March will see an explosion of missional activity carried out by Christians around England.
Under the banner of A Passion for Life, hundreds of churches are conducting evangelistic programmes until Easter. Well known speakers and evangelists, such as New York’s Dr. Tim Keller, Australia’s Bishop Al Stewart, Rico Tice and Roger Carswell, will join in with church missions in major cities and regions. A Passion for Life could be the biggest evangelistic push in the UK since Billy Graham visited in 1984.
Empowering churches
A Passion for Life’s organisers, the Gospel Partnerships network, define it as ‘a nationwide initiative that is drawing together local evangelical churches to plan a fantastic variety of missional initiatives culminating at Easter 2010’. The mission reflects aspects found in other outreach programmes such as Hope 08, the Alpha course and Christianity Explored. But it puts more emphasis on empowering churches to conduct their own outreach programmes, tailor-making them to their unique demographic and culture.
