Men love the idea of ignition. We love to blast things off or blow things up. At the moment when the key is turned or the button is pushed or the fuse is lit there's an excitement, a rush, because we know a demonstration of power is going to follow. It happens by design.

God wants you to be the ignition switch of His power by deciding to move Christ into the center of your conversations. According to Jesus, God's man can choose to experience the power of God by deciding to share his faith.

Jesus put it this way to His guys: "'But you will receive power when the Holy Spirit comes upon you; and you will be my witnesses in Jerusalem, and in all Judea, and Samaria, and to the ends of the earth'" (Acts 1:8, NIV).

Whoa! Now that's a blast zone.

All of Jesus' men waited for the ignition switch of the Holy Spirit. It came at Pentecost when they all went nuclear, boldly sharing the gospel without fear. For the full picture, read Acts 2-4. The point to ponder is this: The power is given to and experienced by God's man when he opens his mouth for Christ.

The apostle Paul revealed how God's man experiences the release of His power in and through him: "When I came to you brothers, I did not come with eloquence or superior wisdom as I proclaimed to you the testimony about God. For I resolved to know nothing while I was with you except Jesus Christ and him crucified. I came to you in weakness and fear, and with much trembling. My message and my preaching were not with wise and persuasive words, but with a demonstration of the Spirit's power, so that your faith might not rest on men's wisdom, but on God's power" (1 Cor. 2:1-5).

For God's man, intellectual knowledge is not the issue. "I don't know enough" is no longer in play. In fact, the less we claim to know and the more raw and honest the message, the more power flows through us. Stick to a simple testimony and gospel message. The Holy Spirit's job is to activate the words, multiply His power and direct that energy toward the person we are talking to.

I can relate to Paul's fear and his experience of the power of God flowing through him. I felt it when God burdened me to invite a 6-foot-6-inch fraternity brother to an outreach at UCLA. I felt it with my neighbor Dan, whom I prayed for and invited to church for years after he was diagnosed with cancer. I felt it when witnessing to my daughter's soccer coach. I felt it when the other passengers on the plane overheard me sharing my faith with an elderly woman from Texas. I felt it when I wanted to talk about heaven with my mom on her deathbed.

What exactly did I feel? I felt brief panic turn to power when I stepped out in faith. In each of these instances, I felt like a Special Forces guy being dropped from the sky into a situation. I might make hundreds of jumps in a lifetime, but each one would still begin with jitters before the jump. I may know the chute will open and have full faith that it can carry me safely into the mission. But the question is: Am I willing to leap out of the plane?

More times than not when sharing my faith, I have experienced something even greater than personal ­satisfaction. I've witnessed the power of salvation. Each of those people mentioned and hundreds more have proved to me that God's power is waiting to be unleashed if we move against fear and our own reasoning to share our Lord with someone. That is the real eye-opener.

The goal is to get to this place of responsibility, availability and all-important expectancy. Expect your initiative to ignite His power. When we risk sharing our faith frequently, our experience of God's power enables us to say, "I am not ashamed of the gospel, because it is the power of God for the salvation of everyone who believes" (Rom.1:16).

The problem is most men hedge their bets and stop short. We don't experience the confidence until we risk sharing the gospel to get the results.

Risk sharing your faith more. God Himself will show up; He guarantees it. If you'll start, the next time you do it won't feel so strange, and the next time even less, and so on and so on. Let's ignite another life.

Kenny Luck is the men's pastor at Rick Warren's Saddleback Church in Lake Forest, Calif., and the founder and president of Every Man Ministries, which helps churches worldwide develop and grow healthy men's communities.