Help - books to give to church visitors wanting to know more about Christianity

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Introduction to Christianity

What books (or other resources) would you suggest a church would have to lend or give to visitors who wanted to learn more about Christianity. Just handing over a bible feels too much. We are a URC church and pretty liberal leaning, so I'm a touch reluctant to suggest Alpha. We also don't have a minister, so it's us volunteer elders trying our best.

Rowan Williams' "Discovering Christianity" looks like it might be the sort of thing.

Thank you!

How about The Jesus I Never Knew by Philip Yancey? It’s very readable and dispels a lot of beliefs non-church goers (and indeed some practising Christians) have about Jesus and therefore how to follow him.

Oh - thank you. Added that to the list

In the church that I attend they have gospel imprint leaflets on the table and I have taken some in the past and found them helpful. They have a website and perhaps some of the leaflets may interest you. Perhaps you can order them.

www.gospelimprint.com/GI-pages/downloads.htm

Fab - thank you!

I found Rowan Williams to be pretty impenetrable. And I have a theology MA! When I was groping around in my late teens, I was given 'Mere Christianity ' by CS Lewis. But I think you need a leaflet rather than a whole book. Does the Protestant Truth Society have similar to the Catholic Truth Society leaflets and little pocket books?

Good shout!

I learned more from Mere Christianity than anything else. The chapters about the husband being head of the household can be off putting to some.

Thank you!

Another vote for Mere Christianity