Lifestyle evangelism is living our faith through our actions but also through our words. People should see Jesus in our lives because of our choices and the character of Christ we choose to emulate.

Feeling uncertain when we want to talk to someone about their faith in Christ is good. Everyone is different and will have a unique path to their salvation. Just because some words worked well with one person doesn’t mean those words will be what everyone needs to hear. The reason we should feel uncertain is because that is how the Lord wants us to feel. Our uncertainty reminds us to pray. We need to ask the Holy Spirit to control and author our thoughts and words.

God told Isaiah, “For my thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways my ways, declares the Lᴏʀᴅ. For as the heavens are higher than the earth, so are my ways higher than your ways” (Isaiah 55:8–9). Uncertainty is how we should feel if we haven’t yet prayed and yielded our thoughts to the higher thoughts of God.

However, feeling uncertain about our words can’t be an excuse to avoid speaking God’s truth. We are God’s “workmanship,” and we have been reborn as a disciple of Christ. Our ability isn’t our own; it is the power of the Holy Spirit at work in us. Peter and John didn’t heal the lame man at the gate called Beautiful; that was the work of the Holy Spirit in their lives. The disciples’ words didn’t save thousands after Pentecost; those were the words preached in different languages through the Holy Spirit, who had filled those disciples.

When we need to share the words of Christ with a person, we need to submit our thoughts to Christ and ask him to author our words through his Holy Spirit. “Faith comes from hearing, and hearing through the word of Christ” (Romans 10:17). People aren’t led to Christ because of our words; they are led to Christ because of his words—the words of Scripture that we have learned and are now called and gifted to speak.

Anyone willing to learn God’s word and learn to yield their thoughts to the Lord’s can share the message of Christ. We just need to allow the uncertainties we feel to remind us to lean on God for our message.

Wisdom is joyfully sharing Christ with others. Evangelism is simply speaking the wisdom of Christ with others as Christ leads us. The Holy Spirit’s power and ability are just a prayer away.