retold for centuries. The rest of us just struggle to find some meaning amid all the sensationalism that typically surrounds these holy days. The author offers some hope for both the preacher and the listener. Beginning with the season of Advent, Dant guides us to Christmas, Epiphany, Lent, Holy Week, Easter and Pentecost. Added to these prominent holy days are sermons and thoughts for national holidays. The lessons and insights tucked into these pages would be welcomed on any day of your life. The nature of these meditations is rooted in the author's personal background. His faith is even broader, as he was born to a Jewish mother, christened into the Roman Catholic church, adopted as a young student into a Baptist family and educated at a Presbyterian seminary. It is from that rich background that he shares these stories and sermons with us.

The Truth Is Sensational Enough: Meditations for the Church Year (Mercer Church Resources)

Religion & Spirituality

Dant, Jim

Dant, James C.

Worship & Devotion

Mercer University Press

Materials Included • 4 Sessions of Learner’s Materials • 4 Sessions of Teaching Materials • 4 Sessions of Bible Background Sessions Included 1. History and Decision-Making 2. Lifestyle and Decision-Making 3. Leadership and Decision-Making 4. Process and Decision-Making Scriptures 1. Acts 1:15-26 2. 1 Thessalonians 5:12-22 3. Acts 9:26-30 4. Acts 15:1-35 Brief Description One needs only to eavesdrop on conversations in church parking lots, hallways and classrooms to know that an array of decisions draw energy and time from church members. These decisions may be theological in nature, concerning the ordination of women, mode of baptism, or style of worship. Then again, these decisions also could concern aesthetic matters, such as the color of the sanctuary carpet or choir robes. Other decisions may be functional in nature: the selection of a new minister or the purchase of property. And of course, there is always the looming decision that must be made by every family every Sunday: Where do we eat lunch? Over the course of sessions, this study will consider how the church has made its decisions in the past. Within these biblical stories will not be found any secret formulas, foolproof techniques, or even suggestions for where to eat lunch. No one story will provide the key to a smooth decision-making process in your own life or the life of your church. But each story will offer its own unique perspective on what your church’s intentional and unintentional decision-making processes might look like. A part of the NextSunday Resources line of adult Bible studies, How Does the Church Decide? contains four lessons for use as individual study or group discussion. Each study contains lessons on the biblical material, combined with an additional commentary from an alternate, but complementary, viewpoint.

How Does the Church Decide?

Christian Books & Bibles

NextSunday Resources

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