Have you ever felt dirty, worthless, broken?  Join host and author Mike Silva as he continues to explain how to share the Gospel with your friends.  Mike uses the illustration of a $20 bill that gets rumpled, dropped, stepped on, kicked, and run through the dirt. But you know what?  It still has value.  If you are feeling dirty, rumpled, and kicked around,remember that you still have value to God.  And next time you are with a friend you can pull out a $20 bill and say, “I’ve got twenty dollars that says God loves you,” and use this simple illustration to share your faith.

Host and author Mike Silva continues his talk this week about how to share your faith effectively with your friends.  If you are going to reach your friends for Christ, it isn’t going to be because you’ve memorized 66 points of theology, or memorized all the books of the Bible.  Using illustrations to share the Gospel is a way to share Jesus in your every day conversation. Listen as Mike uses an illustration about heart attacks to talk about the terminal illness we’re all born with: sin.

The other day I was putting salt and pepper on my hamburger and ketchup on my fries. As I looked at the shakers and bottle, I thought of a great analogy. Just like the wordless book, these three items could be used to present the gospel message.

In the pepper shaker, the dark specks remind us of all our sins and mistakes. The pure white specks in the salt shaker represent God and his purity. The question is: how do we go from the dirty-looking pepper to clean salt?

The answer is the shed blood of Jesus Christ. This is where the ketchup comes in. When Jesus died on the cross, his blood was shed so that we could be cleansed from our unrighteousness.

The ketchup bottle represents the only answer for changing who we are and what we want to be.

So the next time you go for a hamburger and fries with a friend, and you see those items on your table, take the opportunity to explain this wonderful reminder of God’s unconditional love for us.

Please pass the salt!

The Bible Says:

“Come now, and let us reason together,” says the LORD,
“Though your sins are like scarlet,
They shall be as white as snow;
Though they are red like crimson,
They shall be as wool.”
Isaiah 1:18

Remember This:

“There is simply no way to comprehend the full implications of the love the King of Kings and Lord of Lords has for us” James Dobson

Join host and author Mike Silva this week as he continues to talk about friendship evangelism.  In this episode Mike tells us how to use the everyday things around us as illustrations to share our faith.  When you’re sharing your faith with a friend and you want to use an everyday real life story to share the Gospel, you’ll want to hear the story that Mike shares in this episode.   Contact us during this podcast series on Friendship Evangelism to get a free copy of Mike’s book, “Would You Like Fries With That?”

This week join hosts and authors Mike Silva and Bradley Burck as they discuss how to be affectionate with your daughters, and why it is so important. Your daughter needs your hugs, your kisses, your attention, and she needs you to model what is appropriate affection. She especially needs this if her love language is physical touch. To find out more about your daughter’s love language go to www.5lovelanguages.com.

This week join hosts and authors Mike Silva and Bradley Burck as they talk about how to get to know your daughter as her dad vs. her friend. Don’t take the easy way out and just be her friend. There are lots of people who can be her friends, but only you can be her dad. What it really comes down to is time. Do you take time to do the things your daughter wants to do? To get to know her as an individual? Listen as Mike and Bradley give you encouragement to go and be the best dad for your daughter.