Resonate Issue 26 | Page 8

SHARING Your Faith Part III Crunch Time that Lead to Christ If you’re a Resonate regular, you’ve been waiting with bated breath for Part 3 of the series. Wait no longer! Take the two dog-eared, coffeestained past editions from your bookshelf or click your Bookmarks tab and recap. First, initiate and create connections with people. Next, make those connections meaningful, moving beyond chitchat to deep sharing. Finally (unless you tell us you want more4 and the miniseries may become a whole season!), Susan Campbell looks at what happens when your friends are open to knowing Jesus. Y ou’ve been doing the relationship gig for a while. You have a few buddies who trust you, know how you like your coffee, arrive wearing trackies to watch ‘The Voice’ and see themselves out as the credits roll. They know you’re a follower of Jesus and they’re cool with that. You’d love to see them come to faith and have been praying for God to draw them closer to Himself. So, what next?... Stealthily slide some Bible verses into their back pocket when they reach for the Tim-Tams? Casually ask if they want to give their life to Jesus in an ad break? Ask them to critique your testimony? Ah, hmm, perhaps we should get some tips from the Global Interaction crosscultural workers, seeing that sharing faith is one of their favourite things to do. Dema and his teammates in Thailand had been building relationships with people for a while. The