The Discipleship Training Program (DTP) runs in term times, on Tuesday evenings, 7:00-8.30pm in St Andrews Church (next door to Pathfinders if you’re a parent of younger teenagers).

Welcome to DTP Term 9 / 1. Throughout this term we will be reflecting together on the 10 Commandments, and exploring why they remain a great framework for understanding what Christian living looks like. We can be in danger of trying to re-configure Christianity in a way that marginalises the question of lifestyle. But the whole point of what Jesus is doing is our transformation to be like Him. He is actaully called: ‘the One who makes people holy’ (Heb.2:11). We cannot conceive of being a Christian without growing in Christ-likeness.

But God wants us to have fullness of life in a relationship of loving obedience to Him. He teaches us His will for our lives through the Law, and most fully through the teaching and example of Jesus (John 12:49-50; Heb.1:1-2). God’s Law is outlined and distilled for us in the Ten Commandments, and displayed for us in Jesus’ sinless life and atoning death … God’s purpose for our new life in Christ is to make us like Jesus (Rom.8:28-29). Scripture teaches that our actions are pleasing to God only if the attitudes of our minds and hearts are also godly. God sees our behaviour as the fruit of our hearts and character, not something external or separate from our inner being. Thus the goal of our life in Christ is that we become like Christ – not only in our actions but also in our thoughts and attitudes.
…taken from ‘To Be a Christian’

Due to half term there will not be a DTP session on Tuesday 29th October. And this term’s invitation week will be w/b 18th November.

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