Witnessing

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Witnessing 

Preaching and teaching are parts of witnessing. Witnessing is the bigger picture. 

To witness is to bear testimony about something or someone that you have seen, heard, handled, felt or smelt. 

To be able to witness to Jesus effectively, he chooses to specially engage some people's physical senses in supernatural encounters so as to enable them enlighten humans about his unsearchable riches.

Witnessing is giving details about unseen or untold spiritual realities. Witnessing is detailing supernatural realities with words that people can clearly understand. Witnessing is telling other people what you have encountered about Jesus. 

Witnessing has nothing to do with assumption, presupposition, deduction, implication or inference. It is telling the truth just as it is. What underscores witnessing is truth, and encountering the truth yourself. And God's word is truth. 

Good witnessing begins with knowing Jesus for yourself through the Scriptures. 

Jesus said to his disciples, 'But the Holy Spirit will come to you, and he will cause you to become powerful. The Holy Spirit will cause your spirit to be strong. Then you can tell other people about me. You will tell people about me in Jerusalem, in Judea, in Samaria and in all other countries.’ " (Acts 1:8 Easy English).

You cannot witness to yourself, otherwise your testimony will be unacceptable. Witnessing is towards another person. And here, Jesus indicates that you must tell other people about him, not about yourself. Preaching and teaching in Christianity is first and foremost, telling people about Christ. 

Scripture says, "So they continued to teach the people about Jesus. They spoke every day in people’s homes and in the Great House of God. They told the people that Jesus was the Christ, the special servant of God. And so the apostles told people all the good news about Jesus." (Acts 5:42 Easy English).

So you see? The apostles did not go about teaching people how to make it in life. Even if they taught people how to make it in life, they taught them how to make it through Christ who empowers us from within. 

Preaching is telling other people about Christ in hope of convincing them to make decision for him whereas teaching is guiding other people to understand Christ and to live like him. 

You are called to witness to Jesus Christ. Therefore, your preaching and teaching should be about getting the people to trust Jesus and remain faithful to him. 

Many contemporary preachers call on people to trust them and be loyal to them. That is not out of way if and only if trusting you and being loyal to you will not cause them to be offended in the Lord. Because when that happens, it will affect your heavenly records.

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  1. Sage WordMay 6, 2022 at 1:20 AM

    The Spotless Agenda is a move towards a spotless church. Study, reason and question (srq) Scripture in order to find evidence of the truth. Remember, this is achievable only through the Holy Spirit.

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