Each Hagios Study invites men and women to go on a type of “pilgrimage through study.“ Various points of the study invite the reader to pause, meditate, and place themselves in the Gospels or in the time of the featured person. By connecting to the study in this way, the reader can better understand how they themselves can live as “hagios“ (set apart) in their own life.
HISTORICAL
Each Hagios Study deals with real historical faith-filled people who were challenged to live out the scriptures just as we are today. They too were challenged to have faith in what they could not see. In each study, we place ourselves in their shoes to “experience” the way they lived out scripture and why their bold faith was chronicled for generations to read in the vault of Church history.
BIBLICAL
Each Hagios Study focuses on a specific section of the Gospels (the teachings or life of Christ) that impacted the choices of the historical person chronicled in the study. How did they live out Jesus' words in their life? How did they apply these truths? The study sets to inspire how we can also apply these truths to our lives, within our own time and culture so we may "offer [our] bodies as a living sacrifice, holy and pleasing to God .... [as a] true and proper worship.” (Romans 12:1)
ECUMENICAL
Each Hagios Study is written to be ecumenical. So although initially for Catholic small group study, these studies can easily be embraced by all Christian denominations that 1) believe scripture is the inspired word of God 2) Jesus is the Son of God and 3) Jesus' words in the Gospels are applicable to our lives today. Each study focuses on a passage of the Gospels and incorporates one Christian historical figure that has been recognized by multiple Christian denominations as "set apart by God."