Broadway Baptist Church

College/Graduate Students Class
Learning to ask the right questions.

"I beg you... to have patience with everything unresolved in your heart and try to love the questions themselves as if they were locked rooms or books written in a very foreign language. Don't search for the answers, which could not be given you now, because you would not be able to live them. And the point is, to live everything. Live the questions now. Perhaps then, someday far in the future, you will gradually, without even noticing it, live your way into the answer..."
-Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young Poet

  • The college class meets at 12:45 p.m. in room 15 , which is a side room off Fellowship Hall (below the sanctuary).

  • The college class is a home for the many college students who grew up at Broadway, but attend school and live outside Fort Worth. This class is designed to welcome you when you are home for break, summer, or a special weekend.

  • Additionally, the college class is a home for the many college students who attend TCU and other colleges and universities in Fort Worth and Arlington. We welcome those of you who are looking for a church home while you are here attending school.

  • Objectives:
    1. To have a study and discussion that begins with reading the Bible.
    2. To provide an open and inclusive discussion where ideas and concerns are shared. Those who participate by listening and observing are also part of the group.
    3. To provide a safe place to ask questions in search of honesty and genuineness.
    4. To discuss movies, music, art, books, hymns, theology, mission, and politics to see how they relate to the gospel of Jesus Christ.
    5. To provide an atmosphere that relates to and flows from the worship time that begins at 10:50. Worship is the central act for the Christian community and the bible study should draw on that special time. Often our bible study will be on the worship/sermon text for that very Sunday.
    6. To not be a waste of time.
  • Principles:
    Your faith is not another paper to write or exam to pass, but a relationship to be had. Christianity is a journey of learning to walk through life with grace and humility in the way of Jesus Christ, with the guidance of the Holy Spirit. The spiritual life involves asking questions and searching for answers. Your college years are formational in that you can learn not just to ask questions, but learn to ask the right questions. No sole Christian nor any church has all the answers. But by journeying together, we learn from each other. We should hope to understand as best we can and also hope to experience the mystery of God in all of life.

    Please check out the rest of the Broadway website to see what Broadway is about. Broadway's worship services are carefully and corporately planned to be a holy and reverent time of worship. Broadway has a long tradition of great preachers and an excellent music ministry. Also, Broadway has remained intentional about staying near downtown and discovering what it means to reach out to those in need. There is a host of ways to be a part of this church, and Broadway needs you. Broadway tries hard to accept people from different backgrounds and traditions. You are welcome in this community of grace. At this time, the college class is led by David Ivie. David is a student at Brite Divinity School at TCU here in Fort Worth. He is married with two children. David received his bachelor's in history and English from Baylor University in 1991. He worked in business for ten years before coming to divinity school full time in 2002. He is preparing for ministry as a church pastor, and plans to pursue a Ph.D. after completing his M.Div. work at Brite. If you would like to contact David directly, please email him at d.a.ivie@tcu.edu.

    Sundays:
    Worship: 10:50 a.m., sanctuary
    Meal: 12:15 p.m., every Sunday, Fellowship Hall (below Sanctuary)
    Discovery College Class: 12:45 p.m., Room 15 (off Fellowship Hall)

    Wednesdays:
    5:00-6:00 p.m. dinner, Fellowship Hall
    5:45 p.m. prayer and study, Fellowship Hall

    Thursdays:
    5:30 p.m. Agape meal (volunteers needed to serve)
    For more information, contact the Peter Nelson in the church education office at 817-336-7464, ext. 8226.

    Please check out the rest of the Broadway website to see what Broadway is about. Broadway's worship services are carefully and corporately planned to be a holy and reverent time of worship. Broadway has a long tradition of great preachers and an excellent music ministry. Also, Broadway has remained intentional about staying near downtown and discovering what it means to reach out to those in need. There is a host of ways to be a part of this church, and Broadway needs you.

    Broadway tries hard to accept people from different backgrounds and traditions. You are welcome in this community of grace.


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    "When we accept that there are sets of problems for which there are no answers, and that there never will be answers, we create room for mystery and imperfection in life. Mystery and imperfection restore our humanity. It is the imperfect room that...opens us to the possibility of life. There needs to be space for wonder, gratitude, surrender, grief, and compassion in our institutional lives as well as our personal lives. It transforms what we thought were 'problems' into the human condition. Our willingness to accept an imperfect and paradoxical world breaks down our detachment and creates the opportunity for a more intimate connection with the world. It helps us realize that all business is personal and thereby brings depth into our lives. And learning about questions is the potter's clay of idealism." Peter Block, The Answer to How Is Yes: Acting On What Matters, 2001.


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