By Heart Discussion Group
Sundays, 10:15am
By Heart is for those who want to be introduced to faith, those who find the Creed and Lord’s Prayer to be rote exercise and the sacraments obscure rituals, those who have the these texts and Luther's explanations of them memorized and hold them near and dear. By Heart is for all teens and adults looking to ignite and reignite their spark of faith this Easter as together we ask "But what does this mean?"
Like the Small Catechism itself, this course aims to create faith. It is for adults who have never encountered the Small Catechism, and it is for adults who studied and memorized it as adolescents or teens. It is for those who assume that the original document requires no further explication and that we should simply pick it up and start reading (or memorizing). It is also for those who find scripture to be an inaccessible forest of words, the Creed and Lord’s Prayer to be rote exercise, the sacraments to be obscure rituals, and Martin Luther and his innovations to be largely irrelevant.
For those who are about to be introduced to the Small Catechism, and for those who know it well already, we hope the Spirit will use this course to ignite—and reignite—in them the irrepressible spark of faith.
So, the purpose of this course is to create space, at least, for conversations among people at all places along their faith journeys. Participants will talk about faith, engage scripture, and work together to make sense of our lives as 21st century Christians in the Lutheran tradition.