I got the idea for our title from an old book in a used-book store I visited recently with my wife. Upon seeing it, my first words were, “How Christians need to follow this advice today.” There are far too many Wooden-Indian Christians running around.
We need a fresh touch from our Lord, that it may be said of us what is recorded of the man in Mark who had an impediment of speech, “And straightway…his tongue was loosed, and he spake plain.” You’ll be hard pressed to find any “mute witnesses” in the book of Acts.
Some years ago, we were peddled a teaching referred to as, “Life-style Evangelism.” Most certainly, we should walk what we profess to believe, but let us never forget Jesus taught we’re to talk it also. The advocates of this philosophy argue, “It’s doubtful you’ll win anyone to Christ, until you have first won them to yourself.”
As convincing as this may sound, I’d remind you those primitive witnesses were, for the most part, hated by the ones they spoke to, as well as the Saviour they were presenting. The very meaning of the word “Witness” carries with it the thought of telling something you have experienced first hand.
The early saints were threatened and told to, “Speak henceforth to no man in this name.” It seems most of God’s people today, including preachers, have shirked their Lord’s Commission, under their peer’s intimidations. How can we ever be ashamed of the “Altogether Lovely One,” who was not, and is not, ashamed of the likes of us?
"We ought to obey God rather than men," is good advice in any age.
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