Growing in faith

As Christians, the first call on our lives is to “love God and love our neighbour.” This is the so-called Great Commandment. The gospels tell the story of how Jesus came to earth to challenge people to make this their goal. But it wasn’t just an instruction to ‘be a better person’, or ‘try harder to think of others’ but rather to become a disciple… to "come and follow him".

This prayer, from Lectio 365, expresses it very well:

Father, help me to live this day to the full,
being true to You, in every way.
Jesus, help me to give myself away to others,
being kind to everyone I meet.
Spirit, help me to love the lost,
proclaiming Christ in all I do and say.   Amen.
 

Here at St Giles, we look for creative and helpful ways to help each and every person to grow and develop in their faith and for each one of us become more like Jesus.

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ALPHA The12 week Alpha course is a series of sessions exploring the Christian faith. Each talk looks at a different question around faith and is designed to create conversation. Find out more...	BIBLE SCHOOL We hold hold occassional bible schools at St Giles when we gather to study parts of the bible in more depth. You can access recordings from some of the previous bible school sessions on the dedicated bible school page. Find out more...	YEAR OF BIBLICAL LITERACY Our Year of Biblical Literacy material includes teaching and study resources and a daily reading plan which people can follow on their own. Find out more...
THE BIBLE PROJECT There are a wealth of resources on the Bible Project website which people can watch and listen to in their own time. Find out more...	LECTIO 365 Lectio 365 is a free daily devotional resource that helps you pray the Bible every day. Find out more...	OTHER COURSES From time to time we also run other courses on topics such as Marriage, Bereavement andbeing effective witnesses in our workplace and communities. Details are usually shown on our home page rotating banner.

We all face the temptation to ‘skim along the surface’ of the Christian life when Jesus calls us to a deeper life, a life in all its fullness! We want to do everything we can to help people to discover this kind of life and for each of us to grow in depth, maturity and fruitfulness. Come and join us in discovering this for ourselves.