How can i witness

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Their bodies become temples of God. All of their sins are forgiven. They begin to experience the peace and love of God.

They receive God's direction and purpose for their lives. Ask someone to come with you to church or now is a perfect opportunity to invite them to watch the online service with you. Afterward, ask them their thoughts about the experience. Have a conversation about the message and be ready to answer any questions they may have about your faith in Jesus. Words of encouragement are important, especially during this difficult year.

Really take the time to make your note hopeful and personal. Pick out an encouraging passage from the Bible to share with them. In this simple way, you will be a witness for Jesus. When you read your daily Bible study, does someone come to your mind?

You can text someone the link to the website, share the devotional on social media, give them a physical copy of our studies, or connect them to our app. Ask them what they thought, how they connected, or what they learned.

Have you noticed a friend who is looking or acting a little down? Yahweh says he will raise up a chief witness, or servant, out of Israel, who will be a light to the nations and bring salvation Isaiah ; ; How to Read the Bible. Word Studies. Old Testament Overviews. New Testament Overviews. Book Collections. Visual Commentaries. All Podcasts. Bible Reader. Croatian Hrvatski. Dutch Nederlands. Finnish Suomi. German Deutsch. In the light of the heavenly origin of Jesus, his identification of the Father as the one who sent him should be understood as conveying the point that the Son, the sent one, was pre-existing with the Father, the sender.

An important aspect of Christian mission today is to bear witness to the pre-existence of Christ. This means, we need to present Christ Jesus as the revealer of the one God by virtue of his oneness with that God who created all things and hence as the one who loves and cares for all human beings.

Paul began his proclamation of the gospel at Athens by introducing God as the creator and sustainer of the world, particularly of all human beings Act. This approach in mission enabled him to proclaim that God has the right to expect repentance from humans and to judge them by a man, Jesus whom he raised from the dead Act. Some indeed were convinced and came to believe in Jesus. In India, where many religious groups, languages and cultures exist side by side, it is essential for the church to present the God who was revealed in Jesus as the God of all creation rather than as the God of Israel or as the God of the Old Testament alone.

This light is the life embodied in the Logos that pre-existed in close communion with God In the same way Jesus also came to bear witness to the light. The Jews believed that God is light Ps. By claiming himself to be the light of the world, Jesus declares that he is the revelation of the one God and his love to human beings. Thus, Light, in Hebrew thought, is Yahweh in his saving activity.

What is promised to be given wholly at the end-time is imparted by Jesus now. The coming of the Light also causes judgment upon those who do not believe in him. The purpose of the coming of Jesus as Light into the world is not to condemn people, but to deliver those who believe in him from darkness, ie, from their wicked ways However, the transforming power of Light turns to be the source of condemnation to those who do not believe in him In bearing testimony to the life-giving power of divine light that is in him, Jesus took the context seriously.

He made his message and works relevant to the context. The feast of Tabernacles commemorates precisely this saving work of God and his presence among his people as light. His emphasis on the life-imparting power of Light is relevant to the occasion of the feast of Tabernacles, for this feast was a festival of light.

By bearing witness to this truth, Jesus replaces the festival by his own person and work. In India, Divali may be used as an occasion to bear witness to Jesus as the Light who has triumphed over evil to deliver those who are obsessed by sin, sickness, fear and evil spirits and to give them heavenly life.

While Jesus is still with his disciples, there is light in the world and they should work with him, for apart from their Master they can do nothing This mission is already initiated by Jesus, and the disciples should act now as they see the needs of the people around them eg, the man born blind in chapter 9.

He also shows that the idea of the King Messiah being a witness for God is evidenced in the Scripture eg. Indeed this is the gospel proclaimed by Jesus as pictured by John. Unlike the Baptist who also bore witness to the truth , Jesus bears witness to the truth by having seen and heard from God ; Jesus is the eye-witness of the Father and therefore his witness is authentic and genuine description of God cf. Since Jesus himself is the embodiment of truth, he has no need to search for the truth, as many Indian sages, philosophers, and freedom fighters like Mahatma Gandhi have done.

Several years ago, Gandhi wrote that although he worshipped God as truth, he had not yet found him and he was still seeking after him. What he had was only faint glimpses of the Absolute Truth. Many in the East seek truth through meditation, asceticism, padayathra journey to temples on foot , and some cultic practices. But still they miss to see and experience the truth, as Pilate missed, because they are not willing to enter into a personal relationship with Jesus, the embodiment of truth.

They are those who belong to the sphere of truth. The essence of our missionary task, then, is to bear witness to the truth by believing in Jesus and by showing love to others by word and deed.

The Witness Borne by the Church. The obligation to do his mission with him lies with the church at all times. In his mission Jesus used several methods: he used these earthly things to explain heavenly truth see also , and by means of dialogue he bore witness to himself. In chapter 4 Jesus has a dialogue with a woman from Samaria. John introduces a new scene while the Samaritans were on their way to Jesus after they heard the testimony of the woman.

At this interval, the conversation between Jesus and his disciples on food takes place They are not to repeat what Jesus did on the cross, but they have to harvest and gather now the fruit of his labour To do this, they need a vision to see the need for the salvation of the poor and the marginalized.