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What sort of people does god want us to be?

What sort of people does god want us to be?. Developing a distinctively Christian way of living and helping others to discover it.

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What sort of people does god want us to be?

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  1. What sort of people does god want us to be? Developing a distinctively Christian way of living and helping others to discover it.

  2. God’s way of being human has been revealed in Jesus Christ; is available to all through the outpouring and the indwelling of the Holy Spirit; and is currently being demonstrated down at your local church. -Robert Warren

  3. I wanted to be famous to prove I was worth something. But the day I got my own show on MTV I cried all night because it didn’t bloody validate me and I’d spent years thinking it would. Fulfilment’s an inside job. – Davina McCall

  4. 4 things that might make a difference • Teach people to pray • Develop a rule of life • Agree the bottom line • Build a place of nurture

  5. A place of nurture • The job for the Church of England in the next few years is something it is not normally good at – to take what began as a fringe idea, recognise its God-given potency for sharing faith and the growth of the church and make it thoroughly and respectably mainstream in the life of every parish - Bob Jackson

  6. Why? • To enable people to explore and discover Christian faith • To give people an experience of Christian community • To help them take their next steps on the Christian journey.

  7. How? • Who will come? • How does it work? • What materials should we use? • Who will lead it? • How often should we do it?

  8. One last thing… • First of all let me tell you what this isn’t. It’s not some “I-was-lost-and-now-I’m-found” sob story. These days many people reach out to faith to “find peace”. I had too much peace in my life already. In faith I was looking to be troubled… - Julie Burchill

  9. God’s way of being human has been revealed in Jesus Christ; is available to all through the outpouring and the indwelling of the Holy Spirit; is currently being demonstrated down at your local church; and you can find out for yourself by coming along to our…

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