The main reason that we have God’s Holy Spirit is to be witnesses. We’re either a good witness or we’re a poor witness, but we are definitely a witness. (…) In a court of law you’ll have a witness and you’ll have a lawyer. The witness gets up and says, ‘let me just tell you what I know’ – and that’s what they do: let me just tell you what I know, what I saw, what I felt, what I experience. Now a lawyer gets up and presents the facts in such a convincing manner to get the jury to make a decision. I’m what they call an evangelist, so I take the facts of Christianity – like an apologist – and I present them like that lawyer, in such a way as to make the jury come to a decision. Not everyone is a lawyer, not everyone’s an evangelist or an apologist. But everyone one of us is a witness. And so we’ve got to begin to be more intentional in telling our own story.

J. John

Source: The UCB Word For Today, 8/10/2015