Does the future have a church? Unbelievable?

Unbelievable?

Premier Unbelievable?

Christianity, Religion & Spirituality

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🗓️ 23 June 2014

⏱️ 82 minutes

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Book for Unbelievable? The Conference 2014 www.premier.org.uk/reasonablefaith A recent report on the Church of England showed overall decline, but growth among 'Fresh Expressions' and Cathedral congregations. The Archbishop's advisor on Evangelism Chris Russell, tells the story of how his own church in Reading was revitalised, and why there is a bright future for the church. Phil Hoyle, who runs an alternative 'missional community' and Terry Sanderson, President of the National Secular Society also join the conversation. For the CofE report www.churchofengland.org For Ten Letters by Chris Russell http://amzn.to/1lfeAgw For Phil Hoyle https://twitter.com/hoylus For Terry Sanderson http://www.secularism.org For more faith debates visit www.premier.org.uk/unbelievable Join the conversation: Facebook and Twitter Get the MP3 podcast of Unbelievable? http://ondemand.premier.org.uk/unbelievable/AudioFeed.aspx or Via Itunes You may also enjoy: Unbelievable? 26th January 2013 - The atheist church Sanderson Jones & David Robertson •Unbelievable? 11 Sep 2010 - Is the Catholic church a force for good or evil?

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0:00.0	Close your eyes and know this.
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0:27.4	Premier registered with the fundraising regulator.
0:30.6	Good afternoon. Welcome along to the program. I'm Justin Bririele, your host for the next hour and a half here for Unbelievable, the show that brings Christians and non-Christians together for debate and discussion. And a great debate we've got lined up for you today on the future of the church.
0:46.5	Before we get into all that and I introduce today's guests, can I give a special mention of the fact that as of this last week
0:54.3	unbelievable the conference 2014 has been open for booking? Yes it's all happening on
0:59.8	Saturday the 12th of July in Central London at Westminster Central Hall as
1:04.4	Premier Christian Radio and Biola University present this year's conference
1:08.4	reasonable faith in an uncertain world in association with reasons to believe as well.
1:14.4	And so this year's conference is going to help ordinary Christians be equipped to be confident
1:18.2	in faith and share it effectively, engage with atheism, Islam and other worlds, essentially to give good reasons for God and the truth of Christianity.
1:27.0	So loads of seminar streams that are going to be going on during the day and some brilliant guests who are going to be there to speak. A special
1:35.0	offer as well if you book in two or more tickets booked receives a free
1:39.7	biola DVD, a free apologetics DVD with leading Christian thinkers on the
1:44.8	evidence for God. So if you want to book yourself in for Saturday the 12th of
1:49.1	July go to Premier.org org UK slash reasonable faith
1:54.4	uh... some of the contributors include
1:56.3	William Lane Craig he'll be here from the states
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