Being the Church in action - 2005

A six-part study programme studying the Church in a time of change. The starting points were:

Faith is made real - enacted - in what we do as Christians. The Church is the sum of such actions.

Enacted faith is not a matter of knowing what we believe and putting it into practice. Enacted faith is a constant struggle - a fight against other visions of faith, against the secular world, against our own weakness and wrong-doing.

Thus faith is always particular, local, personal. It is made real in our small face-to-face communities.

Christian faith is also the authentic participation in the story of the Church going back to Jesus and the first apostles. [See Unity and Diversity - an Order for a Prayer Meeting in the Week of Prayer for Christian Unity.]

To be the Church in action is to hold these together - continuity with the past and continuous struggle today. How can we act authentically?

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