A Course for Spiritual Seekers







Outline of the sessions:






Sense & Sensitivity is an invitation to take a spiritual journey using the five senses as starting points and doorways. Each of the five small group sessions lasts about 1¼ hours and is best run in a home or in some other comfortable neutral venue.

This course has been created by Chris & Sheila Chesterton:

  • to respond to the needs of spiritual seekers. There are many of these in our society but they tend to think that the church has little to offer and turn more readily to New Age practices.
  • to help people strengthen their spirit. Strengthening the spirit is a biblical concept: 'I pray that out of his glorious riches he may strengthen you with power through his spirit in your inner being.' Ephesians 3:16  
  • to explore new ways of communicating biblical stories that draw the hearer into the narrative.

The Introduction has fuller details of the ideas behind the course and how to use it effectively. Read this now.

 

The full Sense & Sensitivity Course can be accessed online with a username and password. These are available free of charge by emailing Sheila Chesterton. Click the "Course" button for details.


Audio CD: there is an accompanying Audio CD containing nearly an hour of music by artists such as David Fitzgerald, Daniel Kolbiaka, Joanne Hogg and Margaret Rizza plus tracks for Session 2: Hearing. This CD can be purchased from Sheila Chesterton. Click the "Contact" button for details.

Video Clips: video clips that demonstrate the story telling and show how to do a massage will be added to this website soon.

All other materials needed are things which are readily available.


About the authors:

Chris spent eighteen years as a schools worker in Nottingham and then worked as Children’s Officer for Southwell Diocese and for Gloucester Diocese.

He is the author of a number of books of children’s talks and assemblies and the creator of the groundbreaking website - www.theway2go.org - a children's guide to Christianity.

Sheila trained as a teacher. In recent years she has led a church plant on a Nottingham estate and has worked with prisoners, single mothers and as a trainer for school literacy volunteers. Sheila now lives in France and is in the process of having the course translated into French. Further details available by email.






BONUS section on this website ...

A multi-sensory, all-age prayer experience to use in your church


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