I Will Proclaim the Gospel
By Clayton from Clayton KingI have a confession. I hate witnessing. I know I should love it. After all, I am an ordained minister and an evangelist. But I hate feeling like I need to share the gospel with every single human I lay my eyes on, or I will be held accountable if they die without Christ. This comes from a legalistic understanding of God’s grace as well as an arrogant, secret need to save the world, of which I am not capable.
But I have another confession. I have figured something out, and it came to me when reading 1 John 1:1-4. Witnessing is not something I do. It is who I am.
John says in that passage that he had heard the gospel, that he had seen Jesus with his own eyes, and that he had handled Jesus with his own hands. It was so powerful an encounter that John had to talk about it. He was compelled to naturally proclaim what a difference meeting and knowing Jesus had made in his life.
There are things I love, that have changed my life, and I talk about them.