Another Way to Share the Gospel

Someone asked me the question if the was another way to share the gospel if I am afraid to do it verbally. The following response was my answer;

If you are afraid to share the gospel then you are ashamed of Christ. We must love Christ more than we love ourselves. When we fear to share the gospel we are afraid of the reaction of the people we are speaking to, instead of concerned about what Christ thinks.

We must reject all “people pleasing” if we are to follow and obey Christ. There will be many who hate us for telling them what will save them from hell. It is irrational that they would not see the love involved in the warning but they are not saved and don’t want Christ if they are angry, we need not take that personally. They did it to Christ and the apostles, we will be treated this way too.

We are only intimidated when we are self-focused.

**John 15:18-25**

**Disciples’ Relation to the World**

18 “If the world hates you, you know that it has hated Me before *it hated* you.

19 If you were of the world, the world would love *you as* its own; but because you are not of the world, but I chose you out of the world, because of this the world hates you.

20 Remember the word that I said to you, ‘A slave is not greater than his master.’ If they persecuted Me, they will persecute you as well; if they followed My word, they will follow yours also.

21 But all these things they will do to you on account of My name, because they do not know the One who sent Me.

22 If I had not come and spoken to them, they would not have

sin; but now they have no excuse for their sin.

23 The one who hates Me hates My Father also.

24 If I had not done among them the works which no one else did, they would not have sin; but now they have both seen and hated Me and My Father as well.

25 But *this has happened* so that the word that is written in their Law will be fulfilled: ‘They hated Me for no reason.’”

My suggestion is to deny yourself, when you do this you will not care how people treat you. We can be more loving, more forthright and speak more boldly when Christ is our focus rather than the people in front of us.

The more I spoke to people about Christ, the more I was rejected the less I felt anything about their rejection. When someone rages at me now I feel nothing, no fear, no hurt and no timidity. When we get to the point where we don't care if we are liked by men then we can be used of God and remain steady, faithful, and even joyful in the midst of everything.