We spent 2024 looking at Psalm 23 and what it teaches us about our Good Shepherd. We spent all of last year gazing upon our Beloved Jesus through the book of John. Where will we go next?
We’re glad you asked!
This week we’re beginning our next series, The Unfolding Life, where we’ll explore the story of the Early Church together. Our Lord was resurrected from the dead. He appeared to hundreds of people for 40 days—and then, remarkably, ascended into heaven. What happens next?
On the day of Pentecost, God gives Himself again to His people—this time not just to visit, but to remain with them.
Together, we’ll explore what the life of God looks like as it unfolds in real people and real communities. We’ll walk through the book of Acts and watch the first church take shape in Jerusalem. We’ll see how persecution scatters ordinary people—people filled with God’s life—back to their homes and into new places throughout Judea, Samaria, and beyond. From there, we’ll watch as this same life reaches people and cultures without the Jewish background of the earlier communities.
Is God’s life—God’s love, God’s kingdom—revealed in the same way everywhere?
What do we learn about God’s character as people learn to love Him together?
What does it look like when a community discovers how to live with God present among them—Father, Son, and Spirit?
As we meet the people and places where the church takes root and grows, we’ll notice how different aspects of God’s character and beauty emerge in different contexts, through the lives of those He dwells within.
As we read, we’ll pay attention not only to the story but also to our own reactions, asking what we can learn about:
- Life with God (the Trinity)
- Life in community
- Life shaped by God’s kingdom
And as we live here in Denver in 2026, we’ll ask: how is God’s life unfolding among us today? What a gift to discover that together—and to live into it.
We look forward to discovering this together,
The Teaching Team