Faith Story Number 4: The So What Story
How has Jesus changed your life? What difference has following Jesus made? This "so what" story is faith story number 4 in our series in Four Stories every Christian must know.
A Good Friday Reminder – Jesus Changes Lives
One challenge to shortening a personal testimony is to get at this core question: What difference has Jesus made in your life? As I watched this video below,
Are you prepared to tell me the story?
I love it when I get asked a question about my journey to faith. It is an interest to hear my story. It is a desire to understand who I am. It is a desire to understand what make me so committed to following Jesus. A few days ago, it was a cool evening to …
7 Observations from Fox News’ Kirsten Powers’ Testimony
Christianity Today recently released an article you may have seen, Fox News’ Highly Reluctant Jesus Follower. It’s a worthy article to read Kirsten Powers’ first hand personal testimony of how she became a follower of Jesus. It is getting a lot of airplay at the moment (I must have seen it 30 times already in …
Video: Reducing Life Transformation to Two Words
The power of Jesus to transform a life is dramatized in this short little film from JesusTattoo.org As I minister often in developing nations and in first world nations, I encounter many people who believe powerful lies about themselves. That they are: Worthless Useless Weak Addicted Following Jesus can bring a change to all of …
Can you fit your testimony on a poster board?
One challenge to shortening a personal testimony is to get at this core question: What difference has Jesus made in your life? As I watched this video below, I was struck by the power of the cross. Real lives changed by a real Jesus. As the video progressed,
30 Days of Prayer – Day 21: Tell of All His Works
How has the Lord been good to you? If one of your friends were to ask you today: What has God done in your life recently? Would you be ready with an answer that is not generic? God blesses me. God forgives me. Those are generic statements, versus awesome stories that demonstrate the work of …
Video: Rapper DJ DMD Shares his conversion
I came across this video in my Twitter Feed: Southern rap vet, DJ DMD, gives an intimate, in depth account of his journey from secular rap star to committed follower of Jesus Christ. His testimony reflects: His spiritual thirst and search The emptiness he tried to fulfill The brokenness that drove him to find God. …
5 ways to tell your stories of God’s activity
5 Quick Testimony outlines or story ideas to share how God is a t work in your life
Purpose of Evangelism Training
Have you ever felt like you’ve been caught off guard? Imagine sitting in a coffee shop talking about life with a friend. The conversation begins to go deep about some personal issue: your friend is confessing a deep sense of remorse over some sin in their life and how they seek forgiveness. Your friend looks …
Book: Organic Outreach For Ordinary People
In Organic Outreach for Ordinary People: Sharing Good News Naturally, author Kevin Harney sets out to show us a way that ordinary people can do evangelism. The book offers solid theology of appropriate Bible passages specific actions steps one can take after each chapter, Questions for personal and group reflection. Kevin looks at relational evangelism …
30 Days of Prayer: Day 12 – The mystery of conversion
“Night and day, whether he sleeps or gets up, the seed sprouts and grows, though he does not know how.” – Mark 4:27 How does the seed grow? I remember science projects I did in elementary school to make seeds sprout. We played with the variables of soil, light, water, and even gravity (by using …
30 Days of Prayer Day 10: Surprised by Joy
Jesus tells us another parable about the kingdom of heaven in Matthew 13. “The kingdom of heaven is like treasure hidden in a field. When a man found it, he hid it again, and then in his joy went and sold all he had and bought that field.” Matthew 13:44 In contrast to the parable …
What was your Spiritual Journey to faith in Christ?
Check out this list of how members of one of my classes came to faith in Christ. “When I was 8 years old, I was invited to a bible camp for kids.” “My father helped me see my need for Jesus and I put my trust in Him.” “A friend invited me to church, and …
Postmodern Evangelism–Find Your Story
Part of the art of post-modern evangelism is story telling, in particular, telling your own story of how you came to discover your faith. The Christian Testimony Shortly after I became a Christian in the late 80s, I learned a phrase “Your Testimony.” Your Christian testimony describes How you came to start following Christ in …
Experiencing a Christian Conversion
Last night, I watched a deeply powerful film. Faith Like Potatoes
8 Steps to Use Your Personal Testimony
Each Christian has a personal story of how he/she came to know Jesus in a personal, life-changing way. You can use your personal testimony to spread the Gospel of Christ in personal evangelism. Make sure you avoid the cheesy clichés – be authentic. 1. Use your testimony. You have both current stories of God’s work …
Divine Appointments
A divine appointment is recognizing God’s prompting a moment that will impact someone’s life in their jourey to faith. These are kairos moments.
Free Download: 7 Question Personal Testimony Questionnaire
Some people find it hard to talk about their personal Christian testimony or faith journey with Christ. It could be that you have never been asked, or it could be that you’ve not taken the time to think it through. You simply know that you follow Jesus. This questionnaire can help you grow comfortable in …
Evangelism as Storytelling
One church, Solana Beach Presbyterian in Solana Beach California, has an effective small group ministry. One thing they are doing a little different this year (2008) is using their small groups to help people grow comfortable in doing evangelism — a place to practice telling their stories — “stories that testify to why they have …
Share Your Story Now
Dever’s article that we reviewed (What Evangelism Isn’t) made the point that Evangelism is not only personal testimony. Personal testimony is part of evangelism (it is one aspect of the joyfully sharing part of the evangelism definition). I found a website that collects Bible Impact Stories. It is run maintained by the American Bible Society. …
Guest Article: Sharing your faith in the ordinary course of life
While I’m away in Nicaragua, I’ve asked my good friend and sister in Christ, Susan Finck-Lockhart to write up an article for EvangelismCoach. Susan and I have the privilege of teaching on Evangelism regularly at various workshops for www.prmi.org around the States. I’ve known Susan for over 10 years and am grateful that she has …
The power of testimony
I’ve been thinking recently about “the testimony” — your story of conversion. Most of us have one and most of us have done exercises where we write it the testimony of our conversion, revise our testimony for clarity, and shorten our testimony to share it in 5 minutes or less.
More than one story
All of us have unique stories that God has given to us. Some of us have conversion experience stories. Some of us have had gradual awareness stories of owning why and how we believe. But our testimony is more than just coming to a place of faith.