Episode 6 - Sharing Your Testimony with Whitney Oxford

This week, we talk to Whitney Oxford. He helps us understand that there's a difference between sharing a life story and sharing a testimony. Your testimony isn't about hitting rock bottom or dramatic circumstances. It's about the unchanging gospel colliding with your life.

Every true Christian testimony contains the same elements: God's holiness, your sin, Christ's substitutionary death, and the Spirit's work of conviction and regeneration. These are the objective truths that matter, not how emotional or dramatic your story sounds.

The gospel is the power of God for salvation. When you share your testimony, you're declaring where the power lies. Not in your cleverness, not in your technique, but in the simple message of a crucified and risen Messiah.

Four questions to frame your testimony: • What was your spiritual condition before salvation? • How were you found by God? • How has your life changed as a new creature in Christ? • How is the Lord still working in your life?

Before Christ, you loved yourself. After Christ, you love God, love people, and love Scripture. That's the testimony of God's love poured into your heart.

"Not to us, O Lord, not to us, but to your name give glory because of your loving kindness, because of your truth." Psalm 115:1

Your testimony is about the wondrous workings of God rescuing you by His mercy. Share it faithfully.