Hannah Felsbourg
22 July 2024
A new podcast aims to encourage and equip Christians to share their faith within their communities.
The Hope25 podcast is a part of a national evangelism project within the Anglican Church of Australia focusing on evangelism from Easter Day to Pentecost Sunday in 2025.
Hope25 project officer the Reverend Christy Capper said the podcast aimed to encourage Christians to share their hope in Jesus amidst society’s hopelessness.
She said Christians’ hope was unique because it came from knowing the God who entered our world as a human and understood our experiences.
“It’s not a hope that everything is going to be fixed … it’s a hope that God is bigger than everything that goes on,” she said.
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Dr Capper said she wanted the podcast to connect people with ideas for evangelism that would speak to them.
She said podcasts were often easier to digest than something like print media, particularly for young people.
They also facilitated a more personal conversation and gave listeners an idea of the people behind the ideas being shared.
Dr Capper said one of the guests she interviewed for an upcoming episode was missiologist Cathy Ross.
Dr Capper said Dr Ross highlighted the importance of Christian hospitality and sharing the love of Jesus by inviting people into our homes.
Topics covered in previous episodes included finding ways share faith naturally and the power of storytelling to connect with others and understand Jesus’ atonement.
Links to the Hope25 podcast can be found here.
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