What is Pilgrim?
Pilgrim is a major new teaching and discipleship resource from the Church of England. It aims to help every local church create a place where people can explore the Christian faith together and see how it can be lived out each day.
Pilgrim takes a different approach to other Christian programmes. It approaches the great issues of faith not through persuasion, but participation in a pattern of contemplation and discussion with a group of fellow travellers.
Pilgrim is comprised of two stages: the Follow stage for those very new to faith or wanting a refresher course, and the Grow stage for those who want to go further in exploring faith. Each stage contains four short six-session courses, which focus on a major theme of Christian life.
Pilgrim’s Approach
- It starts at the very beginning. Pilgrim assumes very little understanding or knowledge of the Christian faith.
- It focuses on Jesus Christ. Pilgrim aims to equip people to follow Jesus Christ as disciples in the whole of their lives.
- It flows from the Scriptures. The primary focus of each session is a group of people engaging with the Bible together.
- It draws deeply from the Christian tradition. In the Early Church, the Christian faith was taught by the transmission of key texts which summed up the heart of the Christian message. Pilgrim restores this approach for the twenty first century.
- It honours the Anglican way and its many streams. Pilgrim has been developed as a specifically Anglican resource which aims to cater for every tradition in the Church of England.
Pilgrim at St Michael’s
We say the creed (our statement of faith) every week on Sunday but have you ever stopped to think about what it means?
We are running the next Pilgrim course looking at the Creeds starting on Thursday 4th February 2016 at 2.15pm at Space4. Limited numbers will be able to attend so please sign the list at the back of church to indicate your interest.
For further details contact the clergy.
Watch this video for a short introduction to the course: