A New Structure, the Same Purpose

It's been a privilege to serve as a pastor at Christ Fellowship Church over these past 5 months.  Things have moved rapidly since I've been here, from another pastor leaving, to a conference, and now we're in the midst of overhauling our service structure.  I love the conversations that I have had with godly men who love the church and desire to see the members grow to be more like Christ.

Beginning in January, we're making some shifts that are very significant.  First of all, we're moving to a home based group structure on Sunday nights on the 2nd and 4th weeks.  We'll meet at the church on the 1st and 3rd.  This is exciting and we think it will serve us well to enhance the body life of the church.  Rather than having a separate teaching theme, we'll take some time for review and group discussion about the Sunday Morning messages.  All too often we get large deposits of truth, but rarely take time to really process what we're learning.

Because of this shift, we're also adjusting the way that we currently do Sunday School.  We're moving from a typical (mostly) age segregated class structure to a quarterly classroom styled instruction.  By doing this, it enables us to teach a series of classes that will meet for one quarter at a time covering a huge range of subjects.  There will be 5 different classes taught every quarter, covering subjects such as: Apologetics, Hermeneutics, How to Pray, and Bible Overview classes.  This has been met with much excitement by our people with the opportunity to study some things that the lay person otherwise has little access to.

These changes come with much thought and prayer on the part of our Elder Team.  It's been enjoyable to stop and consider what we do and why we do it.