{"id":641,"date":"2013-02-11T12:24:29","date_gmt":"2013-02-11T19:24:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.goodseed.com\/blog\/?p=641"},"modified":"2016-02-24T12:39:01","modified_gmt":"2016-02-24T19:39:01","slug":"tools-to-overcome-your-fear-of-sharing-the-gospel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.goodseed.com\/blog\/2013\/02\/11\/tools-to-overcome-your-fear-of-sharing-the-gospel\/","title":{"rendered":"Tools to overcome your fear of sharing the gospel"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-645\" title=\"Worldview Rethink Workshop in Edmonton, Alberta\" src=\"http:\/\/www.goodseed.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/edmonton-wvrt-workshop.jpg\" alt=\"Worldview Rethink Workshop in Edmonton, Alberta\" width=\"1296\" height=\"864\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.goodseed.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/edmonton-wvrt-workshop.jpg 1296w, https:\/\/www.goodseed.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/edmonton-wvrt-workshop-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.goodseed.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/edmonton-wvrt-workshop-1024x682.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 1362px) 62vw, 840px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>On Saturday, we held a Worldview Rethink Workshop at Bethel Gospel Church. It was a wonderful time with close to 90 participants from in and around Edmonton. We had five different staff share on how a regular believer can cultivate a lifelong lifestyle of sharing the gospel.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<h5><strong>Be Ready!<br \/>\n<\/strong><\/h5>\n<p>The staff talked about how Jesus has given every believer the mandate to share the gospel (Matt 28:18-20) and that we\u2019ve been given the job title of ambassadors (2 Cor 5:20). And as appointed representatives of a message, we are told to be ready at all times to share it.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u2026And if someone asks about your Christian hope, always <strong>be ready<\/strong> to explain it. But do this in a gentle and respectful way. (1 Pet 3:15,16. NLT)<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>One of the biggest obstacles we all face in sharing the gospel is the <strong>fear<\/strong> factor. Even if an opportunity to share comes up, we often:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>don\u2019t know what to do or say! Or\u2026<\/li>\n<li>don\u2019t know how to explain the gospel in a clear way.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>It was with this very real and sometimes paralyzing fear factor in mind that we designed gospel tools that provide practical help to <strong>any<\/strong> believer. They could simply give away a specially designed tool or guide a friend through the gospel.<\/p>\n<h5><strong>Give Away<\/strong><\/h5>\n<p>The team demonstrated how easy it was to be prepared by putting together a \u201cBe Ready Box\u201d filled with gospel resources and tools that can be given away to a friend at a moment\u2019s notice.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-648\" title=\"Tools to give away the gospel\" src=\"http:\/\/www.goodseed.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/give-away.jpg\" alt=\"Tools to give away the gospel\" width=\"1296\" height=\"864\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.goodseed.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/give-away.jpg 1296w, https:\/\/www.goodseed.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/give-away-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.goodseed.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/give-away-1024x682.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 1362px) 62vw, 840px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-649\" title=\"A Be Ready Box filled with tools to give away.\" src=\"http:\/\/www.goodseed.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/be-ready-box.jpg\" alt=\"A Be Ready Box filled with tools to give away.\" width=\"1296\" height=\"864\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.goodseed.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/be-ready-box.jpg 1296w, https:\/\/www.goodseed.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/be-ready-box-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.goodseed.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/be-ready-box-1024x682.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 1362px) 62vw, 840px\" \/><\/p>\n<h5><strong>Guide a Course<br \/>\n<\/strong><\/h5>\n<p>The participants also saw how doable it was for any believer to lead a study even if they had never led before, are not good orators, or do not have very much Bible knowledge.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-650\" title=\"Tools to guide a course\" src=\"http:\/\/www.goodseed.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/guide-a-course.jpg\" alt=\"Tools to guide a course\" width=\"1296\" height=\"864\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.goodseed.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/guide-a-course.jpg 1296w, https:\/\/www.goodseed.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/guide-a-course-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.goodseed.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/guide-a-course-1024x682.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 1362px) 62vw, 840px\" \/><\/p>\n<h5><strong>A Personal Ministry<br \/>\n<\/strong><\/h5>\n<p>It was really encouraging to see many participants starting to think of both giving and guiding as a personal ministry. The participants equipped themselves with curriculum boxes and visual aid sets to teach as well as multiple copies of books, audiobooks and videos to fill their own giveaway \u201cBe Ready Box.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>These regular, everyday believers understood that they too, were ambassadors for Christ, and they had to be ready to give someone the message of the gospel or even spend several hours guiding a person through the Bible\u2019s main message.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-651\" title=\"Getting ready with tools to give and to guide.\" src=\"http:\/\/www.goodseed.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/getting-ready.jpg\" alt=\"Getting ready with tools to give and to guide.\" width=\"1296\" height=\"864\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.goodseed.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/getting-ready.jpg 1296w, https:\/\/www.goodseed.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/getting-ready-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.goodseed.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/getting-ready-1024x682.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 1362px) 62vw, 840px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>May the Lord bring to these believers friends, acquaintances, co-workers and people in their community who are interested to learn the precious message of the gospel!<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-652\" title=\"Participants browsing through the tools.\" src=\"http:\/\/www.goodseed.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/browsing-crowd.jpg\" alt=\"Participants browsing through the tools.\" width=\"1296\" height=\"864\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.goodseed.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/browsing-crowd.jpg 1296w, https:\/\/www.goodseed.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/browsing-crowd-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.goodseed.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/browsing-crowd-1024x682.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 1362px) 62vw, 840px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h5>Resources:<\/h5>\n<p><a title=\"Worldview Rethink Curriculum\" href=\"http:\/\/www.goodseed.com\/worldview-rethink.html\" target=\"_blank\">Worldview Rethink Curriculum<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On Saturday, we held a Worldview Rethink Workshop at Bethel Gospel Church. It was a wonderful time with close to 90 participants from in and around Edmonton. We had five different staff share on how a regular believer can cultivate a lifelong lifestyle of sharing the gospel.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":18,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,14,4,26],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-641","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-be-ready","category-give-away-the-gospel","category-news","category-worldview-rethink"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.goodseed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/641","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.goodseed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.goodseed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.goodseed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/18"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.goodseed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=641"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"https:\/\/www.goodseed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/641\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4972,"href":"https:\/\/www.goodseed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/641\/revisions\/4972"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.goodseed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=641"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.goodseed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=641"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.goodseed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=641"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}