What does witnessing mean to me? Well what is the meaning of a witness? A witness is a person that has observed something and shares what they have seen with others. They are usually used for Criminal cases. Now when it comes to witnessing in the name of the Lord, it will be a little bit different. For starters the person that you will be talking about isn’t a physical being. No one can see Him, so this will be a lot harder for you as a Christian to witness to people.
What does being a witness means to me? There are many different ways to be a witness. You can go out on the streets and start talking about the Lord for everyone to hear (which I believe is the hardest way to witness), you can talk about the Lord in blogs (which I do), or you can talk to individual people. Since I am a person that fears of talking to big crowds or people I don’t know I resort to spreading the word through the computer. It is not the easiest and there can be a lot of step back, but in the end I always come back to it.
What do I talk about when I witnessing? The thing that I do is I just go through the Bible and look at a certain topic that I want to talk about. Just like this one I want to talk about witnessing. Anything that you can imagine ever happing to you, you can always turn to the Bible to help you figure things out. All you really do is talk about the Lord and how awesome he is. Declare His glory among the nations, His wonders among all people (1 Chron. 16:24). In other words tell every nation on earth that, “The Lord is wonderful and does marvelous things! Why not spread that around? It is also best to tell people some of your testimonies that way they can see the wonderful things that God has done for you as well. The hardest thing about this job is that you will have people that are not going to react kindly to your preaching. Some people can get violent, and the best thing to do is get back up and continue what you were doing before. That will be the time when the Lord will guide and help you the most. He will not let you down. Don’t be afraid for being attacked and quit, then that will show God that you don’t have faith in Him to take care of you. You will also get people that are going to ask a lot of questions. So let your speech always be with grace, seasoned with salt, that you may know how you ought to answer each one (Colossians 4:6). In other words be pleasant and hold their interest when you speak the message. Choose your words carefully and be ready to give answers to anyone who asks questions.
Witnessing is as simple as talking to your friend. If you have a hard time with it just call on the Lord for help, He will give you the strength and guide you on what you need to do. All you have to do is listen. God is here to help us with any hard times. That is why He sent his son us. Jesus was here to be a witness to us. He is our key to be one with God. Now all things are of God, who has reconciled us to Himself thorough Jesus Christ, and has given us the ministry of reconciliation, that is, that God was in Christ reconciling the world to Himself, not imputing their trespasses to them, and his committed to as the word of reconciliation. Now then, we are ambassadors for Christ, as through God were pleading through us; we implore you on Christ’s behalf be reconciled to God. For he made Him who knew no sin to be sin for us, that we might become the righteousness of God in Him (2 Corin. 5:18-21).This means that God has done it all. He sent Christ to make peace between Himself and us, and he has given us the work of making peace between Himself and others. What we mean is that God was in Christ, offering peace and forgiveness to the people of this world. And He has given is the work of sharing his message. We speak for Christ and sincerely ask you to make peace with God. Christ never sinned! But God treated Him as a sinner, so that Christ could make us acceptable to God. So why should be let the witnessing stop with Jesus and His disciples? When it is so close to the second coming of Christ there is no way that we should be pulling away from Him. God is the only one that has ever gave promises that was never broken. He gave us truth and freedom. He could have easily taken away our power to have free will, but He didn’t want people to believe in Him just because He said. He wanted to believe in Him because they want to believe. For example, would you want someone to love you for who you are and not for you money? He gave us our free will to believe and follow Him as we wish, and with that He make sure that He has provided for His followers. When he provides for his followers, then they witness to people on how God has done this and that for them. Read the Bible and learn the things the God is able to do for His people. God out and tell the world. You will feel so good about yourself, and start noticing good things to happen. Why not share that with the world? God is our Father, Friend and Partner and He deserves more than what most people give Him, but He is also forgiving and will accept anyone that will turn to Him. Know God and then share Him with the world.
Other Scriptures about Witnessing:
Matt. 28:16-20
Acts 1:18
1 Corin. 3:5-9
