Why do I need to study? I already do enough studying and the last thing I want to do is to read another book. I already know that God loves me. The last thing I want to do is sit around talking about boring things."

Often this is the attitude that people bring to learning, but the reality is that Jesus wants us not simply to learn with our head but with our whole lives. Learning as people of faith is not merely an exercise in intellectual stimulation, as though the more we knew the more God would love us or the more we would be acceptable to God.

The word 'disciple' literally means 'learner.' To be a learner of Jesus is to be one whose way of life reflects the life and way of Jesus. So the question for us as we learn constantly needs to be 'how is God at work in the world?' That question of course is answered as we look to the life, death and resurrection of Jesus. That is why for us everything that we do centers on what Jesus is doing.

So why learn? Because to learn from Jesus is to learn to align our lives to his, to participate in something greater than ourselves, to share with and in the Kingdom of God already present in the world.

It would be more helpful for us to think about being a disciple of Jesus as being equipped with tools for the life in Jesus. Tools are needed and used for a specific purpose, to make real God's Kingdom in and through us.

Here are discipleship tools that LCM makes available so that we can become learners of Jesus:

Worship - Sundays 6 p.m.

Bible Study- The Road, Wed. 6 p.m. dinner, 7 p.m. study

Prayer - daily conversation, listening and speaking, with God

Service -see Faith Active in Love

Fellowship/Community -
there are always community events that anyone is welcome to that we have through the course of the semester, look at our online calendar.