TIME

TUESDAY EVENINGS 7:00 - 8:30 PM

DATE

Starts January 16th, 2024. (full schedule below)

One can jump into Knowing God at any point. You do not need to have participated in previous sessions.

LOCATION

Steve Fowler’s Home – 3729 Valley Hill Rd. – Kennesaw

DESCRIPTION

In 2024 MEN ALIVE, Keystone’s Ministry for Men, will be facilitating a 22-week study using J. I. Packer’s book, Knowing God.

We will begin with an eleven-week study surveying the attributes of God (Chapters 7-17). We will follow up with another eleven-week study investigating the privileges and problems of living as a Christian (Chapters 1-6, 18-22).

In 1973, J. I. Packer, in his Preface to Knowing God writes,

The conviction behind the book is that ignorance of God—ignorance both of his ways and of the practice of communion with him—lies at the root of much of the church’s weakness today. Two unhappy trends seem to have produced this state of affairs.

Trend one is that Christian minds have been conformed to the modern spirit: the spirit, that is, that spawns great thoughts of man and leaves room for only small thoughts of God. The modern way with God is to set him at a distance, if not to deny him altogether; and the irony is that modern Christians, preoccupied with maintaining religious practices in an irreligious world, have themselves allowed God to become remote. ...

Trend two is that Christian minds have been confused by the modern skepticism. ... As a result, the Bible has come under heavy fire, and many landmarks in historical Christianity with it. The foundation-facts of faith are called into question. ...

“Stand at the crossroads and look; ask for the ancient paths, ask where the good way is, and walk in it, and you will find rest for your souls” (Jer 6:16). Such is the invitation which this book issues. It is not a critique of new paths, except indirectly, but rather a straightforward recall to old ones, on the ground that “the good way” is still what it used to be.

1. January 16 - Chapter 7: God Unchanging
2. January 23 - Chapter 8: The Majesty of God
3. January 30 - Chapter 9: God Only Wise
4. February 6 - Chapter 10: God's Wisdom and Ours
5. February 13 - Chapter 11: Thy Word is Truth
6. February 20 - Chapter 12: The Love of God
7. February 27 - Chapter 13: The Grace of God
8. March 5 - Chapter 14: God the Judge
9. March 12 - Chapter 15: The Wrath of God
10. March 19 - Chapter 16: Goodness and Severity
11. March 26 - Chapter 17: The Jealous God