Leon Evans

Check out a short blog giving some backstory to the book recently written for @springharvest thethingsofleon.co.uk/when-stories-c…

Just listening @leonevans_ speaking about the quiet revival @springharvest #SH2025

The book has landed! Available from March 31st @LifecentralUK

Left feeling heartbroken and perplexed by the level of ‘diplomacy’ we’ve witnessed this week #Lordhavemercy

‘Looking above is how we begin to live above’ @stuartblount99 👏

Ever wondered what questions might help you reflect better? Check out my latest blog… thethingsofleon.co.uk/are-you-sad-ma…

Some hard questions which the media have failed to ask @kimleadbeater:   1. You’ve said feeling like “a burden” could be a “legitimate” reason to ask for an assisted suicide. How common do you think it is for terminally ill people to feel like a burden?   2. If somebody asks for assisted suicide only because they are on a long waiting list for treatment, doctors and judges will have to approve the suicide. Do you think that’s a legitimate reason too?   3. Sir Louis Appleby, who leads the Suicide Prevention Strategy for England, says this bill undermines the fundamental basis of that strategy. And studies suggest that (non-assisted) suicide rates go up in jurisdictions which adopt assisted suicide. Do you think a rise in non-assisted suicides is a price worth paying?   4. You say this doesn’t apply to eating disorders, but the chair and vice-chair of the Royal College of Psychiatrists’ eating disorders faculty say the bill “fails the public safety test.” What would you say to reassure them?   5. You have repeatedly claimed that a “High Court judge” will be involved, but the bill nowhere guarantees that. Why are you misleading the public about the level of approval needed?   6. You say there will be a second, “independent” doctor, but the first doctor chooses them. Why do you call them “independent”?   7. Dame Caroline Swift, the lead lawyer on the Harold Shipman inquiry, predicts that safeguards will become box-ticking. “Groups of doctors (‘death clinics’?) that support assisted dying will emerge … the safeguards will gradually be eroded in the same way.’ What, exactly, would prevent that happening?   8. You say that the public have spoken. But over 60% are “not very certain” of their views, and a poll found that when people are told the counter-arguments, support falls to eleven per cent. That’s not public support, is it?   9. Judges will have to assess coercion according to civil law – ie on the balance of probabilities: so if the judge thinks “coercion” is 1% less likely than “no coercion”, they have to approve the application. Why not say lack of coercion has to be proved beyond reasonable doubt? 10. Doctors are allowed to raise the subject when the patient hasn’t mentioned it. Do you agree vulnerable people would be safer if, as in Victoria, doctors were banned from doing so? 11. You say patients will need to have capacity, but under the Mental Capacity Act someone could be depressed or confused and still qualify: in the words of Baroness Hale, the Act’s “threshold for capacity is not a demanding one.” Why have you set the threshold so low?   12. According to Age UK, 375,000 over-60s experience domestic abuse. How will your bill protect them from pressure?   13. You say doctors will pick up on coercion. 50% of coercive control cases are dropped for lack of evidence, and only 3.7% of recorded coercive control crimes result in a charge. How will you make the doctors’ and judges’ checks on coercion any better than the police’s?   14. The former Chief Coroner, Thomas Teague, says the bill is unsafe because it removes the statutory duty to investigate suicides. Why have you got rid of this safeguard?   15. Why does the bill say assisted-suicide providers can’t be sued for clinical negligence?   16. According to experts quoted in the Financial Times yesterday, there is “no reliable way” to establish “six months to live”, and “months” diagnoses have a 32 per cent accuracy rate. How is this not a porous boundary?   17. Why is there no obligation to inform family members, who might be able to offer support and prevent mistakes?   18. You say you would consider assisted suicide yourself “If my body ends up not working in the way that it should and I want it to.” On what basis, then, do you promise us that people with disabilities can be permanently excluded?

The theme for @springharvest 2025 is No Greater Story. My mate @leonevans_ has been living and breathing it and is unpacking it for the team. It’s going to be amazing. Get involved if you’re not yet booked in.

Your Spring Harvest 2025 Minehead line-up 🎤🫳

This will be great!!

‘Older men and women who do not become godly elders simply become elderly’ @Lance_Witt

‘As a leader self awareness is your best defence against self deception’ - one of the many profound truths I heard today thank you @Lance_Witt what an amazing day!!

@FiLL_Alexandra @springharvest @FaithinLater It was a great conversation!! See you @springharvest

FABULOUS to chat with you @leonevans_. Looking forward to being @springharvest with @FaithinLater in 2025🫶

Our CEO, @FiLL_Alexandra, recently sat down with @Leonevans from @springharvest to talk about God's unending love and His irrevocable call on our lives🙌💚 Catch the interview here: youtu.be/Obkz3wM6Vj8?fe… And secure your place for 2025: butlins.com/breaks/special… #nogreaterstory

Loved being in Austria for a few days praying and dreaming about how to help more churches reach people and be more outward focussed! @furtherfaster.network

Limitless is looking for a passionate, action-oriented, creative, strategic and collaborative leader to take up a senior role on our team as Director of Ministries. 🙌 APPS CLOSE 👉 7/10/24 JD 👉 elim.org.uk/vacancies #job #vacancy #jobvacancy #ChristianJobs

You rent your title you own your character….

‘To finish well is to live well until you finish’ this made me think on the @edstetzer podcast today thank you!

‘Moments are not places of destination they are places of decision that lead to a new direction’ so good!!

So good!!! 🙌