1. The Power of Story 22:1-30

2. What is a Testimony? Reasoned Explanation

3. What is a Testimony?

4. Reasoned Explanation Culturally Appropriate

5. What is a Testimony? “If the community is the context for the gospel, the mode of transmission is story. Story is the starting point for narrative evangelism … If we are going to work within a postmodern culture … we need to be people who will listen … Then we need to help them place their story in the larger context of God’s story.”- D.A. Carson

6. What is a Testimony? Reasoned Explanation Culturally Appropriate Are you listening well?

7. How to Put It Together? Escape from Past His Background His Baggage

8. How to Put It Together? Escape from Past Encounter Christ It is Unmistakable It is Personal It is Unique

9. How to Put It Together? Escape from Past Encounter Christ Effects into Future New Comprehension New Direction

10. What is a Testimony? “And you were dead in your trespasses and sins … But God, being rich in mercy, because of His great love … made us alive together with Christ … For by grace you have been saved through faith … so that no one may boast. For we are His workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared beforehand so that we would walk in them.”- Eph 2:1-10

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12. The Power of Story 22:1-30