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    Why Easter? Expanded Edition
    Why Easter? Expanded Edition
    Why Easter? Expanded Edition
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    Why Easter? Expanded Edition

    By Nicky Gumbel

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    Prepare for your guests this Easter with a wonderful evangelistic booklet by Nicky Gumbel. Like Gumbel's Why Jesus?, this booklet is a concise and easy-to-read study of the very real questions surrounding Jesus that people might be thinking about at Easter:

    • Who is Jesus?
    • Why do we need him?
    • Why did he have to die?
    • Why does he matter to my life today?

    With hearts particularly open in the Easter season, these booklets are an effective evangelistic tool to pass out to guests at your services, sharing the Gospel in a warm and relevant way.

    Alpha is based on a pattern found in the New Testament of people bringing their friends, family, and work colleagues to meet Jesus. Alpha is an easy way to say to friends, "Come and see, come and explore your questions, come and hear about Jesus, come and see for yourself." Everyone is welcome at Alpha, but the program is designed especially for people who would not describe themselves as Christians or church-goers.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherThomas Nelson
    Release dateAug 21, 2018
    ISBN9780310089834
    Why Easter? Expanded Edition
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    Nicky Gumbel

    Nicky Gumbel is the pioneer of Alpha. He studied law at Cambridge and theology at Oxford, practiced as a lawyer and is now the senior pastor of HTB in London, one of England's most vibrant churches.

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      Why Easter? Expanded Edition - Nicky Gumbel

      Why Easter?

      If you could meet any person in the past and ask just one question, whom would you meet and what question would you ask? When asked this, Professor Joad, then Professor of Philosophy at London University, and not a Christian, answered: I would meet Jesus Christ and ask Him the most important question in the world, ‘Did You or did You not rise from the dead?’

      Easter is all about the death and resurrection of Jesus Christ. If Jesus Christ did rise from the dead on the first Easter Day then He is alive today and we can know Him.

      Relationships are exciting. They are the most important aspect of our lives—our relationships with our parents, boyfriend or girlfriend, husband or wife, children, grandchildren, friends, and so on.

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      Christianity is first and foremost about relationships rather than rules. It is about a Person more than a philosophy. It is about the most important relationship of all—our relationship with the God who made us. Jesus said that the first and greatest commandment is to love God. The second is to love our neighbor. So, it is also about our relationships with other people.

      Why do we need Jesus?

      You and I were created to live in a relationship with God. Until we find that relationship, there will always be something missing in our lives. As a result, we are often aware of a gap. One rock singer described it by saying: I’ve got an emptiness deep inside.

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      A woman, in a letter to me, wrote of a deep deep void. Another young girl spoke of a chunk missing in her soul.

      People try to fill this emptiness in various ways. Some try to close the gap with money, but that does not satisfy. Aristotle Onassis, who was one of the richest men in the world, said at the end of his life, "Millions do not always add up to what a man needs out of

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