Please remember to sign up for the Electives in February. Please use the opportunity to spend some time on a certain topic, get to know new teachers/presenters or simply just be surprised by what will be worked out together.

You can sign up here
or on the clipboards, or in Dickerson Hall, or in your Sunday School class.

Serving the Poor – Developing a heart for the poor in Chester County

Jim Ford (Director of Good Works) &

Roger Wayne (Special Projects Coordinator  Community, Youth and Women’s Alliance)

What is poverty? What does the Bible say about poverty? What is God's heart for the poor?
What is our Christian responsibility for the poor? How do we define poverty in Chester County?
Developing a heart for the poor - hopelessness and hope - benefits of serving the poor - and opportunities for service.
We will blend elements of the Bible, parables, Good Works, Bridges Out of Poverty, and our personal experiences to help Christians develop a heart for the poor in Chester County.

Counterfeit Gods

Jim Shackleton

Using the book by the same name (author Tim Keller) and many examples from scripture, we will look at idolatry in our culture and in ourselves.
To contemporary people the word idolatry conjures thoughts of primitive people bowing down before statues, or modern day 'pop stars' (ie 'American Idol') ... but in scripture idolatry is a sophisticated issue ... anything more important to you than God, anything that absorbs your heart and imagination more than God, anything you seek to give you the hope, meaning, and fulfillment that only God can provide. Idols are often good things (family,hard work, relationships, individual freedom as but a very few examples) that have crept into first place in our lives.
God desires that we discern the idols of our hearts and culture ... as a first step.  This is the majority of teaching in thiselective.  However, a portion of each session will focus on the principle that God desires that we not simply remove our counterfeit gods, but that we replace them.
Be prepared to be able to fit yourself right into this teaching, for there are many principles for personal reflection and decision within this topic.  We would love to have you join us!

So What’s Next?

Rev. Bob Scott

Taking into account all beings in the universe, whether existing inside or outside of time, only God is omniscient. Therefore, He alone knows the future!  We are limited to what he has revealed in answering, "What's Next?"  All else is mere speculation, unacceptable when the stakes are so high!  This elective will examine what Scripture reveals about four future topics: (1) The Intermediate state (existence between death and bodily resurrection), (2) The Millennium, (3) Heaven (4) Hell.  Do souls sleep in death?  Is there purgatory?  Do any souls ever cease to exist?  Will everyone's experience in Heaven be the same; what about Hell? etc.


All classes held 9:30 – 10:45 a.m. each Sunday in February. You can sign up here. Please register for your elective choice on the clip board located at the end of your pew OR on the sign-up sheets posted on the table in Dickerson Hall.