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Chris Duffett

Chris Duffett

Chris Dufett lives in rural Cambridgeshire with his wife Ruth and 3 young children. They keep chickens and love being arty and biking. He is a street evangelist and artist who founded The Light Project, a growing network who actively demonstrate the Christian message.

He currently serves as the city centre chaplain in Peterborough and trains others in community evangelism all over the UK. He is an author and his book 'Smack Heads and Fat Cats' provoked a health warning from Ian Bunce. His soon to be published book 'Big Hearted' takes up the theme he has for the year he serves as President of the Baptist Union starting this May.

4. Baptists Who Love

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Chris Dufett lives in rural Cambridgeshire with his wife Ruth and 3 young children. They keep chickens and lo...
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on 25 January 2012
in 40 Baptist Voices

I finished up my street performance in the middle of Norwich on a hot summers day and jumped around exuberantly and I must admit, slightly hot and sweaty, holding above my head the straight jacket that I had just escaped from. It was a good show and I looked around awaiting the cheers but on this occasion the small crowd gave polite applause more akin to a cricket match then a wild escape challenge with blearing music from Florence And The Machine. That was until two women and their dog staggered by and shouted and cheered their hearts out and sat down right in front of me. They looked somewhat wasted, I wondered what to do and then I just thought the best thing would be to ask them what they thought about my show. ‘What show?’ one of the women said. Great... They hadn’t seen any of it! They asked what I had been doing so I spoke about my hope to show something of my faith and what Jesus had done in my life. I mantioned something about how much God loved people which provoked a loud repsonse. ‘God!’ one of the woman cried. “There is no ******* God! How can you say that there is a God, you don’t know he exists”, she snarled.

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