The our young adults group in our church have asked each of
the elders and their wives to come and share the story of their Journey to
faith. So we have been taking turns and doing that every few weeks.
Last night was my wife and my night to do this….I didn’t
feel that I had much to share, but they asked a lot of questions and drew out
more information that I had thought about sharing.
It was a good time to be together and they said they felt
that they got to know us on a more personal level now. Hopefully it will help
them in their walk of faith.
Often when we talk about “sharing our faith” we seem to
classify it as mainly “Witnessing to someone about what God has done to make
you follow him”. It doesn’t seem like very often we just share what changed our
lives does it?
If I asked you, “Tell me how you met your wife or husband.”
Most wouldn’t have a problem doing that. “If I asked you to share what drew you
to them to become their spouse you could probably do that too.
What if we approached sharing the Gospel like that? What if,
rather than trying to memorize a lot of scripture to try and teach someone we
just told them why Jesus was so important to us and how he changed our lives?
Could
you do that? Remember the woman at the well in John 4:29- 30, She simply said: “Come
and see a man who told me everything I ever did! Could He possibly be the
Messiah?’ So the people came streaming
from the village to see Him.”
This
woman didn’t quote scripture, she hadn’t been to a class on evangelism… she
just told folk what Jesus had done for her. Could you do the same?
What
is your message? What is proclaimed through your life? Do people see that in
some way you have been changed and are curious enough to want to find out about
that change? You see, before trying to change anyone else, we need to change
ourselves and if it is a true change for the good, people will notice and
follow.
