Proclaim
Become a go-to chaplain (Brian Paris)
Making Jesus known isn’t just a one-off event where you tell someone the gospel. It’s about becoming your friend’s go-between for issues that sit between this world and the next. Sharing about Jesus can be weaved into an ongoing conversation where you help your friend make sense of issues in their life from your spiritual perspective. Practical service, God-given wisdom and prayer can be tools to make Jesus known to your friends. Connect with us anytime at https://www.thelakes.church
Tell a better story (Geoff Snook)
You and many other Christians may have grown up with six point plans and fancy diagrams to explain the gospel of Jesus. Unfortunately, these often feel more like lectures than conversations. Instead, what can be much more powerful is telling people how you first began to take Jesus seriously. How can you begin telling people the greatest story ever told? By answering questions like, ‘Why am I a Christian, how did Jesus begin to make sense to me, and why…
Make your friends their friends (Geoff Snook)
The starting point for personal evangelism can be encouraging your worlds to collide. One of the best ways we can make Jesus known is by connecting our Christian world with our unbelieving friend’s non-Christian world. Believing the gospel is reasonable begins with showing them that reasonable people believe it. This can happen in social settings, ongoing friendships and by inviting them to give our church community a try. ‘An under-current of faith’ by McCrindle is here: https://mccrindle.com.au/app/uploads/reports/An-undercurrent-of-faith_McCrindle-2025.pdf Connect with us…