Session 1 – The Baptismal Covenant – Trusting God and Committing to a
Life of Faith

What does it mean to be Christian? What does God promise? What do I promise? What can I hope for from this course? How will we learn together?

Session 2 – Committing to the Apostles’ Teaching

Where do I find the Apostles teaching in the Bible? What is the Bible, and how did it come to us? How can I engage this ancient collection of books to deepen my trust in God and the way I practice my faith? What in this promise comes easily to me and in what ways does it make me aware of my need for God’s help?

Session 3 – Committing to the Breaking of Bread and the Prayers

How does the Book of Common Prayer provide for the breaking of bread and the prayers? What regular routine of public worship and private prayer makes sense for me? What in this promise comes easily to me and in what ways does it make me aware of my need for God’s help?

Session 4 – Committing to Resisting Evil

What is sin? In what ways is it personal, and in what ways is it bigger than personal? How does God respond to sin through Christ? How can I experience the healing and reconciliation God wants for me in the midst of all that’s gone wrong? How, as someone who struggles with sin, do I want to respond to God? What in this promise comes easily to me and in what ways does it make me aware of my need for God’s help?

Session 5 – Committing to Seek and Serve Christ in all Persons

What does it mean to serve Christ in another person? How have I done this? How does my parish do this? What does the Episcopal Church do? What is difficult for me about this? What in this promise comes easily to me and in what ways does it make me aware of my need for God’s help?

Session 6 – Committing to Strive for Justice and Peace

What is the Christian mandate to strive for justice and peace? How have others done this in the past? What does the Episcopal Church say about justice at home and abroad? What in this promise comes easily to me and in what ways does it make me aware of my need for God’s help?

Session 7 – I Will with God’s Help

As I look at the Baptismal promises again, to which am I drawn at this time in my life? Are there commitments I have made in the last six sessions or ones I desire to make? What need have I identified for God’s help? How has God helped others in the past? What resources are available to me as I seek to draw on God? What questions do I have about God and about how to deepen my trust in God?

Session 8 – Trusting God the Creator

To trust God as Creator of all, what illusions do I need to surrender about the world in which I live and my ability to control that world? What does it mean to be created in the image of God? What is my relationship with the created order – owner or tenant?

Session 9 – Trusting Christ as Lord

To claim my baptismal identity in Christ, who is the Way, the Truth, and the Life, what paths are closed to me? What falsehoods and pretenses are exposed? And as I commit to follow Christ, what new paths are open for me? What opportunities do I find to be my real self? What areas of authentic living emerge?

Session 10 – Trusting the Holy Spirit

What draws me to trust the Holy Spirit working in me? What in me resists? How far am I willing to be drawn in to the communion with God and neighbor?

Session 11 – Committing to the Apostles’ Fellowship

What’s distinctive about the Episcopal Church? How do we do things, and why do we do them that way? How am I a member of the “one holy, catholic, and apostolic church” as an Episcopalian Christian?

Session 12 – Proclaiming by Word and Example: Evangelism That’s Really Good News

How is my baptismal ministry and identity Good News for the world? How do I want to respond to the needs that I see?

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