Jesus is the Word of God
Crossing London is a city wide mission happening this year. Hear about the many opportunities to get involved. Also listen to an interview with one of the organisers, Martin Durham head of Kerygma 180. We speak about Crossing London, the work of K180 and the way God is working through street outreach.
As mentioned in this episode, check out
Kerygma180, and
UCCF estimate that 30 000 students this year will be reached through 100 CU missions.
In this podcast I talk about last week's mission to Edinburgh Napier University and Andy and I start to talk about student missions more broadly. More to follow in next week's episode.
Must you evangelise? Well that depends on what kind of "must" we're talking about.
Take financial giving as an example. Must we give money to the cause of the gospel? Well, remember that both Moses and Paul insist you give freely and not under compulsion for 'God loves a cheerful giver.' (Exodus 35; 2 Corinthians 9). It's the same with mission. It shouldn't be done reluctantly and from compulsion for God loves a cheerful evangelist.
Do you get your words all mixed up when you speak of Jesus? That's so much better than being slick.
Dai Woolridge and Andy Toovey are worthy winners of this year's Nativity Factor.
They won with the excellent, "Joseph"
And here's last year's epic: "Christmas Chord"
In this episode Andy and I talk to Dai and Andrew about the what, the why and the how of spoken word videos...
NB: The reason the first couple of minutes of the interview are spent talking about our video is because I didn't really think the interview had begun :) We were just chewing the fat. Consider the proper interview to begin at 7:29.
In our series on online witness we have interviewed
Graham Miller of London City Mission
Gavin Tyte - Beatboxing Pastor
Matt Rich from the evangelistic site Groundwire
In this episode we talk to Tim Chester from The Crowded House in Sheffield.
Tim is the author of numerous books on subjects ranging from church planting to mission and social action to the Trinity. He recently wrote "Will you be my Facebook Friend?" where he raises vital questions about our online presence.
Are we creating false images of ourselves online? Are we substituting online community for face to face fellowship? Are we spending too long on social media? Is our online engagement properly Christian?
Andy and I chat to Tim about evangelism in general and our online witness in particular.
Andy and I are in a series discussing online evangelism. Last week we spoke to Gavin Tyte about just living out our passions authentically and allowing our love for Jesus to naturally flow. This week we think about more intentional online witness.
Matt Rich runs a chat helpline website called Groundwire that connects with hundreds of people a month, answering questions about the Christian faith, and pointing people to Jesus through their local church.
I think Groundwire is a fascinating example of how pastoral care and evangelism coincide. If you ask me evangelism is pastoral care and pastoral care is evangelism. Our churches and our mission will be a lot healthier when we make those links.
