The sharing below is adapted from Purpose Driven Life by Rick Warren - Day 37: 1. Your Life Message includes your testimony. Labels: Sermon
Sharing Your Life Message.
1 Peter 3: 15b - 16 says"Be ready at all times to answer anyone who asks you to explain the hope you have in you, but do it with gentleness and respect."
God has given you a life Message to share. God wants to speak to the world through you. Your Life Message has four parts to it:
1. Your testimony
2. Your life lessons
3. Your Godly passions
4. The Good News.
What does your Life Message include?
Your testimony is the story of how Christ has made a difference in your life.
He wants you to share your story with others.
Shared stories build a relational bridge that Jesus can walk across from your heart to theirs.
Testimonies bypasses intellectual defenses.
Write out your testimony and then memorise the main points.
Divide it into 4 parts
-What my life was like BEFORE I met Jesus.
-How I realise I needed Jesus.
-How I committed my life to Jesus
-The difference Jesus has made in my life.
Different situations call for different testimonies.
2. Your Life Message includes your life lessons
These are lessons and insights you have learned about God, relationships, problems, temptations and other aspects of life.
Write down the major life lessons you have learned so you can share them with others.
3. Your life Message includes sharing your godly passions.
God uses passionate people to further his kingdom.
God gives us different passions so that everything he wants done in the world will be done.
4. Your Life Message includes the Good News.
Most importantly, you must learn to love lost people the way God does.
The eternal salvation of a single soul is more important than anything else you will ever achieve in life.
Start asking these questions:
1. What has God taught me from my
-failures
-lack of money
-pain or sorrow or depression
-waiting
-illness
-disappointment
2. What have I learned from my family, my church, my relationships, my small group and my critics.
3. Who does God want me to share my personal story with?
---travel the road less traveled---
---till later---