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62 WAYS TO SHARE CHRIST'S LOVE
We all could use some fresh ideas for personally sharing Christ. Here are 62 of them from Evangelism Handbook by Dr. Alvin Reid.
Note: Items 48 - 62 are ideas to do in partnership with your church. For more event based ideas, see High Impact Events.
1. List all the lost people you know and pray for them daily. Ask God for His power and compassion. Ask God to keep the lost people you know alive until you or someone can get the Gospel to them.
2. Make a commitment to witness everyday. Few things happen without a prior commitment.
3. List all the persons in your concentric circles (family, friends, neighbors, marketplace contacts, church), and make a commitment to witness to them.
4. Do not forget to share your testimony and the Gospel with the children or grandchildren in your family. This is witnessing, too, and of the most urgent kind.
5. When at a restaurant, leave a generous tip and a tract. Write your contact information on it, too.
6. Before your meal, ask your server, "We are about to ask God to bless our meal. Is there anything we can pray for you about when we do?" Usually, most servers are burdened for family and health.
7. When you attend church with a lost friend, be sure your friend sits in the seat next to the aisle and you sit next to him or her. This will help your friend to walk the aisle to profess faith in Christ. Your friend will not climb over people to profess faith in Christ if he or she is sitting in the middle of the pew. All aisle seats in church must be reserved for lost people.
8. Gently approach people who are sitting by themselves and appear to be alone. Start a conversation and share the Gospel.
9. Invite a friend to a concert, revival or special worship service at your church. Following the service, go out for dessert and talk about the message presented in the service.
10. Send a birthday card to a friend. Enclose a personal note sharing about your own spiritual birthday.
11. Clip a special article from a daily devotional guide or newspaper religion column and mail it to a friend who needs to know Jesus. Include a personal note conveying love and compassion.
12. Subscribe to a favorite devotional guide or Christian periodical for a friend.
13. Write a letter or note of thanks to one who serves in the military services in our country. Include a Scripture reference of 2 Tim 2:1-4.
14. Design your own business card to introduce yourself. Include a Gospel presentation on the back of the card.
15. Take contemporary Christian CDs to a juvenile detention center, youth-receiving home or shelter. Attach a note to each item sharing John 3:16.
16. Take copies of a Christian magazine and leave them in laundromats. Write the name of your church on each copy and a note saying you hope an article in the magazine will be particularly helpful to the reader.
17. Leave a sealed candy bar or snack near the electric meter attached to you home. Attach a tract or note of "good news" to the candy bar and state that you would like to share both.
18. Leave a refreshing drink of cold water for the person who picks up your garbage. Attach a note including John 4:14.
19. Ask your pastor to make a 10-15 minute video presenting the plan of salvation and explaining believer's baptism. Share the video with a lost friend.
20. Go down to the local "hang out" where young boys play basketball. Ask to join the game. Share you testimony before you leave.
21. Visit a lonely senior adult living at home, in a retirement center or in a nursing facility. Share John 14:1-6 and present the Gospel.
22. When in a drive-through, give out a tract, saying, "This is a tract about Christ and how He gives hope. Will you take this and read it sometime?" Then ask, "Has anyone ever taken time to share with you the message of Christ's hope?"
23. Fill up with gas, go to the grocery store, or frequent convenience stores when no other patrons are there. Give away a tract as in #22.
24. Write out your personal testimony. Practice giving it by sharing it with a friend. Do this twice a day for seven days.
25. Write a note of congratulations when a friend, neighbor, or family member is recognized for success. Share how every good and perfect gift is from above.
26. Develop several one-liners that communicate the essence of the gospel. When you seen someone treated rudely, say to the person next to you, "I sure am glad Jesus is more gracious than that."
27. Develop a personal tutoring ministry for children of single parents or students who need to learn England as a second language. Use the ministry for opportunities to share Christ. Drive these children and families to church.
28. Get the Jesus video or the Hope video and invite a group of internationals to view the film with you. Explain to them how they can receive Christ as Savior.
29. Make a personal phone call to one who has received discouraging news recently. Share you personal testimony of how God sustained you in your hour of need. Pray with them over the phone.
