UK: Saints out of Church on to Street | 29th August 2010
August 28, 2010 by admin
Filed under Prayer Bulletin
Baptist churches have been encouraged to set aside a number of Sundays each year to get out into their neighbourhoods and meet people who would not normally come to church. The future president of the Baptist Union of Great Britain, the Revd Chris Duffett has launched an evangelistic project called Saints on the Street (St St).”As the vast majority of people in the UK do not go to church, St St projects take church to the vast majority,” he explained.
“Our hope is that St St may become A vision for Baptist churches in the UK to set aside some Sundays in the year where the morning service is used to engage with people who wouldn’t consider going to church.” Recently he invited shoppers in Peterborough to walk along A VIP red carpet to give them the message that God thinks they are ‘Very Important People’.
Mr Duffey said, “We were able to talk to many people about Jesus who wanted to know why we were declaring they were very important.” He added, “My hope is that more and more churches would be creative in reaching out… We need to meet people where they are at on a Sunday morning rather than expecting people to attend services.”
BIBLE STUDY: 1 John 3:18
PRAISE: God for this initiative. Pray that many churches will follow this example taking the Gospel on to the streets of our towns and cities.
