Hannah Felsbourg
25 July 2024
A campaign aims to challenge Christians to transform everyday interactions into spiritual conversations.
City Bible Forum’s Dive Deeper challenges believers to have conversations that point toward God, the Bible, or Jesus with three friends over three weeks.
Since the campaign started in 2022 there have been over 270 conversations logged through their website, and organisers hope to see many more.
City Bible Forum worker Russ Matthews said the campaign aimed to equip Christians to speak about the most important thing that has happened in their lives in a natural way.
He said all believers had unique mission fields made up of the people around them who might not otherwise come to know the gospel.
“We’re all called to actually go out and evangelise or talk to people about their faith … what most people don’t realise is that they’re planted right in their ministry field,” he said.
Mr Matthews said Dive Deeper went back to the basics of how Christians should be discussing their faith with those around them.
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He said rather than just giving gospel presentations, it was about building relationships to enable further spiritual conversations.
“To see other Christians all of a sudden see the value that they can have and the impact that they can have within that is actually quite encouraging,” he said.
City Bible Forum worker Amy Isham said the challenge also taught her to enjoy and find value in the other less deep levels of conversation.
She said spiritual conversations could be as simple as asking questions about the other person’s beliefs.
Signing up for the campaign provides access to curated audio and written content to help believers engage in spiritual conversations.
The Dive Deeper website also features a short quiz to discover personal evangelism styles, offering personal stories and tools to support believers’ journeys.
Participants can log their spiritual conversations on the website and view a selection from a growing catalogue of shared experiences.
The campaign runs between 1-20 September. More information and resources can be found on the Dive Deeper website.
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