Good friends. 

I guess most of you will be on school holidays – happy days!!

Quality time of the year when spring is in the air and summer is just round the corner.  I went for a wander the day to the shops across the playing fields – fabulous scenes of groups of young people playing sport.  I was amazed to see a full game of cricket going on between 6 lads – the boys had the wicket keeping gloves,  the leg pads and were even playing with a proper cricket ball! 

So here we go – last week of helping you guys put your testimonies together.  Why are we helping you? Well it comes within the last section of Pray, Play, Say – and the last verse in the section of Colossians 4v2-6 says this:

“Let your conversation be always full of grace, seasoned with salt, so that you may know how to answer everyone” 

We want to help prepare you so that you may know how to answer everyone!!

Tip 4 – Be honest!

I bet most of you have heard those amazing complete life changing turn around testimony’s.  I remember listening to one guy in church.  He was into drugs, violence, crime and gang warfare and one day he was walking along the beach and picked up a simple tract which talked about Jesus.  At that moment he fell to his knees and committed his life to Jesus and is now a travelling preacher around the world.  Amazing!!

Don’t know about you but when I hear that story I tend to think that my story is miserable in comparison.  So what sometimes happens is I have tried to make it more dramatic by stretching the truth slightly so that people might be wowed!!! 

I know it was stupid of me – yet I’m still tempted to do it even now!! 

Your story is amazing – why?  Because you had turned your back on God and now he has accepted you because of what Jesus has done on the cross.  He has rescued you.  Your story is a story of rescue and is as important and dramatic as the guy who stood up in church. 

Don’t try and make things up.   Don’t stretch the truth – simply be you!! 

Practise it on somebody this week.  Practise it on somebody you know and let them tell you if it doesn’t sound completely true!! 

Represent Christ well this week friends! 

The Youth Department.