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    Sharing Your Faith: Good News for Everyone
    Sharing Your Faith: Good News for Everyone
    Sharing Your Faith: Good News for Everyone
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    Sharing Your Faith: Good News for Everyone

    By Grace Communion International

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    In this series of articles, we show how a Christian might share the faith with other people - with those who do not go to church, and with those who do - using friendship, compassion, and helpfulness. One article addresses the new age, another the perspective of postmodernism and relativism.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherGrace Communion International
    Release dateSep 22, 2014
    ISBN9781310930812
    Sharing Your Faith: Good News for Everyone
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    Grace Communion International

    Grace Communion International is a Christian denomination with about 30,000 members, worshiping in about 550 congregations in almost 70 nations and territories. We began in 1934 and our main office is in North Carolina. In the United States, we are members of the National Association of Evangelicals and similar organizations in other nations. We welcome you to visit our website at www.gci.org.

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      Sharing Your Faith - Grace Communion International

      Sharing Your Faith

      Good News for Everyone

      By Grace Communion International

      Copyright 2014

      Published by Grace Communion International

      All scripture quotations, unless otherwise indicated, are taken from the Holy Bible, New International Version®, NIV®. Copyright ©1973, 1978, 1984 by Biblica, Inc.™ Used by permission of Zondervan. All rights reserved worldwide. www.zondervan.com 

      The NIV and New International Version are trademarks registered in the United States Patent and Trademark Office by Biblica, Inc.™

      Table of Contents

      Sharing Your Faith

      Sharing Your Faith With the Unchurched

      Sharing Your Faith Through Friendship

      Sharing Your Faith With a New Ager

      Sharing Your Faith With Another Christian

      Sharing Your Faith in a Postmodern World

      About the Authors

      About the Publisher

      Grace Communion Seminary

      Ambassador College of Christian Ministry

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      Sharing Your Faith

      Everyone knows the Bible is filled with contradictions, I asserted, smugly assuming that I had scored a point in the debate my friend and I were having. The conversation had begun innocently enough. We were members of a high school debate team, and we were at a tournament miles from our hometown. The debates were finished, and we were just killing time, waiting for the results to be announced.

      At first our conversation was casual, but it became more intense when one of his offhand remarks made me realize for the first time that he was a Christian. I had always assumed Christians were ignorant and uneducated. Until now. This friend was not ignorant. On the contrary, he was very intelligent.

      I was intrigued by the idea that he had firm religious convictions, so I began to ask him questions. At first my questions were based on a desire to trip him up. But gradually, as my friend provided answers that made sense, my questions came out of a hunger I had never acknowledged. The real turning point in our debate was my assertion that the Bible contradicts itself. His answer stunned me.

      Where? he asked.

      That one word hit me with the force of a freight train. He had not argued with me. He simply asked a question I could not answer because I had not read the Bible for myself. I felt ignorant and exposed. For someone who had always looked at Christians as ignorant, I was forced to see that I was the one who was ignorant of what the Bible really contained. Even nonbelievers admit that the Bible has been a vital force shaping Western civilization, but I had never examined this cornerstone of our culture.

      More than two years passed before my friend ever knew the effect that conversation had on me. At the time, he thought I simply walked away from what I had heard. He did not know our discussion was never far from my thoughts until I finally acted on what I knew.

      Do I have to?

      The results of such experiences are often not seen right away. Many Christians therefore see evangelism as a rarely successful chore. It is difficult to be motivated, if you cannot see any results.

      Evangelism is the duty of all Christians. The great commission at the end of Matthew’s Gospel is a commission for all who follow Jesus Christ: Therefore go and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit (Matthew 28:19).

      In the video Go For It!, a primer on evangelism, British evangelist Ian Knox lists four reasons for us as Christians to share our faith. The first three relate to our duty: 1) Christ commands us to, 2) the world urgently needs the gospel and 3) the fields are already ripe for harvest (John 4:35).

      The fourth reason relates to our own spiritual health. We share our faith because we cannot contain ourselves. This was true of the early church. When the religious authorities ordered the disciples to stop preaching the gospel, Peter’s answer

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