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Sep 14, 2026
David ChurcherGUEST
Alpha program wasn't part of Nexus at that stage, but around that time...
David ChurcherGUEST
The church started the Alpha course.
David ChurcherGUEST
They started the Alpha marriage course.
David ChurcherGUEST
We're in the process of getting up and running Alpha parenting courses.
David ChurcherGUEST
Fantastic.
David ChurcherGUEST
And so during that time and in time after, we've become very big supporters of Alpha programs in general.
Karen HuntCORRESPONDENT
So we need to consider the people right now listening who maybe have never, ever heard of the first Alpha course.
Karen HuntCORRESPONDENT
Are you able just to give an overview of what that is?
Pete BakerHOST
So, if one of the keys to freedom is listening to God, that's what we're looking at this morning.
Pete BakerHOST
How do we do that? How do we listen to God? How do we hear the voice of God? And I'm going to lean this morning on some wisdom from Nicky Gumbel from the Alpha Course.
Pete BakerHOST
Some of us are doing Alpha at the moment.
Pete BakerHOST
We're having a great time on Alpha.
Nathan James Hamden Morgan LockeGUEST
That is really interesting.
Nathan James Hamden Morgan LockeGUEST
There was a Holy Trinity Brompton, which is the church in West London that came out of the Alpha Course.
Nathan James Hamden Morgan LockeGUEST
They run this massive leadership conference in Royal Apple Bowl every year.
Nathan James Hamden Morgan LockeGUEST
I'm not a massive fan, it's a more charismatic theology than I particularly take with, but I got a ticket to this thing and went along.
speaker_1UNKNOWN
You know, we don't need to tremble when we mention the name of Jesus.
speaker_1UNKNOWN
can say it boldly and proudly because we're going to him for eternity so we get to declare so we want to pray for boldness and courage like Paul did and we also want to pray that as we share this as we unite and mature in spirit filled that we would see stories testimonies of miraculous things happening and people coming to know Jesus amen great let's pray our blockbuster quiz now wait for me so i can see everyone's got one amen because you're going to be able to take these away with you now and you'll be able to witness with it won't you just wait for it so you can now take it with you and share it to a friend and say are you curious about who this jesus is but what we're going to do now is we're going to pray for our alpha so i'm just wondering this moment could be if you're able and willing to stand just a blood moving in our body and maybe keep us awake a little bit and I want us to have a burst of prayer together for our Alpha Course just 30 seconds soaking our Alpha in prayer we want to have good sign
Benny MarrettHOST
ups for the Alpha
speaker_1UNKNOWN
Course not just a lodge we want the lodge to flow into the actual Alpha Course and we want to be family on a mission that means we are all the Alpha Team You are the boss of plan A, therefore you are the alpha team.
speaker_1UNKNOWN
Well done.
speaker_1UNKNOWN
Sign up, it's going to be good.
J.JohnNARRATOR
[upbeat music] You're listening to the J.John podcast.
J.JohnNARRATOR
This week, J.John is joined by Sandy Miller, former vicar of Holy Trinity Brompton and one of the pioneers of the Alpha course.
J.JohnNARRATOR
Together, they discuss his remarkable journey of faith and leadership, reflecting on the experiences that have shaped his ministry.
J.JohnNARRATOR
You're listening to Today with J.John.
Michelle TepperGUEST
So at The Simplest Form, Alpha is a course that helps the church introduce people to Jesus.
Michelle TepperGUEST
You get connection at the start of every single Alpha course, usually with food.
Michelle TepperGUEST
We bring people around a table, have a meal.
Michelle TepperGUEST
get to know each other.
Michelle TepperGUEST
And the church that I started going to very quickly after I started studying out there was was looking for volunteers.
Michelle TepperGUEST
And you know, I'm a pastor's daughter, so you can't go to church without volunteering for something.
Michelle TepperGUEST
And so I got kind of volunteered to help run the Alpha course, which I didn't know what it was.
Michelle TepperGUEST
Nobody gave me a quick kind of rundown like you guys just did.
T.J. GreenHOST
This is what happened in Acts 2 when the Holy Spirit landed on 120 in an upper room who were waiting on the power, who were waiting on the Holy Spirit.
T.J. GreenHOST
And sometimes I hear some teaching that pits one-on-one discipleship versus big group or mass discipleship programs like the Alpha Course that happens all over the world.
T.J. GreenHOST
I hear the same thing about house church versus mega church.
T.J. GreenHOST
And this model versus this model.
NovemberHOST
I don't know that I live in a sort of house opaque enough to draw that particular line.
NovemberHOST
Over the next six weeks, Orr was presented with further signals of God's existence, Oh, motherfucker, he's an Alpha Course guy.
NovemberHOST
Okay, of course he is.
NovemberHOST
Of course he is.
NovemberHOST
How's this the skeleton key to the sort of, because he wants to be Roger Scruton.
NovemberHOST
Riley, do you know about Alpha Courses? So I know about the various churches in Brompton as like the source.
NovemberHOST
As a kind
Riley QuinnHOST
of clearinghouse for like young chuds.
FrankHOST
So good to have you guys back.
FrankHOST
Welcome to session four of the Alpha Course.
FrankHOST
Welcome to all you guys who are watching.
FrankHOST
As I've said before, if you've been watching the live stream and you'd like to get a copy of the Alpha Manual, you can email me at frank at lakeviewchristiancenter.com and we'll be happy to get that to you.
FrankHOST
We would love for you to catch up with us.
FrankHOST
Now, tonight I want to tell you something.
FrankHOST
So Alpha is, we have cut the Alpha course.
FrankHOST
It used to be 10 weeks.
Julie NashHOST
um it's autumn we've got our alpha coming up and i hope that you are all raring to go again we've had a great summer the sun hasn't stopped shining but now it's time to sew again so jenny's going to come up now and she's going to talk us through the next alpha and interview some people we've got some great stories from alphas that we've done before so i'm going to hand over to jenny
JennyGUEST
so hello it's me again um yeah in september and the end of september we start our next alpha course alpha is a 10-week course that explores the christian faith so how we start an evening is with a nice big meal and lots of puddings and cakes.
JennyGUEST
And then we watch a short video together, which deals with a particular topic of the Christian faith, like how can I have faith? Why did Jesus die? How does God guide us? Evil suffering.
JennyGUEST
So we don't shy away from the difficult questions either.
JennyGUEST
It's a very nonjudgmental and open and hopefully welcoming atmosphere.
JennyGUEST
And we'd love to ask you to think about who you could invite, who God is sending you to perhaps.
JennyGUEST
And in that vein, we've got a couple of people who have done the Alpha course here.
JennyGUEST
So I was just going to ask them to come down and share a little bit about their experience.
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