Thanks for sharing your personal testimony. I can relate to many of the things you shared because I too was afraid of criticism if I share my faith. You've helped to inspire me to be more bold in sharing my faith. Your channel is truly a blessing.
Hello I just want to say you are speaking my truth in this video. You helped me so much and I'm excited to move forward. Thank you so very much for sharing and being your authentic self I APPRECIATE YOU💜 all the way from northern California. May your light continues to shine bright as you are obedient to the will and purpose God has over your life thank you again.
About being afraid of criticism when sharing the faith - I had a different problem. My father passed on the faith by reading the Bible with us and talking with us a bit about it and I accepted it as self-evident that this is the reality. Then I went to school and when we got to a topic related to faith at some time, I was shocked that it was possible not to believe in God. (When we had read the stories in the Old testament, it was there - the Isrealites were surrounded by nations who believed something else and they often even followed them, so why would it nowadays different? But my father gave me the idea that it was only history.) We also attended lectures of prof. Walter Veith about creation vs. evolution (he is from South Africa, a pastor in my church) when he visited Prague (I am from the Czech Republic). Then I used the arguments in discussions with classmates and was quite hard to them, because they wouldn't get convinced. Much later I found that while I had been trying to convince them about the existence of God, there was no gospel in it. At high school I made known that I am christian and believe the Bible; and that was nearly all. I wasn't scared of criticism, but I was afraid I would do it in a wrong way, because I had seen the bad results at elementary school. Three years ago I came across a series of lectures of Walter Veith about the Revalation, history, religions... (th-cam.com/video/LTSKfXzdiuE/w-d-xo.html), it caught me and I watched around 2 and a half lecture a day (each had 1.5 to 2 hours). Near the end I was bubbling over and needed to share it with others. The main thing I learnt was a new attitude towards those who don't know Jesus or the Bible or think that the Bible has nothing to do with reality (and I got the message that they need), because I understood what has happened to the world, why various christian denominations follow some biblical truths and deny others, why people don't take the Bible seriously and why it was difficult for them to accept my arguments - It's not their malice. There is rather deception in the world (Matthew 24:3-4,24) and the mystery of iniquity working in the church nearly from its beginning (2 Thessalonians 2). So if they realize it, they may say as in Jeremiah 16:19: "Surely our fathers have inherited lies, vanity, and things wherein there is no profit." I had found something similar about the theory of evolution a few years before (in the book Darwin on Trial by Phillip Johnson) and had come across the concept of paradigm (which is good illustration in science of the same problem in religion) at the end of high school.
I found your channel a few days ago and I would like to encourage you to persevere in sharing Jesus and pointing to the Bible. I hope we will meet in heaven. Moses had the same thoughts as you said: "Who am I to share Gods word?" - Exodus 3,11. Also Martin Luther - he wrote: "How many times have I asked myself with bitterness that question which was so frequent on the lips of the papist: Art thou alone wise? Can every one else be mistaken? How will it be, if, after all, it is thyself who art wrong, and who art involving in thy error so many souls, who will then be eternally damned? It was so I fought with myself and with Satan, till Christ, by his infallible Word, fortified my heart against these doubts.” (I have read this quote in a great book about the history of the church in the light of prophecy, The Great Controversy by Ellen White, which I recommend.)
Thanks for sharing your personal testimony. I can relate to many of the things you shared because I too was afraid of criticism if I share my faith. You've helped to inspire me to be more bold in sharing my faith. Your channel is truly a blessing.
Hello I just want to say you are speaking my truth in this video. You helped me so much and I'm excited to move forward. Thank you so very much for sharing and being your authentic self I APPRECIATE YOU💜 all the way from northern California. May your light continues to shine bright as you are obedient to the will and purpose God has over your life thank you again.
Hey girl! New subscriber here :) thanks for sharing all of your insights I can relate to so much! Just curious how old are you??
About being afraid of criticism when sharing the faith - I had a different problem. My father passed on the faith by reading the Bible with us and talking with us a bit about it and I accepted it as self-evident that this is the reality. Then I went to school and when we got to a topic related to faith at some time, I was shocked that it was possible not to believe in God. (When we had read the stories in the Old testament, it was there - the Isrealites were surrounded by nations who believed something else and they often even followed them, so why would it nowadays different? But my father gave me the idea that it was only history.) We also attended lectures of prof. Walter Veith about creation vs. evolution (he is from South Africa, a pastor in my church) when he visited Prague (I am from the Czech Republic). Then I used the arguments in discussions with classmates and was quite hard to them, because they wouldn't get convinced. Much later I found that while I had been trying to convince them about the existence of God, there was no gospel in it. At high school I made known that I am christian and believe the Bible; and that was nearly all. I wasn't scared of criticism, but I was afraid I would do it in a wrong way, because I had seen the bad results at elementary school.
Three years ago I came across a series of lectures of Walter Veith about the Revalation, history, religions... (th-cam.com/video/LTSKfXzdiuE/w-d-xo.html), it caught me and I watched around 2 and a half lecture a day (each had 1.5 to 2 hours). Near the end I was bubbling over and needed to share it with others. The main thing I learnt was a new attitude towards those who don't know Jesus or the Bible or think that the Bible has nothing to do with reality (and I got the message that they need), because I understood what has happened to the world, why various christian denominations follow some biblical truths and deny others, why people don't take the Bible seriously and why it was difficult for them to accept my arguments - It's not their malice. There is rather deception in the world (Matthew 24:3-4,24) and the mystery of iniquity working in the church nearly from its beginning (2 Thessalonians 2). So if they realize it, they may say as in Jeremiah 16:19: "Surely our fathers have inherited lies, vanity, and things wherein there is no profit." I had found something similar about the theory of evolution a few years before (in the book Darwin on Trial by Phillip Johnson) and had come across the concept of paradigm (which is good illustration in science of the same problem in religion) at the end of high school.
I found your channel a few days ago and I would like to encourage you to persevere in sharing Jesus and pointing to the Bible. I hope we will meet in heaven.
Moses had the same thoughts as you said: "Who am I to share Gods word?" - Exodus 3,11.
Also Martin Luther - he wrote: "How many times have I asked myself with bitterness that question which was so frequent on the lips of the papist: Art thou alone wise? Can every one else be mistaken? How will it be, if, after all, it is thyself who art wrong, and who art involving in thy error so many souls, who will then be eternally damned? It was so I fought with myself and with Satan, till Christ, by his infallible Word, fortified my heart against these doubts.” (I have read this quote in a great book about the history of the church in the light of prophecy, The Great Controversy by Ellen White, which I recommend.)