I really enjoyed my recent visit to Glasow Grace, for a bit of a different Confident Christianity event. We took our usual Confident Christianity materials – which readers of this website will be familiar with, and divided it up into four fifteen-minute “Ted style “ talks, interspersed with discussion activities in groups with a decent coffee break in the middle of the programme, and a session of Q&A at the end. It’s a good format, as it keeps the event moving and keeps it lively. The folks there were seated around tables too – which works for short talks and frequent discussion breaks.
They were a good lively, engaged audience which is great for a speaker – and this format seemed to go down quite well with them. Glasgow Grace is a younger church, with most of their members being student age or thereabouts, many of whom I recognized from university missions with their CU’s in Glasgow. There were about 60 people there, at a guess.
The whole thing took place on a Sunday afternoon, and it followed lunch which in turn followed the morning worship service, so it was a full day for the folks there, but they seemed to enjoy it!
The topics we did were:
- The Power of a good question.
- Sparking spiritual curiosity in your friends.
- Have You Ever Wondered?
- Bringing it back to Jesus
One of our core values at Solas is that we are ‘Church Focussed’ which means serving the local church on the ground. That means many things in practice, one of which is to make sure that we adapt the format of our event to suit the needs of different audiences. It seemed to work well at Glasgow Grace!
One of the pastors at Glasgow Grace, Lewis Cameron, said”“We loved having Andy with us to train and encourage us in evangelism. His conversational and everyday approach takes the fear out of evangelism, and left us all feeling empowered and equipped to live on mission!”
