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“DENISE!” a voice shouts from Theo Huxtable’s bedroom.
Denise scrunches down her shoulders, hugging the cushion she holds against her body tighter.
“DENISE!” the voice yells again, but this time, Theo stands in the room Denise has bunkered herself in, shouting, “What have you done to my shirt?!”
“What?” Denise says, looking innocent. “What’s wrong with it? I think it looks great.”
“Are you serious?” Theo says, his eyebrows sky high. “This shirt is a disaster. I can’t wear it tonight. My date will laugh at me.”
Ordinary But Extraordinary
That’s a short dialogue from The Cosby Show, a television program which aired during the 1980s and early 1990s, about a family living in New York. In this episode, Theo Huxtable asks his sister, Denise, to make him a shirt that will impress his date because he can’t afford the Gordon Gartrell shirt, he’d rather buy, from a designer clothing store. But, the shirt Denise sews turns out to be a total mess, leaving Theo anxious about how his date will feel about him when she sees him.
That doesn’t sound like a riveting story line. In fact, many other episode plots of The Cosby Show also don’t sound that compelling, such as Rudy having a bad dream, Cliff Huxtable feeling sick after making himself a hoagi sandwich or Theo receiving a D on his report card. It’s not like CSI (Crime Scene Investigation) known for its graphic depictions of violence and sexual deviancy and it’s not like The Twilight Saga where the main characters must constantly evade malicious vampires or else die but, somehow, the writers and actors of The Cosby Show, because of their humour and charm, managed to draw in millions of viewers from all over the world, tuning in every week for around nine years.
In the same way, some Christians have action-packed testimonies like Corrie Ten Boom, who suffered in a concentration camp after hiding Jewish people from the NAZIS in her very own home, or, how about, the American serial killer who, during his time in prison, claimed he’d given his heart to Jesus? But other Christians have more simple testimonies, such as kids who grew up in Christian families.
More Dramatic Than You Think
Sometimes, Christians who have attended church since birth, and so can’t really remember a time when they didn’t believe the truth found in the Bible, feel they have lived less dramatic lives and feel that their testimony is of less value and so it’s not worth telling how God has worked in their lives. But does any Christian really have a mundane testimony? I once thought I did, but after hearing of renowned evangelist, Ray Comfort’s, method of evangelism, I now know that I also have a dramatic and amazing testimony because Ray Comfort’s method of evangelism involves taking unbelievers through the Ten Commandments found in Exodus, asking them if they have ever broken one.
And after answering Ray’s questions, his interviewees often realise that not only have they sinned, they’ve sinned against God, and the people He created, in multiple ways by either lying; stealing; blaspheming God’s name; lusting, which Jesus said is adultery of the heart; and hating people, which the Bible says is the same as murder. This causes them to realise that rather than viewing them as good people, God views them as lying, thieving, blasphemous, murderous, adulterers at heart. Upon knowing this, the interviewees realise that not only do they deserve jail time, like that American serial killer I mentioned above, they also deserve eternal Hell.
Worth Telling
And that’s me. Although I grew up inside a Christian family, I’m not an innocent dove. I wasn’t even as a kid. Even as a child, I was a sinner prone to lie, steal, blaspheme and hate, but God graciously and mercifully enabled me to surrender my life to Him, so as God sanctifies me over my lifetime, but definitely once I reach Heaven, I can be called righteous because Jesus took all of my sins onto His shoulders while on the cross, wiping them away and giving me a new heart. That’s a dramatic transformation. That’s a testimony that needs to be told.
So, if you’ve ever viewed your testimony as boring, because you haven’t experienced horrific abuse or spent time in jail, perhaps, you should take a closer look at it and yourself and realise that although your testimony is seemingly as ordinary as a Cosby Show plotline, because of what Jesus did in your heart, it’s actually quite astounding.
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