FEW GUIDELINES FOR PREPARING YOUR TESTIMONY.

If you are asked to share your testimony, you will not be able to say all that could be said about God’s work in you over the course of your entire life. So what should you focus on? Here are a few guidelines that will help you as you are preparing:

1. Take time to reflect on how God’s hand of Providence can now be more clearly seen as you look back on your life. How was the Lord at work in bringing you to Himself from your childhood up to now?
2. Speak honestly about coming to an awareness of your sin, your neediness, and how you were brought to repentance by God’s Grace (i.e., don’t stand up and say, “I’ve always been a good person”). But this does not mean dragging listeners through the mud of a detailed account of your sins. The goal is not to see how “dramatic” your testimony can be; any previously dead sinner who is now alive in Christ has a plenty dramatic testimony. (Ephesians 2:1-10)
3. Speak about your coming to faith in Jesus Christ. Who did the Lord use in your life as influences to point you to Jesus Christ? If you can pinpoint a certain moment of conversion, then talk about that. If you cannot pinpoint a certain time, then leave it.
4. Speak about your life since you began following Jesus. What have been some of the major milestones along the way, whether struggles or victories? How does believing the Gospel continue to impact your life daily?
5. Speak about God’s on-going work in your life right now. What is He teaching you? How is He challenging you? What role does the Church play in your life? Recount it!
6. Remember that Jesus should be the hero of your Testimony. Above all, point the listeners to God and His Grace, and not to yourself. Don’t focus on your old life of sin so much or your new life of obedience so much, that Jesus Christ will be overshadowed.

The choice is surely yours….choose wisely!

MOSES DURODOLA