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    Pilgrim: Church and Kingdom
    Pilgrim: Church and Kingdom
    Pilgrim: Church and Kingdom
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    Pilgrim: Church and Kingdom

    By Steven Croft

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    Pilgrim is a teaching and discipleship resource from the Church of England that helps enquirers and new Christians explore what it means to travel through life with Jesus Christ.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherChurch House Publishing
    Release dateMar 9, 2015
    ISBN9780715144787
    Pilgrim: Church and Kingdom
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    Steven Croft

    Steven Croft is the Bishop of Oxford and one of the principal authors of the Pilgrim series.

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      Pilgrim - Steven Croft

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      CHURCH & KINGDOM

      A COURSE FOR THE CHRISTIAN JOURNEY

      STEPHEN COTTRELL

      STEVEN CROFT

      PAULA GOODER

      ROBERT ATWELL

      Contributions from

      JOHN PRESTON

      RACHEL TREWEEK

      ANN MORISY

      DAVID WALKER

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      Church House Publishing

      Church House

      Great Smith Street

      London SW1P 3AZ

      ISBN 978 0 7151 4477 0

      Published 2015 by Church House Publishing

      Copyright © 2015 Stephen Cottrell, Steven Croft, Paula Gooder and Robert Atwell

      Cover image – Gajus/Shutterstock.com

      All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced or stored or transmitted by any means or in any form, electronic or mechanical, including photocopying, recording, or any information storage and retrieval system without written permission, which should be sought from copyright@churchofengland.org

      The authors have asserted their rights under the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act, 1988, to be identified as the authors of this Work.

      The opinions expressed in this book are those of the authors and do not necessarily reflect the official policy of the General Synod or The Archbishops’ Council of the Church of England.

      Scripture quotations from

      The New Revised Standard Version of the Bible, Anglicized Edition, copyright © 1989, 1995 by the Division of Christian Education of the National Council of the Churches of Christ in the USA. Used by permission. All rights reserved.

      The Revised English Bible © Oxford University Press and Cambridge University Press, 1961, 1970.

      Material from Common Worship: Services and Prayers for the Church of England is copyright © The Archbishops’ Council 2000–2008 and is used with permission.

      Cover and contents design by David McNeill, Revo Design.

      Printed in Great Britain by Ashford Colour Press

      CONTENTS

      Welcome to Pilgrim

      About the Authors and Contributors

      Introduction to Church and Kingdom

      Session One: Praying through life

      Session Two: At home and at work

      Session Three: Living generously

      Session Four: In all my relationships

      Session Five: Confronting the injustices of the world

      Session Six: Treading lightly on the earth

      Notes

      WELCOME TO PILGRIM

      Welcome to this course of exploration into the truth of the Christian faith as it has been revealed in Jesus Christ and lived out in his Church down through the centuries.

      The aim of this course is to help people explore what it means to be disciples of Jesus Christ. From the very beginning of his ministry, Jesus called people to follow him and become his disciples. The first disciples were called to be with Jesus and to be sent out (Mark 3.14). The Church in every generation shares in the task of helping others hear Christ’s call to follow him and to live in his service.

      The Pilgrim material consists of two groups of four short courses. The Follow stage is designed for those who are beginning to explore the faith and what following Jesus will mean. It focuses on four great texts that have been particularly significant to Christian people from the earliest days of the Church:

      The Baptismal Questions (drawn from the Creeds)

      The Lord’s Prayer

      The Beatitudes

      The Commandments

      ‘Follow’ is a beginning in the Christian journey. There is much still to be learned. The four courses in the Grow stage – of which this is one – aim to take you further and deeper, building on the Follow stage. They focus on:

      The Creeds

      The Eucharist (and the whole life of prayer and worship)

      The Bible

      The Church and the kingdom (living your whole life as a disciple)

      We hope that, in the Grow stage, people will learn the essentials for a life of discipleship. We hope that you will do this in the company of a small group of fellow travellers: people like you who want to find out more about the Christian faith and are considering its claims and challenges.

      The material in the Grow stage can also be helpful to people who have been Christians for many years, as a way of deepening their discipleship.

      We have designed the material in the Grow stage so that it can be led by the members of the group: you don’t need an expert or a teacher to guide you through. Pilgrim aims to help you learn by encouraging you to practise the ancient disciplines of biblical reflection and prayer which have always been at the heart of the living out of Christian faith.

      The format is similar to the Follow stage. Each book has six sessions and, in each session, you will find:

      a theme

      some opening prayers

      a ‘conversation-starter’

      an opportunity to reflect on a reading from Scripture (the Bible)

      A short reflection on the theme from a contemporary Christian writer

      some questions to address together

      a ‘journeying on’ section

      some closing prayers

      finally,

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