The BCUK Podcast

Identity Formation

The BCUK Podcast

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Session 1 from the BCUK National Conference 2026 Identity: Conversations Exploring Our Union with Christ Steve Midgley is the Executive Director of Biblical Counselling UK. Until 2022 he was the Senior Minister of Christ Church Cambridge where he continues to have a part-time role. Steve is a board member with CCEF and with the Biblical Counseling Coalition. He trained in psychiatry before being ordained. Steve has co-authored The Heart of Anger and Mental Health and Your Church and most recently he has written Understanding Trauma: A Biblical Introduction for Church Care.

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Seminar from the BCUK National Conference 2026 Identity: Conversations Exploring Our Union with Christ What’s wrong with people pleasing? In the Bible we read “each of us should please our neighbours” (Romans 15:2), “look to the interests of others” (Philippians 2:4) and “try to please everyone in every way” (1 Corinthians 10:33). So how do we square this with Scripture’s call “not to please man, but to please God who tests our hearts” (1 Thessalonians 2:4)? This seminar considers our need to please the people around us, how this connects to our worship of God, and how, in Christ, we can serve others freely and joyfully.

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Jul 17, 2026

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