Gossiping Jesus

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Details: by Joe Handley; 07 May 2014

Last summer, my family was on a vacation to the U.K. On one of our several-hour long train rides, I had the privilege of sitting next to the man pictured here – a Sikh man whose family was originally from India, then immigrated to Africa and then to London. They currently live in the UK and have business there that extends to Los Angeles, Africa, and India.

He spoke proudly of his company and their secrets of success and was curious about what I did. After hearing that I’m involved in leader development in India, he was curious to learn more.

I shared a number of leadership traits we hold in common from our differing spiritual perspectives. His curiosity piqued all the more. The more we talked, the more I dropped hints of hope pointing to Christ. It was like gossiping Jesus.

To learn more about gossiping Jesus, listen to my colleagues Eric and Sue Takamoto share in this podcast posted on go2japan.org.

Tell us how you are gossiping Jesus… I want to learn from you!

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