Godsend.Intro
Session 3 – Won’t it be difficult to share our faith?
Who it’s for?
Those who lack confidence in sharing their faith.
In particular, those who are discouraged by the faith-sharing assumptions in the previous sessions.
Opening prayer/worship (5 mins)
Explain: our main act of worship will happen later.
Warm up questions (10 mins)
Either:
Put yourself in the place of one of your friends:
- What might they find attractive about the Christian faith?
- What sort of context would encourage them to explore Christian spirituality?
Or:
What would be signs that someone is open to following Jesus in your context? How might you encourage them?
Videos: (20mins)
Pause after the first video to share the group’s reactions (5 mins)
Then use one of the Soulspace 10-minute options (cofe.io/soulspace).
Discussion (20 mins)
- What are your reactions to Soulspace?
- Can you imagine using it as part of/at the end of an outreach activity?
- Might you need to adapt it?
- Ask people to read silently the handout, ‘Four steps to a new congregation’.
- Discuss it if you have time.
- Or invite people to take it away and think about it.
- What shall we do next? Select from this menu of ideas, which are designed to spark the group’s thinking. (They are on a handout that you can print off and distribute.)
- Look at one of the other sessions.
- Watch the combined video, “Ch. 12. Why share our faith?” on website godsend.cloud.
- One or two people browse the website sharingjesus.life or chapters 12 and 14 in Michael Moynagh, Godsend, and share what they found at the next meeting.
- Explore with leaders of an outreach group in the parish whether they could sensitively add Soulspace at the end or discreetly during the meeting.
- One or two people use Soulspace as part of their devotions and report how they found it.
- Come up with a better next step.
Close with prayer and date of next meeting (3 mins)