Come Follow Me (Lent)
15 Febuary - 4 April
Open the Resource Pack PDF for all the information on the weekly subthemes and the daily prompts and Bible readings which shape our Daily Worship and live streams.
Our Lent Bible Study for 2026 is available right now as a free PDF with simple formating and runs over seven weeks from Transfiguration Sunday on 15 February to the end of Holy Week on 4 April. We are currently developing additional multimedia resources and an enhanced booklet which you will be able to pre-order in printed form shortly from Sanctus Media, or download for free as a PDF. In order to help group leaders begin organising we were keen to get a straightforward version out quickly and it is also easier to home print in this format.
“Come follow me,” Jesus says.
Join us for our Lent theme about what it means to follow Jesus when the going gets tough. What is it like to be a Christian when the way forward seems unclear, where there are few signs illuminating the way and the wilderness seems to stretch on and on? What does following Jesus mean when we’re daunted, overwhelmed, exhausted or lost?
It means unmistakable love!
It means the way, the truth and the life! It means living water and the bread that will fill you, the peace that lasts, the transformation that sticks. It means fuel for the journey — it means the table that goes with you! For as it turns out Christ’s table has folding legs and a carry handle, it is meant to be portable.
Over Lent we are on the move with Jesus as we focus on John’s immersive gospel and the stunning encounters which defined Jesus’ message and mandate for the world. Here is the Word, the Water, the Way, the Truth and the Life — leaping off the screen and into our lives.
We will be exploring revelation, direction, discernment, reconciliation, peace, renewal and personal commitment.
Week by week we reflect on our response to Jesus’s invitation “Come follow me”; when we are on the climb struggling to the mountaintop, when we are trudging through wilderness, when we on the long and winding road, when we reach the watering place, when we find ourselves in the place of confrontation, when we sit in the field of ash and bone longing for transformation, and during the eternal timelessness of Holy Week.
And as we travel we take our folding table with us. We will break bread amongst cairns in our hillside camp. We will take the elements to a cave in the wilderness to shelter from the elements. We improvise the Eucharist in a truck cab in a lay-by near the motorway services. Communion takes places amongst the water bottles in a camp set up for disaster relief. A table is set before our enemies in no man’s land. A morsel of bread and a sip of wine even amongst the ashes of defeat promise transformation. And finally the table is set in a small upper room…
Weekly overview
- Come follow me, cairn by cairn (Revelation)
- Come follow me, a way through the wilderness (Direction)
- Come follow me, on the road with Jesus (Discernment)
- Come follow me to the watering place (Reconciliation)!
- Come follow me, through the place of confrontation (Peace)
- Come follow me, from a field of bones to the place of transformation (Renewal)
- Come follow me, stepping through Holy Week (Commitment)
Each week of this theme runs Sunday-Saturday and has its own subtheme, which contains daily Bible readings and prompts for thought (see the Resource Pack PDF for more information). Check out the free simple formating PDF of the study right not and look out for the enhanced booklet which will be available as a free download or ordered as a printed booklet.
Thanks to James Cathcart and Albert Bogle for developing this material.