God's Pattern: Shaping Our Worship, Ministry And Life

First God enters your life, then he changes it. David Stancliffe, Bishop of Salisbury, is a man of action. He believes in going out and meeting ordinary people on their home ground and engaging with them directly. These encounters have convinced him that a life of faith and worship, lived according to God's pattern, has to be a life of risk and relationship, not of neat, linear rules. 'Jesus offers an invitation, not a system. We are not won by logic: we make for what is attractive, what draws us, for a relationship that promises reciprocity.' He draws from the story of Emmaus a four-fold pattern - engaging, attending, transforming and energizing - and shows its traces everywhere, through life, worship, discipleship, relationships, prayer and work.