Adult Ministries

Small Group
Grow Up!

The purpose of CBC's Adult Ministries is as follows:

  1. To provide for the assimilation of new comers into the life and ministry of CBC.
  2. To provide for opportunity and exposure to the grace of God through ministries designed for adults at various ages and stations of life.
  3. To provide for specific training of adults in the critical areas of family life, finances and ministry skills.
  4. To provide assistance for each adult in finding their place of ministry within the local church.

 

Team Ministry

 

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What's the Pastor Reading?

The BibleJohn 17:4

I have brought you glory on earth by completing the work you gave me to do.

About the Cross of Christ Discipline of Grace
by Jerry Bridges, Pg. 122

Jerry Bridge’s book, The Discipline of Grace, is one of the best I’ve read on understanding the cross of Christ, Getting past legalism and on to the love of God is what the Christian life is all about. Why not join in with others who know and love God with all their heart. Here is a sampling.

Love for God, then, is the only acceptable motive for obedience to Him. This love may express itself in a reverence for Him and a desire to please Him, but those expressions must spring from love. Without the motive of love, my apparent obedience may be essentially self-serving. Negatively, I may fear God will punish me, or at least withhold His blessing from me, because of some disobedience. I may abstain from a particular sinful action out of fear I will be found out or because I don’t want to feel guilty afterward.

Positively, I may be seeking to earn God’s blessing through some pious actions. I may conform to a certain standard of conduct because I want to fit in with and be accepted by the Christian culture in which I live. I might even obey outwardly because I have a compliant temperament, and it is simply my “nature” to obey my parents, or my teacher, or civil authorities, or even God.

Peacemaker
By Ken Sande, Pg. 38

Ken Sande’s book, Peacemaker, is helping me as I help others with relationship conflicts. It has also been a help to me personally as I know a little about conflict myself. Here is a gem from the book that maps out some essential ideas about conflict resolution.

Glorify God: How can I please and honor God in this situation?

Get the log out of your own eye: How can I show Jesus’ work in my by taking responsibility for my contribution to this conflict?

Gently restore: How can I lovingly serve others by helping them take responsibility for their contribution to this conflict?

Go and be reconciled: How can I demonstrate the forgiveness of God and encourage a reasonable solution to this conflict?


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