THE INFLUENCE COURSE

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THE INFLUENCE COURSE

Politics made possible, politics made positive, politics made pressing. If you’re daunted by the prospect of getting involved in politics, or jaded by what you’ve seen of party politics, but want to help contribute to a kinder, more just, more Jesus-shaped, flourishing society, here’s an upbeat, practical, biblically rich, creatively written and successfully tested guide to help you and your church get purposefully and productively engaged…. whoever you vote for.
Mark Green
Mission Champion / LICC

Christians aren’t meant to get their ultimate meaning from politics, but the Bible is very clear that we should definately care and enter into the struggles of the world around us, and to find joy in serving our communities. This course is the perfect entry for putting our Christian faith into practice in the public square.
Tim Farron
MP

Doing the course really highlighted that the church trains people to do church-related stuff – preaching, leading, teaching, children, leading worship – but it doesn’t train people to get involved in the outside world… We can spread the gospel by working to improve people’s lives and that means getting involved in political decision making.
Lizzie Jewkes
Liberal Democrat Christian Forum

I encourage everyone to step through the Influence Course, which serves as a very digestible, practical and motivational course to help you explore your place in political engagement to serve in the public square, to pray, to partake and to represent.
Rachael Maskell
MP

The gospel is political. Standing for the lost, the last, the least and the lonely is political. Believing in a God who loved the world so much that He gave up His only Son to save it – that is political and it leads to a people that are… ready to be counted at every level of society… The Influence Course is something that… creates space for a church community to engage with challenging teaching and gives practical advice on where we can action that teaching. I am excited to see what future material comes from Christian in Politics and we will be running the Influence Course again.
Rev Jonathan Phillips
St Peter’s Chester

Engaging with the political world and public life, either as a Christian or Church, is something for which many of us feel unprepared for or uncertain about. The Influence Course gave us the Biblical foundations, the tools and the confidence to begin that engagement.
Kevin Thomas
Christchurch Baptist Church

People in churches did an amazing job in supporting their communities during the pandemic. I recommend this biblical course to those who want to move on to have real influence in the public square, and I hope there will be many.
Stephen Timms
MP

Through my work with Tearfund, I see the justice-seeking passions of the church rising up around the issues like the climate crisis, but often Christians feel ill-equipped to channel those passions in constructive ways. The Influence Course is a practical way to help people take those first baby steps to being influencers in the public square.
Ruth Valerio
Global Advocacy and Influencing Director / Tearfund

The direct link between Faith Policy and politics has been popping out all over the place since our gatherings – it really has altered my lens on the world.
David Yardley
Course Participant

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