Why lunchtime talks?

With 12 buildings having a capacity of about 250 people per floor, about 15,000 people work at Chiswick Park. Most do not know the Lord Jesus. Apart from the gospel, they have no real hope in this life or the next. They need the gospel, for it alone is the power of God for salvation to everyone who believes (Rom 1:16). How will we reach these workplaces with the gospel? Our conviction is that people are saved as they hear and believe the word of Christ (Rom 10:13-17). So we want them to have his word opened up to them, whether through public proclamation, private exploration, or any other means.

Come and join us each week in order to:

• Stand: The talks offer an opportunity for you to publicly identify with the gospel. This allows you to be known publicly as a follower of the Lord Jesus and for questions to be asked of what you heard at the talks.
• Bring: The talks offer a public and free opportunity for anyone to hear God’s word being taught, that they might know Jesus too. Each week, you can bring along colleagues to hear a clear talk from the bible about Jesus.
• Grow / Live / Learn: The gospel saves us but also keeps us and builds us up to live for Jesus. The workplace is one of the hardest places to be a Christian, but also the place where we can be most distinctive. So we aim to strengthen believers in the gospel to live distinctive and gospel-adorning lives for Jesus in the workplace.
• Speak: The workplace provides abundant opportunities to make Jesus known. So we want to help believers to see the huge opportunity of the workplace and then to make the most of it. When believers are built, trained and fired up with the gospel, then we trust that they will go out and speak the gospel, at work, at home and wherever else they go, with great conviction that God works powerfully through his word.

Romans 10:13-17 (NIV)
13 for, “Everyone who calls on the name of the Lord will be saved.” 14 How, then, can they call on the one they have not believed in? And how can they believe in the one of whom they have not heard? And how can they hear without someone preaching to them? 15 And how can anyone preach unless they are sent? As it is written: “How beautiful are the feet of those who bring good news!”

16 But not all the Israelites accepted the good news. For Isaiah says, “Lord, who has believed our message?” 17 Consequently, faith comes from hearing the message, and the message is heard through the word about Christ.