Talking Jesus: Get Talkin’!
Talking Jesus: Get Talkin’!
1Peter 3:15, Colossians 4:4-7, 2 Corinthians 5:17-20
May 18th, 2025
There is a finite number of people who can talk Jesus to a crowd. There is an infinite number of people who can talk Jesus to a person. The key to being an effective Everyday Evangelist is seeing the person apart from their crowd and believing that God is orchestrating the conversation.
Every Day Evangelism is…
Going public with a positive review on Jesus.
Touting Jesus as the person you can’t live without.
Being clothed in Christ. Following Jesus so closely that you live like, act like and talk like Him.
The key to effective evangelism is to shift your focus from conversions to conversations. Everyday evangelism (spiritual influence) is the act of leading someone one step closer to Jesus than they were before our interaction.
Why aren’t more Christians engaged in everyday evangelism?
We underestimate our calling/identity as everyday evangelists. When you embrace a calling/identity, you chase proficiency and look for opportunities.
We over-compartmentalize our lives. When you integrate your life, you are the same person in every compartment.
Everyday Evangelists… sit on go, carrying hope with humility.
1 Peter 3:15b (NIV) 15 … Always be prepared to give an answer to everyone who asks you to give the reason for the hope that you have. But do this with gentleness and respect,
To sit on go is to be ready for the ask prepared with the answer.
Hope-filled people always peaks people’s curiosity. Hope is in short supply.
Humility doesn’t correct people, it directs peoples. I am not better than the next person because of my Jesus story, but I am better off than the next person.
Everyday Evangelists… pray for open doors & clear communication.
Colossians 4:3-6 (NIV) 3 And pray for us, too, that God may open a door for our message, so that we may proclaim the mystery of Christ, for which I am in chains. 4 Pray that I may proclaim it clearly, as I should. 5 Be wise in the way you act toward outsiders; make the most of every opportunity. 6 Let your conversation be always full of grace, seasoned with salt, so that you may know how to answer everyone.
Open doors mean receptive encounters.
Clear Communication.
There are two parts clear communication
My Part: Clarity takes preparation.
Holy Spirit Part: Pray for the Holy Spirit to “fill in the blanks.”
Conversation Coaching
Use Wisdom. The gospel is offensive enough don’t add to it by what you say and how you say it.
Make the Most. Kairos means squeeze the most out of the opportunity.
Wrap the Truth in Grace. The Truth of the message is Grace so make the tone of the conversation graceful.
Everyday Evangelists… are reconciled and reconciling.
2 Corinthians 5:17-20 (NIV) 17 Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, the new creation has come: The old has gone, the new is here! 18 All this is from God, who reconciled us to himself through Christ and gave us the ministry of reconciliation: 19 that God was reconciling the world to himself in Christ, not counting people’s sins against them. And he has committed to us the message of reconciliation. 20 We are therefore Christ’s ambassadors, as though God were making his appeal through us. We implore you on Christ’s behalf: Be reconciled to God.
As Everyday Evangelists we stand on…
Our re-formation in the person of Christ.
Reconciliation as our ministry with Christ.
Ambassador as our identity in Christ.