Sharing My Faith: Learning as I Go…

‘Walk while you have the light.’ (John 12:35)

By: Peter Walker

Narrated by: Virtual Voice

Jesus called his followers to share his message with others.

‘The Holy Spirit will testify about me, but you also must testify, because you have been with me.’ (John 15:26-27)

His message, his ‘good news’, being his own name and person: ‘God with us.’ (Matthew 1:23)

God has come. His name is Jesus Christ. He paid for our sin by his own death. He came back to life. He calls us to turn away from our sin, to believe in him. If we do this, we will be forgiven, and live forever with God.

This is the message that messengers brought to you and me. And this is the message that we are to bring to others.

‘Jesus said, ‘You will be my witnesses in your hometown, in your neighboring towns, and to other nations.’ (Acts 1:8)

My dad is a street preacher. I grew up seeing this, and even being part at times. It is a very particular type of spreading the gospel, or ‘evangelism’.

Skip forward a number of years, to when I had truly committed myself to the Lord and was walking with him. My faith established. Here I felt the Lord prompt me – over time – to be a bolder witness. This was not about pressure, but rather about purpose. I now wanted to be a bolder witness.

But how? Street preaching came very naturally to my dad, and he was great at it! It energized him, encouraged him. But for me that mode of evangelism was scary, a pressure, not natural to me. It is a powerful form of evangelism for those called and anointed to do it, but it’s not for everyone!