Pilgrim The Commandments: A Course for the Christian Journey - Softcover

Pearson, Sharon Ely; Atwell, Robert; Gooder, Paula; Croft, Steven; Cottrell, Stephen

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0898699428 ISBN 13: 9780898699425

Publisher: Church Publishing, 2016

Synopsis

Pilgrim is a teaching and discipleship resource that helps inquirers and new Christians explore what it means to travel through life with Christ. A Christian course for the twenty-first century, Pilgrim offers an approach of participation, not persuasion. Following the practice of the ancient disciplines of biblical reflection and prayer with quotes from the Christian tradition throughout the ages, Pilgrim assumes little or no knowledge of the Christian faith. Individuals or small groups on the journey of discipleship in the Episcopal tradition can use Pilgrim at any point.

There are many different aspects to helping people learn about the Christian faith. We have taken as our starting point Jesus’ summary of the commandments. We are called to offer our lives to God through loving God with all our mind, soul, strength, and heart, and to love our neighbor as ourselves. Learning about Christian faith and growing in Christian faith is about more than what we believe. It’s also about the ways in which we pray and develop our relationship with God, about the way we live our lives and about living in God’s vision for the Church and for the world.

Course 3. The Commandments: Following Jesus is about the way we behave as well as what we believe. So how should Christians behave and how should we live? This part of Pilgrim explores that question through one of the core texts of the Christian faith: the Commandments. We look in Session 1 at the two commandments Jesus uses to summarize the whole of the Old Testament law: the call to love God and to love our neighbor as ourselves. In Sessions 2–6, we explore the Ten Commandments themselves.

About this title

About the Author:

Sharon Ely Pearson has been the Christian Formation Specialist for Church Publishing Incorporated / Morehouse Education Resources since November 2007. Prior to joining CPI, she was the Children’s Ministries & Christian Education Coordinator for the Episcopal Diocese of Connecticut for 10 years. A graduate of Virginia Theological Seminary and a lifelong Episcopalian, she lives in Norwalk, Connecticut with her husband, John, of 36 years, Shadow the cat, and Chobe a year-old rescue black Lab.

Robert Atwell is the Bishop of Stockport (Church of England)

Paula Gooder is a leading New Testament writer and lecturer (Church of England)

Steven Croft is the Bishop of Sheffield (Church of England)

Stephen Cottrell is the Bishop of Chelmsford (Church of England).

About this edition

• Publisher: Church Publishing
• Publication date: 2016
• ISBN 10: 0898699428
• ISBN 13: 9780898699425
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 72