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Sharing Your Faith-6- Be Bold, More than Inviting to Church

By Dan | August 20, 2008

Inviting someone to church is a great thing. I hope you all invite people to experience your worship communities as this is a vital part of helping someone understand the Christian faith.

But sometimes it seems like this is what we think evangelism and sharing your faith is all about. We think if we can just get people to check out our church we’ve done our part. Now inviting people to church can work well. Sometimes people can visit worship and see that there’s something going on there they want a piece of, especially those who’ve wandered away from church and just need to reconnect.

But there are many people out there who are simply not interested, at least not right away. In these cases, don’t give up or focus so much on the invitation to attend worship. Develop the relationship. Be bold and every once in a while link conversation to faith, especially to your own personal experience. See where things go.

We need to let our lights shine and follow the advice of St. Francis of Assisi, “Preach the Gospel always, and when necessary use words.” Now sometimes people try to use this quote as an escape clause. “I don’t need to directly tell others about faith. I’ll let my actions speak.” Let’s not go that route, but let your actions open doors so that people want to know more about the faith that creates those works.

So be bold, push yourself to open conversations and talk about your personal faith experiences. Be bold and get involved in things where people are going to be curious about why you’re taking your time and energy to care so much. Remember the example of the apostles, always bold to preach the faith so that it might reach to Jerusalem, Judea, Samaria, and the ends of the earth. We’re not there yet!