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

by Sam Chan

Elijah built the altar, but it was God who sent the fire. Elijah couldn’t send the fire.

Evangelism is more than something we do; it’s something we become.

Perhaps it’s time we rediscovered the Jesus of the Bible.

Good doctors learn how to communicate to you in your language rather than in their own medical, textbook jargon. We as Christians need to learn to do the same.

But Jesus loves me too much to leave me the way I am. Every day is a day when he makes me more and more into the person he wants me to be. Every day is a day when I can become my full potential—not through my plan for myself, but through God’s plan for me. Every day is a day when I can be everything God has made me to be.

At my church, the cross is empty. Jesus is alive. We’re running a celebration. Church is actually all about worshiping and celebrating Jesus, who is alive and whose Spirit is living inside us right now.

Christians believe that God sent us his Son Jesus to be one of us. Jesus died on a cross to save us. But he rose from the dead, and he’s going to come again to fix everything up. So grace is how everything we have is a gift from God—because he is generous; not because we have earned it. This frees us from having to pretend we’re perfect. This frees us from being proud. This frees us to be generous to others. We live life knowing we are always loved by God, no matter what. That’s grace.

“What is grace?”