4 Steps to Sharing Your Testimony

[image error]

I looked at the to-do list in front of me and one item jumped off the page and gave me the jitters. I’d signed up for a short-term missions trip to Cuzco, Peru, and I was sitting at my first team meeting with a group of total strangers. As my team leader read through the weekly assignments, I nodded my head in agreement.

Buy a light duffel bag. Done.

Update your passport. Already done.

Send out a prayer letter to supporters. Working on that.

Write out and memorize your 5-minute testimony and prepare to share it next week with your team.

Seriously? How am I supposed to explain how Jesus has changed my life in less than an hour? I mean, I could write a whole book about how Jesus has changed my life. And, who are these people in this room? Is this a safe place to share my story?

I left that night wrestling with doubts and fears, but I knew God wanted me to go on this trip. He had confirmed it in so many ways! So, I worked up some courage and wrote out my testimony.

Can I tell you how thankful I am for that exercise? Narrowing down my conversion experience into a concise story and practicing sharing it with my new friends helped me lose the nervousness I’d always experienced when the opportunity arose to share Jesus with people in my everyday life.

Here’s what I learned: If you want to tell other people about Jesus, you need to prepare in advance.

Maybe like me you feel tongue-tied whenever the opportunity arises to share your faith. I want to share 4 simple steps to help you as you work on creating your personal testimony. Are you interested?

Great, let’s get started.

I’m sharing 4 Steps to Sharing Your Testimony at Missional Women.
To read the rest of this post, join me here.

The post 4 Steps to Sharing Your Testimony appeared first on Lyli Dunbar.