While today on focus on the family will examine why so many of us struggle to share our faith.

And I remember how I felt. I thought, okay, I did it. I did what I'm supposed to do God's happy with me and I didn't feel the guilt anymore

it's almost like a smoker that once they have a cigarette they're not craving it

for a while and then a couple months later I was still basking in that well last time I shared my

faith in fact last week was somebody at McDonald's and it worked for a while but then I

thought I felt guilty again it's like if I really cared about those people I probably wouldn't

I wouldn't be craving it later. It would just be so satisfying each time and that's when I thought

why didn't God make me this way what if there's a

different way what if it's not the great commission that's the problem maybe

it's that I'm listening to the methods and what if there's more methods than I'm hearing.

That's Dr. Mike Bechtel, recalling his own inner angst about witnessing to others and how God

changed his expectations of what effective

evangelism looks like. And Dr Bechtel is back with us again today. Your

host is focused president and author Jim Daly and I'm John Fuller.

John, we had a very insightful conversation last time with Mike about what I believe are common

misperceptions of evangelism where some have thought we need to confront people with God's

truth instead of befriending them.

Or we viewed non-believers as some kind of project or agenda item on our to-do list.

Unfortunately, many Christians feel like our responsibility to evangelize is a burden and

we've completely lost sight of the relational part and what it means to live out our faith in

tangible ways before others.

Yeah, I think you're right and there seems to me there's an aspect of fear as well Jim I might say the wrong thing I might be

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