One cool thing they train us here in Miami is how to tell your story- aka your testimony of how you have come to know Christ and how He has changed you. The challenge is to be able to tell it in 3 minutes because when sharing with others that is the amount of time people will normally listen to you.
Here are the 5 parts to your story:
1. You need a theme. -> How you connected to Christ.
- Some examples could be love, acceptance, approval, or any way that Christ changed your life. This will be your theme throughout the whole 3 minutes.
2. Who were you before Christ?
-Describe who you were as a person.
3. How have you come to have a personal relationship with Christ?
-What changed in your life? This could be a gradual collection of events, or one main event that made you realize how broken and sinful you were and how much you needed and wanted to surrender your life to Christ.
4. Describe your life after giving your heart to Christ.
-How has your theme been affected through Christ.
-This is also a great time to throw in the 4 key points of the gospel from one of my previous posts.
5. Close with a take away point. Talk about how even after becoming a Christian you still have struggles, but how God helps you get through them. Remember you are still just a broken as whoever you are sharing your story with, so do not try to act like you are above them.
I challenge you if you haven't written out your story to do so today. It is a great tool to use when sharing your faith. I'm hoping to video mine and post it on here by the end of the summer =]
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