Life as a disciple of Jesus is a call to growth. Jo Dolby and Sara Reynolds explore faith stages/shifts and models of faith development to help us understand how where we’re at in our faith has a huge impact on how we live out what we believe, and how we make ethical decisions and formulate theological opinions.

Rob Trickey explores the Wesleyan Quadrilateral as a tool for making decisions about our faith and practice in the world. Balancing scripture, reason, tradition and experience all together can be an exciting, conversational and dynamic way to live out a progressive faith.

As an Oasis church one of our four distinctive characteristics is an open, progressive theology, but what does this mean? Jo Dolby explains this term and why it reflects what it means to be an Oasis church.

In the last of our Life Together series, Elizabeth Bavin joins us on the sofa to talk about how different people meet God differently. As a spiritual director, Elizabeth is experienced in helping others to spot where God might be showing up and speaking to us. She draws on this experience to help us understand how personality and preference play a part in how we meet God together and individually.

What happens when life together becomes toxic, or damaging, and what are the signs of a toxic relationship? Why is it sometimes that relationships can be harmful to us and to others, and how can we put boundaries in place to protect ourselves? Jo Dolby explores these questions as part of our ‘Life Together’ series.

On the sofa this month we’re joined by some members of Oasis Church Bath who live with disabilities that might not be visible, or obvious.

Continuing our mini-series on disability, we welcome special guest Simeon Wakely. Simeon will be talking about his lived experience of disability, helping us see the world from his perspective, and opening up our understanding of how faith and disability interact.

In March we’re doing a mini-series on disability. To kick us off, Rich Blake-Lobb from The Life Project in Bath joins us to talk about a ‘theology of disability’. How can we understand disability from a progressive theological viewpoint, and what are some of the myths and harmful views Christians can sometimes have that may impact our ability to engage meaningfully and helpfully with the lived experience of disabled people?

We’re joined on the sofa this month by Andy Caldwell, a partner at Co-create Consultancy and a member of Oasis Church Bath. Andy is a qualified Enneagram practitioner and coach, and he’ll be talking about how the enneagram can help us develop a better understanding of ourselves and others. The Enneagram is an ancient tradition which emerged in the modern world just over a hundred years ago, and refers to nine different personality profiles (‘Ennea’ means nine and ‘gram’ means symbol in Greek).

Do you really have to be part of a church to be a follower of Jesus, and does that always have to mean physical attendance to a Sunday church service? As society has changed, with the digital revolution and the impact of covid, how can we continue to answer our call to community in the modern age? Gaynor Williams shares her thoughts about what this might look like for us in the here and now.