"Grounded in prayer we are equipped for discipleship and connected to community."

For a long time we have thought that a disciple is someone who follows Jesus, but that is simply too passive. Jesus did not ask us to follow him to the cross, but rather to take up our cross. We are not called to amble benignly in the shadow of our saviour - but to actually become like him. As Dallas Willard says, we should be "apprentices": pupils completely focussed on emulating the master. 

And that requires a lot of hard work. 

This year's winter series called THE FEAST, tells the stories of those people who do the hard work and aspire to be like Christ. Our presenters are people who have had the courage of their convictions and made their theology their reality. So we invite you to come and be a part of their story and see how they have apprenticed themselves to the master. Come and find out how a world-renowned professor found himself in US prison ministry. Hear what it means to work with Anglican Action as they support the men we exclude from our society. Listen to our bishops as they explore what it means to be faithful disciples in our parishes. 

St Peter's Cathedral, Victoria St, Hamilton

(Also delivered live by video conference to St John's Waihi and St Luke's Te Kuiti.)

May 17 Prof Douglas Campbell

May 24 Bishop Helen-Ann 

May 31 Archbishop Philip

June 7 Rev Peter Osborne

For more information click here.

Read an interview with Prof Douglas Campbell published in the Waikato Times12/5/16.