A SIMPLE AND EFFECTIVE TOOL

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 ​e​ver 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 book​let 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

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