30. When you notice a stranger reading a newspaper, offer him/her a Gospel booklet, and say, "Excuse me. When you get an opportunity, you might like to read some good news."
31. Create attractive book marks with the gospel message. Share them with friends who enjoy reading.
32. Share a Christian book with a friend. Tell them after they read it you would like to hear their opinion of it. Billy Graham's biography is a hit!
33. Share a tape of one of you pastor's special sermons with a friend or neighbor. Use this as an opportunity to share the plan of salvation.
34. Include a Gospel tract and note of appreciation along with a brief personal testimony when you mail your monthly utility payments.
35. Compose an e-mail signature that includes a Scripture reference explaining Christ's salvation and worth.
36. Make a visit to new parents. Take a copy of Parent Life to share with the new mom and dad. Share how Christ's salvation helps you parent.
37. Wear a Power Band. Share the meaning of each colored bead with a lost friend. Materials are easily available at most department stores.
38. Send a Valentine card with a Gospel tract sharing about God's love.
39. During family devotional times, help family members to pray for the salvation of their lost friend. Encourage family members to tell their friends about Christ.
40. When your children invite friends for a sleepover, use your family devotional time to share John 3:16.
41. Host a baptism party for family members when they follow Christ in baptism. Invite their friends and have the new convert share a testimony of salvation.
42. Take a plate of home-baked cookies or a pie to a new neighbor. Include a note of welcome to the neighborhood, a New Testament and church info.
43. Host a dinner part or picnic for neighbors. Include conversation about relationships and conclude with an account of your most important relationship in life.
44. Write a letter to your personal physician thanking him for his care. Include an acknowledgment of the Great Physician.
45. Host a Christmas, Easter or other Christian holiday celebration in your home, and invite neighbors and community public servants. Share a brief devotional and tell how Christ has made this holiday season special to you and your family.
46. Write a letter of thanks to your local elected officials. Tell them that you will pray for them as they seek to be of service to the community. Include a reference to your faith.
47. Demonstrate the love of Christ with the giving of a gift. Share fresh produce or fruit from your garden. Tell the receiver you enjoy sharing the love of Christ with others.
48. Offer your backyard for Vacation Bible School or Backyard Bible Club.
49. Plan a wild game dinner inviting hunters in your community to bring a "dish." Ask a popular Christian sportsman to tell stories of interest, share his personal testimony and present the Gospel.
50. Conduct a Health Fair in a low-income housing area. Use Christian professionals to screen cholesterol and blood pressure levels. Conclude the screen with a Christian doctor or nurse sharing a Gospel presentation.
51. Host a financial planning seminar. Advertise in the community. During a refreshment time, ask a Christian in the financial community to share a brief testimony including the parable of the "rich young ruler."
52. Sponsor a marriage and family class or seminar for engaged couples in your community. Enlist a qualified Christian counselor to teach and share a Christian witness.
53. Host a seminar on "Writing Your Will," led by a Christian lawyer. Ask him to conclude with his personal testimony on spiritual preparation for death.
54. Go through the Sunday school roles of your church and list the names of Sunday school members from grade four through senior adult who are not church members. Witness to those on this list each week until finished. These are the most cultivated persons in your community.
55. Offer a "Teen's Basic Car Care and Simple Mechanics" course to the teenagers in your community. Ask a respected layman to give a brief devotional, sharing how he came to accept Christ. (Ecc. 12:1)
56. Host a pizza party for a local high school ball team and guests. Show a Christian video that relates to youth.
57. Challenge your local high school athletic team (any sport) to play your deacons, church staff or other ministry group. After the game, provide a pizza dinner. Give a devotional or other Christian book of interest to the team. Thank them for participating.
58. As a church group, set up a booth at community festivals or fairs. Give away cold water, drinks and small gifts. Offer free copies of Scripture and Gospel materials.
59. When a church group does any event, be sure to register all attendees for door prizes. Use these cards as a prospect list.
60. As a church group, conduct a block party. Have several trained witnesses to do personal witnessing.
61. Encourage your church or Sunday school department to host an appreciation banquet for local law enforcement officers or other community servants. Use a layman to share a personal testimony.
