We don’t move naturally into this because it is a cosmic battle. Whether telling your own story or sharing the gospel there is a pain line to be crossed.
The reason it’s so powerful is that there’s no question of the change - you can see that in Finding More too.Ī testimony is a chance to say to someone - 'wherever you stand, what do you make of this change?' When is a good opportunity to share your story with someone? So the man born blind in John chapter 9 says 'I was blind, now I can see, and it’s because of Jesus!' And they want to throw him out of the synagogue. The reason a testimony is so powerful is that wherever you stand philosophically, you can’t deny a change, or indeed a miracle, in someone’s life. Why do you think sharing your personal story is such a powerful tool in evangelism?Īt the heart of evangelism is a miracle that God has done - as we speak about Jesus, God opens blind eyes. He tells the story of his conversion on the Damascus road ( Acts 9:1-22) - so that sense of how the person of Christ has affected an individual life is huge in the Bible. Time and again we see people like the apostle Paul tell their own story. The big story of what God is doing in the world, my story of how God has changed my life personally and also a reaching out, asking 'how would this affect your story?'Įxperience in the Bible is very important. If you think about it, a testimony is actually three stories coming together-God’s story, my story, and the story of the person you are sharing it with. So a testimony is simply the story of the work of Christ in your life. Is there something more to life? Fascinating life stories of people who found the answer Add to basket Back to basics: it's a Christian buzzword, but what does 'testimony' actually mean and what does the Bible have to say about it?Ĭhristians use the word testimony to describe telling a story as a witness to what Christ has done in their lives.
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