Living & Telling Course Transforming Lives

Read how Living & Telling transformed the way one student felt about talking to his friends (and even strangers!) about his faith.

I first did Living & Telling whilst I was studying at university, and it changed my understanding of what it means to share my faith. I discovered that talking to friends about Jesus could even be great fun!

I had been a follower of Jesus for a couple of years before university but always managed to avoid talking much about Him with my friends at college. Doing Living & Telling was such an encouraging and enabling experience. I realised that talking about Jesus with my friends didn’t need to be confrontational or weird; I just had to be willing to trust the Holy Spirit, listen well and talk honestly about my faith.

From the solid base that Living & Telling provided, I was not only able to talk about my faith with my university friends, but I found myself telling people about Jesus, with a bunch of other Christians, as I gave out biscuits outside a student nightclub.

Not only that but every week a group of us would spend an hour during our lunch break talking to students we met on campus. Far from my expectations that the ground would open up the moment I mentioned Jesus, I discovered that most people actually wanted to talk about Jesus and were up for a conversation.

I certainly wasn’t an expert, and I didn’t always know exactly what to say, but this was such an exciting time in my faith journey. My relationship with Jesus grew so much as I put what I learned into practice and stepped out in faith, trusting God would use me.

I am now a youth worker at my local church and have taken young people through Living & Telling. They come alive as they find that they too can talk about their faith with their friends. Living & Telling is an excellent resource that I can wholeheartedly commend to anyone who wants to open up conversations about Jesus. It is accessible, biblical and the beginning of an exciting adventure.