Day 17 - 40 Days of Focus: Evangelism

Door to Door Testimonies

For some time I’ve thought about the power of a testimony and how we could do better at sharing our story. I feel like we’ve got amazing stories to tell but they are being kept too quiet. How can we take from what we have and share it better with our world? One of the things that I dreamed up was doing door to door testimonies. The idea is that each house would receive a color flier on their doorstep with a picture and a story next to it. The end of the story would be an invite to our web site to read more stories, an invite to Restlife and the gospel message. Every three months we would send out another round of door to door testimonies with a new story. Each story would be by someone who lives right here in our community.

What do you think? Should we do door to door testimonies? Do you think it would be compelling? Would we be able to find enough people brave enough to share their story with the people they live, work and shop with? Is there a better idea you’d like to share?

Day 16 - 40 Days of Focus: Evangelism

The Bible Says Share

The Bible says, "Oh, give thanks to the Lord! Call upon His name; Make known His deeds among the peoples!" (1 Chronicles 16:8). "Let the redeemed of the Lord say so, Whom He has redeemed from the hand of the enemy" (Psalm 107:2)."For we cannot but speak of the things we have seen and heard" (Acts 4:20).

If you have been rescued by God from your sin and the consequences of it, one of the ways you can express thanks to God is by telling others what happened. Your story is really HIS story. You live through His power so that when life is beyond you and yet you still overcome, you have a story to tell. His deeds are the things He has done in your life that defy a natural explanation. I like the old negro saying, “He’s been better to me than I’ve been to myself.” If that’s true, it’s a story worth sharing.