The Weekly Update – August 4, 2025
Among the many tools available for sharing our faith, there’s one I really like.
First, I order from a Christian bookshop 100 or 200 Gospels of Luke or Mark.
I put some in the glove compartment of our car, at the front door of our apartment, Yukki always has one in her handbag…
It’s offered to the hairdresser, to a passenger on a train, to a neighbour, to a beggar on the street…
I don’t give it away as if I was giving away a simple leaflet.
For example, with the waitress in a restaurant, I would say (when I ask for the bill for instance) :
I turn the gospel over so that she doesn’t see the title (to avoid her saying: ‘No, thank you I’m not interested!’).
Then, for a minute or two, I gradually build up the priceless value of the gift I’m about to offer (by the way, I don’t say: ‘Can I give you?’ but: ‘I’d like to offer you’).
Here’s how I build up the value of the gospel booklet:
“I’d like to offer you a gift: it’s part of a book my wife and I read every day. Since we’ve been married, we’open it every morning when drinking our coffee.”
I arouse her curiosity.
“It’s the best-selling and most translated book in the world”.
I can add: “It’s the very first book ever printed.”
And to drive the point home, “In twenty years or so, this little book I’m about to give you will be 2,000 years old!”
I wait for her to realize that this booklet has crossed 20 centuries to come to her… I can see the astonishment on her face.
This waitress is now too eager to hold this treasure in her own hands.
As we leave the restaurant, I can greet her by saying, “This book changed our lives, it can change yours too!”
When a gospel is presented in this way, there’s little risk of it being rejected.
What’s your evangelism tool? Let us know at timothee.paton@gmail.com
Timothée and Yukki