The biggest mistake that Christian hosts make is they invite their guest to an 8-week course! This is like asking a girl out saying "Will you have dinner with me this Friday and every Friday for the next 8 weeks?"!

It's not something we'd do!

Instead we invite someone to one night and if they like it, then they can choose to come back next week (and so on).

Merrylands Presbyterian was a church vetted for burial, but the Lord is adding to our numbers through the help of Introducing God. The course has reached new members who, Peter says, are ‘really becoming a part of our church.’

Almost two years ago, part time home missioner Peter Magee, received an advertisement under his church door about Introducing God.

He attended a training seminar and ran his first Introducing God course last September.

Dear André,

We ran an Introducing God course here at our church, around a meal. We were very encouraged, that about ten unbelievers came, five of whom came to every session. In fact, one elderly lady, who was first contacted by door-to-door evangelism, came to the lot, and was converted!

So we give God all the glory, but I hope that is also an encouragement to you.

Nick
Mirfield Evangelical Church, UK

“People convert to our church, and friendship with its members first, and second to God,” Driscoll says in his book Radical Reformission, in describing unsaved people connecting to church members and helping to run concerts, helping to develop a website, joining a Bible study or serving the needy. Hospitality and friendship are key to Driscoll’s evangelism, and the boundaries between evangelism and discipleship are deliberately blurred.

When David Gogoll started planning for a relaxed venue to run Introducing God his first thought was "Beer!"

"We deliberately decided to not run Introducing God on church turf," says David, "but in the community."

"There are three hotels in town, but the Tanunda Hotel had the best room and were happy to have us."

Christ Church Blacktown had been running another course for years. However I was concerned that the gospel was not clearly presented to people who attended the course.

I was aware of Introducing God and so invited André to come and run a training seminar to introduce us to it. The training and concepts explained there confirmed my view that Introducing God was vastly superior.

Review by Mark Gilbart-Smith

Introducing God is another in the series of evangelistic courses following the Alpha / Christianity Explored format of talk, meal & discussion. Written by Dominic Steele from Christians in the Media, broadly speaking it is an expansion and exposition of the Two ways to live gospel outline that I reviewed earlier.

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Review by David Wayne

Awhile back the publishers sent me a new book called Introducing God by Dominic Steele that is part of an evangelism course of the same name. I owe them an apology for taking so long to review this, but finally got around to reading it and wanted to share a few thoughts on the book.

This evangelism course is out of Australia and, as I said, the book is a part of it. The book is only a resoruce for the course so I haven't reviewed the course and can only speak on the book.

Having said that, if the book is any indication, it must be a very fine course. And that leads to me to one major frustration - I can't find anywhere that it is available in the U.S. So, to any of my Aussie and Kiwi readers out there, and other parts of the world that can get it, I'd recommend it highly.

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