How to Share Your Faith During Holidays
1. Pray ahead of time.
Ask God to make you sensitive to His leading about when and what to share during the Holidays.
Approach the Holidays with the idea that you’ll have opportunity to share with family and friends what you are truly thankful for: the outrageous grace offered to you in Christ Jesus. When you pray, you’ll be ready to notice when God underlines a moment for you.
2. Brainstorm some possible discussion questions.
It may seem that discussions of Holiday shopping plans, the weather, football, are meaningless and dull.
Retelling old family stories can be an embarassing rehashing of events that would better left to the dustbin of history, or they could be a good part of family identity and bonding.
For example,
If you could ‘do the Holidays’ in a fresh, new, totally different way, what would that look like for you? Would it include a God-focus? Why or why not?
What’s the one thing you are most thankful for this year? Why?
Are the Holidays more of a time for being thankful to God or being thankful to others? How?
Is it tough to be thankful this year? Why or Why not?
3. Look and Listen for the Spiritual Thirst
As conversations unfold, a person might share a spiritual need. You might not even need to ask questions to find it.
Or, questions like the ones above could open conversation paths into spiritual needs.
These can naturally go on to deeper things about your relationship with Christ and the gospel.
You might hear of a person’s spiritual thirst and can appropriately point them to the water of life.
The key is to look and listen.
You’ve been praying. Watch for how God will answer that.
4. Take the time to share.
If you are noticing people, spiritual thirst can lead to moments of conversation in divine appointments.
Take the time to share your experience of God’s working in your life.
Feel free to tell appropriate stories of God’s current activity in your life, particularly where you are thankful.
Look for those moments to talk about your thankfulness for what God has done for you in bringing you salvation.
Look for those “natural” conversational opportunities.
Some evangelism practitioners will not only look for conversational openings, but will create them or cause them to happen. Go for it.
You might still be learning how to confidently talk about their faith and need other people to start the conversation.
Either way, look for those opportunities to share and go for it.
Have fun this Holiday.
Chris Walker
(Edited)
