The meaning and cost of witness
By ANDREW SYMES
AMERICAN ANGLICAN COUNCIL
https://americananglican.org/current-news/meaning-cost-witness/
March 4, 2014
Growing up in England and attending evangelical churches and student Christian unions, I learned that 'witness' and 'friendship evangelism' were more or less interchangeable.
We were encouraged to share our testimony: we have a relationship with God through Jesus Christ which we can describe in terms of the benefits in the present; we can tell the story of how we began this relationship; we can explain how the new life and eternal security is possible through the death and resurrection of our Saviour.
My story, my present experience, the Bible's theology - these together tie the personal to the universal; 'my truth and reality' to what is true and real and therefore urgent for everyone. An individual confirming the testimony of other individuals, creating a family bond with them and thereby being the church.
Read the full story at www.VirtueOnline.org
By ANDREW SYMES
AMERICAN ANGLICAN COUNCIL
https://americananglican.org/current-news/meaning-cost-witness/
March 4, 2014
Growing up in England and attending evangelical churches and student Christian unions, I learned that 'witness' and 'friendship evangelism' were more or less interchangeable.We were encouraged to share our testimony: we have a relationship with God through Jesus Christ which we can describe in terms of the benefits in the present; we can tell the story of how we began this relationship; we can explain how the new life and eternal security is possible through the death and resurrection of our Saviour.
My story, my present experience, the Bible's theology - these together tie the personal to the universal; 'my truth and reality' to what is true and real and therefore urgent for everyone. An individual confirming the testimony of other individuals, creating a family bond with them and thereby being the church.
Read the full story at www.VirtueOnline.org
