Discussion Group Following Wednesday Prayer Beginning Sept. 14

Please join us as we follow Prof. Bart Ehrman's course "How Jesus Became God" through the weeks of the fall and winter seasons. Our discussion group will start Wednesday, September 14.  This virtual discussion group will follow the Wednesday Service and will use the same zoom link. We'll listen to the lecture (available through the Great Courses organization) and talk afterward about what we've learned. Lecture and discussion will be together last approximately an hour. Everyone is welcome! No need to buy a book! Come, listen, ponder and discuss. We look forward to exploring the concepts and questions raised in this course together!

Here is a brief description of Prof. Erhman's course:   "Jesus of Nazareth was a preacher of the imminent apocalypse, who proclaimed that God was soon going to intervene in history, overthrow the forces of evil, and set up a good kingdom here on earth. In the last week of his life, Jesus took his message to Jerusalem, the capital city of Judea, and there, faced violent opposition. He was arrested, put on trial, charged with imagining himself the future king of the Jews, and condemned to death by crucifixion. He died as a powerless and forsaken Jewish preacher of an apocalypse that never came.

Yet four centuries later, millions of people throughout the Roman Empire considered Jesus not to be a failed Jewish prophet but to be a divine being, none other than the God who created the universe, equal in power and stature with God the Father Almighty.

This course addresses the question of how that happened. How did the rejected Jewish preacher who ended up on the wrong side of the law and was crucified for his efforts come to be thought of as the Lord and creator of all things, a member of the divine Trinity? How did Jesus become God?"