This document provides an overview and schedule for the CHOW ministry platform. It discusses the format, content, and style of the weekly CHOW meetings, which are held on Wednesdays at lunchtime and aim to strike a balance between various topics. The document also notes that CHOW seeks to bring together people from different Christian traditions and backgrounds. Finally, it outlines the specific session topics planned for CHOW from October through March, covering subjects like public morality, motivation, the gospel, Christianity and the media, and interpretations of Jesus.

1. CHOW
Review and
Learning

2. Today’s Session
To review the format, content and style
of Business Connect’s CHOW ministry
platform.

3. CHOW Format
• Weekly meetings {too often?, right day?}
• Lunchtime 1310 – 1355 {right time, length?}
• Church House {right location?}
• Seating / Table layout
• Refreshments
• Prayer / Talk / Discuss / Blessing

4. CHOW …balance of items
At CHOW we are seeking to strike a balance
between:
Interesting ideas and interactive participation.
Fellowship and Mission
Guest speakers and familiar faces
Theology and current issues
Global and local
Practical and theoretical
Do we have the balance right?

5. CHOW …building bridges
At CHOW we also seek to bring together…
• Different Christian traditions.
• People who are clergy, laity and neither.
• People who are “inside”, “on the edges” or
“outside” of the traditional churches of Jersey.
Do we manage that?

6. Specific CHOW sessions - October
• TED at CHOW – public morality after
Christendom with Sam Harris and Paul Zak (10
October)
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• Back to Normal? Redefining success (24
October)

7. Specific CHOW sessions – November
• TED at CHOW – Motivation at work with Dan
Pink (7 November)
• The Gospel on a Dime – with three guests
from our council of reference (14 November)
• Handling the Truth – Christians and the media,
with a focus on the General Synod vote for an
incomplete episcopacy (21 November)
• What is the Church for? Three views (28
November)

8. Specific CHOW sessions – December
• Advent Conspiracy - how should Christians
celebrate Christmas? (5 December)
• Ask Anything: Christmas, Incarnation and
Traditions (12 December)
• No CHOW – Special Event “You are not a loan”
at the Town Hall (19 December)

9. Specific CHOW sessions – January
• Images of Jesus (16 January)
• Marriage, Sexuality and pastoral hospitality
(23 January)
• Israel, Palestine, justice, politics and theology
Pts 1 & 2 (30 January and 6 February)

10. Specific CHOW sessions – February
• No CHOW – Ash Wednesday service at Town
Church (13 February)
• John 14:6 Challenge; “no-one comes to the
father except by me” (20 February)
• What I used to believe – spiritual progression
(27 February)

11. Specific CHOW sessions – March
• Ask Anything… open forum (6 March)
• No CHOW – light snow on Jersey (13 March)
• No CHOW – Special Event on “Of Markets and
Men” at the Town Hall (20 March)

12. CHOW returns
after Easter