Recently Northern Light Church conducted a sermon series called “MyStory,” a five week series in which each week a speaker presents the gospel by telling the church his or her testimony.
In the final week, I had the honor of telling my story, and after hearing the testimonies in the weeks prior, I was struck with the power of a testimony, stories of how God changed and shaped theses peoples lives. Stories told with brutal honesty, and the audience responding with tears and laughter. And I knew that I had to wrap up this powerful series with something equally powerful. And so I thought about this idea of Testimony, I went on the internet and found a couple viral videos of people giving their testimonies (Why I hate religion and love Jesus, The Internet is my Religion”). Given the task of writing my own testimony, I couldn’t help but contrast giving my testimony in real life to a small group of people, and someone giving their testimony to literally millions of people on the web. Millions of people... these two men didn't even know, people they never met. Yet they connected and are impacting millions of people?
How did they do it? ...They told stories that were real, struggles of real people, “I was addicted to pornography”, “I was diagnosed with cancer,” all told with gut wrenching honesty. These testimonies went viral because even though these men didn’t know their audience they connected with them, they connected with them, based on a human need... the desire to connect with our creator. My task was much easier, for I only need to connect with a small group of people, yet the principles is the same. Be relevant, be honest, and speak to the human condition, and the desire to know our creator.
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