Techniques become immoral when, consciously or unconsciously, we use them to manage the will, emotions, or consciousness of others.
- Now.
- For the light of the believer to shine.
- Nothing is more important than honesty.
- We have to be honest with the disbelievers.
- In fact.
- That honesty.
- In itself.
- Constitutes ninety percent of the testimony.
- The testimony is not to build a Christian facade to convince potential customers.
- To testify is to be honest.
- To be honest about what God has done to us.
- Both in our discourse and in our daily conduct.
Such honesty will require you to speak of Christ to the unbelievers you talk to, the fact that in the past you had to create opportunities to talk about spiritual issues shows that, in the subconscious, you avoid the opportunities that were constantly presented to you. .
We all hide our true personality behind a facade. To preserve the image we create, we need to talk and behave in a certain way. Our conversation is designed to create a certain impression on the people we are talking to, so that we can build or preserve our own image, which we want to sell. Now, for a lot of us, he? Testimony – this means adding some Christian features to this image.
The real testimony, on the other hand, is to abandon the facade behind which we hide, and not modify this facade, to live behind a facade is like hiding the lamp under a bucket, and the lie is opaque in relation to divine light. .
Now, if you’re honest, at least partially (total honesty is rare and difficult), in your conversation with the disbeliever, you’ll find it extremely difficult not to talk about things related to biblical Christianity. difficult to testify? However, I assure you that, with a little honesty, it is almost impossible not to testify.
Now, honesty also forces us to admit that we don’t know everything. A good salesman never goes unanswered. But you weren’t called to be a salesman, but as a witness. This means you have to be frank about what you know and what you’ve been through.
Do you wait until you have all the answers before you start testifying?Don’t do that. In any case, look for ways to answer questions, but don’t postpone your testimony until you get all the answers. Be prepared to say you don’t know this or that, no one will be surprised. God does not depend on the powers of argumentation of believers.
Some time ago, students at Moody Bible Institute met at the University of Chicago; difficult questions were asked during the discussion period; Moody Institute students had a good sense of admitting that they could not respond to certain requests; his honesty was an integral part of his testimony.
And that achieved its purpose. A faculty member at the University of Chicago has publicly expressed an interest in hearing more and said that, for the first time, he had met believers who admitted not to know everything, and stated that this, rather than diminishing his confidence in them, had actually thrilled him.
Honesty also requires that we acknowledge our failures. Failure is a bad thing, but cheating failure is much worse. The end never justifies the means.
This is not to say that honesty is about expressing our worst instincts; However, I say that it is better to admit your outrage than to pretend not to be outraged; I also affirm that admitting failure in our Christian life, rather than damaging our witness, can even be part of it. Our own honesty is a testimony. To admit failure takes great grace and spiritual courage, and only a man who does not care about himself or his public image, in the light of his Lord alone, will be able to do so.
Doesn’t sin and failure expose Christ to reproach?It’s true. However, reproach is not suppressed when we cover sin. It is obvious that no one can deal with this problem until he is honest enough with himself and, if so, with his fellowmen in this regard.
Do not wait until you are perfect to bear witness to Christ. Testimony implies candor at all times, even now. Never hide one of his weaknesses to testify. What the world expects to see is not a perfect believer, but the miracle of God’s grace. working on a weak and imperfect believer.
Many believers today have the tragic and erroneous idea that they play an extremely important role in the conversion of a sinner. We must exhort the sinner, not because our exhortation is capable of saving him, but because we cannot do anything else. We will be authentic about what the Holy Ghost does in us. The Holy Ghost is truly responsible for the care of a newborn soul. Doing your part is dangerous, immoral and blasphemous.
I believe that in modern evangelism, both public and personal, we exchange our birthright for a plate of lentils; we believe that we follow the Holy Spirit, when in reality we only follow cheap psychology; we do not introduce a person, but promote a symbol. We have been called to glory and honor to be witnesses of the Lord of History and the Redeemer of mankind, but we have only produced confusion through all our “decision-making” techniques.
It is time to abandon our blasphemous faults, to let our light shine before men, to glorify our Father who is in heaven.