Some are still working on handling the word with the skill they should have (cf. 2 Tim. 2:15). Many are working on overcoming a shyness in the area of the gospel (Matt. 10:32; Mk. 8:38). While Christians muster greater courage and ability in the arena of soul-winning, they can practice by doing some simple, relatively easy things.
1) Drop by a hospital near work, randomly visiting a few patients, and telling them you are a concerned friend from the church of Christ.
2) Mail a Bible tract with each of your bills and correspondences.
3) Give Sunday’s bulletin to a co-worker or associate.
4) Hand a friend the preacher’s (or church’s) business card (which has the church’s address and phone number).
5) Invite a friend to watch a TV program put on by the church (Uplift Network, “Good News Today,” each day at 6 AM MST).
6) Talk up the Bible school with the neighbors who have small children.
7) Pray with a non-Christian friend who is ill.
8) Invite a friend or co-worker to speak with someone at church about the Bible.
9) Type up the plan of salvation on several cards, take them with you for when you go to places with magazine tables or racks (doctor’s office, stores, insurance office, etc.) and place them among the reading materials.
10) Carry tracts and bulletins onto airplanes, placing the material in the magazine rack in the seat ahead of you.
11) Pleasantly invite people over whom you have influence to attend special occasions at the church building (lectureship, seminars, gospel meetings, VBS/BBD, etc.).
12) Baby-sit the children of individuals who engage in home Bible studies.
13) Model the behavior and attitude of Christ (1 Pet. 2:21).
14) Baby-sit the children of non-Christian associates, using the opportunity to introduce them to the Lord.
15) Use a religious discussion at work as an opportunity to introduce them to the Lord.
16) Give Bibles and teaching books as presents to non-Christian friends.
17) Pass along Christian magazines to friends and fellow-workers.
18) Carry sermon CDs to shut-in family members and friends who have yet to obey the gospel.
19) Place a “church of Christ” bumper sticker on your car.
20) Hand out invitations to attend services by going door to door.
This does not nearly exhaust the list of things one may do to spread the gospel apart from the most obvious means (teaching a Bible study). Perhaps you can think of other, similar means of spreading the gospel which require NO personal evangelism experience. Work toward being able to study the Bible with the lost, but, as you are working, be involved in doing that for which Christ holds all Christians responsible (Matt. 28:18-20). Then sing with joy, “I want to be a worker for the Lord.”
–Neal Pollard