How to use the Good News Booklets
The GOOD NEWS booklets are written for specific social groups, helping us to reach out to friends, family members, neighbours and work colleagues. They are intended to initiate a response, and may well create as many questions as they provide answers.
When to Use
We should never try and push the Gospel at people who are clearly showing no interest. We have to be patient, wait for the opportunities God creates and allow our friends to ask questions, or indicate in some other way a hunger to know more about God.
Such opportunities can arise when there are changes in peoples' lives: leaving or moving home, starting a family, retirement etc. Redundancy or bereavement are also times when people begin to look for God.
The Holy Spirit also works in peoples' lives through chance remarks and experiences. We never know when someone we have known for years may suddenly start asking questions about our faith and what we believe.
Such opportunities can arise when there are changes in peoples' lives: leaving or moving home, starting a family, retirement etc. Redundancy or bereavement are also times when people begin to look for God.
The Holy Spirit also works in peoples' lives through chance remarks and experiences. We never know when someone we have known for years may suddenly start asking questions about our faith and what we believe.
Through the Churches
Our booklets are being used across all denominations in the following ways:
1. Church bookshops. All our publications are available for church bookshops to sell on a sale or return basis. Please email us at [email protected] for more information.
2. Many of the booklets are ideally suitable for use in home study groups, luncheon club discussions, over-60's clubs, youth meetings, tots and toddler groups etc.
3. Good News booklets are distributed in care homes, hospital and medical centre waiting rooms and other institutions where they can be browsed through by the general public.
4. Hospital, school, prison chaplains are increasingly using our publications, as also are Christian groups witnessing and praying on the streets.
1. Church bookshops. All our publications are available for church bookshops to sell on a sale or return basis. Please email us at [email protected] for more information.
2. Many of the booklets are ideally suitable for use in home study groups, luncheon club discussions, over-60's clubs, youth meetings, tots and toddler groups etc.
3. Good News booklets are distributed in care homes, hospital and medical centre waiting rooms and other institutions where they can be browsed through by the general public.
4. Hospital, school, prison chaplains are increasingly using our publications, as also are Christian groups witnessing and praying on the streets.
We're all in this together
Sharing our faith is something we are all called to do, and the GOOD NEWS booklets are written to make this as easy as possible. They are written in everyday language, with visuals that the general public can readily connect with. Purchasing them and having them ready and available in our homes means we are equipped when that unexpected conversation takes place.