Witness 04: Share the Good News (featuring Shaila Visser)
Rule of Life
Practicing the Way
4.8 • 803 Ratings
🗓️ 17 March 2026
⏱️ 61 minutes
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Summary
What becomes possible when we embrace a patient yet courageous approach to sharing the good news of Jesus? Join John Mark Comer and Shelbi Shutt as they explore how to share the gospel through your life and words, featuring conversations with everyday people in the West, testimonials from real-life practitioners, and an interview with luminary Shaila Visser.
In this episode’s luminary interview, John Mark and Shaila discuss a whole-life approach to sharing the gospel that is animated by key Kingdom values. Shaila is the National Director of Alpha Canada and the Global Senior Vice-President for Alpha International. If you’re not familiar with Alpha, they exist to equip the church with resources that help people explore their questions about faith and God in a safe, nonjudgmental way. You can connect further with Shaila and the work of Alpha on social media @shailavisser and by searching for 'alpha course' in your country of residence.
The idea of sharing our faith can elicit confusion or even aversion for some followers of Jesus. In recognition of this, we created the Reimagining Witness PDF to help you invite people into the Witness Practice with wisdom and clarity. Sign up for our emails to receive the PDF.
This podcast accompanies the Witness Practice, a four-session experience designed to help us bear witness to the good news of Jesus in our cultural moment. Learn more at practicingtheway.org/witness.
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| 0:00.0 | You're listening to the Rule of Life podcast from practicing the way. |
| 0:04.9 | In each season, we explore an ancient practice from the way of Jesus and its relevance for the modern era. |
| 0:11.5 | This is Season 9, Witness. Well, welcome back to our fourth and final episode of the Role of Life podcast, season nine. |
| 0:40.9 | Here we are. |
| 0:41.5 | We have covered set around. |
| 0:43.4 | Last episode of the last season. |
| 0:45.5 | Wow. |
| 0:46.3 | I've got to drink that in for a moment. |
| 0:48.1 | Yes. |
| 0:48.5 | Dang. |
| 0:49.1 | Okay. |
| 0:49.5 | So we've covered lots so far. |
| 0:51.2 | We started at the beginning, episode one, talking about the practice of witness, beginning |
| 0:56.4 | with love. |
| 0:57.2 | Yes. |
| 0:57.6 | And then the role of hospitality and how it has the power to build bridges to other people |
| 1:03.5 | as we engaged them in this practice. |
| 1:05.5 | And then last week we talked about the role of the Holy Spirit, partnering with the Holy |
| 1:09.7 | Spirit in three-way listening. |
| 1:12.5 | And today it brings us to this simple but for some intimidating invitation of sharing the |
| 1:18.6 | good news of Jesus, not just with our actions and our lives, but with our words. |
| 1:23.4 | Yes. And we need to hear that, particularly those like me that are more fearful or quiet. We need to hear. |
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