While driving home, I began to think what is a witness? I know that we are supposed to be good witnesses for Christ, and that sometimes people “witness” as a verb when they verbally tell others about the Good News. When I got home I googled it and found some definitions.

Definitions of witness on the Web:

* someone who sees an event and reports what happened
* spectator: a close observer; someone who looks at something (such as an exhibition of some kind); “the spectators applauded the performance”; “television viewers”; “sky watchers discovered a new star”
* testimony by word or deed to your religious faith
* be a witness to; “She witnessed the accident and had to testify in court”
* (law) a person who attests to the genuineness of a document or signature by adding their own signature
* perceive or be contemporaneous with; “We found Republicans winning the offices”; “You’ll see a lot of cheating in this school”; “The 1960’s saw the rebellion of the younger generation against established traditions”; “I want to see results”
* (law) a person who testifies under oath in a court of law
wordnet.princeton.edu/perl/webwn

I will focus on the first, and most used in my opinion, definition. A witness is someone who gives an account of what happened. My first responsibility as a Christian is to act as a credible witness for Christ when his validity, deity, and relevancy stand trial. My goal is to remain a credible witness, because many trials end up skewed on account of false witnesses. It is to remain as holy and loving as possible, to let his light shine through me.

My job as a Christian is to give an account of what has happened since Christ came into my life. My duty is to refute an accusation of , “Prayer doesn’t work.” with a direct rebuttal on how it has has worked in my life. My goal is to commend a proclamation of “God is good” with the true statement, “all the time”. My task is to deny an assumption that religion is not important with a detailed testimony of how, in fact, it is. My resolve is to expose the truth when the perception is cloudy.

My stance is simple:

• God does answer prayers
• God does save marriages
• God does deliver from drugs and alchohol
• God can deliver me from poverty into prosperity
• God will relieve depression
• God is relevant in this day and age.

These are the facts that I want to convey as I live my life as a full-time witness.

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