Witnessing Is Seeing and Telling (Leighton Ford)

“I can’t talk to anyone about Christ because God just doesn’t seem real to me”

This is a genuine obstacle. Sharing Jesus Christ is not basically talking about a moral code, our church, or Christian philosophy. It is introducing people to a person. And we can’t introduce someone we ourselves have never met.

Timothy, Paul’s young protege, was apparently very timid. Paul shared with him the secret of his own confidence: “I am not ashamed because I know whom I have believed, and am convinced that he is able to guard what I have entrusted to him for that day” (2 Tim 1:7, 8, 12).

Witnessing is taking a good look at Jesus and telling what we have seen. The better I know him, the less ashamed I am.

The Holy Spirit enables us to know Jesus Christ, to have the same relationship to him the first disciples had. The Holy Spirit has been called “the applied edge of redemption”; he takes what Jesus Christ did for us twenty centuries ago and applies it to the reality of our lives today.

Leighton Ford

Adapted from Good News Is For Sharing (Revised edition, 2017, Leighton Ford Ministries).