Living Faith (The Bishop's Certificate Course) is a one year programme for people who would like to deepen their understanding of Christian teaching, and reflect on what it means to have living faith. The Course follows the seasons of the Christian calendar and invites reflections on the major festivals of the faith. Through the events of the Christian year, different themes are explored through studying passages from the Bible, from Christian teaching and from the contemporary world. The course can be used in parish or deanery groups, or in small groups.
The diocese does not organise these groups, we only supply the resources.
Please register your group before you begin the course by emailing. In order to be eligible for a certificate at the end of the course you will also need to fill in a group information form at the end of each module.
Click here to listen to the former Bishop of Lichfield talking about Living Faith.
To learn more about the shape of the course and the content, click here.
Course materials are available for each module. Each week (except for weeks 5 and 10) there is a clip for you to watch or listen to.
Material for each module can be found below:
Ordinary, Harvest, Advent, Christmas
A1
The Kingdom of God
A2
What a Wonderful World
The Bible and Creation
A3
The Fall and Brokenness
A4
Band Aid – Do They Know It’s Christmas?
Matt Redman Blessed Be Your Name
Harvest
A6
Modern Prophets
A7
The Prophet Daniel
A8
Away in a Manger
Christmas story
A9
Who do you say Jesus is?
Epiphany, Lent, Holy Week
E1
Reflections on John's Gospel
E2
The Lord's Prayer
E3
Suffering
E4
The Cross of Jesus
E6
Evidence and History
E7 Conversion and Transformation
E8
The Christian Hope
E8A
Shawshank Redemption
E9
John 21:1-17
E10
Celebrating a Passover Meal
Ascension, Pentecost, Trinity
P1
New Starts and Resurrection
P2
Faith and Knowledge, Presence and Absence
P3
The work of the Spirit
P4
The Triune God
P6
The Sanctity of Life
P7
The Parable of the Sower
P8
Mission
P9
The Church
A feedback form for Living Faith can be found here
What next? A vocational quiet day is available for you consider what is God's unique call to you. For more details click here.