A witness to Christ

When I think of witness I often go to the greek word for witness being, martyr, and yet we can also be a witness, without such dramatic, lethal outcomes. Another word that has been explored and pondered on this week are the words testify and testimony. These words have dramatic connotations to them as well, I think of testify as a court word, it has a repentent quality to it in a sense as well. The word testimony conjures up the image of an altar call in my mind.  But in the case of the purpose of social media and digital cultures it takes on a different sense to me one of telling the story of the gospel promise, using our stories to share the good news to others, in a community like that of a cloud of witnesses where others are free to share their stories as well and the promises are shared and stories are shared and Christ is shared as well.

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