Should standards be an issue when witnessing?

[Rico]

Originally Posted by LadyChocolate

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 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!

I am not gonna name names, but I happen to know LC (she revealed her identity to me recently), and I can vouch for what she is saying. She is very much a standard keeper, and has managed to be a standard keeper without letting this rotten holier than thou attitude get ahold of her in the process. (which is a major accomplishment considering where I know her from) You could not ask for a nicer, sweeter, sold out the whole route sister if you tried.