UK church attendance is haemorrhaging and one course is hailed as the most
effective tool for 'turning back the tide'. From small beginnings in the early
1970s, Alpha has grown to become a global success. Churches from across the
denominational spectrum have enthusiastically seized upon the course, seeing it
as the remedy for declining church attendance.

INSIDE ALPHA explores such claims through richly grounded qualitative research
on six Alpha courses. It assesses Alpha's primary aim of converting non
churchgoers and its longer term goal of spiritual maturity (Colossians 1.28-29)

It questions whether the Alpha program is as successful as it claims at uniting
evangelism and discipleship, mission and spiritual formation.

This is an invaluable study for those - in the academy and the church - who have…
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