St. Peter’s Anglican Church

Our discipleship opportunities will be back on Wednesday nights starting January 20. Dinner starts at 5:30 followed by classes from 6:15 until 7:30. Since St. Peter’s isn’t just a place for us to meet once a week, we bring you the best ways we know to catalyze the work of the Holy Spirit in your lives. We aren’t just here to call ourselves by the name of Christ, we are continually encouraged to challenge of lives and the faith entrusted to us, to serve as a witness to the one who called us out of slavery and into freedom. Please join us for these wonderful offerings.

Grace From Head to Heart - Rediscovering God’s Kindness in a Fallen World
Usually we have an easier time understanding God’s grace in our head than we do accepting it in our hearts.  God is love – He is kind – but in a fallen world His kindness is often obscured and experienced by those who live life “counter-intuitively”.  We often miss God’s grace because he gives it to the humble – to those who are learning to walk by faith in directions that confront their commitment to self.  This class will help you better understand how to internalize grace in a way that facilitates heart change. Attendees will find themselves opening up their hearts to God in fresh new ways.
This series will be led by Gordon Bals.

Contemplative Prayer
Though we think of prayer as thoughts or feelings expressed in words, this is only one expression. Contemplative Prayer is a prayer of silence, an experience of God’s presence the source from whom our life emerges at every moment. Contemplative prayer is the opening of mind and heart - our whole being - to God, the Ultimate Mystery, beyond thoughts, words and emotions. We open our awareness to God whom we know by faith is within us, closer than breathing, closer than thinking, closer than choosing - closer than consciousness itself. COme learn this ancient practice from one of our “desert father’s” William Wilson.

The Ancient/Future Church
The Church seen, in spite of all our wonderful experiences of church personally, is rather dismal. The church is shrinking in size. It is shrinking in influence. Have we lost our way? Some churches have hunkered down, even built foxholes and bunkers. While rightly holding to the truth, these traditional churches have resisted all change that would make the abiding truth understandable to successive generations. On other the hand, there are emerging churches that embrace innovation and change, sometimes to a fault. Ever changing forms have compromised content. Too often the baby has been thrown out with the bath water. Is their a third way? Indeed! It is what C.S. Lewis called deep church or mere Christians. It is what we call ancient future. We warmly embrace things ancient and yet we won’t be bound tradition for tradition’s sake. We warmly embrace innovation but we won’t compromise truth in adjusting form. We will engage the contemporary world but with an ancient faith once delivered to the Apostles by Jesus Himself.

For a better understanding of how God is re-shaping the church for His glory, come and explore the principles of a deep church, the Ancient-Future we are becoming. This class will be taught by John Richardson.

Wednesday Nights In 3D is provided for children ages Kindergarten up to 6th grade, and a well-staffed nursery is available for infants through 5K.