Ray Comfort

Ray Comfort
Comfort open-air preaching, October 2015
Born	Ray Comfort (1949-12-05) December 5, 1949 (age 67) Christchurch, New Zealand
Occupation	Christian Evangelist, author, television host
Known for	The Way of the Master, Living Waters Publications, Christian Evangelism
Spouse(s)	Sue Comfort (1970–present)
Children	Rachel, Jacob, Daniel
Website	Living Waters

Ray Comfort (born December 5, 1949) is a New Zealand-born American Christian minister and evangelist. Comfort started Living Waters Publications and The Way of the Master in Bellflower, California, and has written a number of books.

Comfort was born December 5, 1949, in New Zealand to a Jewish mother and a father whom he has described as "a Gentile [who] was open to the things of God". According to Comfort's autobiography, his parents put "Methodist" on his birth certificate because his mother feared the possibility of "another Hitler", but he was given no religious instruction as a child. Comfort identifies himself as both Christian and Jewish. According to Comfort, he was in the top class of his high school in Christchurch, where he attained a School Certificate, the certificate awarded for completing Fifth Form (Year 11) examinations. He did not pursue higher education.

In 1989, Comfort accepted an invitation to join the pastoral staff at the non-denominational Calvary Chapel in Southern California.

In the mid-1990s Comfort persuaded Kirk Cameron, star of the cancelled hit sitcom Growing Pains, to become an evangelist. The pair formed an organization called The Way of the Master, with the intention of teaching the church to more effectively preach the message of evangelical Christianity.

Comfort says that evangelism is the main reason the Christian Church exists and that many of the evangelistic methods used over the last century have produced false conversions to Christianity. Comfort often uses the Ten Commandments to speak about sin before presenting the gospel of Jesus. In the mid-1980s he formulated two sermons entitled "Hell's Best Kept Secret" and "True and False Conversions."

Comfort speaks professionally at churches and evangelism seminars, and preaches in Huntington Beach, California. As well as co-hosting the former The Way of the Master Radio with Kirk Cameron, he is co-host of The Way of the Master Television Show.