Today we talk about witnessing, or "TELLING OTHERS ABOUT JESUS CHRIST." This is even more difficult for most of us. For, quite frankly, we Presbyterians don’t like to think about witnessing. We leave it to the Mormons, or the Jehovah Witnesses, or some of the fringe groups; we much prefer to do things "decently and in order." Somehow witnessing sounds too fanatic!

Someone has characterized us as being parallel to those men who belong to the military reserve. We go to drills once a week but we are not on active duty! We feel that if some catastrophe broke out that might threaten the Christian faith, then we’d go forth and speak and fight for our faith, but in the meantime we’re content with a once-a-week drill. The only problem is, the war has already broken out! (I don’t refer to the war …