Evangelism: A 40 Day Devotion & Preparation

by Randy Loubier

Evangelism may be the most misunderstood activity in Christianity. Author Randy Loubier brings evangelism alive for you in a way that will bring you closer to Jesus. Get ready for your life to explode with the love of Christ.

God wants you to face outward, see the hurting, the lonely, the confused and the proud. And He wants you to go to them, love them where they are, as they are, and make an introduction to Him.

Yet, most of us say, “I am not an evangelist.” We think evangelism is for the naturals, the sales types.

In just forty days you will throw that mindset away forever and live in an intimacy with Him that reveals the mystery behind Jesus’ greatest commandment, to love God with all our heart, mind, soul and might.

This is a forty-day devotional like no other. Similar to other devotionals, you will read a scripture, meditate on it, and read some notes to help you turn the scripture into a meaningful reality in your present-day life. But unlike other devotionals, this one will have you participate in activities intended to activate your faith habits that will change your personal walk with Jesus. It's your walk with Jesus that will change. Evangelism will happen as a reflex once your walk with Jesus is aligned with scripture. You will be routinely acting like an evangelist by the end of forty days, anxiety free. There are seven habits of the active evangelist. Evangelism is living in a new set of habits, ones that will bring extraordinary joy to your life. These seven traits are not giftings; they are simply habits and mindsets that are influenced by a right reading of scripture, and practice. In this devotional, you will get the scripture and the practice over the next forty days. The Holy Spirit will do everything else to make you into a joyful ambassador for Christ.

In your daily readings and practice, you will be developing these seven habits, organically. No memorization. No wondering if you are have the gift of evangelism. Every Christian has been commissioned to love like Jesus, including you, and you've been given all the giftings you need to live like a disciple. “There is a joy that we read about in Paul’s letters, for example, that escapes most Christians. It’s like an inside secret that few Christians know but is evident in the scriptures when you study them.This “secret,” which shouldn’t be a secret because it is readily revealed and openly talked about amongst evangelists, is something you will find in the next forty days. Your life is poised to explode with love.” Pastor Randy

Best selling author Randy Loubier continues to break ground with his compelling insight into Biblical truths as he helps you find your “joy abundant” in Christ. Pastor Randy’s first fifty years of life were as an anti-Christian giving us a refreshing and powerful perspective on Christianity.

186 pages, Paperback

Published April 28, 2022

About the author

Randy Loubier is the pastor of a small country church in a small town in the small state of New Hampshire, USA. Slow Brewing Tea is his third book and first novel. Some of the geography and settings were sketched from memories of growing up in New England and his time in Misawa, Japan (1978-1980). For Randy, his years in Japan were an adventurous pursuit of the culture with an attitude and shy personality, not unlike Isaiah. As a slow brewing tea himself, he spent much of the first fifty years of life denying God the Father and pursuing numerous eastern and new-age faiths. He wrote Slow Brewing Tea and the accompanying series The Tea Room Scrolls as "I found something I'd like to share with the world."

I spent 50 years of my life as an anti-Christian, so I know all the arguments and excuses for disbelieving, doubting, being frustrated with church and Christians in general. During this time, I studied and practiced many Asian spiritual pursuits. At 50 I finally read the Bible for myself and was born again by the Word of God. Now, as an author and pastor, I want to reach two groups of people—curious non-believers and fringe Christians—to ignite or re-ignite their love for Jesus.

Slow Brewing Tea is a gateway into both groups. It is a biblically accurate novel that chronicles a shy, abused, anti-Christian airman as he seeks love and the Tao (the way) in the mountains of Japan. He falls in love and finds an old man who teaches him Taoist principles that lead him eventually to the way, the truth, and the life. Yet, it will take another thirty years of living in hard, shallow, and thorny soils before he is finally ready to let God transform him into good soil. As a slow brewing tea he is finally ready for the truth to be manifested in magnificent love and abundant joy—as a Christian and a husband.

Within the novel, unearthed in 400-year-old scrolls is a unique way of learning and studying scripture, using an ancient Eastern context. Following Slow Brewing Tea is a series of eight-week self-study courses, The Tea Room Scrolls, which use this Asian orientation to teach biblical answers to life's most important questions. Billions of people have an Asian perspective on spirituality, as I did for fifty years. Therefore, in the tradition of Paul visiting Athens and talking to them in their context (the Unknown God), what could happen if Asian oriented spiritualists saw Jesus through their own lens?

And doesn’t it make us more in love with Jesus to re-discover His answers to life’s mysteries as revealed in other contexts, transforming people beyond the church walls?