Top 10: Ways to Let Your Friends Know

Top 10: Ways to Let Your Friends Know

10.  Have friends.  Sounds simple, even a little patronizing, but the point IS simple.  Be the kind of person that has friends; kind, generous, caring, compassionate, humorous, engaged.  It’s hard to share the gospel with friends you don’t have, and continue to avoid/repel.

9.  Use the advantage you have of knowing your friend(s) well.  You can speak life and peace into very specific situations because of your previous relationship, and experiences together.

8.  Use your social media connections.  ReTweet the authors, pastors and friends that post good content.  Share videos, blogs, and conversations that point to God’s goodness and grace.

7.  Love your friend enough to put yourself out there.  True love will lay itself down for the good of another.  Say what needs to be said because you love them too much to let it go unsaid any longer.

6.  Avoid being a grumbling, selfish, arrogant, angry twerp.  If your life is not lined up with what you say it will put up a stumbling block for them.  This doesn’t mean you can’t share, it means you need to be honest about your own shortcomings and willing to address them through God’s grace.

5.  Invite your unchurched friends to hang out with you and your churched friends.  Evangelism isn’t a solo sport.  Get others involved, encourage new friends between your “camps” of friends.  You don’t know it all, and you shouldn’t pretend to.  Let others speak into their life as well.

4.  Use your regular activities to preach the gospel with your actions and your words.  You don’t need to start a Bible Study to reach your friends, just utilize your normal Friday Night hangout to display God’s love and proclaim His Word.

3. Show some initiative.  If you are really friends, then there is a level of trust that has been built.  Initiate the conversation, be bold, knowing that you’ve been

2.  Share YOUR story.  This is the most basic and most effective means of Letting people Know. Your story cannot be refuted or discounted, because it happened to you, and especially if your life is actually showing signs of being changed it can be a powerful way to show and tell of the Good News of Jesus.

1. You guessed it…Pray.    Pray that God would do what only God can do, which is save.  You can share, tell, show and encourage, but God must open their eyes, God must change their heart.  So pray that He will, and be prepared that He may change you in the process.