If you’re reading this, you probably have a strong view of expositional preaching, corporate prayer, and the church ordinances (baptism and communion). You also might get nervous when someone emphasizes the value of personal experience. It might send a small shiver down your theological spine.
After all, you don’t want experience to crowd out exposition. I get it. There are a lot of cautions and concerns we might justifiably have about people giving testimonies. Nonetheless, we should consider implementing personal testimonies, that is, the practice of remembering God’s wondrous works and celebrating his mighty deeds in our lives and churches.
THREE BENEFITS
Throughout Scripture, God’s people publicly talk about God’s work in their life. That’s all a personal testimony means to be.
Here are three benefits of building more testimony time into a church’s life—either through the corporate gathering or other ministries throughout the week.
1. Through testimonies, we exalt God.
See Psalm 40:5; 73:28; 77:10–20; 78:4–6; 105:1–5; 118:17; 145:4–12; Isaiah 42:10; John 4:28–29.
As we share testimonies about God’s work in our midst, we glorify him through our praise and thanksgiving. We give credit where credit is due. Consider David’s words:
I have told the glad news of
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