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Men’s Bible Study · Every other Tuesday, 6:30 PM
Every nation, every trade, one Book.
Look around this room on a Tuesday night and you’ll find men from different countries, different races, different neighborhoods, and both sides of the white-collar/blue-collar line — open to the same chapter.
About the Men’s Ministry
Most men’s groups end up being a room full of guys who already had a lot in common. Ours didn’t turn out that way, and we are not interested in fixing it.
On any given Tuesday there are men here who were born in another country and men who have never left Delaware County. Men who wear a hard hat and men who wear a badge on a lanyard. Different races, different ages, different tax brackets, different amounts of Bible knowledge. Some have walked with the Lord for thirty years. Some got saved last spring and are still finding their way around the table of contents.
That mix is not an accident of geography. It is what a church looks like when the gospel is the only membership requirement.
“Iron sharpeneth iron; so a man sharpeneth the countenance of his friend.”Proverbs 27:17 · King James Version
What we’re actually doing
Right now we are going book by book through the Bible. Not topics, not a video series, not a workbook with blanks to fill in. We open a book, we work through it, and when we finish it we start the next one.
It means a man who comes consistently walks out of this study with something most people never get: an actual working knowledge of the whole Bible, built one book at a time, with other men holding him to it.
If you’ve never done this before
Bring a Bible if you own one. If you don’t, we’ll hand you one at the door and you can keep it. You are never required to read aloud, pray out loud, or answer a question in front of everyone. Sit and listen for as many weeks as you need to.
Nobody will ask what you do for a living before deciding how to talk to you. Our pastor was a roofer before God called him to preach — that tends to set the tone.
Why this matters more than it sounds like it does
Men’s discipleship has been part of Pastor Wilps’s ministry for as long as the prison work and the nursing homes — longer than this church has existed. It is slow, unglamorous, one-man-at-a-time work. It also changes households, and then it changes the households those men raise.
Men’s Bible Study
6:30 PM
3210 Concord Road
member or not
Straight answers
What a first Tuesday looks like
Walk in
No sign-up, no registration, no commitment for next time. Come once and decide.
Sit anywhere
Somebody will introduce himself. Nobody will interrogate you about where you’ve been going to church.
Open the Book
We pick up where the study left off. You’ll be told the book and chapter, and you can follow along or just listen.
Stay or go
Some men hang around and talk afterward. Some head home. Both are normal.
Also for men
If you’re fighting something heavier than a schedule
Some men need a Bible study. Some need a room where they can say out loud what has had a grip on them for years and not watch anybody’s face change.
RU Recovery meets here every Friday night at 7:00. It is Christ-centered, it is free, and most of the men in that room have a story like yours. Our pastor spent years in the prison system — nothing you bring in there is going to be new information.
Before any of it
Knowing the Book matters. Knowing its Author matters more.
Four minutes, plainly explained, straight from Scripture.