Before You Share Your Faith
Digital Logos Edition
Overview
When it comes to evangelism, we often struggle. Maybe it’s the inertia that comes with feeling out of practice. Or perhaps it’s the age-old presence of fear that keeps us from speaking truth in love. Sometimes, a low-level guilt over countless missed opportunities tempts us to despair of trying at all.
In Before You Share Your Faith —a follow-up to Before You Open Your Bible —Matt Smethurst presents five ways you can become “evangelism ready”. While many good books begin further downstream by teaching how to evangelize, this volume will help you be primed for when the moment arrives. Because if you aren't ready to share your faith . . . you probably won't.
Casting light on five key foundations—grasp the gospel, check your context, love the lost, face your fear, and start to speak—this resource will deepen your desire and enhance your readiness to share the best news anyone could ever hear.
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- Presents five ways you can become “evangelism ready”
- Helps believers be primed for when the moment arrives to share their faith
- Enhances the reader’s desire and readiness to share the Gospel
- Grasp the Gospel
- Check Your Context
- Love the Lost
- Face Your Fear
- Start to Speak
When I was a new Christian 50 years ago, I read two little booklets by John Stott on personal evangelism that changed my life. Matt Smethurst has written a short book on the same subject that is every bit as good as those older essays, but of course far more up to date. Read it—it could change your life!
Timothy Keller, Redeemer City to City
I must confess that sometimes I don't share my faith when I should. But this little book is not designed to make me ashamed of myself (I don't need help in that department), but to help me do better. If you are a Christian who never wavers on this front, don't bother reading this book: you don't need it. Otherwise read it thoughtfully and gratefully.
D. A. Carson, cofounder and theologian-at-large, The Gospel Coalition; emeritus professor of New Testament, Trinity Evangelical Divinity School
Few people can write a warm, winsome book on evangelism while still maintaining biblical faithfulness, but Matt Smethurst has pulled it off. Matt is a player-coach who walks alongside us, outlining the foundational components of sharing our faith and never forgetting that evangelism is part of every faithful believer's life. This book will instruct the fearless and invigorate the fearful.
J. Mack Stiles, director, Messenger Ministries; author, Evangelism and Marks of the Messenger
- Title: Before You Share Your Faith
- Author: Matt Smethurst
- Publisher: 10Publishing
- Print Publication Date: 2022
- Logos Release Date: 2022
- Pages: 128
- Language: English
- Resources: 1
- Format: Digital › Logos Reader Edition
- ISBNs: 9781913896843, 1913896846
- Resource ID: LLS:YSHRYRFTH
- Resource Type: Monograph
- Metadata Last Updated: 2024-09-09T14:37:15Z