Share The Light Tips of the Day

Dave Andrews • April 4, 2024

Here's some tips on sharing your faith with others.

Our annual Spring FriendRaiser is underway for the month of April; and as a part of that, our theme this year is Share The Light.  As you share the Gospel and the Light of Christ, KJOL has compiled 30 tips for every day of the month.  Here they are:


1.     Make sure YOU yourself know Christ, so the power of Holy Spirit can work through you. Without Him we can do nothing.  If you are not sure, go to our website and click on Good News.


2.     HARVEST/GREG LAURIE TIP: Have a God given burden and compassion for the lost. Recognize that no matter how much non-believers have in life, there is still a basic emptiness in each and every one of us without Christ. And because of that, YOU have more in life than others…who may want what you have. Don’t forget the urgency of those who are dying and going to hell. Also remember, we are commanded to share our faith (Great Commission etc.). 


3.     Some believe Augustine said “Preach the Gospel at all times; if necessary use words.” While he probably did not actually say that, it is a good reminder that we must walk the walk if we are going to talk the talk. Get rid of sin in your life that might hinder the Gospel. No one wants to hear the truth from a hypocrite. In the end it won’t fully lead people to Christ, but it will most certainly help in your efforts.


4.     Some believe Augustine said “Preach the Gospel at all times; if necessary use words.” It is ALWAYS necessary to use words. Phillip led the Ethiopian eunuch to the Lord after he was asked, how can I understand unless someone explains it to me?” Your good testimony alone will not bring people to the saving knowledge of Jesus. They must have a clear encounter the Gospel.  SIDE NOTE: Phillip was obedient to go with God’s calling.


5.     TIP FROM CRU: Prepare well…start reading God’s Word and come to a clear understanding of our need for a Savior and the remission of our sins. Watch other evangelists on YouTube, and learn the Gospel by heart (Need Him, Evangelism Explosion, KJOL.org-Good News, Living Waters, Billy Graham, Greg Laurie, gotrainingday.org). Learn the Gospel hand presentation from Evangelism Explosion, the Romans Road, or the Wordless Book from Child Evangelism Fellowship.  We have some resource on our Resource page at KJOL.org.


6.     TIP FROM CRU: Live in faith, not fear. Know that when God calls you…He has your back. Care more about what He thinks. “The Spirit God gave us does not make us timid, but gives us power, love and self-discipline” (2 Timothy 1:7, NIV).


7.     Believe what you are saying. The eyes of the world have been blinded by the god of this age. But you know the words of life…the very real way the truth and the life. You will be setting people free.  We tend to be more passionate and genuine about the things we believe in. 


8.     BILLY GRAHAM EVANGELISTIC ASSOCIATION TIP: Recognize that people are looking for a cure. People don’t wake up in the morning thinking “I need Jesus.” They are thinking of their symptoms, loneliness, lack of peace, fear, etc. But a good doctor looks for the underlying cause…and cure the disease. Jesus is our cure for sin. Sometimes, people are searching and don’t even know it.


9.     FOCUS ON THE FAMILY TIP: Practice…role play in your head and/or with other Christians. What are the major arguments of the day against Christ? Figure out how to respond to those.


10.  TIP FROM FOCUS ON THE FAMILY: Pray… The Christian life must be saturated with prayer…we can’t expect success without His intervention. Ask the Lord to identify people in your life that need to hear about the way to eternal life.


11.  TIP FROM INTERVARSITY: Start Conversations with anyone and everyone no matter what they look like. Jewish Rabbi’s didn’t talk to Samaritan women, but Jesus struck up a conversation with the woman at the well.


12.  TIP FROM INTERVARSITY: Adjust life patterns to make conversations possible. How can we get out of our bubble to encounter unsaved people? How about pick up a hobby in a new group, get to know a neighbor, check in on a family member, or start shopping in a new store or visiting a new restaurant. What are your ideas? Text us.


