Blog: Mission Styles

This blog is about the convince me mission style. If you haven't yet taken the mission styles test to find out the way you most naturally share your faith, you can do that here.  Convince me’s want to be convinced, right? So we have to get ready, armed with all the answers, ready to fire them at any moment. Maybe not…...

You often hear people say that we should be living our lives like Jesus.The bible also says that we should be imitators of God (Ephesians 5:1; 1 Corinthians 11:1) and walk in his footsteps (1 John 2:6;1 Peter 2:21). But what does it actually look like to live like Jesus did? For those who love an adventure and resonate with...

"DO. LITERALLY. ANYTHING." was the shriek that filled my university kitchen, bellowed by a heavily disgruntled Northern Irish medical student.  Her prized possession, a newly purchased 10-litre glass kilner drinks dispenser, had just imploded in frankly spectacular fashion.  We had invited a load of our friends over for a barbecue, and filled up the new kilner with cheap lemonade, bags of ice,...

How do we connect with our students who are talkers? The ones who love a conversational expression of faith?  Those who have a Talk With Me mission style are relational, they love to listen to people's stories, and talk rarely stays small. A DMC (deep and meaningful conversation) is a staple of the Talk With Me experience.  Fancy a chat? Often connecting with a talk...

Mission. A funny old word. To some, an awkward uncle; something you feel you should have a relationship with, but you’re not really sure how to approach it. To others, a fun, unruly friend; a companion on the journey of faith that you’re a little bit scared of but also don’t know where you’d be without it.  When Jesus calls Simon...

“Sharing my faith with someone is the best gift I can give them.” Becky, a final year student in Loughborough, is no stranger to sharing her faith, but with churches closed and her ability to meet with friends put on pause, Becky has chosen to take student mission online.  “My main gift is evangelism and this comes naturally to me because I...

I was talking to a student leader recently, called Esther, who had a mini-revelation about mission through discovering her Mission Style. She said it made mission more small-scale for her.  Sounds like a bit of a non-event, right? Like the opposite of a revelation, almost. Any yet...  Small-scale mission, like messy church; sounds kind of fun, exciting, one to get involved with. It...