There is no fail safe textbook one size fits

all approach to sharing our faith. Circumstances and personalities will affect each

encounter. Today on Truth for Life, Alistair Begg offers six helpful guidelines

and shares his personal approach to connecting with others in order to talk

about Jesus. We're continuing a series titled Crossing the Barriers.

We concluded by exploding some myths concerning the whole business of

personal evangelism. Myth number one was that it takes a certain kind of

person and either that person is me because I'm really good or that person

isn't me because I'm no good and we discover that it doesn't actually take a

certain kind of person. Secondly, that you need to be a walking Bible dictionary

before you can even start or thirdly that we're personally responsible to

speak to everyone in the universe. All of those are myths which inhibit

effectiveness in personal evangelism. We were then about to go on to deal with

some important guidelines which will not be news to us but I share them this

evening by means of re-information which of course has largely been the case

throughout our studies so far. Guideline number one be natural, be natural. Now

we are all made differently and as we said last time some of us are more

introverted than others and some of us are certainly more extrovert than others.

God is not taken by surprise by our human personality indeed he designed it and

for some of us to become very effervescent is to become very unnatural. For some

of us to endeavor to be rather quiet characters is also unnatural.

Therefore we must be aware of pressing one another into a mold of operation

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