Grace Mission Community Church

In Christ, we will train and equip the body of believers with clear biblical teachings and development of our spiritual gifts.

The Teaching Ministry is responsible for providing Bible study classes for our Sunday worship as well as our large group fellowship meetings which meet on Fridays.

We are currently offering the following Bible studies after our Sunday morning service:

Bible Study Topics:

• Fundamentals of Christianity Led By Pastor Susy
  A class for college freshmen that looks at the building blocks of our faith.

  The Fundamentals of Christianity teaches the basic foundations of Christian theology over the course of one academic year by trying to answer three fundamental questions: “Who is God?”, “Who are we?”, and “Who is Jesus?”

• Romans: A Study Course In The Gospel Led By Peter Son
  A class that goes deep into the letter Paul wrote to the Romans.  For college Sophomores and any others who wish to join.

  Paul wishes to have his readers first understand and then experience the gospel, to know its glorious release. Martin Luther explains how he came to know it the first time:

  I labored and diligently and anxiously as to how to understand Paul’s word [in Romans 1:17], where he says that the righteousness of God is revealed in the Gospel. I sought long and knocked anxiously for the expression “the righteousness of God.”  This blocked the way, because I took it to mean that righteousness whereby God is righteous and deals righteously in punishing the unrighteous. My situation was that, although an impeccable monk, I stood before God as a sinner troubled in
  conscience, and I had no confidence that my merit would assuage him. Therefore I did not love a righteous and angry God, but rather hated and murmured against him. Yet I clung to the dear Paul and had a great yearning to know what he meant.

  …Then I grasped that the righteousness of God is that righteousness by which through grace and sheer mercy God justifies us by faith. Thereupon I felt myself to be reborn and to have gone through open doors into paradise… When I saw the difference, that law is one thing and gospel another, I broke through. And as I had formerly hated the expression “the righteousness of God”, I now began to regard it as my dearest and most comforting word. So that this expression of Paul’s became to me in very truth a gate of paradise.

  …If you have a true faith that Christ is your Saviour, then at once you have a gracious God for faith leads you and opens up God’s heart and will that you should see pure grace and overflowing love. This it is to behold God in faith that you should look upon his fatherly friendly heart, in which there is no anger nor ungraciousness. He who sees God as angry does not see him rightly but only looks upon a curtain, as if a dark cloud had been drawn across his face.

  Those who read the letter to the Romans today must ask themselves: “Have I, like Luther, ‘broken through’ into the freedom and release that the gospel brings? Or has it not really penetrated me? Are things ‘blocking’ it up, as it was with Luther at first?

• Living In A Pluralistic Society: Judges, Daniel & Joseph Led By John Moon
  Israel had strong leadership under Moses and Joshua during the exodus, and later under David and Solomon in the monarchy. In both eras there was a strong human leader who represented God and ruled society on the basis of divine law. But in these intervening years, the Israelites lived in a “spiritually pluralistic” society. Due to Israel’s various failures, the society of Canaan was a mixture of pagan and believing peoples. There are many parallels between that situation and ours today. Largely due to the failures of the church, believers in the West find themselves living in a religiously pluralistic society. Individual Christians work and live among a great variety of gods–not only those of other formal religions, but also the gods of wealth, celebrity, pleasure, ideology, achievement.Christians reading Judges today must ask: how can we be sure to follow God rather than the idols of our society and neighbors? How can we renew ourselves when we fail or fall?
• Systematic Theology Led By Isaac Park
  Systematic theology is a discipline of Christian theology that attempts to formulate an orderly, rational, and coherent account of the Christian faith and beliefs. Inherent to a system of theological thought is that a method is developed, one which can be applied both broadly and particularly. Systematic theology draws on the foundations of the sacred texts of Christianity, and also looks to the development of doctrine over the course of history, philosophy, science, and ethics to produce as full a view and as versatile a philosophical approach as possible. .
  
  
• Purpose Driven Life Led By Pastor Moon
  This Bible study steps through the book Purpose Driven Life by Rick Warren. The Purpose-Driven Life is a manifesto for Christian living in the 21st century…a lifestyle based on eternal purposes, not cultural values. Using biblical stories and letting the Bible speak for itself, this Bible study explores God’s five purposes for each of us:
  * We were planned for God’s pleasure, so your first purpose is to offer real worship.
  * We were formed for God’s family, so your second purpose is to enjoy real fellowship.
  * We were created to become like Christ, so your third purpose is to learn real discipleship.
  * We were shaped for serving God, so your fourth purpose is to practice real ministry.
  * We were made for a mission, so your fifth purpose is to live out real evangelism..
  
  

If you would like to become involved in the Teaching Ministry please contact Pastor Susy.