This morning the pastor had a message about “Go” and preach the gospel. All of us have heard it over and over and probably haven’t done anything about it because 1)witnessing is for a professional pastor, 2)I don’t know what to say, and 3)no one lives around here that doesn’t know about God.
Well, as I listened, I got to thinking about the events of the past week and also about what witnessing has done for our little church in our little town. We had a puppet show where hardly anyone came but a man who was there asked to speak to the pastor and wanted to know how to have assurance of salvation. Wow, the witnessing in all things really works.
Then I looked around our little group and thought about all those who had been saved directly because of contact with our church or indirectly because we had taken them somewhere and they had gone forward to receive Christ. At least 11 out of our small group and our youth department have had a life-changing experience with Jesus in the past couple of years. At our last children’s group meeting 10 children put up their hands to receive Christ. Some of them repeat over and over but one day they will finally get it and understand the personal relationship that they have with their Lord.
Oh boy, how much more could we do if we constantly looked for opportunities to witness. There was one young mother in service this morning who had prayed the sinner’s prayer a year and a day ago and she entered the doors of our building for the first time today. This is the direct result of witnessing to her and loving her through all of her problems.
I don’t know about you, but I really don’t want to stand before my Maker and have Him tell me how many chances I have missed to share the salvation story with someone. Is witnessing worth anything? To the new convert is is “out of this world”!
