Liberty University

Witnessing Report: 2

Submitted to Dr. Fernando R. Abella

In Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements of Contemporary Evangelism
Evan 525- D13 LUO

By
Corey Johnson
4/26/15

As we through this class I have learned sharing with others is not as easy as I would like it to be. Although it is not easy I have been committed to doing this regardless of my fears. Sharing with others is a challenge for most people because of the fact that you have to be willing to receive rejection when sharing the gospel. Being that I have committed to develop in this area has put me in some situations that have actually helped me grow. I recently went out of town on a cruise ship which was an experience in itself. I had every intention on relaxing and not really thinking about things back home. The one thing that I did think about was this class, and I knew that if the opportunity arose on this ship I was going to take it. In the back of my mind I thought it will probably not happen but if it does I wanted to be prepared. Sure enough on the first day we got there I had an experience where I was able to share the gospel with someone. What was interesting about this entire experience was the fact that the person I was speaking to actually spoke little English, they understood it but as far as speaking it was a challenge in itself understanding them. This encounter happened in one of my most comfortable places on land and sea and that is in a fitness facility. I was actually getting ready to leave and a guy had stopped me and asked me some questions about working out. He said he had seen me with a trainer backpack the other day at customs. We started talking about working out and he proceeded to ask me why I wanted to be a trainer. This lead me into explaining how I got into because I wanted to help people reach goals that they were afraid to strive for. I went on to explain that I worked out myself because I wanted to take care of my body and that I am supposed to take care of my body because it is in the Bible. He was puzzled a little bit because he said that no one has ever told him that the Bible was a reason that they did something. Well we begin talking about the Bible and luckly I have the Bible on my phone so we were able to go through some scriptures. He was very surprised at my level of knowledge to be honest I was a little surprised at the things that I knew as well from a location perspective in the Bible. Once we got through this I went on to ask if He had a relationship with God and he said no that was not something that his family got into. I begin to take him down the Roman road. He said he understood what I was explaining and that he felt that he had been going about this whole life thing wrong. I made sure I explained to him that he does not have to beat himself up about this. Then he asked well how does he change his life. I explained that we all have sinned and fallen short but then I explained that he had to believe in his heart and confess with his mouth and then he would be saved. He said it is that easy? I responded with a yes it is easy but the work starts once you decide to make that change. The changes that will happen will be the hard part because somethings that will change will be things that currently he enjoys. We talked more about how this relationship with God will cause you to be more in tune with Gods voice because you will be getting more into the Bible which is God’s word. After we had been talking for a while he began to cry and began explaining that he had done some horrible things in his life and that he doesn’t think that God would ever forgive him. I went on to explain how that the forgiveness happened on the cross. We talked a little longer and then we decided that we would talk at least two more times on this trip. We meet up more times and he had actually went to guest services and got a Bible to read and we talked about different sins each time we meet. He was so excited every time we spoke. It actually gave me excitement too because it put a fire back in me each time we would talk. As we began to leave off the boat I saw him and he asked to pray with me for safe travels and that was an exciting thing for me because he was now initiating things.