Nicky Gumbel - Alpha and the Future of Evangelism (N45)

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🗓️ 11 March 2012

⏱️ 41 minutes

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It's hard to measure the impact Nicky Gumbel has had on the worldwide church. He pioneered the Alpha Course as an evangelistic introduction to the Christian life. It is estimated that over 15 million people have now attended a course. So we thought it...

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0:00.0	Hello, my name is Nicky Gumpel and you're listening to Nomad Podcasts.
0:11.2	Nomad, Christian Community, Mission and the Future of the Church.
0:16.1	Hello and welcome back to Nomad Podcast.
0:19.1	Here we are in London, in a hotel room.
0:21.8	In Elscourt.
0:22.9	In Elscourt station.
0:24.2	Yeah.
0:24.4	It's a lovely view, isn't it?
0:25.7	Not especially, no.
0:27.2	It's a bit kind of grey, isn't it?
0:28.6	It's a very grey day.
0:29.8	Minus one, apparently, outside, so not looking.
0:32.3	But certainly not minus one in the hotel room.
0:34.8	No, it was a very warm night last. In fact, I hardly slept so warm.
0:39.8	Yeah. Why do they do that? Why do they make hotel rooms so warm? It doesn't make any sense,
0:44.0	does it? No, not at all. We're just saying bad for the environment, bad for us. Bad for business.
0:48.2	Yeah, bad for the hotel, because they're paying for the heating to be on all the time. Crazy. It's not good. Why have we come to London, Dave?
0:55.2	We've come to interview Nicky Gumbull.
0:57.1	Yeah.
0:57.8	And who's Nicky Gumbull, Tim?
0:59.7	He's that alpha dude, isn't he?
1:01.0	Yeah.
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