Saints Alive
Start 2021 with a ‘spiritual MOT’… join the Saints Alive course at St Aldates
For car owners, it’s an annual ritual: taking your vehicle to be tested for roadworthiness at a Ministry of Transport (hence MOT) test. But how many of us take a similar approach to our spiritual lives?
What’s Saints Alive?
Saints Alive is a 9-week course for anyone wanting to go deeper in their Christian faith. It has been run in churches since the early 1980s, with over 350,000 people having benefitted from it. Written by two church leaders who were once students at St Aldates, it has been fully revised by them and is re-launching in 2021.
How does it look like?
Starting with the experiences of those in the group, Saints Alive! takes the leaders and participants on a voyage of discovery. It begins by considering our relationships, and in particular our need for God in the centre of our lives. Two sessions look at Jesus – what He taught and what He did, particularly studying the cross and the empty tomb, and then two sessions focus on the work of the Holy Spirit and His significance for our life today.
Session six offers a time of ministry when people can respond to what they have learnt and receive whatever ministry is right for them, before the concluding sessions which explore how we can grow as Christians in fellowship with others in the Church and begin to minister to people you know.
Our course at St Aldates will be hosted by Simon Ponsonby and Christopher Landau. Meeting over Zoom, most of each evening is spent in a small group (which can be an existing Aldates small group, a post-Alpha group, or a group formed from individuals opting to take the course) and the emphasis is on learning together, and sharing each other’s experiences.
When is it happening?
This course will run over 9 Tuesday evenings, 19 January – 23 March inclusive, with a week off on Tues 16 Feb.
*Registrations for this intake are now closed.
Please keep an eye on this page for future dates or contact office@staldates.org.uk for more information.