We are a welcoming co-ed group, started more than 20 years ago, that meets each week to study the bible. United by our desire to learn about scripture, our members very happily range from complete beginners to the quite learned. We spend 30 minutes studying the upcoming Sunday’s Mass readings. We then go on to another in-depth study of some aspect of scripture or our faith.
On March 1, 2018 the Thursday Night Bible Study will begin a Bishop Robert Barron study,
David the King. The cost of the study book is $26.00.
David is the paradigmatic king in the Old Testament. His kingship recalls that of Adam in the Garden of Eden, and yet it points toward the King par excellence, Jesus Christ. In
David the King, Bishop Barron helps us to understand this pivotal figure in light of the first king and the King of kings.
Adam was the first king and steward of the rightly ordered Garden of Eden. He was called to govern the garden according to God’s mind and purpose, but by allowing negative influences to wreak havoc on Eden, he did not fulfill his kingly responsibility. Long after Adam, David emerged as the definitive king who would restore order in the Garden and bring the world under the lordship of God. But like Adam, David fell, and his reign ushered in a succession of compromised kings and rejected prophets.
The New Testament, however, foretold a son of David who would realize the fullness of Israelite kingship...but whose actual reign defied expectation.
King David causes us to look back toward Adam’s kingship and forward toward Christ the King, seeing Christ as the fulfillment of the Davidic line and the realization of the Kingdom of God on earth.
We will meet each Thursday from 7 – 8:30 PM in the Cody Enrichment Center. Again, each week we will spend 30 minutes studying and discussing the upcoming Sunday’s bible readings and then do this wonderful study. Please call to register.
