Watch Andy tell MPs ‘The Bible works, Jesus is the answer’

Andy Hawthorne OBE addressed more than 600 cross-party MPs, Peers, church leaders and charities at the National Prayer Breakfast at Westminster’s Great Hall on Tuesday, June 21.

Andy was the keynote speaker at the event which had the theme ‘Raising the aspirations of young people’.

He told breakfast delegates: ‘The Bible works – and Jesus is the answer. The message of the Bible raises the aspirations of young people – we ditch it at our peril. The best of our society is built on this precious book.’

He went on to say, ‘The more we invest in today’s young people the values that God gave us in this book the better our society will become.’

One delegate, Jon Kuhrt, was at the breakfast and wrote afterwards, ‘He spoke with a rock-solid conviction about his faith in a Jesus who shakes things up, who brings hope to the marginalised and subverts the way things are.  A Jesus who transforms lives.  It was the kind of speech that I bet someone like William Booth, the founder of the Salvation Army, would have made 150 years ago.’

Thanks to Inspire Magazine for the reporting and the Bible Society for use of the pictures.