🎉Cyber Week Sale: Get 30% Off Everything Published by The Good Book Company
UK

The CE Website: Telling others

 
Carl Laferton | 15 Mar 2012

ChristianityExplored.org exists to tell people about Christ—who He is, why He came, and what it means for us today. It's not an advert for the Christianity Explored course—and your church doesn't need to run the course to use the website as an evangelistic resource.

But that said, there is an area of the site which tells people what a CE course is, and what it's like, and what "type" of people go (ie: all types!).

And if your church does run CE, it's well worth pointing people who might be interested to "The CE course" area on the site. Turning up for CE can be a pretty intimidating prospect—What will happen? Who'll be there? Will they be asked to pray or sing? Will they be put under pressure, or brainwashed?

There's a great short video at www.christianityexplored.org/course which aims to help people feel comfortable and confident about signing up. It's voiced by a real CE group leader, and features a wide range of CE courses from big church halls through living rooms to coffee shops.

If you're advertising a CE course at your church over Easter, why not show this two-minute video at evangelistic services and events? It's what it's made for, (literally!). Let people see that CE really is relaxed, informal and friendly, and they'll be far more likely to show up!

Carl Laferton

Carl is Editorial Director at The Good Book Company and is a member of Grace Church Worcester Park, London. He is the best-selling author of The Garden, the Curtain and the Cross and God's Big Promises Bible Storybook, and also serves as series editor of the God's Word for You series. Before joining TGBC, he worked as a journalist and then as a teacher, and pastored a congregation in Hull. Carl is married to Lizzie, and they have two children. He studied history at Oxford University.