How can having a strong self-concept affect your witnessing efforts?
2007-02-12 00:55:23 · 4 answers · asked by me1026 1 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Christians are commanded by Christ to preach, but Christians need not depend on themselves for strength.
(Philippians 4:13) I have the strength by virtue of him who imparts power to me.
(Ephesians 6:10) Finally, go on acquiring power in the Lord and in the mightiness of his strength.
(1 Peter 4:11) Minister as dependent on the strength that God supplies; so that in all things God may be glorified through Jesus Christ. The glory and the might are his
(Isaiah 12:2) Jah Jehovah is my strength and my might
(Isaiah 40:29) He is giving to the tired one power; and to the one without dynamic energy he makes full might abound.
(John 15:5) Apart from [Jesus] you can do nothing at all.
(2 Corinthians 4:7) That the power beyond what is normal may be God’s and not that out of ourselves.
(2 Corinthians 12:9) I rather boast as respects my weaknesses, that the power of the Christ may like a tent remain over me.
(2 Timothy 4:17) The Lord stood near me and infused power into me, that through me the preaching might be fully accomplished and all the nations might hear it
These Scriptures clearly show that if the adherents of a church or religion are unable to continue a personal ministry campaign month after month, year after year, decade after decade, then that church or religion does not have the blessings of God and Christ, or the free gift of the holy spirit.
2007-02-12 17:43:15 · answer #1 · answered by achtung_heiss 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Self-concept...aka self-image.
Witnessing efforts are for witnessing what is..reality...not images. Strong self-concept often means strong egos and a strong sense of a "little me" - which is not who you are (that is self-image).
The two are really two different and competing things. You can feed your self-concept or you can witness...not both.
Let go of who you think you are (self-concept) and just witness.
~ Eric Putkonen
2007-02-12 01:12:43 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
You must have confidence in your salvation in order to face the ridicule of the unsaved that you will meet when you try to tell others that there is a solution for human problems.
2007-02-12 01:02:12 · answer #3 · answered by hasse_john 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋
It can make you appear even more arrogant for going up to people and telling them that you have all the answers and that they know nothing. If that was possible.
2007-02-12 01:12:08 · answer #4 · answered by Bad Liberal 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