“Going to Introducing God, I felt the penny drop”

"It's not presumptuous or arrogant in any way"

Mark Hanson, was trying to encourage some of his church's key lay leaders to think strategically about church growth, so when he saw an advertisement for an information session on Introducing God, he went along.

"We sat down this time last year to do the training. The lay leaders really ran with the program," Mark says. "It's not a clergy centred thing at all." Mark says he's excited by the opportunity to allow others participate in the ministry of the church.

Introducing God is effectively being used to reach out to international guests with limited English.

New believer Korean Brad You committed himself to Christ for the first time on an ‘Introducing God weekend escape.’

Brad says he found a relationship with God has filled his deepest need.

“Without God it all means nothing. You just live yourself”, he says.

“It’s like an empty box. You try and fill the box with water, but it just goes down, it’s never gonna be filled up. You need God to fill up your box!”

How do I personalise Introducing God invitations and posters?

One of the attractive things about Introducing God is that it is easy to produce very high quality postcard or poster invitations just by printing your course details on top of the Introducing God postcards and posters.

How do I encourage Christian hosts to invite their friends to Introducing God?

The key to our friends coming to Introducing God is prayer, a godly life and an invitation. But there are a few steps along the way that can help:

• Step One: Raise awareness: People need to know we are Christian and that being part of the family of God is significant in our lives. First question is: Do your friends who don't have a relationship with God, know that you do?

What difference does training make?

Key to the Introducing God experience is creating an environment where our guests feel safe to agree and disagree. Introducing God is not just a series of talks - it is an experience where people in a safe, relaxed comfortable environment can come into relationship with God, through listening, discussing and exploring.

The training of Christian hosts and discussion group facilitators is vital to ensure that everyone is striving for this culture.

Here are some training tips:

I'm running the course but where do I start?

Here are a few of the most important things to think of during the early stages of organising an Introducing God course. If you get these things out of the way early, the course should run very smoothly.

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