A great resource to share

Brilliant testimonies - check 'em out!

Hi everyone

We (that is, The Good Book Company that I work for) have just launched a new website designed to help people with questions about faith have them answered in a straightforward and simple way. I'm sure that you will find it an excellent place to point the teenagers in your group and others you are connected with. Some really excellent testimonies from a whole variety of people that would be helpful to share as well.

www.christianityexplored.org

Would love you to check it out, pass it on, blog it up, tweet it down, facebook it across, and generally big it over. It has been know for some people to actually speak to each other face to face about things as well - weird but true!

Be massively grateful for feedback, as the development of this site will be a long-term project for us, but here are some of the things we've tried to do well that is new or unique:

1. Simple, biblical, modern. Our review of other gospel websites out there that are "non-Christian friendly" basically produced a pretty patchy haul. Some of them do some things extremely well, but few embody a strongly biblical approach, and at the same time are attractive, have decently shot video content. They tend to be text heavy, and hard to navigate. Hoping that we have done some of those things well. The aim was simplicity, clarity, and ease of use, with longer text things being secondary to the video content.
2. International faces and voices. Variety of backgrounds. We've got some big hitters in there, but plenty of "ordinary joes" as well.
3. Ongoing development. We've a plan to continue development over the next 5 years to make sure that it remains up to date, with changing content. 
4. We aim to help local churches do the work of evangelism - rather than do it ourselves. The site is designed to support local churches in their evangelistic efforts, by providing a resource that supports your work, and points people who find the site randomly back to local churches where they can hear the gospel in the context of the gospel community.
5. Designed to work "gently" with CE, but not a platform for its naked promotion. If you don't know it, Christianity Explored is an Alpha-style course that takes people through the Gospel of Mark. It's huge worldwide, but not that well known in the US yet. In other words, there is some CE course content in there, but we hope it is subtle enough that even churches that are not using the programme will find this website a great resource for helping others towards faith.

Enjoy.