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Gospel Fluency: Speaking the Truths of Jesus into the Everyday Stuff of Life is unavailable, but you can change that!

Even if they want to, many Christians find it hard to talk to others about Jesus. Is it possible this difficulty is because we’re trying to speak a language we haven’t actually spent time practicing? To become fluent in a new language, you must immerse yourself in it until you actually start to think about life through it. Becoming fluent in the gospel happens the same way—after believing it, we...

another’s lives and on the lives of those who don’t yet believe in Jesus. Whenever I start a new missional community, I begin by asking people to share their stories. I encourage people to listen with “gospel ears” for what people believe has saved them and is saving them. I also encourage them to listen for who or what is the hero of each story.2 And I spend several weeks laying down a gospel foundation, making sure people understand what the gospel is, what it does, and how to apply the truths
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