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This Tuesday Bible study pauses the regular handbook to explore personal evangelism. Starting with Jesus’ call to fish for people, the lesson asks each believer to identify five people with whom they can share the gospel through daily life.
The ministry of transparency
Personal evangelism begins with an honest, relatable testimony—not sharing every private detail, but showing how Christ meets a real person. The message uses the phrase “He who hides nothing has nothing to hide” and the “ministry of the comma” to describe a life in which God’s redemptive work is still continuing.
The ministry of transformation
People should be able to see the difference Christ has made. Evangelism is more than an invitation to a church service; it is a changed life that makes space for others to ask about the hope they see.
The ministry of testimony
Jesus calls believers the salt of the earth. The lesson presents a “salty believer” as someone whose transparent, transformed life preserves, seasons, and points others toward Jesus in the home, at work, and throughout the community.
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“He who hides nothing has nothing to hide.”
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“The continuation of God using me and never leaving me is a firm indicator that God is not through with me.”
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“People need your transparency, people need your transformation, and people need your testimony.”
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“The whole premise is that we are to become salty believers.”
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