Sunday, April 16, 2017

Chiswick Baptist Worship

Sunday, April 9th, we went back to Chiswick Baptist Church.  They're worship service was first with Pastor Steve preaching. Afterwards, there was a tea and coffee break with cookies.  Then Pastor Jared gave an introductory Sunday School lesson.  Afterwards, we broke up into small groups to discuss the topic of obeying God to go and witness as Philip did with the Ethiopian treasurer.  

During the worship service 2 Iranian men and an Iranian woman came in.  After the service, Richard engaged them in conversation.  He felt prompted to present the Creation to Christ story because the woman didn't know very much at all about Jesus or stories from the Bible.  We found out that the lady had lost a child and had been depressed.  She had made a profession of faith the week before, yet didn't know much about the Gospel story.  After Sunday School her brother came up and told Richard how much he appreciated him telling his sister the overall story.  Richard suggested that they start reading the Gospel of Mark.  Pray that the 2 new Iranian Christians will read the Bible and grow in their new faith.

After eating lunch at an English Pub, we went on the street and did a survey finding out about what people thought about Christians, religion and Christ.  Unfortunately most of the people we met were atheists and not opened to the gospel story.  The last people we talked to were Catholics.  When the 16 year old daughter found out that we were Christians, she spoke up proudly that she had begun  to read the book of Matthew.  Pray that God will work in the lives of those we met and  that they will think about God in a positive way.  

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