Express Yourself (July and August)

James Cathcart July 05, 2026 0

 

5 July - 5 September

 

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. 

 

Express yourself!

 

Becoming a Christian doesn’t mean losing your identity. Becoming a Christian doesn’t mean sanding off all the quirks and rough edges. Being a Christian doesn’t mean ‘fitting in’. Being a Christian means be ‘fitted out’! Fitting out a new life with everything that you truly are. 

God does not ask us to blend in and keep our heads down. God does not invite you to lose yourself in something bigger, but rather to find yourself as part of something bigger. Bringing all those quirks and rough edges to contribute to more than the sum of our parts. Through expressing our true selves to God and one another we uncover who we have always been at heart. 

This summer as a community we are exploring the many different ways we express ourselves — through food, music, art, sport, festival and celebration. 

God does not ask for conformity, God asks for generosity. God does not ask for timidity — God asks for tenacity. God does not call us to be insular — but urges us to look out. Expressing ourselves through the things we love is not a reward for being a Christian — it’s what it IS to BE a Christian. The expression — of compassion, of kindness, of love, of imagination, of care, of art, of adventure, of effort, — are not incidental, they are a human being fully alive! 

So this summer — all you’ve got to do is express yourself!

Weekly overview:

  1. You are what you eat! — Food

  2. Gameface! — Team Sports

  3. Secret Chords and a well known chorus — Music

  4. A lamp to our feet — Running with God

  5. Coming face to face with God — Art

  6. A heavenly party — Festivals and celebrations

  7. Unity through diversity 

  8. Everyday glory — Work

  9. Expressing God’s love in the world!

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).