The gospel is good news to be proclaimed and has lost none of its power to save. Advance equips, encourages, and empowers the church for evangelism through small group mentoring, whilst also stirring and developing evangelistic gifting in those called as evangelists.
Read MoreThrough the first twelve sessions of Advance, we will grow together in five evangelistic characteristics, encouraging and equipping each other as we rely on God’s empowerment for the task.
Read MoreIn this session, you will explore the identity of an evangelist as it relates to the identity of God himself and his gospel story.
Read MoreIn this session we explore the message of the gospel itself. What is the gospel? Do we have a sufficient understanding of the message we preach to communicate it clearly?
Read MoreWhat are the differences between preaching and proclaiming? This session is an opportunity to explore these ideas biblically and practically, encouraging each other to develop and sharpen verbalisation skills – whether for interpersonal conversation or preaching – in complete submission to the Holy Spirit’s power.
Read MoreWe long to see spiritually-dead hearts revived. This session explores what it means to be spiritually-empowered through prayer, leading us to an authentic revival in our own hearts that in turn we can offer to the world.
Read MoreHow do we maintain authenticity in our lives and our evangelism? Building on our exploration of prayer in the previous session, here we explore the importance of the full devotional life in our Christian walk and our evangelism.
Read MoreIn this session we will expand upon the idea of holiness explored in the previous session, specifically as it relates to the identity of God, the hope of the gospel and the life of the Christian. We will explore accountability as being crucial to the journey of a disciple.
Read MoreThe most holy Christians are the most humble, so what does it look like to have humility in our evangelism?
Read MoreOne mark of evangelistic gifting is the ability to see – and a desire to seize upon – any and every opportunity to share the gospel with those around us. In this session we will explore how we can make the most of every opportunity.
Read MoreThe Bible is the revelation of the invitation from God to turn away from our rebellion and into relationship with him, through faith in Jesus Christ. How do we ensure that we are not only explaining and presenting what the gospel is, but boldly calling people to respond to and act upon what they have heard?
Read MoreThe ministry of the evangelist is not only to preach the gospel into the world but to stir the whole church to evangelism. In this session we explore how we can all play a role in being fire-starters in the church to help encourage and equip those around us to be faithful to God in evangelism.
Read MoreThe climax of the first year of an Advance group is time spent in retreat. How you decide to do this is up to you, but here you will find suggestions for how to spend the time together in keeping with the general principles of Advance group meetings and to bring the first year to a focused end.
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