Your Side of the Story, first part

Accept it or not, your private sworn statement is one of the strongest and forcing tools God has given you in reaching nonbelievers with the gospel. Now, I am not talking about the common, garden-variety, churchy “braggamony.” we’ve all yawned and moaned as others rambled and preached their way thru a supposed testimony—which was about as fresh, appealing, and succulent as warm, month-old lettuce.

that sort of affidavit never attracted any one.

I’d like to help carry out the project of preparing your affidavit, that it’d become a good, potent missile launched continually from your lips into the ears of the unsaved. You would like to be listened to, so be engaging. It is a contradiction to chat about how exciting Christ actually is in an hardly interesting way. Work on your wording, your flow of thought your key terms. I advise that you think about your deliverance in 3 phases. You would like the instant of your new birth to be clear, so be categorical. Do not be at all obscure pertaining to how you turned into a Christian. Refer to the choice you made, the instant of time when you received the Lord. You would like your testimony to be used, so be practical. Don’t guarantee, “All your issues will end if you will change into a Christian,” for that isn’t true. Think as an unbeliever thinks as you are talking.

Restrain yourself from plucking the wings off non secular flies. Unproven stuff doesn’t attract their attention as much as practical fact. You need your affidavit to supply results, so be warm and real.

A smile breaks down more barriers than the hammer blows of cold, hard facts.

It’s hard to persuade someone else of the sheer joy and excitement of knowing Christ if you are wearing a jail-warden face. Once your missile hits the target, you may become completely discontented with your previous life as an earth-bound, secret-service saint.