13.   TIP FROM INTERVARSITY: Start chatting about everyday life with people…evangelists know “a serious and authentic conversation is only a hair’s breadth away. “


14.  Don’t neglect Jesus. The world has clear reactions to the name of Jesus, but there is no other name under Heaven by which we can be saved. Tell others about how in His great love, Christ died for us to pay the penalty we could not pay, and if we believe on Him in repentance of sin, we will be saved for eternity.


15.  Don’t use Christianese. Keep it simple in terms everyone can understand. 


16.  TIP FROM JESUSFILM.COM: Become a good listener. People don’t like to be preached at…make it a two way conversation…you will be more effective at getting to the heart of the matter in each personal situation.


17.  Don’t get caught up in a debate. Most people will not change their viewpoint in a hostile atmosphere. Keep things calm, friendly, and conversational. Whether or not they accept Christ, you sharing your faith was a success.


18.  TIP FROM INTERVARSITY: Ask questions and then also answer the questions behind their question. For instance, don’t get dragged into a debate about homosexuality…let them know that we all need a Savior, Christ loves them and desires to have a personal relationship with him. We all need His atonement from sin, and have access to it through Jesus. Don’t be afraid to ask questions that get to the heart of the matter.


19.  TIP FROM CRU: Your personal testimony is your best friend. Your story is effective, no matter how boring it is. God may just lead the right person to you who needs to hear it. 


20.  Be humble and willing to use anything…the apostle Paul became “all things to all men so that some might be saved.” Break out tracts, Gospel survey, books, GodTools app, so called Christian “Rock and Roll,” Bibles, or whatever resources you need. Use it there and put something in their hand for later.

21.  Admit when you don’t know the answer, but don’t forget you know the one Who does. Ask if you could look up a passage. The Bible has the answers to all of life’s questions. In addition, pretty much all questions you can encounter have been thought out and addressed over the last 2 thousand years after Christ. The answer is out there. 


22.  BILLY GRAHAM EVANGELISTIC ASSOCIATION TIP: Make sure to cover the essentials. They are:

a.     Admit you’re a sinner.

b.     Ask for forgiveness and be willing to turn from your sins.

c.     Believe that cross died for you on the cross.

d.     Receive Christ into your heart and life.


23.  TIP FROM RAY COMFORT: Don’t forget the SIN thing. It’s a dirty word, but the Gospel is at the core about atonement from sin. People who have everything, are unlikely to see their need for a Savior if you don’t mention sin. Living Waters International sees it as essential to take people through the 10 commandments because we have all broken them. People must have the opportunity to come to grips with and repent for the forgiveness of sin.  Ray Comfort does this to great effect by going through the 10 commandments with people. 


24.  BILLY GRAHAM EVANGELISTIC ASSOCIATION TOP: Stress the love of God. You correctly discussed our sin problem…don’t forget the love of God…He showed His love for us by giving His life for us so we can be saved.


25.  When you are around a non-believer and you all of the sudden think about sharing your faith or perhaps a tract…do it. It’s probably God’s voice. It may just be a divine appointment to plant a seed.


26.  Ray Comfort Tip: Give them an opportunity to say yes or no. Ask when they are going to give their life to Christ. Strike while the iron is hot. If you gauge that sharing the Gospel has made an impact, ask if they would like to pray with you to give their life to Christ…if they are a little less receptive, ask if it’s ok that you pray for them…even right there. Leave them with a tract, your number, a Bible, or an invitation to church.


27.  Alpha Omega Institute Tip: Write a letter to a loved one. In case you think it’s a cop-out…they have personal experience that it works!


28.  Ask them if they have a Bible…there is a reason the Gideon’s pass out Bibles…people come to know the Lord by reading the Word!


29.  JESUSFILM.COM TIP: Give yourself permission to share your faith poorly. Be ok with failing…you are really doing this for God and He knows. Learn from mistakes and know that God is pleased you are trying. 


