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The Weekly Update<\/strong> – August 4, 2025<\/p>\n\n\n\n Among the many tools available for sharing our faith, there’s one I really like.<\/p>\n\n\n\n First, I order from a Christian bookshop 100 or 200 Gospels of Luke or Mark.<\/p>\n\n\n\n I put some in the glove compartment of our car, at the front door of our apartment, Yukki always has one in her handbag…<\/p>\n\n\n\n It’s offered to the hairdresser, to a passenger on a train, to a neighbour, to a beggar on the street…<\/p>\n\n\n\n I don’t give it away as if I was giving away a simple leaflet.<\/p>\n\n\n\n For example, with the waitress in a restaurant, I would say (when I ask for the bill for instance) :<\/p>\n\n\n\n I turn the gospel over so that she doesn’t see the title (to avoid her saying: \u2018No, thank you I’m not interested!\u200b\u2019\u200b)<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Then, for a minute or two, I gradually build up the priceless value of the gift I’m \u200babout to offer (by the way, I don’t say: \u2018Can I give you?\u2019<\/em> but: \u2018I’d like to offer you\u2019<\/em>)\u200b.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Here’s how I build up the value of the gospel\u200b booklet:<\/p>\n\n\n\n “I’d like to offer you a gift: it\u2019s 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.”<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n I arouse her curiosity.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cIt’s the best-selling and most translated book in the world\u201d.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n I can add: “It’s the very first book \u200be\u200bver printed.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n And to drive the point home, \u201cIn twenty years or so, this little book I’m about to give you will be 2,000 years old!\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n I wait for her to realize that this book\u200blet has crossed 20 centuries to come to her… I can see the astonishment on her face.<\/p>\n\n\n\n This waitress is now too eager to hold this treasure in her own hands.<\/p>\n\n\n\n As we leave the restaurant, I can greet her by saying, \u201cThis book changed our lives, it can change yours too!\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n When a gospel is presented in this way, there’s little risk of it being rejected.<\/p>\n\n\n\n