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Originally Posted by tv1a
Anyone who brings up "standards" as a witnessing tool is dumb, stupid, ignorant. south bound end of a mule and an idiot. Witnessing is telling people about the love of Jesus and how their lives can be changed.
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Can you explain yourself here? I am not sure I am following you! LOL
You know, I love to witness.... And I also live the "standards" life... When I witness to people, I tell of God's goodness. I tell them of hope and joy and peace that I find in God! Am I ashamed of the standards that I adhere to? Of course not. But those are not witnessing tools.... I have found that people do not want to here how bad they are... Their lives are in turmoil and the last thing they want to here is more things that are wrong in their lives...
Example..... I witnessed to my neighbor for years. She saw how I dressed and knew alot of what I believed because she knew others who went to my church.... We became very good friends and every now and then she would tell me that she just couldn't believe that I went to the same church as the other family she knew. She said she would never go to my church. After a while of being an example of a Christian, she brought her son to chapel during school a few times... I still remember the day she and her son were in the altar and they praying their hearts out! Not once did I tell her to change her way of dressing or to stop cutting her hair...(even though I believe it).. She knew what all we didn't do......so I told her of the goodness of God and that is what stirred her heart!
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