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    Pilgrim: The Beatitudes: Follow Stage Book 4
    Pilgrim: The Beatitudes: Follow Stage Book 4
    Pilgrim: The Beatitudes: Follow Stage Book 4
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    Pilgrim: The Beatitudes: Follow Stage Book 4

    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
    ISBN9780715144299
    Pilgrim: The Beatitudes: Follow Stage Book 4
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    Steven Croft

    Steven Croft is the Bishop of Sheffield. From 2004 to 2009 he was Archbishops Missioner and Team Leader of Fresh Expressions. Former warden of Cranmer Hall, he spent 13 years in parish ministry.

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      Pilgrim - Steven Croft

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      THE BEATITUDES

      A COURSE FOR THE CHRISTIAN JOURNEY

      Authors

      Stephen Cottrell is the Bishop of Chelmsford

      Steven Croft is the Bishop of Sheffield

      Paula Gooder is a leading New Testament writer and lecturer

      Robert Atwell is the Bishop of Stockport

      Contributors

      Helen-Ann Hartley is the Bishop of Waikato, New Zealand

      Emma Ineson is Tutor at Trinity College Bristol and Chaplain to the Bishop of Bristol

      Martin Warner is the Bishop of Chichester

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      A COURSE FOR THE CHRISTIAN JOURNEY

      THE BEATITUDES

      STEPHEN COTTRELL

      STEVEN CROFT

      PAULA GOODER

      ROBERT ATWELL

      Contributions from

      HELEN-ANN HARTLEY

      EMMA INESON

      MARTIN WARNER

      LUCY WINKETT

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      Church House Publishing

      Church House

      Great Smith Street

      London SW1P 3AZ

      ISBN 978 0 7151 4428 2

      Published 2014 by Church House Publishing

      Copyright © 2014 Stephen Cottrell, Steven Croft, Robert Atwell and Paula Gooder

      Cover image of grapes © Andrew Hagen, 2013

      Used under license from 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, copyright 1989 by the Division of Christian Education of the National Council of the Churches in the USA. Used by permission. All rights reserved.

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

      Cover and contents design by David McNeill, Revo Design.

      Printed in Great Britain by

      Ashford Colour Press Ltd.

      CONTENTS

      Welcome to Pilgrim

      Introduction to The Beatitudes

      The Beatitudes

      Session One: Living with openness to God

      Session Two: Thirsting for what is right

      Session Three: Living transparently

      Session Four: Peacemaking

      Session Five: Living as citizens of God’s kingdom

      Session Six: Foundations

      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 become disciples of Jesus Christ. From the very beginning of his ministry, Jesus called people to follow him and become his disciples. The Church in every generation shares in the task of helping others hear Christ’s call to them and follow him.

      We hope the course will help you to understand this faith and to see how it can be lived out each day, and that it will equip you to make a decision about whether to be part of this Church. This will happen either by being baptized and confirmed, if this has not happened to you before, or by a renewal of baptismal vows.

      You won’t be able to find out everything about the Christian faith in any one course. But through the Pilgrim course material you will be able to reflect on some of the great texts that have been particularly significant to Christian people from the earliest days of the Church:

      The Creeds

      The Lord’s Prayer

      The Beatitudes

      The Commandments

      There is one book based on each of these texts in the ‘Follow’ stage of Pilgrim (designed for absolute beginners) and one that goes further in the ‘Grow’ (discipleship) stage.

      By learning these texts, reflecting upon them, and seeing what they mean for your life, you will make a journey through the great story of the Christian faith. And 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.

      In other words, this course is for people who are not yet Christians, but who are open to finding out more and for those who are just beginning the journey. People who want some sort of refresher course are also very welcome. In walking with you on this journey we are

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