AW Tozer once stated, “What comes into your mind when you think about God is the most important thing about you.” For CLC to become a church who displays God’s glory well, we must be a church who knows who and what His word calls us to and then reorients our lives around this standard. If we are to ever become a gospel centered community, we must be a church who rightly understands doctrine and then lives all of life in a gospel-centered manner. If we are to ever work for the gospel renewal of Tampa and all nations, we must be a church who rightly understands God’s mission and how His church is involved and then in obedience to this understanding joins God on His mission.
Covenant Life Institute (CLI) is a venue whereby we grow together in hopes of becoming biblical theologians and missionaries. CLI supplements the preached word and missional community discussions in helping us grow in our understanding of God and the various doctrines surrounding Him.
Practically, CLI is a one-hour time of study (8:45-9:45am) on Sunday mornings that will serve to grow us in our understanding of and love for Jesus. CLI is offered in 8-week semesters/rotations so that we can offer 4 weeks of study while another group serves. At the end of these 4 weeks the groups switch and those who were studying now serve so that those serving can now study. If you are not serving, we invite you to join with us as we study. Covenant Life Church is adapting a cohesive and purposeful curriculum created by North Wake Church that will focus on laying a biblical, gospel-centered foundation about the doctrines of the Christian faith and how these doctrines inform all of life.
We recently completed our first rotation of CLI studying the doctrine of God. The next rotation of CLI is underway as we are studying the doctrine of Scripture & how to study the Bible. Here is the schedule for this rotation:
February 5 & March 4 — Composition & Authority of the Bible
February 12 & March 11 — How to Study the Bible: Observation
February 19 & March 18– How to Study the Bible: Interpretation
February 26 & March 25– How to Study the Bible: Application
