Worshippers at Church of England churches are to be encouraged to become everyday missionaries and invite people to services ALAMYThe Church of England is to launch training sessions to give shy Christians the confidence to share their faith with non-believers and the courage to invite them to church, The Times has learnt. It intends to turn ordinary worshippers into an army of everyday missionaries to re-Christianise England. It hopes to reverse the unrelenting decline in church attendance, which sinks lower each year. If you have a friend or colleague who is a regular worshipper, expect them to invite you to church next June, when special services will be laid on for first-timers. The church’s statisticians say that if only one in 50 existing worshippers invited someone new who went on to attend regularly then congregations would start to grow for the first time in…

Source: The Times December 25, 2018 00:00 UTC