Most of your church is not sharing faith.
This course will change that.
Eight interactive video-based sessions for your small group or team. Includes downloadable Leaders and Participant Guides to help you lead each session.
The evangelism study will help you to:
Know the questions people are asking
Learn the questions people are asking today explore the obstacles you face, especially the relevancy barrier.
Learn where people are starting
Identify why sharing your faith feels so difficult and understand why the people around you seem so disinterested in Christian faith.
Learn to stir spiritual curiosity
Understand the signposts and clues that God has put in everyone of us that reveal our soul. Learn to stir up those longings and encounter Jesus.
Run the Eight-Session Intro Series
We've stirred all our best content to the surface for use with your small group.
What's included:
- Downloadable Leaders and Participant Guides
- Access to bonus videos for participants to go deeper on their own
- Downloadable sermon notes that support the series
Get the Study
What's included:
- Links to all the videos in the Series.
- Simple Leaders Guides to set group leaders up for fruitful discussion.
- Participant Guides to boost participant’s personal reflection and application.
Using it with your small group? We'll show you how to run it as an eight-session Intro Series.
Using as an individual or class? Watch all 24 videos.
What others are saying
We learned to change our approach without compromise...
"We belong to a church in Hampshire and have been using Start to Stir's small group evangelism study within our Home Group. On average, we have been Christians for 50 or so years, and yet acknowledge the difficulty sharing our faith outside of our church circle.
Whilst the gospel doesn't change, our culture does, we don't always know how to change with it, without compromise. I heard about Start to Stir, and although we were a very different demographic, it sounded something that would be helpful for us as well. And this proved to be the case. We certainly found it in enlightening to go right back to a basic understanding that we are a soul, and a soul can be stirred whether we are Christian or not. It becomes common ground to share with the people we encounter, either within the church or without."
David Smith
Hampshire, United Kingdom
Home Group Leader
Takes pressure off those who have never shared their faith...
"The small group evangelism study is great for busy leaders who are trying to help their church learn to share their faith with non-religious people. Church leaders will find the small group evangelism study easy to use- no preparation is needed. Darin and Joy consistently took the pressure off of the participants and exhibited lots of grace for those who may have never shared their faith before."
Steve Hudson
Minneapolis, MN
Concentric Global/ Sonlife
Makes talking about faith so much easier...
“I'm loving this Start to Stir way of talking to people about faith... It makes it so much easier and I can't stop talking about it! This is just what I've been searching to hear as I've noticed that having a conversation about my faith with others falls very much on the "it's fine for you but not for me ears". I had another great conversation with a colleague this afternoon talking about 13 year-old-girls' friendship troubles and how teenagers’ keen sense of injustice is a spiritual response to their situation."
Ruth
Oxfordshire, United Kingdom
The most natural and honest conversations we've had...
"We've had the most natural and honest conversations about faith that we've ever had with this group of young people and the Stir material facilitated this."
Katherine
Presbyterian Church of Ireland
Youthworker
Prepared me for today's conversations...
“One of the things that the small group evangelism study has done for me is that it’s helped me realise that I hadn’t been prepared to have conversations with people who have never even considered God, or were even aware that they are a spiritual being. I hadn’t realised how unprepared I was to help those who needed to start further back."
Gaye Hozee
Grand Rapids, MI
Helped us know where to start with people..
“The quick duration of each video is very good and the participant and leaders guides are helpful. It is so helpful for our church that you showed us where to start, with people's needs and longings, and how to take one step forward. This ‘start where people are starting’ approach has been really transformational.”
Isi Weber
Switzerland
Minister
Helps me be intentional without being aggressive
"I love how Start to Stir teaches me how to make a difference in ordinary encounters that really happen in everyday settings. I'm noticing new ways I never thought of before to stir up spiritual conversations with people who have been in my life for years but have had no interest in talking about God or church. The tips that Darin & Joy give allow me to be intentional without being aggressive or abrasive. It helps to know what people are truly seeking so that my message is actually good news to them instead of being categorized as irrelevant or dismissed as 'religious'."
Brenda Mitchell
Kalamazoo, MI
It didn't leave me feeling guilty
"Start to Stir's small group evangelism study didn't leave me feeling guilty or pressured, but it gave me small, realistic and practical steps I could take everyday to share my faith."
Ben
London
Logistics Manager
FAQ’s
Most church leaders are looking for a practical, low-pressure, ready-to-use tool that addresses the specific cultural reality your lay people face every day. Many traditional evangelism studies (like Becoming a Contagious Christian or Talking Jesus) suggest approaches that are often best suited to reach people who already understand church culture. To truly equip lay people today, training must build confidence to reach those who have absolutely no church background.
The Start to Stir Small Group Evangelism Study bridges this exact gap. It is an eight-session video series that is ready-to-use and comes complete with group discussion questions and downloadable workbooks for leaders and participants. The gentle approach presented in the videos will help your people overcome fear and get into natural faith conversations with the spiritually curious, the ‘spiritual but not religious,’ and the spiritually indifferent.
The Small Group Evangelism Study is for Christians, churches, youth leaders and small groups who want to become more confident and natural at sharing their faith. It is particularly helpful for people who want to reach friends, family, colleagues and young people who may have little interest in church or Christianity.
We love learners! You can:
Run our Small Group Evangelism Study for eight sessions with your team or small group.
Download our free 20 Questions Tool to help get conversations started.
Read and share our Beginner’s Guide to Stirring Souls.
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Stirring spiritual curiosity means helping people become more aware of the spiritual questions, longings and experiences already present in their lives. Rather than forcing a conversation about faith, Start to Stir encourages Christians to notice these “signposts” and use them as natural starting points for exploring Christianity.
If you have purchased a small group or church-wide license you will be directed to login into MyStir and create a team on the training page (usually your church or organisation's name). By adding the names and e-mail addresses of each person you wish to give access to, our system will send an e-mail invitation into their inbox.
If you, or anyone on your team, are having trouble accessing the videos please let us know at [email protected].
Make plans to run The Stir Course as an outreach to non-Christians.
Or, invite the Stir Team to your church or organisation to think about an overall plan for mission that includes equipping Christians to share faith, outreach programmes and services and running the Stir Course. We can help!