On September 13^th we have testimony day. We are baptizing in the creek that day and I trust that many will pray for a remarkable day of mass baptisms.

We also have “cardboard testimonies” in our services, with 50 testimonies broken down into 2-5 words. Not a word spoken.  Many Churches have done this to powerful effect. We trust that we’ll see stories of God’s grace: some recent, some young, some well tested.

Pray for God’s power at New Hope.

Pray that other churches will have a go as well.

We need a flow of testimonies. Your story and mine. My life verse is “I will not venture to speak of anything expect what Christ has accomplished in me” Romans 16:18

What would happen if we couldn’t find any such stories? Or if our own story has to go back 40 years with nothing since?
What if we had to trawl and search hard for any recent testimony of salvation?

Can you see how this will challenge us?

1. Believe in the power of a testimony.
2. Be ready with the gospel in your life to share with another.
3. Be concise even in 2 words or 30 seconds (we often have to brief at first).
4. Have an up-to-date-this-year-revision on your testimony.
5. Expect God to save others and live accordingly.
6. Rejoice on September13^th not as mission accomplished but as mission begun.

Remember that it glorifies God and keeps the main thing before us.

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