Overview

Session 1 // What is the point of the church? Annie Shotton

Session 2 // When did the Church begin? Pete Coe

Session 3 // Why is the church different? Gareth O'Sullivan

Session 4 // What does the Church do? Jack Lawther

Session 5 // What does it look like to be part of the Church? Christian Finer

Session 6 // How do we engage with the Holy Spirit in the Church? Rachel Fellingham

Session 7 // What role do baptism and communion have in the Church?

Session 1 // What is the point of the church? Annie Shotton

Eph 3:10
so that through the church the manifold wisdom of God might now be made known to the rulers and authorities in the heavenly places.

Questions:
Have you seen families come together through church?
What are the benefits of church that you wouldn't get anywhere else?
Why do people go to church?

Session 2 // When did the Church begin? Pete Coe

Acts 1:8
But you will receive power when the Holy Spirit has come upon you, and you will be my witnesses in Jerusalem and in all Judea and Samaria, and to the end of the earth.”

Questions:
Is there a difference in church from when you first joined to now?
How are churches relevant today?
If you could plant a new church where would you plant it?

Session 3 // Why is the church different? Gareth O'Sullivan

1 Peter 2:9
But you are a chosen race, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a people for his own possession, that you may proclaim the excellencies of him who called you out of darkness into his marvelous light.

Questions
How do you try to set yourself apart from worldly ways?
Do you find this difficult?
How does church support you with that decision?

Session 4 // What does the Church do? Jack Lawther

Acts 2

Questions:
How does our church help people?
How can you reach out to people who aren’t in church?
How do other people think of the church?

Session 5 // What does it look like to be part of the Church? Christian Finer

1 Corinthians 12:12-27

12 For just as the body is one and has many members, and all the members of the body, though many, are one body, so it is with Christ. 13 For in one Spirit we were all baptized into one body—Jews or Greeks, slavesa]">[a] or free—and all were made to drink of one Spirit.

14 For the body does not consist of one member but of many. 15 If the foot should say, “Because I am not a hand, I do not belong to the body,” that would not make it any less a part of the body. 16 And if the ear should say, “Because I am not an eye, I do not belong to the body,” that would not make it any less a part of the body. 17 If the whole body were an eye, where would be the sense of hearing? If the whole body were an ear, where would be the sense of smell? 18 But as it is, God arranged the members in the body, each one of them, as he chose. 19 If all were a single member, where would the body be? 20 As it is, there are many parts,b]">[b] yet one body.

21 The eye cannot say to the hand, “I have no need of you,” nor again the head to the feet, “I have no need of you.” 22 On the contrary, the parts of the body that seem to be weaker are indispensable, 23 and on those parts of the body that we think less honorable we bestow the greater honor, and our unpresentable parts are treated with greater modesty, 24 which our more presentable parts do not require. But God has so composed the body, giving greater honor to the part that lacked it, 25 that there may be no division in the body, but that the members may have the same care for one another. 26 If one member suffers, all suffer together; if one member is honored, all rejoice together.

27 Now you are the body of Christ and individually members of it.

Session 6 // How do we engage with the Holy Spirit in the Church? Rachel Fellingham

Questions:
Have you ever felt the Holy Spirit?
Do you want to experience the Holy Spirit?
What is the Holy Trinity?

Session 7 // What does it look like to be part of the Church? Jack Gamon

1 Corinthians 12:13
For in one Spirit we were all baptized into one body—Jews or Greeks, slaves or free—and all were made to drink of one Spirit.

Questions:
How are communion and baptism important for you?
Have you been baptised and do you want to?
What does communion mean to you?