the power of story 22:1-30. what is a testimony? reasoned explanation
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The Power of Story
22:1-30
What is a Testimony?
• Reasoned Explanation
What is a Testimony?
What is a Testimony?
• Reasoned
Explanation
• Culturally
Appropriate
What is a Testimony?“If the community is the context
for the gospel, the mode of transmission is story. Story is the starting point for narrative evangelism … If we are going to work within a postmodern culture … we need to be people who will listen … Then we need to help them place their story in the larger context of God’s story.” - D.A. Carson
What is a Testimony?
• Reasoned Explanation
• Culturally Appropriate
Are you listening well?
How to Put It Together?
• Escape from Past• His Background• His Baggage
How to Put It Together?
• Escape from Past
• Encounter Christ• It is Unmistakable• It is Personal• It is Unique
How to Put It Together?
• Escape from Past
• Encounter Christ
• Effects into Future• New Comprehension• New Direction
What is a Testimony?“And you were dead in your
trespasses and sins … But God, being rich in mercy, because of His great love … made us alive together with Christ … For by grace you have been saved through faith … so that no one may boast. For we are His workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared beforehand so that we would walk in them.” - Eph 2:1-10
The Power of Story
22:1-30