Most Christians would agree that sharing one’s faith through witnessing is an essential part of the Christian life.  Christians who desire to be faithful in sharing the gospel must be properly and thoroughly equipped for the work.  Paul Little, in the revised edition of his classic work How to Give Away Your Faith, seeks to bring to light many of the topics and difficulties involved in effective Christian witnessing.  The purpose of the work is to answer the questions, How can we witness?  How can we explain clearly to this world that Jesus Christ is a right and relevant solution today? and On what grounds can we approach those who touch our lives and expect to be heard – and believed?

Although implicit, Little divides How to Give Away Your Faith into three major divisions.  The first major division covers the call and character of Christian witnessing.   The second division discusses in detail the content, defense and practice of witnessing.  In the final division Little lays a foundation for Christian living, which is the ground upon which our testimony will be evaluated by a skeptical and watching world.  The evangelist’s life must give evidence to the hearer that the gospel being proposed is real, relevant and worthy to be believed in.

I recommend this book.  Although this is an intensely practical book, it is not pragmatic.  Little allows Scripture, not method, to shape his approach to sharing the gospel. This work truly is a tremendous help in witnessing.  In spite of a few outdated examples (the book was originally written in 1963), readers who desire to be faithful witnesses to Jesus Christ will be well equipped for the task upon their completion of How to Give Away Your Faith.

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