Starting with a question seems like a good idea to most people: it helps to bring a sharper focus; it’s conversational; it reveals gaps in knowledge and it’s quite natural – kids seem to use questions instinctively to find out about the world. Of course, there are lazy questions and there are thoughtful questions. The difference is hard to explain, but anyone who has ever heard, or asked a great question, asked at the right time, will immediately know why good, careful, thoughtful questions are always worth asking.
Christians have often pointed to the example of God asking Adam and Eve, ‘Where are you?’ (Genesis 3:9), and the way in which Jesus interacts with people in the New Testament.
So, perhaps starting with questions isn’t such a bad idea after all, is it? Even so, some Christians are suspicious of starting with questions.
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This year, the RZIM European speaking team has been extremely busy leading missions in a number of locations including Oxford University, Canterbury, Buckingham and Sheffield. These missions, each held over several days, have also served to give our students at the Oxford Centre for Christian Apologetics (see www.theocca.org) some wonderful opportunities to share their faith, answer heartfelt and intellectual objections to the gospel, and lead people to Christ.
A major Trust has recently pledged a significant gift to support our ongoing missions work in the UK. The Trust has stipulated that we must raise an equivalent amount before they will release their funding. We are therefore seeking to raise £25,000 in the UK to match this at the earliest opportunity. Would you consider helping us towards this target, knowing that what you give will, in effect, be doubled by this Trust?
As Ravi Zacharias writes: “The propagation of the gospel and teaching and equipping people to defend their Christian faith is our task. Your giving, your enabling us, gives us the liberty to accept such invitations. Please do come alongside us. Ask God what he would have you do, and whatever that prompting is for you, we would be privileged to be the receptors of that gift. God bless you.”
As a UK registered charity, we are able to benefit from Gift Aid if you are a UK taxpayer. To donate online, please go to www.rzim.eu/supporting-us
Thank you so much for any help, however small, that you are able to give at this time.
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