Living in Love and Faith
"Here is a course that is informative, thoughtful, challenging and engaging. Dealing with the sensitive and complex questions of identity, relationships and sexuality, it invites us to learn, reflect and pray together. It is about going deeper with each other and with God. We commend this course to you. Our hope and prayer is that we engage with it together across the church, we will learn to live more fully in the way of Christ - in love and faith" The Archbishops of Canterbury and York
We will be running this 5 session course at SMB on the following dates: 20th and 27th January, 3rd, 10th, and 17th February 2022 at 7.30pm in person and in our church building.
Each of the five sessions explore one key topic, with an opening reflection about learning together, followed by teaching, time for discussion and Bible study. The sessions end with an invitation to reflect on our learning, bringing it to God in prayer.
If you would like to read the book on the subject ahead of the course it is called Living in Love and Faith (Church House Publishing ISBN: 978-0-7151-1167-3)
I would like as many as possible at SMB and in MK to do this course ahead of important decisions at General Synod in 2022. A questionnaire will be available to all Anglicans at some point to guide General Synod in this whole subject.
An Eventbrite page will be set up by Christina Farley soon so that we can sign up for this course - there will be a small charge to cover the Workbooks.
Please prayerfully consider attending these five Thursday evenings - perhaps Home Groups could come on mass and not meet on their usual night if that was mutually agreeable, so that peoples evenings were not too busy.
Rev David McDougall
Rector of St Mary's Bletchley
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