This year our focus is going to be on another two key areas - evangelism and relationships: one track looking at each.
Here's your choice:
Evangelism 101
If there is one area in our Christian lives where we often feel like failures it’s in our evangelism.
For many of us the prospect of sharing our faith with our unbelieving friends and colleagues is a daunting one because we don’t know what to say or we worry we won’t be able to answer their questions.
At other times it just seems like a hopeless enterprise because of the complete disinterest our friends show in the Christian faith. If that’s you – join us at Evangelism 101.
Over the three evenings we’ll open the Bible and consider what the gospel (the“evangel”) is, why we should press on in seeking to share it with our friends, and – crucially – how we go about doing this. Our basic aim will be to see that God is in the business of using ordinary Christians, living ordinary lives to be his ambassadors and messengers of his extraordinary gospel.
Relationships 101
But what often stops us from even getting the chance to share the Good News is the weakness of our relationships - our constant failure to be the good parents, children, siblings, friends and colleagues that we want to be.
So Relationships 101 is going to help us think through how we can do all our relationships better - our focus is not going to be on romance but on the networks of everyday relationships we're all in all the time at home, at work and further afield.
Over the three evenings we'll be thinking biblically about why we need other people, how we can understand others better and how we can forgive them (and ourselves) when things go wrong. Our basic aim will be to make the point that relationships are messy - but they are a mess worth making.
Sign up!
Both 3-week courses will be happening on Wednesdays 2nd, 9th and 16th March at the Whiteladies Road BTP. 7.45pm for an 8pm start. We'll be done and dusted by 9.30pm.
All you need to do is let us know you're coming here and bring along some money to buy yourself a nice drink or cake (or both!).
