Can I Get a Witness?

(A Sermon Series on How to Share Your Faith–Without Feeling Creepy)

We’ve all been there.
Every one of us.

A conversation emerges with a friend or family member, a neighbor, colleague or co-worker.
Then, out of the blue, it gets real.

Someone becomes vulnerable. The guard comes down.
You sense an openness to something more—something true, good, profound.
Maybe even holy.

And there it is.
Like a door flung wide open, you COULD go there if you wanted.
Here is your chance to bear witness, to share faith, and actually say something so real and so true that it might change everything for them.

And you freeze.

It’s not that you don’t want to speak.
It’s not that you don’t want to share Grace with them, like broken bread and flowing wine.
But you find yourself tripping over a scarcity of words and an abundance of worries.

What if I say something wrong?
What if I sound foolish? Come off too pushy? Too spiritual? Too religious?
What if they ask me a question I can’t answer?
What if I actually don’t know what I’m talking about?
What if walking through this door changes our relationship?

We are paralyzed a thousand “what ifs?”

But here’s one more.
What if bearing witness to your faith didn’t have to be weird?

What if it could feel as natural, as authentic, as real as telling a hungry friend where to find the best meal in town?

It can be.
I hope you will join us Sunday for this very important series.

Have I told you lately how much I love being your pastor?
Well I do.

Shaun

Dr. Shaun King
Senior Pastor
Johns Creek Baptist Church

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  • Heather Thielman
    October 23, 2019 1:29 pm

    Your such an awesome pastor Shaun king and I heather love hearing you preach on Sunday mornings at 11 am. When I come to visit jcbc with my mom we have truly and faithfully enjoyed your wonderful sermons every Sunday morning at jcbc. Your such a wonderful pastor and I would love to join jcbc with my mom Joann. And happy pastor appeartion month to you as a Pastor Shaun King. Thanks for all that you and the pastornal stuff does at jcbc every day and week,. May God bless you and Laura king as well as your two young sons.

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