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I would say if you're scared of sharing your faith
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that's completely natural.
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Sometimes I do have that bit of doubt in me, do they really want to hear it or
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I'm Ben Tailby and this is my story.
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There's definitely a difference between how I started in year 7
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and how I talk to people now about God.
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I used to get very angry about RS lessons
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where they said things about God and I didn't agree with that
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cos that didn't match up with who I know.
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People would say things and I'd stick my hand up and go: "oh no that's wrong"
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and everybody was like: "oh no he's off again...Bible Ben."
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And that's sort of changed over the years
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as I've learnt that it all comes in through relationships and
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through friendships.
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You've got to build the friendships with people first, and you've got to
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just actually talk to them about life.
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Jesus has everything to do with everyday life
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and has everything to do with what matters to us.
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It's just about talking to people about the day-to-day
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and talking about God as if it's,
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as if it's normal because it is for me.
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I talk about church, I mention things I'm doing in church, in cell and all of that
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and when I do that it just comes up naturally.
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Now when I compare what I was like
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to share my faith in year 7
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it's been a gradual change to this kind of
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more mature conversations, where you know
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I want to just listen to what other people think
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and share my thing and it's a mutual kind of respect.
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But out that comes genuine conversation
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and insight as opposed to a shouting war.
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We as Christians what we need to do, is actually say
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hey we've got Jesus, we've got
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the one who every bit of our soul longs for
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and He's very much real.
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If we don't do that I actually think it's a bit selfish
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to kind of keep him all to ourselves while we see everybody else
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kind of suffering around us.
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That doesn't mean that we have got everything sorted out
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but it does mean that we're on the right journey
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and that we can bring other people on that journey with us.
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Jesus calls us to do that, he says go and make disciples
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and it's just it's a big party and
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if you had a big party
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and you didn't invite anybody,
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it wouldn't be as good a party.
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You might have had a terrible experience where
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you know you said something and somebody just shut you down
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and was like no I'm not having any of that.
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Don't be disheartened by that because
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you never know what seeds your planting,
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and you never know what's going on inside their heart,
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even if they don't say anything
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and you feel like you're not getting through to anybody.
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You don't know what's going on their head but God does.
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I think it's a good thing, I try and make it my mission -
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when I do feel like God telling me to do something
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to just do it anyway because the worst that happens
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is I feel a bit silly but that will wear off
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and the best that happens is that they come to know Christ.
