witness

When you present my message do you use my word to do it? This has tremendous advantages if your audience will recognize the authority of scripture, so they know your message is not just on your own authority, but what if they do not? Does this leave you in an impossible situation? It shouldn’t, for you can declare my goodness from your own firsthand experience. You can start with the natural world, or with the deep human longing for transcendent meaning and purpose. You can start anywhere that you can establish common ground with another person. He who is wise wins souls, and a wise witness has more than one approach. Paul said he became all things to all people that he might by any means save some, and you are a living epistle of my gospel message.