Wednesday, June 25, 2008

The Value of Personal Experience

We are getting ready to do a series on sharing faith called "Stingy with My Faith No More."

As I have been preparing for it I have been gaining a new appreciation for the role of experience in sharing faith. In our world today, whether we like it or not, experience is highly valued. The world says everybody's experience is unique to them and to be equally valued. How do we redeem this postmodern thinking to work to spread the Gospel of Jesus?

Easy- we help people name and give voice to their experience of how Christ has worked in their life. We help people to tell their story. In the old days they called it testimony. See you do not have to know the four spiritual laws, or be able to bring someone down the Romans Road, or quote scripture from memory, all you have to do is share what God has done in your life and that is a huge witness.

One of our next steps on our communication card this week will be to ask people to write out their story.

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