John Robinson had the worst possible start in life. Taken into care at four months old, he was left in abusive foster homes for most of his childhood. At fourteen he was sent to a detention centre for arson. Gravitating towards a life of crime, he moved from borstal to the streets to psychiatric hospital, a scarred, tattooed, broken and angry young man. Yet God had plans for John. He would go on to run the Eden bus ministry: frontline youth buses which travel the toughest parts of Manchester with the gospel. The teams befriend young people and sometimes accompany them to court. 'My passion is, and I pray always will be, for those who feel downtrodden, hurt and rejected,' says John Robinson. 'They feel like scum, and wake up each day with nothing and no one. I know exactly what that feels like.'
Autorentext
John Robinson leads the Eden bus ministry, part of The Message in Manchester. He is author of NOBODY'S CHILD and is married to Gillian, a vicar in the Church of England. They have two daughters.
Zusammenfassung
Alpha and similar courses work well with those already comfortable with talking about matters of faith and philosophy. Recent research however indicates that there are many for whom the questions need to start at a more fundamental level. This book tackles six basic issues: o Who am I? o If there is a God, what does he/she look like? o What happens after I die? o How can I be happy? o Why is there suffering in the world? o What is the spiritual realm? The book will be accompanied by a full course called Puzzling Questions, analogous to Alpha but starting further back. This title stands in the same relation to the PQ course as Questions of Life does to Alpha.