Documents
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Gathering. Growing. Going - Leader's Resources
The introduction to our 2014 study course
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Gathering. Growing. Going - Prayer
Session 1 of our 2014 study course - Prayer
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Gathering. Growing. Going - Christianity
Session 2 of our 2014 study course - Christianity
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Gathering. Growing. Going - Reading the Bible
Session 3 of our 2014 study course - Reading the Bible
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Gathering. Growing. Going - Living as Disciples
Session 4 of our 2014 study course - Living as Disciples
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Gathering. Growing. Going - Pilgrimage
Session 5 of our 2014 study course - Pilgrimage
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Websites
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www.hopetogether.org.uk
About Christians of all denominations working together in local communities
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www.rejesus.co.uk
A website for those who want to find out more about Christianity
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www.resource-arm.net
ReSource – working for the renewal of people and churches for mission in the power of the Holy Spirit - across all traditions, Churches and denominations, but with an Anglican distinctive.
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www.christianaid.org.uk
Christian Aid –fighting for a world free of poverty and injustice (with resources for prayer )
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www.brf.org.uk
Bible Reading Fellowship (BRF) has a wealth of resources including Messy Church and a free, online discipleship course
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www.freshexpressions.org.uk
Fresh ways of being church
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www.churchinwales.org.uk
Provincial Website for the Church in Wales
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Books
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Unapologetic by Francis Spufford
Unapologetic is a brief, witty, personal, sharp-tongued defence of Christian belief, taking on Dawkins' The God Delusion and Christopher Hitchens' God is Not Great. But it isn't an argument that Christianity is true - because how could anyone know that (or indeed its opposite)? It's an argument that Christianity is recognisable, drawing on the deep and deeply ordinary vocabulary of human feeling, satisfying those who believe in it by offering a ruthlessly realistic account of the bits of our lives advertising agencies prefer to ignore. It's a book for believers who are fed up with being patronised, for non-believers curious about how faith can possibly work in the twenty-first century, and for anyone who feels there is something indefinably wrong, literalistic, anti-imaginative and intolerant about the way the atheist case is now being made. Fresh, provoking and unhampered by niceness, this is the long-awaited riposte to the smug emissaries of New Atheism. (review from Amazon.co.uk)
Publisher: Faber and Faber
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The Healthy Churches' Handbook by Robert Warren
‘For many churches, identifying how we are church and how we could be church better is likely to prove the most costly, yet the most fruitful, and creative outcome of engagement with the whole healthy church process.’ Robert Warren This practical guide helps churches identify their strengths and weaknesses and discover what action to take in order to develop the health of their church. The focus is on the quality of the church’s life rather than just the numbers attending. (Review by www.chpublishing.co.uk)
Publisher: Church House Publishing
ISBN:9780715142820
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Everybody Welcome - A Course by Bob Jackson and George Fisher
Anyone attending church should be made to feel welcome, not just by the clergy but by every member of every church. Everybody Welcome is the complete course to transform whole churches. It offers guidance for entire congregations to be more approachable to newcomers and identifies ways that churches can improve the integration of their new arrivals, such as setting up a Welcome Team. The leaders' manual helps churches to become more visible, meaningful and hospitable in 5 interactive sessions. To get the most out of the Everybody Welcome course, the leaders' manual can be used alongside the members' manual and DVD. (Review Church House Publishing)
Publisher: Church House Publishing
ISBN:9780715142844
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