If you’re reading this title, chances are you are already like ‘NOPE girl, that’s not my thing’,and I completely understand where you are coming from. That is also the exact reason I’m writing this post. When you are a Christian, it is so important to share Gods love with others. But, i do have to admit that this is something that I have definitely been struggling with myself as well. I mean, I am definitely not shy, but this is not just something you spring on someone in a conversation with someone that’s not in your ‘trust circle’ as I like to call it. As faith is so SO personal and even within Christianity there are so many different ways to go about something it can be scary as crap to share your thoughts and feelings about specific topics. So that is why I have decided to try to help you and give you some tips that have helped me personally in sharing my faith with others:
Prayer
Maybe very obvious, but definitely the most important thing is to pray for it. Praying to God makes so much sense because it is His word and His message that you are trying to get across, so just pray to God for Him to give you the right words at the right moment. Also, you can pray for strength and courage to talk about Him or for ‘casually’ bringing your faith into a conversation. Lastly I think it is super important to pray for love for all the people around you. Just like Jesus said in Marc 12:31 “Love your neighbor as yourself. There is no commandment greater than these”.By feeling love for all the people God brings onto your path it is going to be so much easier to talk to them about Him as you are strengthened by the Lord Himself.
"Have I not commanded you? Be strong and courageous. Do not be afraid; do not be discouraged, for the Lord your God will be with you wherever you go" - Joshua 1:9
Witnessing through your actions
I personally think this is a very important one as well. Another (non-Christian) person has to be able to see that you are a Christian through your daily actions. If our heart is filled with the holy spirit we will carry the fruits such as love, joy,peace, forbearance, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness and self-control (Galatians 5:22-23). When you have received these beautiful characteristics from the Holy Spirit you will start to stand out in this world filled so much sorrow brought by the devil. When people start questioning why you do certain thing the way you do them you can witness to them about the word of God.
Sharing the word of God with “well-known” strangers
It might be that you already find it difficult enough to talk to a complete stranger, let alone you throw your love for Jesus in a random conversation. However, witnessing the word of God to strangers doesn’t necessarily have to be to a stranger who you bumped into on the street or a random person sitting next to you on the train.You can also evangelize God’s word to your neighbours, colleague’s or maybe vague acquaintances. This makes it a tad less scary as you already know the person a little bit but they might still be a stranger to God and his word. You can of course also first let them warm up to the idea of your God through your actions, such as praying before your meals, going to church but also just through carrying the fruits of the holy spirit as I just mentioned. Then when you feel like they are warmed up to the idea a bit more you can start talking to them about why you do all the things you do.
Find a way that you are comfortable with
Please do not think that there are only a few things you can do to spread to word of God. There are endless possibilities to do so and you just have to find the way that you are most comfortable with. For me for example, it was starting this blog. I knew that this way I could also incorporate faith into this blog and hopefully when people read this they are able to learn from this in some way. My hopes are that this blog motivates you in some way, shape or form to start researching Gods word. You have to find your way of sharing Gods word. See which gifts God has gifted you with and make use of them to glorify His name.
‘Evangelisation’ course
This is something kind of difficult for me to write about seeing the fact that I have not actually done this myself. However, I do think that this could definitely help you to get out of your comfort zone if you feel like to want to do more to spread the word of God but you are just not confident enough just yet to do so. My parents have followed an evangelisation course and I know when they first told me they were going to follow this course my reaction was: ‘so what, you’re moving to the other side of the world to go evangelize?’. Fortunately for me that was not the case and my mom explained to me that you can just as easily evangelize to your neighbours, colleagues or other people close around you. The course just teaches you the best way to do so.
I hope that with these five tips you’ll feel a little more confident to get out there and to spread the love that Gods word has for us. Please know that it is normal to be a bit afraid, but that God will always be on your side! I think it is only fair if I end this with a beautiful verse from Joshua 1 (verse 9): “Have I not commanded you? Be strong and courageous. Do not be afraid; do not be discouraged, for the Lord your God will be with you wherever you go.”
Love,
Marina
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