‘My colleagues need Jesus.’

“I’ve recently entered the corporate workplace, and I’ve been struck by two things - how much I need to stay rooted in the gospel, and how much my colleagues need Jesus.” (One attendee of Dublin Bible Talks)

The workplace is where most people spend most of their waking hours, and often have closer relationships there than with neighbours.  It is a great mission field!

The Dublin Bible Talks is simply professionals meeting online on Wednesdays at lunchtime. 

The work is very simple really.  A talk on a portion of the Bible.  It’s very unimpressive looking, but God works by His Spirit through His word… and He is working!

We’ve completed a Bible overview, Christianity Explained, Just for Starters and Christian Living for Starters, Colossians, and Philemon.  In the coming year we begin working our way through 1 Peter.  Each series is focussed on building confidence in people’s own Bible reading,

One to one ministry does the same work.  A good proportion of the group are reading the Bible with us in addition to the talks.  God-willing, his simple model is something they’ll become comfortable doing with unbelieving-but-interested colleagues.

This is a very easy way for believers in the workplace to explain what we believe: sitting with a colleague over a coffee or lunch reading the bible together and letting the Lord do the work by His word! While in Australia in October I joined a City Bible Forum session with 20 people being trained in this.  They had multiple sessions in that same week with others. How wonderful it would be to see the same here with more people responding like this:

“My journey has just started; I still have many questions, but I look forward to discuss these (thanks to Alex & Cameron and other attendees) on Wednesdays.”

Please pray that:

• More Christians in Dublin would hear of this work and join with us

• Christian workers would see their workmates as people who desperately need Jesus

• Christian workers will stand out as believers, invite colleagues to come, grow in their own faith, and speak of Jesus themselves.