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Bible Study Guide Lesson 13
Bible Study Guide Lesson 13
Hopefully, this quarter’s study of ways to witness and share our faith has helped ease our anxiety about making friends for God.
Most of the reasons people have for not witnessing are related to their own fear of rejection or embarrassment. Focusing
on God and the ways He has blessed us, however, helps conquer our feelings of inadequacy, giving us the courage and
motivation to actively serve Him in love. It’s faith in God, not faith in ourselves, which permits this to happen.
Ellen G. White tells us in The Desire of Ages, p.347: “Our confession of His faithfulness is Heaven’s chosen agency for
revealing Christ to the world. We are to acknowledge His grace as made known through the holy men of old; but that which
will be most effectual is the testimony of our own experience. We are witnesses for God as we reveal in ourselves the
working of a power that is divine.”
Let’s remember that the word “witness” is a verb (a word that shows action) and also a “noun” (a person or thing).
Therefore, we are not only called to witness, but to BE a witness. When we faithfully do both, God is glorified in us. In other
words, others will see Jesus in us.