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How is your witness? As followers of Jesus Christ, we are to be very concerned about the way our words, our appearances, our demeanors, our actions represent…Him. I believe that we do have an impact on brothers and sisters in Christ as well as people who have fallen away from faith or have never believed or from other faiths. Love for the Lord and for others can be visible in many others ways too, not just witnessing in words. Acts of compassion, honesty, caring and serving, joy in worshiping, sympathy cards and many other ways. I will be the first to admit that my own witness is not always the best. And when I fall short, I seek forgiveness and understanding. I do not feel that I will be held accountable for not preaching the gospel to everyone I meet on the street, but I am to love my neighbor as my self to all that cross my path. You see something often gets in the way of loving others as Christ would have me love them ‒ me. And the times that I have loved the way Christ would have me love others ‒ I can’t take any credit for it. It was all Him.  (¯`•♥•´¯) ¤`•.♥.•´ ¤ (¯`•♥•´¯) |
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6/28/2008 3:07 am |
Hi Sheri, I identify with your post here as it is usually me who ruins my witness too! I spent the first 20 years of my Christian life swinging like a pendulum between the usual two extremes: 1. Be holy and separate and have no contact with unbelievers but impress them from afar with your godly character. 2. Be one with unbelievers and spend so much time with them doing the same things that they cannot tell the difference between you and them. I finally decided that BOTH these extremes are wrong and that God wanted me just to be myself with my non-Christian friends. The last 10 years have served to undo the damage of the previous 20 and I am finally at the stage with my friends (where I should have been all along) where I can share my faith with them naturally and guess what - they listen! I am now in faith that God is working in their lives (partly through me) and they will come to know Jesus sooner or later! Peter  "Do your best to present yourself to God as one approved, a workman who does not need to be ashamed and who correctly handles the word of truth" 2 Timothy 2 v 15
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I think its simple...Strive to enter into the Peace of the gospel. I dont care about what people think too much. I am not out to change the world or preach in the world. Many people come my way that have been beaten by the organized church. Those are my people to encourage etc. The cracks are where you will find me. With the people who have fallen through the cracks. I do not have much respect for the organized. I find it business like and lacking greatly.
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6/28/2008 6:34 am |
Your right! We do have that tendency to be our own enemy. To get in the way of ourselves. I fight with that daily. Great Post..GBY ‘HE will rule them with an iron scepter.’... He treads the winepress of the fury of the wrath of God Almighty.... On HIS robe and on HIS thigh HE has this name written:... KING OF KINGS AND LORD OF LORDS."
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6/28/2008 8:36 am |
God bless u sister great post am inspira by u.
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