Oct 4, 2026 · 31 min · 10 segments
What if sharing your faith isn’t about having the perfect answer—but being willing to tell the story of the hope you’ve found in Jesus? Peter calls us to live lives that make people curious, speak…
I've told this story before.
It's been a couple of years, but it's one of my favorites.
Are you guys familiar with the magic group Penn & Teller? So Penn Jillette, one half of Penn & Teller, has been an outspoken atheist for decades.
And after one of his shows, a Christian businessman waited to speak with him.
This man was kind.
He looked Penn in the eye, complimented him sincerely, and then he handed him a small Bible with a note and his contact information inside.
Now, spoiler alert, Penn did not become a Christ follower after this interaction, but he went home and he recorded a video and uploaded it to YouTube that has stuck with me for years.
And he begins by saying, I don't respect people who don't proselytize.
who don't evangelize.
This is an atheist speaking.
And his reasoning was simple.
He says, if you genuinely believe that everlasting life is possible, how could social awkwardness keep you from telling others? He compared it to seeing a truck bearing down on a person who doesn't see it.
At some point, love compels you to open your mouth.
to say something.
And then he asked a question, and it's a little heavy, but it's haunted me ever since I heard it.
He says, how much do you have to hate somebody to believe that everlasting life is possible and not tell them that? But what struck Penn was not that this man won an argument.
Penn specifically remembers that he was polite, he was honest, he was sane, he was caring.
And that man may never actually know the impact that that moment had.
And it's worth remembering for all of us in this series about what it means to be a witness that we rarely know what our impact has on someone else.
But the research suggests that people may be more open than we assume.
Barna found that 62% of non-Christians were open to a faith conversation with someone who, quote, listens without judgment.
In fact, another study found that 65% of people with no faith personally know a follower of Jesus, but only 45% said that Christians had talked with them about their faith in recent memory.
So apparently, some of us have people who are willing to talk and Christians who are unwilling to respond.
Peter gives us a better picture.
I've told this story before.
It's been a couple of years, but it's one of my favorites.
Are you guys familiar with the magic group Penn & Teller? So Penn Jillette, one half of Penn & Teller, has been an outspoken atheist for decades.
And after one of his shows, a Christian businessman waited to speak with him.
This man was kind.
He looked Penn in the eye, complimented him sincerely, and then he handed him a small Bible with a note and his contact information inside.
Now, spoiler alert, Penn did not become a Christ follower after this interaction, but he went home and he recorded a video and uploaded it to YouTube that has stuck with me for years.
And he begins by saying, I don't respect people who don't proselytize.
who don't evangelize.
This is an atheist speaking.
And his reasoning was simple.
He says, if you genuinely believe that everlasting life is possible, how could social awkwardness keep you from telling others? He compared it to seeing a truck bearing down on a person who doesn't see it.
At some point, love compels you to open your mouth.
to say something.
And then he asked a question, and it's a little heavy, but it's haunted me ever since I heard it.
He says, how much do you have to hate somebody to believe that everlasting life is possible and not tell them that? But what struck Penn was not that this man won an argument.
Penn specifically remembers that he was polite, he was honest, he was sane, he was caring.
And that man may never actually know the impact that that moment had.
And it's worth remembering for all of us in this series about what it means to be a witness that we rarely know what our impact has on someone else.
But the research suggests that people may be more open than we assume.
Barna found that 62% of non-Christians were open to a faith conversation with someone who, quote, listens without judgment.
In fact, another study found that 65% of people with no faith personally know a follower of Jesus, but only 45% said that Christians had talked with them about their faith in recent memory.
So apparently, some of us have people who are willing to talk and Christians who are unwilling to respond.
Peter gives us a better picture.
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