While most of us have the desire to share the gospel, we don't always know how to bring it up. Let's face it... it's not easy to go from "How's the weather?" to "Jesus died for you"; and no one is walking up to us on the street asking, "What must I do to be saved?" So what's a well-intentioned Christian to do?
Enter Living Out Loud.
Living out loud isn't a strategy for sharing the gospel; it's about being so comfortable in your own spiritual skin that conversations about faith happen naturally and spontaneously. It's about making God such an integral part of your daily life that you can't help but talk about him - at home, at work, with family, and with friends - not as a sales pitch, but as a facet of your regular conversations.
Sharing an authentic approach to evangelism, this book offers:
When your faith becomes obvious to those around you in the way you speak and live and love, evangelism stops seeming like a duty and simply flows from who you are.
Now doesn't that sound better than having another awkward conversation?
Kevin King is cofounder and president of International Project, a missions-sending organization focused on church planting among unreached people groups across the globe. In 2010, Kevin founded Equip, a ten-month program training cross-cultural church planters to start simple churches that will expand and multiply. A core element of the training is equipping Christians to live their faith out loud in everyday conversations. Kevin and his wife, Jeanne, live in New York City, where they raised their two children, who are now grown.
Christine Daniels is a writer, content creator, and church planter with a passion for displaced people in desperate places. She lives and works in the Middle East with her husband and two children.