Live Your Faith, Not Just Your Religion
A gentle, practical journey through Christian living — no church building required. Discover how everyday kindness, stewardship, and fellowship are the living heart of faith in action.
"I believe faith comes alive not in the grandest gestures, but in the smallest acts of care we offer to the people, creatures, and world around us."— David Clilverd
What you'll learn
What you'll be able to do
- Articulate a personal, living faith grounded in fellowship, baptism, and the Holy Spirit rather than buildings or institutions.
- Identify and practise small daily acts of care and kindness as a concrete expression of Christian values.
- Understand the inclusive vision of the Church as the worldwide body of baptised believers across every nation and culture.
- Apply the principles of sharing, stewardship, and compassion to relationships with other people, animals, and the natural environment.
- Navigate division and disagreement within religious communities with grace, humility, and a focus on common ground.
- Build a personal spiritual rhythm — through prayer, reflection, and service — that sustains faith from generation to generation.
How it works
A school that adapts to you
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Lessons adapt as you go
Each lesson is written for your pace and your goal, adjusting as your skills grow.
Your AI coach keeps you moving
Checkpoints, feedback, and gentle nudges turn progress into a real result.
The curriculum
What's inside your school
6 modules · 19 lessons
Faith Without Walls — Understanding the Living Church
Establishes the foundational conviction that the Church is not a stone building or an institution but a living, breathing community of baptised believers united in Jesus Christ. This module grounds everything that follows by defining who we are before exploring what we do.
- 1.1What Is the Church, Really?Included
- 1.2Baptism and Belonging — Entry into the BodyIncluded
- 1.3One Body, Many People — The Worldwide FellowshipIncluded
- 1.4Bread, Wine, and Water — Shared Symbols, Shared LifeIncluded
Care in Action — Small Acts, Living Faith
Translates the theological identity established in Module 1 into concrete, daily behaviour. The central conviction — drawn directly from the source viewpoint — is that care and kindness expressed in small ways is itself a form of worship and mission, available to everyone regardless of resources or status.
- 2.1The Theology of Small ThingsIncluded
- 2.2Practising Kindness — Building the HabitIncluded
- 2.3Care Beyond the Comfortable — Reaching FurtherIncluded
Stewardship — People, Animals, and the Earth
Expands the circle of care outward from people to the whole of creation. Grounded in the viewpoint's explicit mention of 'care shown to animals and the environment,' this module builds a theological and practical case for Christian stewardship as an expression of the same values taught in Module 2 — now applied to the non-human world.
- 3.1Created to Care — A Theology of StewardshipIncluded
- 3.2Practical Compassion for Animals and CreationIncluded
- 3.3Sharing as Stewardship — People, Resources, and JusticeIncluded
Navigating Division — Grace, Humility, and Common Ground
Addresses the painful reality named at the very start of the source viewpoint — that 'the church seems to have been divided into splinter groups.' Students learn to understand the roots of religious division honestly, respond with grace and humility rather than defensiveness or despair, and build bridges across tradition and difference. This module is deliberately placed after the first three so that students already have a rich, positive vision of the Church to return to when examining its fractures.
- 4.1Why We Divide — Understanding Fracture HonestlyIncluded
- 4.2Choosing Unity Without PretendingIncluded
- 4.3Building Bridges — Faith Across TraditionsIncluded
Jesus Christ Is Lord — Salvation, Eternity, and Personal Conviction
A gap-filling module inserted before the final spiritual rhythm module. The source viewpoint's most theologically dense content — 'Jesus Christ Is Lord,' salvation, eternal life, Christ living yesterday, today, and in the future — has no dedicated module in the draft. Without it, the spiritual rhythm module lacks a firm theological anchor. This module invites students to engage personally and honestly with the person and claims of Jesus Christ as the foundation of the entire curriculum.
- 5.1Who Is Jesus? — Engaging the Central ClaimIncluded
- 5.2Salvation and Eternal Life — Hope for the ImperfectIncluded
- 5.3He Died to Save Us, He Lives to Help Us — Faith as RelationshipIncluded
A Spiritual Rhythm — Prayer, Reflection, and Sustainable Faith
The culminating module, bringing together everything learned across the course into a personal, sustainable spiritual practice. Now anchored by a living relationship with Christ (Module 5), students build the daily and intergenerational rhythms of prayer, reflection, and service that will sustain faith beyond the classroom and pass it on. The module also functions as a capstone review, inviting students to integrate all five preceding modules into a coherent personal vision.
- 6.1Prayer as Conversation, Not PerformanceIncluded
- 6.2Reflection — Learning from Daily LifeIncluded
- 6.3Faith from Generation to Generation — Living What You Pass OnIncluded
Who it's for
Is this you?
The Disillusioned Believer
Once deeply involved in church life, they've stepped back after hurt or disappointment and are quietly looking for a faith that feels honest and alive again.
The Spiritually Curious
They've always been drawn to the ideas and values of Christianity but have never quite found an entry point that felt open, gentle, and free of pressure.
The Quiet Practitioner
Their faith is personal and private, and they want practical language and grounding for a spirituality they already live but rarely talk about.
The Creation Carer
Passionate about the environment and animal welfare, they want to understand how Christian stewardship connects their deepest convictions to their faith.
The Bridge Builder
Working across different faith traditions or communities, they need the grace, humility, and theological grounding to hold space for difference without losing their own footing.
The Faith Parent or Grandparent
Wanting to pass something real and lasting on to the next generation, they're looking for a sustainable, lived faith they can model in everyday life.
Questions
Frequently asked
Your teacher
A note from your teacher
David Clilverd
If you've ever sat in a church service and felt like a stranger, or walked away from religion feeling more confused than comforted — I want you to know I understand that feeling. And I also want you to know it doesn't have to be the end of the story.
I created Care in Action Faith because I believe that faith was never meant to live only inside buildings, behind doctrines, or between people who already agree with each other. The Christianity I've come to know and love is messier, wider, and far more ordinary than that. It shows up in the cup of tea you make for someone who's struggling. In the way you treat an animal. In the quiet prayer you say when you're not even sure of the words. It shows up, above all, in care.
This school is my attempt to share what I've come to believe about that kind of faith — practical, honest, and deeply human. We'll look at the whole sweep of Christian living together: what the Church really is when you strip away the institution; how stewardship means caring for people, animals, and the earth as an act of genuine worship; how to navigate the divisions and disappointments that religion so often brings; and how to build a spiritual rhythm that sustains you over the long haul, not just on good weeks. We'll also spend real time on Jesus himself — who he is, what his life and death and resurrection mean, and why that central claim is worth sitting with seriously and honestly.
I won't pretend I have all the answers, and I won't ask you to pretend either. What I will promise is that every session in this school is written with genuine warmth for wherever you are right now. Whether you're a lifelong believer looking for fresh depth, someone who drifted away and is quietly wondering about the way back, or a curious soul who's never been quite sure what to make of all this — there is a place for you here.
Come as you are. Bring your questions. We'll take it gently, one small act at a time.
— David Clilverd
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