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Final Review - Conclusion: Black Swan Moments

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This blog is designed to give people an inner look at a devotional life. Taking a pause to spend time with the Lord. The hope is if you travel on this journey with Rev. Jacob Shaw, as a result, you may be more inclined to spend time with the Lord on your own as well. Don’t hesitate to leave a comment or question, as long as it is offered in respect and humility. Today's devotional is taken from Chan, S.  How to Talk About Jesus (Without Being THAT Guy): Personal Evangelism In A Skeptical World , Zondervan Reflective, 2020.  Conclusion: Looking for Black Swan Moments What The Text Brought To Mind: Trying to find the Black Swan; the outlying or even ideal moment or situation for evangelism, might seem like searching for a needle in a haystack, and in a way, it can be. Often when we look at the sea of diverse people and circumstances in front of us, it can all feel like either chaos or mundane normality, both of which can act as that endless sea of hay cascading in front of our se
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Evangelism Tip #8 Lean Into Disagreement

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This blog is designed to give people an inner look at a devotional life. Taking a pause to spend time with the Lord. The hope is if you travel on this journey with Rev. Jacob Shaw, as a result, you may be more inclined to spend time with the Lord on your own as well. Don’t hesitate to leave a comment or question, as long as it is offered in respect and humility. Today's devotional is taken from Chan, S.  How to Talk About Jesus (Without Being THAT Guy): Personal Evangelism In A Skeptical World , Zondervan Reflective, 2020.  Evangelism Tip 8 What The Text Brought To Mind:   Growing up, there was never such a good night that didn’t have some form of debate or in-depth discussion. I remember on holidays we will sit around the kitchen table and talk about all sorts of things, and as my sister and I grew in years, often we would debate about faith, politics, and philosophy with our parents. Debate, was, in a way, my family's way of showing affection. If we could be vulnerable enough
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Evangelism Tip #7 Become Their Unofficial Chaplain

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This blog is designed to give people an inner look at a devotional life. Taking a pause to spend time with the Lord. The hope is if you travel on this journey with Rev. Jacob Shaw, as a result, you may be more inclined to spend time with the Lord on your own as well. Don’t hesitate to leave a comment or question, as long as it is offered in respect and humility. Today's devotional is taken from Chan, S.  How to Talk About Jesus (Without Being THAT Guy): Personal Evangelism In A Skeptical World , Zondervan Reflective, 2020.  Evangelism Tip 7 What The Text Brought To Mind:   I feel Chan has done a really great job building the simple strategies for Evangelism on top of each other, one chapter at a time, so that the sum of the skill set is not overwhelming. He has also done a great job in demonstrating that these tips are merely pragmatic interpersonal skills that any person ought to try to incorporate into their daily lives because they function to serve truth, kindness, consideratio
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Evangelism Tip #6 - Tell Them Stories About Jesus

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  This blog is designed to give people an inner look at a devotional life. Taking a pause to spend time with the Lord. The hope is if you travel on this journey with Rev. Jacob Shaw, as a result, you may be more inclined to spend time with the Lord on your own as well. Don’t hesitate to leave a comment or question, as long as it is offered in respect and humility. Today's devotional is taken from Chan, S.  How to Talk About Jesus (Without Being THAT Guy): Personal Evangelism In A Skeptical World , Zondervan Reflective, 2020.  Evangelism Tip 6 What The Text Brought To Mind:  This 6 th Evangelism tip, in my opinion, is focusing on that intimidating threshold of shifting from the social element, (which is needed within evangelism), to actually offering some of the good news of Jesus to others. Trying to gain comfort with talking about Jesus with people is sort of like the first time, as a child, you ever slept over at a friend's house. You have been welcomed into their space;
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Evangelism Tip #5: Tell A Better Story

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This blog is designed to give people an inner look at a devotional life. Taking a pause to spend time with the Lord. The hope is if you travel on this journey with Rev. Jacob Shaw, as a result, you may be more inclined to spend time with the Lord on your own as well. Don’t hesitate to leave a comment or question, as long as it is offered in respect and humility. Today's devotional is taken from Chan, S.  How to Talk About Jesus (Without Being THAT Guy): Personal Evangelism In A Skeptical World , Zondervan Reflective, 2020.  Evangelism Tip 5 What The Text Brought To Mind:  This chapter of Chan’s book immediately takes me back to my days in sales. There was a time when I sold credit cards (personal and business) over the phone. Yes, I was one of those annoying phone salesmen. I began my credit card sales training as part of a small business sales team. When they trained us to sell credit cards, they taught us tactics to help up do our job: (1) know your client’s story, and (2) kn
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Evangelism Tip #4: Listen

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This blog is designed to give people an inner look at a devotional life. Taking a pause to spend time with the Lord. The hope is if you travel on this journey with Rev. Jacob Shaw, as a result, you may be more inclined to spend time with the Lord on your own as well. Don’t hesitate to leave a comment or question, as long as it is offered in respect and humility. Today's devotional is taken from Chan, S.  How to Talk About Jesus (Without Being THAT Guy): Personal Evangelism In A Skeptical World , Zondervan Reflective, 2020.  Evangelism Tip 4 What The Text Brought To Mind:  If you were to have asked my parents which of their three children is the chattiest, without hesitation they will both point their fingers at me. It’s okay, I’m not self-conscious about it, I know who I am. Having a good chat is great and sharing thoughts and feelings is one of the best parts of the human experience. I think I learned this 'chatty' trait from my father, as we both share a similar specifica
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