62. Teach your members to sit in the middle of the pew or row of chairs during worship. Leave the aisle seats for lost people so they can get out into the aisle without having to step over everyone.
1. List all the lost people you know and pray for them daily. Ask God for His power and compassion. Ask God to keep the lost people you know alive until you or someone can get the Gospel to them.
2. Make a commitment to witness everyday. Few things happen without a prior commitment.
3. List all the persons in your concentric circles (family, friends, neighbors, marketplace contacts, church), and make a commitment to witness to them.
4. Do not forget to share your testimony and the Gospel with the children or grandchildren in your family. This is witnessing, too, and of the most urgent kind.
5. When at a restaurant, leave a generous tip and a tract. Write your contact information on it, too.
6. Before your meal, ask your server, "We are about to ask God to bless our meal. Is there anything we can pray for you about when we do?" Usually, most servers are burdened for family and health.
7. When you attend church with a lost friend, be sure your friend sits in the seat next to the aisle and you sit next to him or her. This will help your friend to walk the aisle to profess faith in Christ. Your friend will not climb over people to profess faith in Christ if he or she is sitting in the middle of the pew. All aisle seats in church must be reserved for lost people.
8. Gently approach people who are sitting by themselves and appear to be alone. Start a conversation and share the Gospel.
9. Invite a friend to a concert, revival or special worship service at your church. Following the service, go out for dessert and talk about the message presented in the service.
10. Send a birthday card to a friend. Enclose a personal note sharing about your own spiritual birthday.
11. Clip a special article from a daily devotional guide or newspaper religion column and mail it to a friend who needs to know Jesus. Include a personal note conveying love and compassion.
12. Subscribe to a favorite devotional guide or Christian periodical for a friend.
13. Write a letter or note of thanks to one who serves in the military services in our country. Include a Scripture reference of 2 Tim 2:1-4.
14. Design your own business card to introduce yourself. Include a Gospel presentation on the back of the card.
15. Take contemporary Christian CDs to a juvenile detention center, youth-receiving home or shelter. Attach a note to each item sharing John 3:16.
16. Take copies of a Christian magazine and leave them in laundromats. Write the name of your church on each copy and a note saying you hope an article in the magazine will be particularly helpful to the reader.
17. Leave a sealed candy bar or snack near the electric meter attached to you home. Attach a tract or note of "good news" to the candy bar and state that you would like to share both.
18. Leave a refreshing drink of cold water for the person who picks up your garbage. Attach a note including John 4:14.
19. Ask your pastor to make a 10-15 minute video presenting the plan of salvation and explaining believer's baptism. Share the video with a lost friend.
20. Go down to the local "hang out" where young boys play basketball. Ask to join the game. Share you testimony before you leave.
21. Visit a lonely senior adult living at home, in a retirement center or in a nursing facility. Share John 14:1-6 and present the Gospel.
22. When in a drive-through, give out a tract, saying, "This is a tract about Christ and how He gives hope. Will you take this and read it sometime?" Then ask, "Has anyone ever taken time to share with you the message of Christ's hope?"
23. Fill up with gas, go to the grocery store, or frequent convenience stores when no other patrons are there. Give away a tract as in #22.
24. Write out your personal testimony. Practice giving it by sharing it with a friend. Do this twice a day for seven days.
25. Write a note of congratulations when a friend, neighbor, or family member is recognized for success. Share how every good and perfect gift is from above.
26. Develop several one-liners that communicate the essence of the gospel. When you seen someone treated rudely, say to the person next to you, "I sure am glad Jesus is more gracious than that."
27. Develop a personal tutoring ministry for children of single parents or students who need to learn England as a second language. Use the ministry for opportunities to share Christ. Drive these children and families to church.
28. Get the Jesus video or the Hope video and invite a group of internationals to view the film with you. Explain to them how they can receive Christ as Savior.
29. Make a personal phone call to one who has received discouraging news recently. Share you personal testimony of how God sustained you in your hour of need. Pray with them over the phone.
30. When you notice a stranger reading a newspaper, offer him/her a Gospel booklet, and say, "Excuse me. When you get an opportunity, you might like to read some good news."
