Category: My Testimony

When Defeated Sins Strike Back

Christians often live knowing that sin has been defeated in their life. This is true in one sense and false in another. It is true because Christ has overcome the world. He has defeated Satan, sin, and death so much so that many Christians find that they are able to just walk away from old sins that controlled their life for so long. This was the case for me with porn. While it is true that I have been able to walk away from it, it is not completely eradicated as a challenge for me. There are two analogies that can be used to describe this. The first is that Christ has won the war, but the individual fights still rage. The second is that of a snake or a chicken that has had its head cut off. The snake’s body will still writhe, and the chicken will often run and jump around, despite not having a head. In a similar manner, sin has been defeated, but that doesn’t mean it doesn’t still have power.

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The Power of Your Testimony

Despite what we often think, the most powerful tool for evangelism isn’t just bringing up the “Romans Road” as many of us have been taught. For those of you who don’t know, the “Romans Road” is basically five verses in Romans that make up our need for Christ, what He has done for us, and how we go about surrendering to Him (See Romans 3:23, 6:23, 5:8, 10:9 and 5:1). Though knowing and being able to teach what it is to become a Christian is vastly important, it isn’t the most powerful tool for the job. It really is rather simple, but that is a blog for another time. From a teaching standpoint, there are two tools that are more powerful than the Romans Road. These are your testimony and reason. They come at it from two completely different angles, and they both have their positives and negatives. Realistically, the most powerful tool is a combination of the two but addressing them both individually will hopefully show how to use either one as a witness for Christ. Obviously, based on the title of this blog, I am addressing the former one. I will be doing a blog on the power of reason for evangelism in the next couple of weeks and will link to that on here. Continue reading “The Power of Your Testimony”

My Testimony Part 1

Here is my updated testimony. I am going back through my old blogs and updating them as I am building the habit of blogging. I promised back in 2019, when I originally posted my testimony, that I would update it when I got a chance since I had only written up until 2018. Here I am in 2023 just now getting to it. Needless to say, this is going to be a large update. A lot has happened since 2018. Hopefully, it is interesting enough that its length won’t matter. That said, this will be broken into multiple parts to keep this under book length. I’ll link part two down when it becomes available.

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