All right, so this is what we've come to call our adult equipment school, and we initially established our equipping school to be a supplement to the pulpit ministry, just realizing that as we're moving mostly verse by verse through the Bible, there are other items and things that we want to get to in doctrine and in body life and discipleship that the. But can't bear the full weight of that. So you can think of the equipping school as is a way for us to get out the deposit of truth, the full deposit of truth that we'd like to get to our people here at Cornerstone so that we can all grow in our walk with Christ, grow in our marriages, grow in singleness, grow in body life, discipleship, and in doctrine. And so the particular this class is more of our doctrine track.
And the, the theme for all of our equipping school this year is Christ in your weakness, which comes from 2 Corinthians 12:9. It says this, and he has said to me, My grace is sufficient for you, for power is perfected in weakness. Most gladly, therefore, I will rather boast about my weaknesses so that the power of Christ may dwell in me. And here, Jesus says to Paul, that His grace.
is powerful and His grace is attracted to the weakness in Paul. We tend to think that it's our strength that invites God's power, but it's really our weakness that attracts God's grace that then gives us power. So throughout Scripture, it's really upside down from the way that we tend to think about it in the world. We think that, I need to grow and be super strong and And, as a younger Christian, I can remember just thinking, I'm just gonna keep marching upward and onward and getting better and better.
And here I am 52 and I feel worse in some ways. but actually, that's part of God's design to be strong on our behalf. And so in this class this year, we're going to be looking at the person and work of Christ in view of this theme of Christ in our weakness in this what we're calling season from now until December 12th, our focus is on the person of Christ. And we've selected this book, Gentle and Lowly, The Heart of Christ for Sinners and Sufferers by Dane Ortland, for a number of different reasons....
