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All of us have a faith story – conversion, renewal, return to the church, miraculous healing or answered prayer. Most of us keep our stories deep inside us.
Being a Christian means being an evangelizer. The new evangelization calls us to keep our faith strong by giving it away with our love, friendship and testimony. How do we share how God is writing his love story on our hearts? The award-winning Sharing Your Catholic Faith Story: Tools, Tips, and Testimonies answers the question, “How do I share my faith story?”
St. Peter advises us to, “Always be ready to give an explanation to anyone who asks you for a reason for your hope, but do it with gentleness and reverence.” (1 Peter 3:15, 16)
God sends us people with wavering hope who need to know that he is the reason for our hope. We are messengers of love with unique stories of continuous conversion experiences. But we hesitate. We’d like to respond to the promptings of the Holy Spirit but we are not ready.
We need some tools like journaling and creating an elevator speech, some tips on what not to do such as overwhelming our listening by telling every event in our story at once. We need some examples of how others share their stories.
And we need the courage the Holy Spirit imparted to us at our Baptism and Confirmation, as Paul reiterated to Timothy,
I remind you to stir into flame the gift of God that you have through the imposition of my hands. For God did not give us a spirit of cowardice but rather of power and love and self-control. So do not be ashamed of your testimony to our Lord. (2 Timothy 1:16)
Sharing Your Catholic Faith Story helps us
- Fulfill our baptismal calling as evangelists.
- Discover how journaling teaches us how to record and clarify our faith story.
- Relive our God-moments of conversion.
- Craft a testimony of a few words of an elevator speech, a memoir for our grandchildren and media formats in between.
- Discern the timing and promptings of the Holy Spirit in opportunities to share our story.
- Tell the truth in love with ten tips for sharing our story “with gentleness and reverence.”
- Enjoy the conversion and renewal stories of 30 Catholics and marvel at how uniquely the Holy Spirit worked in their lives.
- Always be ready to evangelize through our story.
While supplies last, everyone who purchases a Sharing Your Catholic Faith Story paperback from JoyAlive.net will receive the ebook free. Just go to JoyAlive.net/shop/ and select The Word Works. Shipping is free within the continental United States. (Choose the option for shipping within Texas, if applicable.)
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