Pilgrim is a teaching and discipleship resource that helps
inquirers and new Christians explore what it means to travel through
life with Christ. A Christian course for the twenty-first century,
Pilgrim
offers an approach of participation, not persuasion. Following the
practice of the ancient disciplines of biblical reflection and prayer
with quotes from the Christian tradition throughout the ages,
Pilgrim
assumes little or no knowledge of the Christian faith. Individuals or
small groups on the journey of discipleship in the Episcopal tradition
can use
Pilgrim at any point.
There are many different aspects to helping people learn about the
Christian faith. We have taken as our starting point Jesus’ summary of
the commandments. We are called to offer our lives to God through loving
God with all our mind, soul, strength, and heart, and to love our
neighbor as ourselves. Learning about Christian faith and growing in
Christian faith is about more than what we believe. It’s also about the
ways in which we pray and develop our relationship with God, about the
way we live our lives and about living in God’s vision for the Church
and for the world.
Course 4.
The Beatitudes: A short but profoundly beautiful
and influential collection of sayings by Jesus. They sum up his
teaching about what it means to live as a child of God’s kingdom. The
authors of this course believe that following Jesus requires us to
engage with this important text, so that it is restored to a central
place in the life of the Church. We believe that the Beatitudes, and
trying to live them out, is one of the best ways of loving God with all
your heart and understanding the Christian vision for the world.