Evangelism

Just a reminder Evangelism is telling people Good news. It is not trying to get people into church.

It is telling them about the good things IN YOUR EXPERIENCE about being a Christian. It is telling them about the joy of being God’s child – of freedom from guilt – of living in God’s Kingdom here on earth – of God’s promise to all believers of everlasting life.

We shall be exploring all of this in greater depth later in the year.

You may find that people you talk to come up with a variety of excuses or doubts or questions that make it hard for them to take in the good news.

There is a short book called “Searching questions” by Nicky Gumbel, with each chapter dealing with one of the 7 most common questions raised by people on Alpha courses. These are:

Suffering

Other religions

Sex before marriage

The New Age

Homosexuality

Science and Christianity and

The Trinity.

We are looking at each of these in the next seven evening communion services at Ewell although not necessarily in that order. We shall also be studying them in depth along with other aspects of evangelism in the Emmaus Group at Ewell at our Monday lunch time meetings.

The Emmaus group is great fun and an opportunity to think through some of the issues of our faith in a relaxed and caring atmosphere. There is freedom to ask any questions – no matter how foolish you might think them – to take them seriously and to listen to other people’ experiences.

We meet at 12.15 each Monday in the Ship Rooms with “bring your own” lunch (drinks provided) and move into our programme activities from 12.24 – 2.15.

All are welcome and especially anyone from Epsom who would like to join in. Have a word with me if you would like to know more.

Mike.Hensman

And from Rosemary:

Yes, it is fun as Mike says. An opportunity to discover and ask questions in an informal gathering. Yours might be the question that others are nervous about asking. I've been going for about 3 years and it would be great to have another Epsom person there, especially with the start of our our 6 month trial of doing more together.

I could offer transport on some Mondays.