31. Create attractive book marks with the gospel message. Share them with friends who enjoy reading.
32. Share a Christian book with a friend. Tell them after they read it you would like to hear their opinion of it. Billy Graham's biography is a hit!
33. Share a tape of one of you pastor's special sermons with a friend or neighbor. Use this as an opportunity to share the plan of salvation.
34. Include a Gospel tract and note of appreciation along with a brief personal testimony when you mail your monthly utility payments.
35. Compose an e-mail signature that includes a Scripture reference explaining Christ's salvation and worth.
36. Make a visit to new parents. Take a copy of Parent Life to share with the new mom and dad. Share how Christ's salvation helps you parent.
37. Wear a Power Band. Share the meaning of each colored bead with a lost friend. Materials are easily available at most department stores.
38. Send a Valentine card with a Gospel tract sharing about God's love.
39. During family devotional times, help family members to pray for the salvation of their lost friend. Encourage family members to tell their friends about Christ.
40. When your children invite friends for a sleepover, use your family devotional time to share John 3:16.
41. Host a baptism party for family members when they follow Christ in baptism. Invite their friends and have the new convert share a testimony of salvation.
42. Take a plate of home-baked cookies or a pie to a new neighbor. Include a note of welcome to the neighborhood, a New Testament and church info.
43. Host a dinner part or picnic for neighbors. Include conversation about relationships and conclude with an account of your most important relationship in life.
44. Write a letter to your personal physician thanking him for his care. Include an acknowledgment of the Great Physician.
45. Host a Christmas, Easter or other Christian holiday celebration in your home, and invite neighbors and community public servants. Share a brief devotional and tell how Christ has made this holiday season special to you and your family.
46. Write a letter of thanks to your local elected officials. Tell them that you will pray for them as they seek to be of service to the community. Include a reference to your faith.
47. Demonstrate the love of Christ with the giving of a gift. Share fresh produce or fruit from your garden. Tell the receiver you enjoy sharing the love of Christ with others.
48. Offer your backyard for Vacation Bible School or Backyard Bible Club.
49. Plan a wild game dinner inviting hunters in your community to bring a "dish." Ask a popular Christian sportsman to tell stories of interest, share his personal testimony and present the Gospel.
50. Conduct a Health Fair in a low-income housing area. Use Christian professionals to screen cholesterol and blood pressure levels. Conclude the screen with a Christian doctor or nurse sharing a Gospel presentation.
51. Host a financial planning seminar. Advertise in the community. During a refreshment time, ask a Christian in the financial community to share a brief testimony including the parable of the "rich young ruler."
52. Sponsor a marriage and family class or seminar for engaged couples in your community. Enlist a qualified Christian counselor to teach and share a Christian witness.
53. Host a seminar on "Writing Your Will," led by a Christian lawyer. Ask him to conclude with his personal testimony on spiritual preparation for death.
54. Go through the Sunday school roles of your church and list the names of Sunday school members from grade four through senior adult who are not church members. Witness to those on this list each week until finished. These are the most cultivated persons in your community.
55. Offer a "Teen's Basic Car Care and Simple Mechanics" course to the teenagers in your community. Ask a respected layman to give a brief devotional, sharing how he came to accept Christ. (Ecc. 12:1)
56. Host a pizza party for a local high school ball team and guests. Show a Christian video that relates to youth.
57. Challenge your local high school athletic team (any sport) to play your deacons, church staff or other ministry group. After the game, provide a pizza dinner. Give a devotional or other Christian book of interest to the team. Thank them for participating.
58. As a church group, set up a booth at community festivals or fairs. Give away cold water, drinks and small gifts. Offer free copies of Scripture and Gospel materials.
59. When a church group does any event, be sure to register all attendees for door prizes. Use these cards as a prospect list.
60. As a church group, conduct a block party. Have several trained witnesses to do personal witnessing.
61. Encourage your church or Sunday school department to host an appreciation banquet for local law enforcement officers or other community servants. Use a layman to share a personal testimony.
62. Teach your members to sit in the middle of the pew or row of chairs during worship. Leave the aisle seats for lost people so they can get out into the aisle without having to step over everyone.
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