Biblical Principles About Sharing Your Faith

 

Sharing Your Faith Has Many Expressions.

To most Christians sharing your faith means to verbally tell someone about Jesus. No argument here. We are to verbalize our witness. But if we are witnesses and we are always making a statement about what we value the most, then witnessing as an action is happening at all times. Our lives are either stating by our attitudes and actions that Jesus is our main treasure, or something else is. I don’t want to minimize faith’s verbal communication because without the gospel being explained, people will never believe upon Christ Jesus. A huge problem today is it seems so few Christians verbally share the gospel. But we must learn that verbal sharing is only one part of a much larger picture: making disciples.

Our mandate is to make disciples. “Go therefore and make disciples of all the nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit” (Matthew 28:19). To disciple someone is to invest your life in someone for the glory of God and that person’s enjoyment of God. Sharing the gospel is only one part of discipleship.

Effective Discipleship is More Than Just Verbal.

Jesus modeled effective discipleship by giving His life away to people who were teachable. Therefore, we are to do the same. Jesus commanded us, “This is My commandment, that you love one another as I have loved you” (John 15:12).