Using your testimony in evangelism | Rapp Report Daily 0102 | Striving for Eternity
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- Welcome to The Rapid Pull, daily edition, where we provide a quick Biblical interpretations and applications.
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- This is a ministry of striving for eternity. Evangelism? Oh no, that's a scary word.
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- That's right. That's what we are going to talk about this week. And for many, evangelism brings up anxiety, fear,
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- I just don't know what to do. The reality is we can be confident in evangelizing to our friends, our family, our co -workers, our schoolmates, our neighbors, or the complete stranger that we meet on the street.
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- Why? Well, very simply because we have the truth. Think about that. We're often afraid that we won't have the right answers, we may say something wrong, maybe just not going to be able to put it together right and fumble those words and trip all over ourselves and oh no!
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- The reality simply is you have God's Word. You know more than the person you're speaking to when it comes to how to get right with God because you're a believer in Jesus Christ and they're not.
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- You can just share what Christ did for you in your life. In fact, one of the advantages of personal testimony is people kind of can't criticize it as much.
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- Now you don't want to just leave it all about personal experience. You want to be able to back that up with Scripture.
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- But you can always have your testimony and what God did in your life as something to explain to someone else of what
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- God can do in their life. As we look at evangelism this week, we're going to overcome some of the fears that people have.
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- We're also going to try to give some encouragement to keep at evangelism. This podcast is part of the
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- Striving for Eternity ministry. For more content or to request a speaker or seminar to your church, go to strivingforeternity .org.