Goals for the Course:

• To provide an opportunity for Christians to share the life of Christ.
• To explore questions of life from different perspectives in the faith that Christian truth will shine through.
• To offer group members a chance to enjoy an adventure of caring for others and making a difference.

Key Principles:

• Relevance - The process must be driven by the questions people are asking.
• Responsive - All group members should be encouraged to share their views and engage with others.
• Respect - Truth can cope with being challenged - Christian responses should be characterised by grace and humility.
• Relationship - Believers should raise curiosity by sharing and living out their faith as opportunities are presented. Truth is given credibility through relationships.
• Reality - Outreach should never be presented as a ‘quick fix' - redemption requires repentance.

Participants:

Groups are made up of:

• Maturing Christians excited and open about their faith.
• Those who are not yet Christians including both the curious - in whom the Spirit is at work, and the disinterested - for whom the questions of faith are not of great interest but who choose to be involved in the adventure of the experience.

Course Content:

Exploring attitudes, views and experiences relating to:

• Me
• People around me
• The wider world
• What's beyond
• Optional Bible exploration through reading short passages of Scripture each week - (a reading plan is included). Group members are encouraged to share their thoughts, insights and questions with each other via e-mail or txt.
• Individual and group "Acts of Kindness".

Sample Ex-plore Session