Faith Habits
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This year we are journeying through eight Faith Habits - Sabbath, Prayer, Fasting, Solitude, Scripture, Community, Generosity and Witness. Some of these you may already know about and feel established in whereas others may seem foreign, weird or not for you. That’s ok! God has given us each different gifts and He speaks to us in unique ways. Whichever habit is calling you this year, is the one God wants you to grow in.
Scroll through all the Faith Habits below or jump directly the one you want to grow in:
SABBATH
Sabbath is God’s gift of a weekly stop that breaks our slavery to hurry and achievement, teaches us to trust his provision, and restores us as people of rest in an exhausted culture.
The people of God have always observed the sacred rhythms of work and rest. Vocation is a key part of God’s call on us as people, but taking time to be with Him is essential to being healthy in our lives and calling. The practice of Sabbath is one that resets the restlessness of life, reorientates the heart to God, and focuses the mind of the things of the kingdom – people!
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pRAYER
Prayer is not mainly about getting things from God but living in his presence, learning to bring our whole lives before him, and becoming attentive to his voice in a distracted world.
Union with God is deeply founded in being present with God. Prayer is the way we connect with God – deep, caring, confronting, comforting. Prayer brings us close, keeps us close, and refocuses us onto God’s heart.
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FASTING
Fasting is a hidden practice of saying ‘no’ to good things for a time so that we can say a deeper ‘yes’ to God, training our desires away from constant indulgence towards holiness and hunger for his presence.
If the Gospel is counter-cultural, a tangible way of expressing that is in the practice of fasting. While the world is consuming, the people of God deny themselves to fix their attention and passion and hunger on God.
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SOLITUDE
In the midst of a noisy world, what does it mean to be quiet? In a society that is overly connected without pause, what does it mean to step away and find solitude? It means that there is space in our attention, in our emotional capacity, and in our inner most being for God. We displace the world by stepping into the place of solitude with God.
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SCRIPTURE
Immersing ourselves in Scripture forms us into people who know Jesus, are anchored in his story, and can live with courage and clarity in a culture of shifting truth.
Scripture is not a manual for right living, nor is it the instruction book for human-ing well. It is God’s word given to us to draw us into deep intimacy with God. It tells the story of God’s character, our need, and Jesus’ ultimate offer of love to all people everywhere. It keeps us focussed on the main thing, the pain goal and the main relationship.
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community
Christian community is not an optional extra but a basic practice of devoting ourselves to one another in costly, everyday ways so that love, belonging, and growth become normal.
While the world brings false intimacy through digital connection and shared opinions, God calls us to practice community – person to person, life on life, moving out of our comfort zones and echo chambers to embrace others who look, think and act differently to us.
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GENEROSITY
Practising generosity loosens the grip of money on our hearts, teaches us contentment, and turns us into people who mirror God’s own generous heart in a world built on getting more.
In a culture that constantly tells us we are what we buy, we feel the pressure to upgrade, accumulate, and compare ourselves by what we own. The result is often quiet anxiety about money, low-grade discontent, and a sense that we never quite have enough. The gospel tells a different story: everything we have is gift, and we are invited into a life of open-handed generosity that reflects the heart of God. How can regular, intentional generosity form us away from greed and fear, towards contentment, joy, and participation in God’s work in the world?
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WITNESS
Many people around us are suspicious of the church, and some carry real hurt or anger. Public conversations can feel hostile or polarised, so many followers of Jesus quietly withdraw and keep faith private. Yet in Scripture, God’s people are called to be a ‘chosen people’ and ‘royal priesthood’ who declare his goodness with both our words and our way of life. We will explore witness as a practice of everyday hospitality and presence: opening our homes, tables, and conversations so that others can taste something of the kindness, truth, and welcome of Jesus.
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