10 top gospel-sharing tips

Liverpool builder Mark Barry grabs every opportunity to share the gospel at work and in his community. If you’d like to do likewise, how do you beat the fear and avoid sending people running for the hills? Mark has 10 top tips.

1 Witness in your workplace

I work for a building company where the boss is a Christian. Some lads who work here are Christians, but some aren’t, so we try to be good witnesses. Sometimes at lunch we’ll steer conversations towards faith, sometimes the lads ask questions themselves. Customers notice we’re different too; they say we’re the first builders they’ve met who don’t swear! We try to show integrity and do a good job too. We need to witness in our workplaces because people aren’t just going to walk into church. To coin the phrase – you might be the only church they ever go to.

2 Start the conversation

We’re working on a big contract in a doctor’s surgery, and it’s created some great opportunities. There’s a lot of staff in the building and I get to interact with them, to talk about my faith and offer to pray for them. You’ve got to be intentional if you want to do this though – if you wait for a gap, you could be waiting a long time. A couple of days after I’d told the receptionist I was a Christian and offered to pray for her she said, “I feel terrible and you’ve not prayed for me!” I was a bit caught aback, so I walked over to her and prayed there and then. The next day she told me, “I don’t know what you’ve done but I feel fantastic!” I just smiled and said, “Well, it wasn’t me, was it?”

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