A lawyer argues his case by trying to persuade people with logic, reason, and sometimes emotion. A witness testifies by telling what he or she has personally seen and heard. Anyone can argue the case for Christ, but someone has to have personal experience with the risen Jesus in order to testify about Him.

Jesus isn’t searching for expert witnesses. He’s calling ordinary people to take His witness stand to everyday life so that they can show and tell what Christ has done in and through their lives. Every Sunday millions of formal presentations about Jesus are given around the world, but very few heart-felt testimonies about how He has saved, healed, and delivered ordinary people are heard. It’s time to: “Let the redeemed of the Lord say so,” by training them to share “the word of their testimony.”

It’s good to want the risen Jesus to be allowed to be the literal Head of His people when they gather in His name. Jesus didn’t rise from the dead to be entombed again by religion. Let Him live in and direct you!

Relational Christianity, connecting heart-to-heart with Jesus and with His followers, is powerful! It’s impossible to go God’s way as long as we insist on going our way.

Jesus knocks
On your door.
Let Him thru
All the locks
That keep your heart
In a box.

Lifeless religion
Without Christ’s fire
Burning in human hearts
Is not God’s desire.