Tuesday, April 28, 2009

Reasons I Don't Share a Verbal Witness

10) People will think I'm weird, strange or stupid.
9) I'll make people uncomfortable.
8) That's just not my gift.
7) That's the pastor's job.
6) I'm afraid that I won't have the "right" answers.
5) I don't want to appear pushy.
4) I just want to witness through my life.
3) I don't want to drive people away.
2) Once I talk about Jesus, people will be looking for my every flaw and failure.
1) My own relationship with Christ is not that great; why export that?

I just wrote these as a sort of stream-of-consciousness, brain drain based on past comments from people and my own excuses. But what I really want to know are your personal reasons. I know there are many valid reasons and I want to try to help address these. Perhaps you already have an idea of a resource we could provide that would help you. Let me know that as well.