How to Talk about Jesus (Without Being That Guy): Personal Evangelism in a Skeptical World

by Sam Chan

Most Christians fail to share Christ regularly for one of two reasons. Either they fear being ostracized for speaking up about Jesus, becoming stigmatized as “that guy,” or they feel helpless and are afraid to share because they are sure they will fail.

The methods of evangelism that worked so well in the past no longer seem effective today. What worked in the age of Christendom seems ineffective in our post-Christian age.

We’re worried we’ll lose our friends or offend our family members. We don’t want to become “that uncle” at the Thanksgiving dinner.

I will share eight personal tips on evangelism. They are my own personal natural, mundane, and human ways of trying to tell my friends the gospel. But they also require the sovereign and supernatural working of God.

What if I told you that your non-Christian friends are more likely to believe the Jesus story than you think?

Where do these plausibility structures come from? Three main sources contribute to our plausibility structures: (1) community, (2) experiences, and (3) facts, evidence, and data.