30.  Don’t give up! Don’t be discouraged. Our job is to present the Gospel, His job is to do the saving. It often takes multiple seeds planted in people’s lives.  Keep it up…you WILL see fruit for the Kingdom of God.

Chuck Girard of Love Song dies at 81

By Kurt Neuswanger • August 15, 2025
Chuck Girard of Love Song dies Chuck Girard , the co-founder of the band Love Song, died on Monday, August 11. He had been diagnosed with cancer which spread to his lungs. He was 81. Chuck Girard was one of the founding members of the iconic Jesus music band Love Song , which had its birth at Chuck Smith’s Calvary Chapel in Costa Mesa in 1970. (The band was briefly featured in Greg Laurie’s movie “The Jesus Revolution.”) After Love Song, Chuck had a solo career marked by his worship anthem, “ Sometimes Alleluia .” He gave concerts several times in western Colorado during the 1990s. Around 1976, Girard gave his testimony of how he and his friends had formed Love Song around 1968, before any of them actually knew Jesus. “We felt that drugs and psychedelics were part of God’s plan to reach men who could be reached by no other means. We thought that LSD was the key to spiritual knowledge. I thought the Beatles were Second Messiahs. I really thought they had discovered something and they were trying to convey it to us in little doses. “And when their White Album came out, I felt ripped off. I felt the Beatles had copped out, that if they did know anything spiritual, they were afraid to tell it, and perhaps they didn’t know. “So we got obsessed with this idea of having a band that could communicate God to people. And we started--in the middle of our psychedelic period--a God band that was called Love Song, and we would go into nightclubs and throw in our God songs in the middle of our music, and a lot of the songs would have Jesus’ name in it, and people were just not used to hearing Jesus’ name in a rock ‘n’ roll band in a bar! “And we would go out and evangelize people on our breaks. We would go out and say, ‘Hey why don’t you come out with us on Sunday. We’re gonna drop acid and get into God.’ It’s a classic example of the blind leaving the blind, of people who were sincerely deceived, sincerely wrong. “And 2½ years later, after we started that first band, the Lord was faithful to draw us up to a place called Calvary Chapel in Costa Mesa, California, and for the first time in my life, the gospel was communicated to me. And for the first time in my life, lights went off and I went: That’s what it’s all about! And I really discovered that what I’d been looking for my whole life was Jesus Christ, the victorious Son of God who died on a cross and three days later, rose again from the dead!” ( transcribed from audio of an unknown source. Here is a similar testimony from 1971 at Calvary Chapel, when Chuck was just 28 .) Postscript: in 1971, a copy of the original Love Song record made its way to a small Colorado town called Wray, where a 14 year old boy listened to that album over and over after becoming a Christian. It was the first, and only, contemporary Christian music we had ever heard. And 54 years later, that boy is still playing Christian music for anyone who will listen!

Forrest Frank says his broken back is healed

By Kurt Neuswanger • August 6, 2025
Just two weeks after breaking his back in a skateboarding accident, Forrest Frank says God miraculously healed him . "So I broke my back exactly two weeks ago," he said . "I got an X-ray and a CAT scan. It showed I had multiple fractures. I wake up today, forget to put on my back brace, I pick Bodie up, and I realize, Wait, I'm not wearing my brace! What is going on? I order an urgent X-ray. I have complete healing in my back. I have no fractures in my back!" Frank says he believes God would have healed him the first day, but God wanted his songs and testimony to come to life first. While being confined to his bed, Frank wrote a song called " God's Got My Back " which he released a few days later. (You can hear it daily on KJOL.) Frank made his announcement of his healing on Saturday, August 2, giving him just a few days to prepare to perform at the Iowa State Fair on August 7!

