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How to Share Your Testimony
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Sharing Your TestimonyPREPARING YOUR TESTIMONY
Purpose:
1. A testimony should attract people to Jesus Christ so much that they will be motivated to ask you more questions.
2. A testimony should clearly present how a person could become a Christian.
Guidelines:
1. Brief – Try condensing your own personal story of coming to faith in Christ into a 3 – 5 minute presentation.
2. Theme – A specific appealing theme should weave its way through your testimony, which will keep you from going on tangents. Here are some examples:
*family *popularity *discontentment *rejection *quest for truth *courage
3. For Christians who trusted in Jesus Christ for salvation as children and cannot remember when they became believers:
• Concentrate on your growth as a Christian, i.e., answer the questions: “How does Jesus Christ make a difference in my life, ethics, business, family relationships, child rearing, etc.?”
• Recount the time(s) in your life when you perhaps realized what
Christ had done for you, recommitted your life to Him, or learned
something exciting about God and His Son.
4. For Christians who have had a conversion they can specifically point to:
• Explain what your life was like as a non-Christian.
• Tell how you became a Christian.
• Tell of the differences Jesus Christ has made in your life, i.e., what
changes have occurred since you made that decision?
5. Simplicity – Reword any terminology that a non-believer would be
unfamiliar with.
6. Scripture – Incorporate one verse of Scripture that has been meaningful to you that either relates to your conversion or is in regard to the impact Christ has made on your life. Try to use a verse that will enhance your theme.
7. Memorize it!
8. Practice it and share it with a non-Christian!
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