This fall at Community Bible Church of Beaufort during the 9:15 hour, we'll be going through J.I. Packer's excellent book, Knowing God. I was led to Knowing God in high school after reading Tozer's, The Pursuit of God, Piper's The Pleasures of God, and Dan Dehaan's The God You Can Know. In the God You Can Know, Dehaan relates how when he was leading a large collegiate Bible Study, he kept receiving question after question from students about many different aspects of the Christian Life. Through this process, he realized that most of the students did not have a proper understanding of the character and nature of God. He found that by placing the microscope on the character of God, students not only began to understand more about God, but also began to develop better relationships with Him. They also began to understand their own character qualities as well!
My hope and prayer is that through this class, hearts will be awakened to our Father in Heaven, that we'll be spurred on in our pursuit of Christ, and that we will listen more attentively to the urgings of the Spirit as we bear His fruit. Tozer said in The Pursuit of God, "The most important thing about you, is what you think about when you think about God." And that's true! Because a proper view of God is our foundation in how we should think about everything. Jesus told the woman at the well in John 4:23-24, "But the hour is coming, and is now here, when the true worshipers will worship the Father in spirit and truth, for the Father is seeking such people to worship him. God is spirit, and those who worship him must worship in spirit and truth." Join us as we strive to worship God as he really is, in spirit and in truth.
If you have questions or are interested in joining the class, please email me at grant.r.castleberry@gmail.com.
