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An insurance representative who knocks on your door to sell you a policy is a fully authorized representative of his company. With that in mind, we would not be out of line to call that representative an "apostle" of the company.
Further, the company as a whole is going to look good or bad according to that representative's actions.
In the same way we, as believers, are "apostles," divinely-appointed representatives of the gospel and its power and validity. In the eyes of the world, the life we live—good or bad—reflects upon the Savior we serve.
Source: Zeke Moore
Topics/Tags: Responsibility; Witness; Apostles
In 1988 I found myself, as a relatively new Christian, struggling with what it meant to follow God. I was convinced that following God meant I had to do something spectacular, something extraordinary, but I didn't know what or how. One day that summer, I happened into a local Christian bookstore and bumped into a guy named Tyler, a fellow student at Centenary College in Shreveport, LA, with whom I'd had several classes over the past year.
In the course of our conversation, Tyler very innocently made a remark that made it clear at last to me what it really meant to follow God. He said: "I didn't know you were a Christian, too." He meant nothing by it, and for awhile I assumed nothing from it--because, after all, Tyler had only been around me in the most ordinary and normal of settings--in a classroom, or in a casual conversation, something like that. How could he have possibly known that I was a Christian?
And then it hit me: That's not the way it should be! Those very ordinary, everyday meetings and activities and responsibilities--That, more than any other time, is precisely when he should have been able to see that I was a follower of Christ! I realized then that "following God" did not primarily mean accepting some extraordinary responsibility, or some spectacular challenge; above all else, "following God" meant turning my own "average," "everyday" life "Inside Out"--so that others could take a look at the things and events that defined my most ordinary, everyday existence, and see that I was different because of Jesus Christ.
Source: Zeke Moore
In the winter of 1978, a three-year-old child was left in the car while his father went into a Birmingham, Alabama hospital to get his wife and new baby. The car with the sleeping child was stolen. The city was searched. A disabled Vietnam veteran heard about the crisis and joined the search. While searching his area of the city, he noticed a slight movement by a swing stacked with old newspapers. As he approached that trash-heap, a child cried out, "Daddy, Daddy?" The man responded, "Son, I'm not your daddy, but I'm here to take you to your daddy."
God has called us to find the men and women who are lost in the debris of this world, and take them to their Father.
Source: "Proclaim," 1989 #4, p. 8.
Topics/Tags: Witness; The Lost; God, fatherhood of
W. Wayne Price writes:
I began my ministry in a Kentucky coal-mining camp. A train track and the road ran parallel by the church building. The miners' houses were spotted along the road and the railroad tracks and up an occasional hollow.
On Sunday nights I often stood by the train tracks and watched some of the old women walking to church. From far down the tracks I could spot a tiny light. I watched as the light grew larger but never really bright. Finally, I could make out one after another, dressed in bonnet and apron, flashlight in one hand and Bible in the other. Their flashlights were all the direction they needed, and those little lights were a testimony to all of us who saw them.
"Let your light so shine before men, that they may see your good works, and glorify your Father which is in heaven" (Matthew 5:16).
Source: "Proclaim," 1980 #2, p. 37.
Topics/Tags: Witness; Light; Faithfulness; Women
Chuck Kelley writes:
"The rainbow is one of nature's most beautiful wonders. Millions of tiny drops of water act together to reveal the rich colors of light which are otherwise invisible to the naked eye. Each drop of water reflects and refracts a sunbeam until it reveals one of the seven shades of light to any person standing with his back to the sun.
"God expects each of his children to function as those drops of water. Our daily lives are to reflect and refract the magnificent glory and character of Jesus until the unbeliever standing with his back to the Son sees and understands the richness of His love."
Source: "Proclaim," 1980 #2, p. 37.
An Italian consumer group in 1996 asked the Roman Catholic Church to spread God's message a little less noisily.
The group complained to local and Catholic authorities in the southern coastal town of Salerno because two local churches had been blasting out Sunday mass through loudspeakers. Apparently the churches were full, and they wanted to broadcast the service for those who couldn't get a seat inside. Unfortunately, the consumer group compained, the practice was "disturbing" residents and passers-by.
The world would love for the church to "keep it down" and maintain a low profile. However, Jesus instructed us to be like a city on a hill.
Source: InfoBeat, 11/18/1996
Topics/Tags: Communication; Noise; Witness
Some facts about deafness:
* The number of deaf people in the world exceeds 200 million.
* If the entire deaf population of the world were brought together into a single country, it would be the fourth-largest nation on earth.
* Only 2% of the world's deaf are professed Christians.
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Scripture says, "How will they hear?" We are reminded that the 'voice' of God is something that's audible to all people—including the deaf—so long as believers are willing to be witnesses to that voice.
Source: Pulpit Helps, Oct 1996, p. 22.
Zig Ziglar speaks of three types of motivation:
The first is type of motivation is "Fear." This type of motivation says, "If you're not in by 11:00pm this will be the last night this month that you can go out." Or, "If you don't work harder you will be fired." For some people, fear-motivation works, but with most people it causes resentment that leads to rebellion.
The second form of motivation is incentive-motivation (or "carrot-on-a-stick" motivation), which is simple reward for accomplishment. It says, "If you clean your room I'll give you your allowance this week.
The third kind of motivation is internal. The old saying, "You can lead a horse to water, but you can't make him drink" is true. But if you let him lick a salt block long enough he will get thirsty and want to take the drink!
What we Christians need to do is to expose people to the salt of Jesus Christ so they will want to take a drink from the well of living water.
Source: Zig Ziglar
Topics/Tags: Motivation; Witness; Desire; Salvation
"You cannot hide a city set on a hill, nor can you hide a noble, worthy, steadfast Christian life."
- W. A. Criswell
Source: W.A. Criswell
Topics/Tags: Testimony; Influence; Witness; Steadfastness
A pastor was passing a big department store and followed the impulse to go in and talk to the sales manager about his salvation. He said, "I've talked your business--beds and carpets and bookcases--with you, but I've never talked my business with you. Would you give me a few minutes to do so now?" Being led to the private office, the minister took out his New Testament and showed the businessman passage after passage which brought before him his to accept Christ.
Finally the tears began to roll down his checks, and he said to the pastor, "I'm seventy years old. I was born in this city, and more than a hundred ministers and five hundred clergymen have known me as you have, to do business with. In all these years you are the only man who ever spoke to me about my soul."
Source: "Every Member Evangelism"
Topics/Tags: Evangelism; Opportunity; Business; Witness
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