Lauren Daigle releases first new song in two years

By Kurt Neuswanger • August 3, 2025
Lauren Daigle has released her first new song in two years, “ Let It Be A Hallelujah .” The first verse borrows from the hymn “Take My Life and Let It Be” by Frances Havergal in 1874. Take my life and let it be My soul devoted Lord to Thee Take my moments and all my days Make them endless praise Take my heart and let it move In spirit and in truth For the glory of Your name Daigle says she actually wrote this song eight years ago . "Years ago, in the writing cycle between 'How Can It Be' and 'Look Up Child,' I remember this gem, 'Let It Be a Hallelujah,' landing in the land of Dropbox and never making its way to my record," Daigle shares . "Fast forward years and years later, I truly believe that God had an incredible design filled with intention behind why this song wasn't brought forth into the world in the season in which we wrote it. This song was savored and salvaged for a time when my life needed to intersect with it."

Forrest Frank breaks his back, writes a song!

By Kurt Neuswanger • July 29, 2025
Musician Forrest Frank--who had the hit song Good Day--had what surely could be called a “bad day” on July 18 th . He broke his back! Frank was playing with his two year old daughter in the driveway when he crashed his skateboard and hit the side of the house. He broke his L3 and L4 lumbar vertebrae. You can see the video on his TikTok page . So while he was confined to lying on his back, what did he do? He wrote a song! What’s more, he recorded and produced it on his laptop while lying on his bed! He released the finished version of the song a few days later. It’s called “ God’s Got My Back .” God’s got my back Even when I fall or get attacked God’s got my back Even when I’m low and full of lack God’s got my back Even when my soul is full of sorrow I don’t have to worry about tomorrow Why’s that? ‘Cause God’s got my back!

Wayne Watson and "Almighty"

By Kurt Neuswanger • June 26, 2025
Recently I played a KJOL classic, “ Almighty ” by Wayne Watson . For those who don’t remember Watson, he had a string of hits during the 80s and 90s, including: Celebrate Friend of a Wounded Heart For Such A Time as This Home Free Another Time, Another Place (with Sandi Patti) Touch of the Master’s Hand As for “Almighty,” I found an article that explains the back story. In 1990, when Wayne was 36, a close family friend became ill and died, leaving behind her four young daughters. As Wayne struggled to understand how God could allow this tragedy, he sat at his piano and began to write a song that reaffirmed the sovereignty of God. Well time marches on, with the innocence gone, And a darkness has covered the earth But His Spirit still dwells, He speaks, "it is well, " And the hopeless still offered new birth He will break the leash of death, it will have no sting Let the prisoner go free, join the dance and sing Almighty (almighty) Most holy God Faithful through the ages Almighty, Most holy Lord Glorious, Almighty... When his friends heard the song, they told him he should record it. Wayne was reluctant, thinking it didn’t really match his typical style. Eventually he started singing it in his concerts, and the response was so strong, he included it on “ Home Free ” in 1991 and it became a No. 1 hit.

CeCe Winans takes NPR listeners to church

By Kurt Neuswanger • June 19, 2025
CeCe Winans was a guest at NPR (National Public Radio) this week, and took them to church. She performed a half-hour concert, called a “ Tiny Desk Concert , ” before a small friendly audience in the NPR building. Between the songs, she shared her faith: “God is faithful, and what I love about him, he stays the same. It doesn’t matter what we’ve done or where we’ve been, I just want everybody to know that God loves you with an everlasting love. And because He never changes, we can always run to Him. Just know that if God be for you, who can be against you!” She also appeared in an 8 minute interview on the NPR news program. The host said she had listened to Cece’s song “Alone In His Presence” when the host was a child. CeCe said, “Yep, his presence is definitely my hiding place, being in the spirit of God. And I live a life to please him, and that has brought me good success, you know?” She added, “I don't have to fear about what's going to happen because I serve a God who knows the end from the beginning. So I can actually experience true peace of mind and heart because of that relationship. So my hope is in him. You can hear CeCe’s latest song, “ Come Jesus Come ,” on KJOL right now. It was written and originally recorded by Stephen McWhirter in 2023. CeCe performed it for the American Idol Easter special in April.
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