Christian Book Discounters
Shopping Carts in Cape Town

Christian Book Discounters is where you can buy all your Christian reading material, music and reference works.

Christian Book Discounters (CBD) is a retailer and wholesaler of Christian books. Our purpose is to make wholesome Christian books available at discounted prices directly to the public. Its prime objective is to offer good quality Christian literature to the man-on-the-street at prices they can afford and to promote a culture of reading amongst Christians. Today CBD helps churches in South Africa to achieve this goal, by supplying them with literature for their book tables, as well as running bookshops in 6 churches around the country. CBD’s extensive range of theological literature enables Bible Colleges to source all their textbook requirements from us. Our other passion is affording South African Christians the opportunity to hear International Authors speaking, and once or twice a year CBD brings out guest speakers who travel to local churches around the country talking on a wide range of topics. Past guests have included John Blanchard, Paul Tripp & Simon Robinson. Richard Borgonon (together with William Taylor) developed the Word One to One outreach tool that is impacting evangelism in the UK, Australia and now Africa. He will be in SA through September, conducting training workshops in Jo’burg, Durban, Pietermaritzburg and Cape Town. Like Rico Tice said, we’re very good at running courses, we’re very, very good at what we lay on in church, but that just doesn’t reach the biblically ignorant person who, in this age, is nowhere near thinking about Christ. Richard: Every person responds in two ways: one, why didn’t anyone show this to me before? They don’t necessarily become a Christian at that point, but there is always a realization that the gospel is utterly watertight in its evidence. Grant: So how does the Word One to One fit in with Christianity Explored and other such courses? Richard: It’s the missing element that should precede them. But the Word One to One is a great way to introduce them, in a far more accessible way, to the Bible and Christ’s claims, after which a church course will have much greater impact. So we’ve been shooting all 38 sessions of the Word One to One, with each being a television episode. Once they’ve been broadcast, the idea will then be to put them on our website and it will be possible to use them for outreach. Using the books, one on one with a friend or colleague, is how it works best. Richard: I’ve seen teens, business executives and even a 93 year old woman in Australia using them effectively. That’s clearly what the Lord has done globally by having John’s gospel presented in this way. When we Christians walk into church lovingly stroking our whopping Bibles, we’re really saying to people we have a bunch of knowledge they’ll never have. But when you share a booklet, we’re on the same level and no one’s threatened. I’m hoping that the Christian leadership in South Africa will now pick up and run with the Word One to One, which is what has happened in Australia. I’m hoping we’ll see an advisory group set up with a training director to take on the responsibility of doing here what has happened overseas. Grant: What’s really great about the Word One to One is the price. We’ve priced it so cheap that the royalties are pathetic and just go straight back into the ministry. Grant: We’re praying for and looking forward to your visit through September, Richard!