Past Events

If you want to find out more about God, Jesus, Christianity, the Bible, etc, you’ve come to the right place.

The LIFE events were all geared to helping you understand more about these things and the videos are still available.

There are a number of ways for you to go further still. Below, you’ll find a brief explanation of what a Christian is. Then we’ve listed a few suggestions on what you might like to take as your next steps.

This is your life, and your journey into real life with God. We want to help and encourage you along the way.

What is a Christian?

It’s really important to realise that a Christian isn’t someone who tries to do lots of good things so that God will accept them to heaven.

The truth is, God is angry with us all. We’ve all lived in the world he gave us and then gone our own way, wilfully disregarding both God and his laws.

Naturally, we choose not to be with God. We reject him, preferring to go our own way. We can even think of ourselves as “spiritual” but then refuse to acknowledge the true God as he’s made himself known in the Bible.

When we die, we don’t cease to exist. You’ll meet God. If you have rejected him in this life he’ll confirm your choice and reject you in the next.

And yet Christians have confidence that they won’t be rejected. Why? Because God sent his Son, Jesus Christ, into the world to save us. He did it by being a substitute for you. He took the punishment we deserve from God on himself when he died at the cross. And then he rose and is now in heaven.

If you ask God to forgive you, he will. As you trust Jesus to have been punished instead of you, your confidence of heaven is based on him, not on you.

Christians then want to live for him, looking forward to being with him forever. When you see a Christian doing good things, it’s not so that they might go to heaven. They do good in response to what God has done for them.

Got Questions?

Everyone has questions. It’s healthy to enquire.

Questions like, Who is Jesus? Is the Bible true? What about suffering? Is hell real? Aren’t all religions basically bad? Aren’t all religions basically working to the same God?

There are very many more questions, of course. You can search for answers on the Internet but you won’t always land in a helpful place. The good news is that we’ve all asked those same questions and found reasoned, sensible answers.

We’d love to have opportunity to explore these things with you.

Want to find out more?

There are many resources for you to find out more.

The LIFE events are a great starting point and you’ll have opportunity to ask questions and get linked up with local Christians.

We’d encourage you to contact any of our Partner churches. You can simply pop along to a Sunday service (you’ll get a very warm welcome), ask them about courses they might be running, or just ask for a chat.

You’re also very welcome to contact us here and we’ll try to connect you up with someone near you.

If none of that quite suits you, why not get a Bible and start reading for yourself? You can order one online (there are prices to suit everyone), read it online, or even download an app on your phone and read it there.

All Wirral Christians are invited to the LIFE Mission Launch Evening.

Wirral Gospel Partnership will be hosting a LIFE mission at the end of March 2022. It’s part of the national A Passion for Life mission initiative.

To help you understand what will be happening and how you and your church can be involved, we’re having a LIFE Mission Launch Evening in January. We’ll be sharing details of what will happen day by day. And there will be a video welcome from our main mission speaker, Glen Scrivener.

It will also be a time to worship together as local churches in singing God’s praise and hearing him speak through his word. More than that, we’ll also be spending time praying for the mission.

So put the date in your diary and make sure your church leadership has it planned in too!

When? Wednesday 12th January, 7:30pm.

Where? St Andrew’s Church, Bebington.

Who can come? It’s of interest to all Wirral Christians.

Our event on “Sexuality – Living out the Bible’s Message in the 21st Century” was helpful and informative.

We were hugely thankful to Andy Robinson, Training Director of Living Out, for coming to speak to visitors from across Partnership churches at St Mark’s, New Ferry.

Andy reminded us that although much discussion in the public sphere is based on true, emotive stories, the Bible gives us all a bigger, better story – a love story between God and humanity.

Thank you to everyone who came along and in particular to those who asked questions in the Q&A.

If you have further questions in this area, why not speak to your local church leader? Or take a look at the book recommendations below?

Book recommendations:

• A Better Story – God, Sex and Human Flourishing – by Glynn Harrison
• The Plausibility Problem – The Church and Same-sex attraction – by Ed Shaw

Our “More to Life” series got off to an unexpected start on Sunday 1st March.

Congleton MP Fiona Bruce explained how she had achieved a good deal of success in terms of her education and career, and yet felt deeply unhappy. In her words, she specifically remembered thinking that “there must be more to life.”

The theme of “more to life” surrounds us all in so many ways, but the answer is always the same: Fiona gave a clear testimony of how she encountered God’s grace and forgiveness, accomplished through the death and sacrifice of Jesus Christ.

You are warmly invited to contact us or come to any of our More to Life events at the end of March / start of April.

We were grateful to have Aled Seago interviewed by George Crowder at our “Diary of a Downcast Soul” event, on the subject of depression among Christians.

Aled was helpfully frank about how medication and counselling have benefited him, and we also gained an insight into how church and friendship can help someone to keep going through the darkest of days. Aled also spoke about the particular challenge of suffering depression as a Christian, grappling with why God permits suffering at all. In the end, there is hope in Christ as we look forward to a day when God will wipe away every tear.

George was also questioned about his role as someone who had helped Aled in his depression. George explained his own feelings of inadequacy for the task, yet he simply stayed in close friendship throughout.

A great number came along to hear LFC Chaplain and Liverpool pastor Bill Bygroves speaking on Faith and Football.

Bill pointed out the many similarities between football and normal life – how both are affected by the need for rules, both have penalties, both need referees, and how both have a final whistle. But most beautiful of all was God’s answer for a Substitute, Jesus.

Everyone was challenged to turn to Jesus for themselves and some who were present did just that for the very first time on the night.

We were treated to some challenging examples of how knowing Jesus has changed the lives of local people.

Thank you to everyone who came, to All Saints Church Thornton Hough for their hospitality, and to John, Tina, Christopher and Pauline for sharing their experiences of Jesus with us.

Over 300 people came to hear the fascinating story of Jonathan Aitken in his own words.

He spoke of the pain of being sent to prison and the terrible toll it took on his family. He also spoke about his search for meaning in Jesus Christ, and how he shared that search with fellow inmates in prison. Over time, he and other inmates were transformed by faith in Jesus – evidenced by genuine changes in character and lifestyle.

If you missed the event or would like to be reminded of it, you will find a similar talk given at another event on YouTube.