Golden Acres Baptist Church, Phenix City
The Church today is full of worshippers but is void of witnesses. We have scores of people who want to sing to the Lord but very few who want to stand and bear witness of Him.
Webster’s Dictionary defines a witness as a person who sees something happen; a person who is present at an event and can say that it happened.
As believers in Christ we can’t help but witness. If we have had an encounter with Christ through salvation, how can we not tell what happened in our lives to those who are in desperate need of the good news?
The Bible records in Acts 1:8, “But you will receive power when the Holy Spirit has come upon you, and you will be My witnesses in Jerusalem and in all Judea and Samaria, and to the end of the earth.”
George Sweeting in his book, “The No-Guilt Guide for Witnessing,” tells of a man by the name of John Currier who in 1949 was found guilty of murder and sentenced to life in prison. Later he was transferred and paroled to work on a farm near Nashville. In 1968, Currier’s sentence was terminated and a letter bearing the news was sent to him. However, John never saw the letter nor was he told anything about it. Life on that farm was hard and without promise for the future. Yet John kept doing what he was told even after the farmer for whom he had worked died. Ten years went by. Then a state parole officer learned about Currier’s plight, found him and told him that his sentence had been terminated. He was a free man. Sweeting concluded that story by asking, “Would it matter to you if someone sent you an important message — the most important in your life — and year after year the urgent message was never delivered?”
Those of us who have experienced freedom through Christ are responsible to proclaim the good news to others. Are we doing all we can to make sure the lost world gets the message? Since Jesus is worthy of our worship shouldn’t He also be worthy of our witness?
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