Sep 9, 2026 · 33 min · 10 segments
The Big 'Yes'. Conversion. Public declaration of faith. That's what evangelism is all about isn't it? That might be the destination, but the journey of faith is full of little 'yeses' and healthy…
Mark GreenwoodGuest
Gavin MatthewsHost
Simon WenhamHost
And then recently you've written a book about evangelism, which I'm guessing draws right on your own story that we just heard about, but brings it kind of right up to date a- as well.
A- and in that book, wh- which is called Big Yes, Little Yes, Healthy Maybe, we'll, we'll have a bit of a look at that in a minute or two.
You said, "We need", uh, drawing on 1 Chronicles 12, "Men of Issachar", you know, men who kn- who, men who know the times.
Why do we need this kind of the men of Is- men of Issachar thing? What do you mean by that?
Yeah, and I, I think there's a l- there's a really critical part in that verse that's just directly after that I think is that we have to use together.
So it's men of Issachar who understood the times and knew what Israel should do.
And for me, that's really critical for us to understand what, what is happening out in the world, what, what is, what is God doing, what, what's happening in the lives of people, and what do we do in response to that? How do we activate? So it's this kind of knowing and action type thing.
And that's, that's interesting you say that, 'cause your point about knowing what to do, one of, one of the things you say in the book is actually that Christians often don't know what to do-
Um, do you, do you have any thoughts for why Christians, uh, sometimes avoid ev- er- evangelism in the first place?
Probably 50, 60% of my time has always been equipping, uh, Christians to share their faith.
And, and consistently, the key reasons that I seem to get back are people are frightened-
And then recently you've written a book about evangelism, which I'm guessing draws right on your own story that we just heard about, but brings it kind of right up to date a- as well.
A- and in that book, wh- which is called Big Yes, Little Yes, Healthy Maybe, we'll, we'll have a bit of a look at that in a minute or two.
You said, "We need", uh, drawing on 1 Chronicles 12, "Men of Issachar", you know, men who kn- who, men who know the times.
Why do we need this kind of the men of Is- men of Issachar thing? What do you mean by that?
Yeah, and I, I think there's a l- there's a really critical part in that verse that's just directly after that I think is that we have to use together.
So it's men of Issachar who understood the times and knew what Israel should do.
And for me, that's really critical for us to understand what, what is happening out in the world, what, what is, what is God doing, what, what's happening in the lives of people, and what do we do in response to that? How do we activate? So it's this kind of knowing and action type thing.
And that's, that's interesting you say that, 'cause your point about knowing what to do, one of, one of the things you say in the book is actually that Christians often don't know what to do-
Um, do you, do you have any thoughts for why Christians, uh, sometimes avoid ev- er- evangelism in the first place?
Probably 50, 60% of my time has always been equipping, uh, Christians to share their faith.
And, and consistently, the key reasons that I seem to get back are people are frightened-
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