Session 1: Setting out.  What do we mean by “From coffee morning to Sunday morning?”  Most churches have many contacts with people who do not, or no.

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Session 1: Setting out

 What do we mean by “From coffee morning to Sunday morning?”  Most churches have many contacts with people who do not, or no longer attend worship services  But there is often little in place to help people to move from one to the other, from social encounter to spiritual engagement  It needs small steps to bridge the gap

 This course is about how to put these steps in place, through helping develop relationships with people you already know and accompany them on their journey  Relationships are key: people today feel let down by materialism and consumerism, especially in the current recession, and are anxious to rediscover the importance of their relationships  Christianity is all about right relationships with God and each other, therefore so is the Christian community, the church

 Discuss briefly together  Who are your most important relationships with? It could be friends, family, workplace colleagues, people at church even  Do you see your Christian faith as primarily a relationship with God?

 Who is the course for?  You may have tried inviting people to Alpha or Sunday services but still only the ‘regulars’ come  You may feel inhibited when it comes to talking about your faith or asking others to come to church events like Back to Church Sunday

 “Our calling”

 Meaningful Worship is one of the destinations of this course, specifically Back to Church Sunday  Learning & caring equips and energises the people of the church as they develop their relationships and this is what we are aiming for in the course  Service to others is a key starting-point and stepping-stone  Evangelism is what the church is doing through this initiative

 B IBLE F OCUS : Matthew 28 verses 16 to 20  Do you sometimes wonder or feel fazed about what Jesus asked his disciples (that is, all of us) to do? You’re in good company – look at verse 17!  What do you think the people who “doubted” were feeling at the time?  Look at the first and last things Jesus said here  How might these two reassurances help us to feel more confident with what he asks of us?

 Where we start and where we finish  Start: the church already has some level of social activities and/or service in the locality  Finish: when we can invite people to Back to Church Sunday and they say they would love to come with us, instead of trying frantically to think of a prior engagement!

 We have accompanied our friends to the point where the journey becomes a spiritual engagement  How to put in place the stepping-stones to get there is what the course is all about  After Back to Church Sunday we can of course continue the journey with our friends into a whole range of explorations and experiences together.

 But first a basic but important question  What was it that attracted you most to your church, and what you have found attractive about other churches you have visited?  Take a look at these three pictures of village churches. Which would you feel most attracted to? Why?

 Questions?  Now is the chance to raise any questions and uncertainties you may have about what we are going to do in this course, or about the Back to Church Sunday initiative

 And finally – take heart!  In spite of what we keep being told, many churches are active, healthy and growing, so there is good reason to take heart!  Provided of course that we are prepared to do something about it, and take the risk of inviting God to work out His mission among us “The great joy was that some old friends felt able to come back to church; and that we were able to welcome new friends when our own church folk personally invited their friends to come to church with them” ( a church that took part in Back to Church Sunday 2008)

We close this session with the course prayer And now we give you thanks because by the Holy Spirit you lead us into all truth, and give us the power to serve you as a royal priesthood and to take the joy of the gospel into all the world. Amen (Methodist Worship, p.56)