Big Hearted: The gospel of simple words and a large heart - Softcover

Duffett, Chris; Goddard, Simon

9780956856050: Big Hearted: The gospel of simple words and a large heart

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0956856055 ISBN 13: 9780956856050

Publisher: Gilead Books Publishing, 2020

This book is for anyone whose heart longs to share Jesus with others, but whose head has warned don t . Chris and Simon show us how we can have a creative partnership with God, using the gifts we have already, to be effective big-hearted missionaries right where we are. The Revd Kathryn Morgan, Mission Advisor Baptist Union Great Britain

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About the Author:

Chris is the President of the Baptist Union, a street evangelist and artist who founded The Light Project, a growing network who actively demonstrate the Christian message. He loves to get out there with other Christians to creatively show good news. Simon is a Baptist Pioneer Pastor and Mission Consultant based in rural Cambridgeshire. He leads RE:NEW, an ecumenical expression of church exploring fresh ways of gathering and growing together. He is committed to helping Christians rediscover God s missionary heart.

Review:

The apparently simple approach Chris has to making God's love real is of course deceptively deep. It reaches way into our humanity, touching parts of us we'd long forgotten were there. This book is, in the very best sense, a treasury of encouragement and love. --Mark Craig, BMS World Mission Director for Communications

This book is enormous fun to read. But don't be deceived, the content of the message is about as profound as anything you will come across. The generous love of the God who did not withold his own Son but gave him up for us all' needs to be reflected by an equally generous church. Most of the Christians I have met get somewhere near this but just occasionally I meet those who if they have been baptised at all seem to have been baptised in lemon-juice! This book will do us all good and will push us in the right direction. --Dr Nigel G. Wright, Principal, Spurgeon's College London

Congratulations, Chris Duffett and Simon Goddard, for your creativity in giving a title to the book. Yes, it caught my attention right away, but I must confess that it did not ring a bell that I would be reading about Evangelism. And yet, as I now look back at the book, there I find Evangelism defined in a very straightforward way Big-hearted, the gospel of simple words and a large heart. Interestingly, Chris and Simon offer a blunt heads-up about the content of the book in the preamble by telling the reader what he or she is about to read without any effort to disguise or pretend that Evangelism is just an in passing idea contained somewhere in the book. No, Evangelism is what the book is all about! And so you and I are challenged to live our daily Christian life with the heart-gripping conviction that a big-hearted God provides us with a big-hearted gospel and expects us as churches and individual Christians to be characterized by a big-hearted compassion and big-hearted innovative approaches. --Fausto A. Vasconcelos, Director, Division on Mission, Evangelism & Theological Reflection Baptist World Alliance

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