This Summer, we will have a Bible Study series in connection with our nation’s 250th anniversary: “Christianity & America: Reflections on Freedom over 250 Years.”
By reflecting on the history of our country and comparing it with the teachings of the Bible, we have a lens with which to view modern day events and issues, which will, Lord-willing, help us find out true freedom in Christ.
Our Christianity & America Bible Study will be every Sunday from 10:30am-11:15am
During our Divine Services, we will be singing some distinctly Lutheran American hymns to give us a deeper foundation.
Here is our proposed outline for the study:
- A People’s Quest for Ordered Liberty
- Three Biblical Foundations
- “Of Plymouth Plantation” & The Mayflower Compact
- A Sermon Aboard the Arabella: “A Modell of Christian Charity”
- Puritans, The Quakers & William Penn
- “The First Communion in the New World” How a Painting Illustrates Conflicts in Christianity
- Two Kingdoms: The Lutheran Understanding of Church & State
- “Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God” & The Great Awakening
- Freedom & Natural Law: Treatise of John Locke
- A Timeline of Denominations in America
- The Father of American Lutheranism, The Revolutionary War, and the Comfort of the Gospel
- The Lutheran Who Was the First Signer of the Bill of Rights: Frederick Augustus Conrad Muhlenberg
- The Cure of Souls & the Ordering of Society: Early state constitutions and the protection of the Christian faith
- Revivalism
- Populism & Popular Churches; Individualism & Privatized Religion
- Lutherans in the Civil War: U.V. Koren & C.F.W. Walther on Liberty
- 20th Century Freedom: Dietrich Bonhoeffer’s Reflections on American Freedom
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