Welcome to Truth for Life, where in recent days we've been learning how to cross the barriers

that sometimes make it hard for us to talk to others about Jesus. It's easy for us to feel intimidated

or under-trained, maybe even overzealous. Today, Alistair Begg is going to do a bit of evangelism

myth-busting and offer some practical tips about effective witnessing.

Now, as we live before people playing the tune as it were of our lives,

there is going to come a time, hopefully, when we have the opportunity, for a clear,

good news presentation. And I deliberately put it that way, not that there comes a time for us to

tell people everything we know, nor for a time when we can tell people everything they ought to be

doing, but a time that opens before us to clearly present in a verifiable form the news concerning

the truth of Jesus Christ. When that time comes, it's going to be important that, first of all,

we are alert enough to recognize it. And that is something which we need to ask God for as we begin

each new day, first to see it and then to see it. Sometimes we don't see it, sometimes we see it,

and we let it go. And at this point, I think it's very important to address the question which is

raised as a false antithesis too many times. It goes something like this. Well, actually,

last Sunday was much more along my line because you see, I just live the gospel. I don't talk the

gospel. Tonight is a good night for other people, the talkers, but for me, I'm just a liver.

That kind of antithesis is akin to asking a pilot as he begins to taxi down the runway,

which wing is the most important, the right wing or the left wing? The answer is neither wing is

more important than the other. Both are essential for flight. And so we need to recognize that life

and lip are interwoven when it comes to making clear presentations of the good news. Because by our

lives, we may pave the way for our lips, and by our lives, we may destroy the validity of what our

lips may say. Therefore, having allowed them to learn the tune, we have made it possible for us to

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