Keeping Sabbath
Sabbath is intentional time taken by people and communities to honor divine rhythms for creation. Jesus modeled how to keep sabbath both inwardly (through prayer, solitude, and silence) and outwardly (through community rituals and acts of justice).
About Faith Practices
Based on essential practices of faith—such as keeping sabbath and working for justice—Faith Practices is a versatile curriculum designed to revolutionize the way congregations equip their people for lives of faith.
Faith Practices has a non-linear, activities-based approach that can be used for a range of age groups and church settings:
A congregation might use Faith Practices to explore a spiritual practice across its whole life (for example, studying scripture in its adult discussion group, its worship services, and its multiage Sunday school program) ...
A church might choose to focus one of its programs on a variety of spiritual practices (for example, having a confirmation class study 12 spiritual practices across 12 months) ...
Or a faith community might use one particular component of Faith Practices for a specific use (for example, developing Vacation Bible School with the multiage resource for "Playing and Living Joyfully" or planning its stewardship drive with the worship-music-arts component of "Living Stewardship").
There are many fantastic ways to make Faith Practices work in your congregation! The curriculum includes hundreds of activities, music and art suggestions, discussion questions, and prayers—plus there are practical leader tips and supply lists for each section.
In Faith Practices, the role of the lesson leader is to be a guide. A leader does not need to be an "expert" in faith, but rather someone who can honor & encourage the capacity of all participants to live out their faith.
Permissions
With purchase, permission is granted for use by a single congregation for one (1) year from the purchase date. No part of this download may be reproduced or transmitted—beyond the group using the materials—in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, or by any information storage or retrieval system, without written permission from the publisher.
PDF Download
All PDFs will be emailed to you as a download. Nothing will be shipped. Once you place your order, you will be sent a link to download your Faith Practices lessons.
Faith Practices PDFs may contain web links that are broken or out of date. Much of the information referenced by the links can be found through an internet search.
The Pilgrim Press
2010-2012
