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My Story
PLAN FOR WRITING A PERSONAL TESTIMONY
Use the following model to wrote your story
Pray first. Then write a one-sentence answer to the questions below.
Before
How I imagined God and what He was thinking about me?
During
How I understood that God is different - what really happened?
After
What changed? How I imagine God now and how He sees me?
Few hints for writing your testimony:
- Be short, more doesn't mean better. Share your testimony in 3 minutes max
- Avoid sharing too many autobiography details which are not related to the spiritual questions (which school you went, where your parents lived,...)
- Don't try to impress people, don't add too much color
- Use simple words. Avoid church vocabulary (repentance, lamb of God, ..)
- Avoid talking about different denominations (penticostal, baptists, orthodox,..), especially with negative details
- Don't go into detail things related to using drugs, crimes, being drunk, amoral behaviour.
- Try to make the story alive using emotions to make it easy and interesting to listen
The part "Before"
Write answers to the following questions:
Write answers to the following questions:
- How was my life before? What were my feelings, needs, and problems?
- How I imagine God and what He thinks about me?
- What was the focus of my life then?
- Where I was finding stability, peace, happiness, security? Why those findings didn't satisfy me?
The part "During"
Write answers to the following questions:
Write answers to the following questions:
- How I learned about God?
- What steps I made to discover Him?
- When and how did I learn about Gospel?
- What was my first reaction?
- How did I ultimately respond?
- When did my attitude start to change? Why?
The part "After"
Write the answers to these questions:
Write the answers to these questions:
- How did the understanding of God and how He sees me change?
- What changes Jesus brought in my life, in my activities and how it impacted my views?
- Why did my attitude change?
- How much time went by before I saw changes in my life?
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