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You may think that witnessing is merely the duty of preachers and evangelists. The task of a special group of believers who have been given special ability by the Lord to do so. However, this is not the case! The Lord wants to use every Christian to testify about Him. Age does not matter. We want to prove this now with examples from the Bible.

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Open Acts 8 and read the first 13 verses.

Some errors have crept into this re-telling. What is correct, what is true?

Your response:

After the death of Stephen, a great persecution arose.

The persecution was directed against the assembly (church) in Jerusalem.

The apostles and all the other believers fled from the city.

Everyone was scattered to Judea and Samaria, only the apostles remained in Jerusalem.

Philip went to Samaria and preached Christ to them. Many believed in the Gospel.

The whole city of Samaria was in uproar.

There was great joy in the city.

The simple believers fled. They were not evangelists, so they could not bear witness to the Lord Jesus.

Philip was an evangelist. But even the simple believers spread the word.

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We are not persecuted. We live in a country where we are free to openly speak about the Lord Jesus. The question is where we need to begin. Well, the Bible provides us with a clear answer to this question.

Mark 5:1-20 tells the story of the healing of the demon-possessed man. Can you correctly match the answers to the following questions?

Your response:

The possessed man was in a terrible state. Why?

Where did this man live?

Everything had been tried to tame him. How?

What was the result?

What did he do night and day?

He was wild and could not be tamed. The chains were torn apart, and the fetters crushed.

He screamed and cut himself with stones.

He had his dwelling in the tombs.

They chained him with chains and fetters.

Demons had this man in their power.

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What a picture of misery this possessed man presented. The Lord Jesus knew: He was an unfortunate man, over whom the devil and his demons had gained power. Not only was his body deteriorating, but his soul was also tormented day and night.

Yet the Lord Jesus had mercy on this man and delivered him from the power of the demons. He commanded, "Come forth, unclean spirit, out of the man!" and the unclean spirits had to obey Him. He allowed them to enter into a herd of pigs.

The possessed man now sat there quietly, clothed and in his right mind. How grateful he must have been to his savior!

The Lord Jesus was rejected by the inhabitants of this region. They wanted nothing to do with Him. So He went back to the ship with His disciples, which was anchored on the shore. No wonder the healed man wanted to follow and go along! Now his greatest wish was to stay with Him. But the Lord Jesus did not allow him and gave him a task (Mark 5:19):

Your response:

Go to your to your own people, and tell them how great things the has for you, and has had on you.

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It's not easy to start at home, but it's biblical! The disciple Andrew did that, too. In the Gospel of John we read three times that he led people to the Lord (chapters 1, 6, and 12). But who did he find first?

Your response:

One of his disciples, Andrew, Simon Peter's brother, says to him, There is a little boy here who has five barley loaves and two small fishes; but this, what is it for so many?
These therefore came to Philip, who was of Bethsaida of Galilee, and they asked him saying, Sir, we desire to see Jesus. Philip comes and tells Andrew, and again Andrew comes and Philip, and they tell Jesus.
Andrew, the brother of Simon Peter, was one of the two who heard this from John and followed him. He first finds his own brother Simon, and says to him, We have found the Messias (which being interpreted is Christ). And he led him to Jesus.

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