{Christian} What is losing a witness?

A good witness for Christians is to witness and glorify Jesus through our attitudes, words and actions in daily life. In this way, we can show the love of Christ and make unbelievers envy, know and believe in Jesus and become Christians. It can also help brothers and sisters who believe in the Lord to have more confidence in this loving Lord Jesus through beautiful testimony, so that their spiritual life can be helped and nurtured. For example, a Christian selflessly takes the initiative to care for and help people in need, including donating money to help those who are in financial difficulties, sincerely comforting some traumatized people with words, and voluntarily helping some poor children with their lessons. Of course, these words and deeds are in line with the teachings of the Bible and Jesus. Christian's lost witness (bad witness) is to damage Jesus' reputation through our attitudes, words and actions in daily life, and as a result, unbelievers hate knowing and believing in Jesus and even become Christians. It will also make people who believe in the Lord lose confidence in God because of God's bad testimony and become a stepping stone to believe in Jesus. For example, Christians curse people with vicious language, cheat others' property and feelings, sexually abuse women (including indecent or * * * women), have sex before or after marriage, and call names. Of course, these words and deeds are contrary to the Bible and the teachings of Jesus! 2009-03-1314: 07: 27 Supplement: Correction: It will also make believers lose confidence in God because of God's bad testimony, which will become a stumbling block for believers to trust in Jesus, so they don't believe in Jesus. 2009-03-1418: 44: 35 Supplement: In fact, it is easy for Christians to lose their testimony and humiliate the name of the Lord. Therefore, Christians should sincerely admit their sins every day, repent for their sins against God and others, ask God to forgive our sins, love and love God by God's grace, so that we can testify beautifully and show the glory of Christ. 2009-03-1418: 49: 52 Supplement: The basic meaning of our offending God is not to believe in God, not to obey God, not to love God and not to follow God. If we pursue fame, wealth, material enjoyment and even love more than God, and rely on astrological fortune more than God, it is to offend God and lose witness!

Every Christian has a common mission, which is to testify for Jesus Christ. As a witness of Jesus Christ, the most basic thing is to preach the gospel to others and tell others about God's grace and what God has done to himself. The purpose of witness is to make people know God and turn to God. Christian testimony is not only about those who stand up in sermons and tell their stories of redemption. The more important witness is how to live a believer's life through words and deeds in daily life. Therefore, to be a Christian is not to be a multifaceted person who looks the same when he goes back to church and gets along with his parishioners, but looks different at home or at work. A true Christian is not simply an external act of obeying some religious rules; This may just be still under the discipline of behavior, still indulging in the death of old life as before. As a Christian, you must believe in Jesus Christ. I believe that he is the son of God, born to save the world, crucified for the sins of the world, and saved people from their sins with his precious blood. A believer believes that forgiveness of sins depends not on his own ability, but on the grace achieved by God through Jesus Christ on the cross. Following Jesus Christ also means learning from Jesus Christ and following his teachings. Therefore, when a population says that it is a Christian, it "denies" God in its behavior, which is the most serious loss of witness. Nothing can deny God more than idolatry. Idol refers to everything that is placed above God-including the pursuit of power, fame and wealth that exceeds the pursuit of God. For example, a senior Christian official asked for a visa at Chegong Temple on the third day of the year, which was an incident of losing the certificate that humiliated the name of God. Christians' "faith" and "obedience" to God are inseparable. People who believe in Jesus Christ will obey Jesus Christ. Some Christians regard the salvation of the cross as "cheap grace" because of God's forgiveness of sins, and continue to live in sin, old people, ill feelings and selfish desires, which means losing witness. When a Christian does something that is not what Christians should do, it will bring losses to the name of God, make others have incorrect ideas about Jesus Christ or Christianity, and become a stumbling block for others to believe in God ... It is a kind of "loss of witnesses". When a Christian doesn't do what he should do, he also loses his testimony. For example, God asks God's people to love themselves, but believers are like priests and Levites in the parable of the good Samaritan. Still a witness from destruction. Seeing that people in need can help them in their daily lives, but stay out of it, is a kind of "losing witness". When a believer does good deeds, it is still a kind of "losing witness" to give all the glory to himself and take these good deeds as the ultimate goal, because he does not give the glory he deserves to God. To sum up, those who don't love God wholeheartedly, or those who don't love others as themselves, are all "lost witnesses".

Christian witness means that we act according to the teachings of the Bible in our daily life, so that people around us can see our actions, have a better understanding of God, and are willing to know or believe in God. Losing witness means that some Christians have done something wrong in their behavior, which violates the teaching of the Bible, and also affects the people around them' knowledge of God and becomes a stumbling block on their way to believe in the Lord.