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ANTONY BILLINGTON

Where is God when the world falls apart, when he doesn’t seem to care?
 
Ezekiel brought God’s word to his people at the lowest point in their history, suffering the trauma of exile. But with exile comes the opportunity to renew their faith and hope in God himself. Although God had judged his people, he would also restore them and dwell with them forever – promises which find their ultimate fulfilment in Christ.
 
Antony Billington’s six-session guide, with his astute mini-features, skilful questions, and timely notes, will help you explore how Ezekiel’s message of challenge and comfort speaks today, enabling you to live in the light of God’s presence, Monday through Sunday – whatever you're facing.

The Gateway Seven Series

Ezekiel: Living in the Light of God's Presence

Mark Greene

As intricate as a Fabergé egg, as multi-layered as an onion, Ruth is the story of ordinary people working out how to live in God’s loving ways through agonising personal circumstances. It’s also an account of how the God of love works through faithful people to fulfil his purposes for them, for their nation, and indeed for all humankind. 
In this six-session guide, Mark Greene’s astute questions, mini-features, and contemporary stories will help you to appreciate the book’s drama, wonder afresh at the Lord’s grace, and find inspiration and encouragement for all of life, Monday to Sunday.
The fourth in this seven-study series from LICC, developed to enable Christians to read, reflect on, and see the implications of the Bible for themselves and their daily contexts – their frontlines.

Ruth: Drawing on a deeper love

Joe Warton

We don't approach a novel in the same way we tackle an insurance form. We don't read an bank statement in the same way that we read poetry. So we shouldn't read the 66 different books of the Bible in the same way. Story, song, law, letters and more, all make up the rich repository of writing that is God's words to us. The Gateway Seven series selects books that each represent a different kind of writing. 

This study of 1 Peter is a guide written to people whose context he understood well and with which we can resonate today. Through his encouragement, challenge, insight and knowledge of God - we will gain confidence to live well for Christ in our complex world, on our everyday frontlines.

1 Peter: Confidence in a Complex World

Anthony Billington

Critical to the sustainability of this growing movement is the ability of Christians to read, reflect on, and see the implications of the Bible for themselves and their daily contexts – their frontlines. It’s a goal that we’ve pursued through a variety of publications - the work series, Frutifulness on the Frontline, and the Whole of Life for Christ. What we have not done is to self-consciously equip people to read different genres of the Bible through a whole-life lens. In light of this, we’re developing a series of Bible studies which align with LICC’s mission and activities and support biblical literacy in the UK church more broadly. The study series has emerged from the regular Bible Days we’ve been running over the last years for leaders and preachers. The whole-life aspect of the Bible is seen not only in the big story it tells, but also in the different kinds of writings it contains – stories and songs, laws and letters, proverbs and parables, poetry and prophecy. It’s the specific lens of genre which has provided insight into the Word of God for the whole of life through LICC’s Bible Days.

 
The Proposal 

We propose to publish a 7-study series for individuals and small groups around the main genres of the Bible that will enable Christians to:

· Study seven single books of the Bible (independently of one another, though they form a series)
·Develop insight and skills in reading 7 different genres of Bible literature
· Reflect on the implications of each book and genre for the whole of life
·Develop applications which support and direct their life as disciples in their everyday, frontline contexts

In addition, the series will:

· Provide a resource to church leaders that supports their preaching and programmes in creating sustainable whole-life disciplemaking communities
Complement a ‘Preaching Pack’

Proverbs: Wisdom for the Whole of Life

Exodus shows how God delivers his people and makes it possible for him to dwell among them, so they might make him known among the nations. What does it mean to be liberated from slavery to serve God in our everyday contexts today?
 
Antony Billington’s six-session guide, with his astute mini-features, skillful questions, and timely notes, will help you explore how Exodus shapes our understanding of God, how he saves us, and the part we play in his purposes for the world. You’ll gain fresh insight into its inspiring implications for all of life, Monday through Sunday.

Session 1: Exodus 3:1-17 – Hearing God’s Call
Session 2:Exodus 12:1-13, 29-32 – Experiencing God’s Deliverance
Session 3: Exodus 16:1-26 – Trusting God’s Provision
Session 4: Exodus 19:1-6 and 20:1-17 – Becoming God’s People
Session 5: Exodus 25:1-9 and 31:1-11– Building God’s Dwelling-Place 
Session 6:Exodus 32:7-14 and 34:4-7– Encountering God’s Presence

Exodus: Freedom to Serve God

Tracy Cotterell

The revelation of God in Jesus Christ ignites desire to live his way in the world. Resurrection power fuels it.

Part of LICC's Gateway Seven series, this small group study explores how Mark, the shortest of the gospels, invites you to immerse yourself in the life, death and resurrection of Jesus and consider his life-changing announcement that the kingdom of God has come. 

Set out in six easy-to-follow sessions, this is a brilliant Bible study on Mark that is packed full of astute questions, mini-features and contemporary stories which will draw you into Mark's remarkable account of the astounding person of Jesus and help you dig deeper into the radical implications of his joyful news for all of life today.

Mark is an ideal Bible study for small groups looking to really get the most out of the beloved gospel, but it can also be used individually to support your discipleship in everyday life. It can be read on its own, or it can be used alongside the other volumes in LICC's Gateway Seven series to open up the riches of all of Scripture for the whole of life. 

Hope-filled and healing, disruptive and demanding, love-growing and fear-beating, this is the way of King Jesus you're invited to live, Monday through Sunday.