Evangelism Without Additives: What if sharing your faith meant just being yourself?

This book is a must for all followers of Christ with a heart for the emerging generation. Henderson truly understands the approach needed for those in the mid-twenty crises.

Reviewed by Debra Gaynor for ReviewYourBook.com 05/08 Sharing our faith with others is not easy. It is hard to put into words what we believe and why we believe it. We are often afraid we will say the wrong thing. We seem to think that it takes a magic formula to share the gospel. Not so, according to Jim Henderson. He proposes we use Ordinary Attempts. Ordinary Attempts are very simple; they are listening, conversations, and prayer. The most profound statement in this book is, "count conversations not conversions." I love this book. I love what the author is attempting to teach us. This is a must read for all Christians!

That is how the author refers to those who are a.k.a "lost". The encouragement and ideas in this book are just what I had been thinking were true about my own Christian walk. My convictions seem to be validated and made clear by this book. It's all about relationship building, not bible thumping and it's not using Christianese and it's not berating people into a relationship w/Christ. It's us just being real and loving to those whom Jesus misses most. Don't you just love that way of thinking about unbelievers? Doesn't it put things into perspective? The author points out that we can be bridge builders to Jesus. And I'm not talking about "works" but about "fruitful" lives. I loved the book and gave my copy to a friend so I need to buy another one ... and maybe more than one so that I can have them on hand to give to others. Such an eye-opener for my heart. The bible says that 'they (those whom Jesus misses most) will know that we are Christians by our love'; not "sloppy-agape", but loving those who are made in His image and living that way. "Evangelism W/O Additives" - it's all about the pure living water that our God fills us with that overflows to others ... w/o adding anything else.

I'll admit I'm at a loss sometimes when it comes to sharing my faith. With this book evangelism becomes just as simple as talking to a friend. Jim Henderson gives great advice, and he follows it up with a thirteen week study. The writing is clear and easy to understand. He stresses that we do better, if we just try to be ourselves, to talk to others, instead of talking down to them. A good handbook that will help the reader do a better job of teling others about spiritual things without turning them off. If you shy away from sharing your beliefs, then give Evangelism Without Additives a try.

This was an enlightening and reassuring book for those of us Christians who are not sure how to share our faith with others and help bring those who are far from God into a relationship with Him.