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Via media is our intro to Christianity and the Anglican / Episcopal way class. Only 8 sessions. No previous experience with God is required. You don’t need any special language or any special knowledge. It is designed for everyone if you’re returning to church, never attended church, or been here all your life. If you’re simply curious and interested, if you want to grow in the faith, if you want to test the questions that have always been on your mind, then try the via media experience.Using a combination of media, meal and conversation, you’ll get a broad view of the journey that is faith, the role that the Church can play in society, and the role you play as God’s agent in this world. The Anglican tradition is embedded in ancient traditions. Via media wipes away the cobwebs and reveals a 21st century faith.
Session 1: Via media: An Anglican Way of Being Christian Christian faith rests on the belief that God loves us, longs to see us thrive and wants to be in relationship with us. As Anglicans we understand religious faith as a matter of ongoing conversations among diverse communities past and present, those with whom we might agree and those with whom we disagree. Session 2: God and Creation What does it mean to believe in God? What do people of faith believe about God? What can the world around us tell us about God?Session 3: God and Jesus Jesus of Nazareth was a first-century Jewish Palestinian. Some people followed him as a teacher and radical social reformer. Others thought of him as a great prophet. Still others believed him to be the Son of God, both fully divine and fully human. Who do you say that Jesus is? Session 4: God the Holy Spirit Churches are not the only places where God can be encountered. God is at work throughout the world, in God’s own creation, in every people, nation and community and through more ways than we can count or ever know. Session 5: God and Scripture Although most Anglicans are comfortable with language describing the Bible as sacred and divinely inspired, we are not of one mind on exactly what we mean by that claim. Session 6: God and Sin Perhaps more than any other topic in Christian faith, the word sin sounds old-fashioned and out of date, yet we fail to treat each other as made in God’s image. What is sin and who is doing the sinning? Session 7: God and the Kingdom Trying to figure out whether or not there is any greater meaning to life has been a human preoccupation for millennia. While some people today turn to consumerism or self-improvement programs, many others struggle simply to find shelter for their families and put food on the table. Session 8a: So What? What does this have to do with me? The Bible, recognized as coinciding with our experience, reveals to us the truth about life – not abstract truth, but an ideal we hunger and thirst for and, from another perspective, an evil we recoil from. In the Bible text, therefore, we discover the double reality of every human person – a story of sin and a story of grace. Session 8b: the Anglican / Episcopal way The spiritual hunger for community was planted in us by God. If religious faith is not a way to find pre-packaged answers to life’s many difficult questions, then what is it for? Contact Michael Canning or Mavis Bennett for more information. |
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St. George's Anglican / Episcopal Church
"Proclaiming Christ in Lennoxville, Quebec" |
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