Five images to help us share the gospel

Robin Ham  |  Features
Date posted:  8 Aug 2025
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Five images to help us share the gospel

Five images that can help us share the gospel. Source: Paul Gaudriault on Unsplash

Communicating the good news of Jesus in the West in 2025 is challenging. Christianity is often portrayed as irrelevant, out-of-touch, even unjust and toxic. And like it or not, that’s got to shape how we communicate the Christian faith.

In light of this, I’ve been exploring some different imagery for "connecting and confronting" with the good news of Jesus in our cultural moment. In part, it flows from the "rubber hitting the road" in everyday conversations. In part, it flows from working on a Mission & Apologetics module I've taught.

You could think of these as like five different tools on a Swiss army knife – five approaches for beginning to help people consider the relevance and goodness of the gospel and the Christian worldview. They’re certainly not everything, but they’re perhaps useful "ways in" as we consider our gospel communication in 2025 and beyond...

1. A stone in the shoe

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