04/08/2026
: Our lives as Christians should be a vista that people can use to capture glimpses of Jesus Christ & His Kingdom. Our lives should reflect the reality, power & beauty of Godâs Kingdom. The world will come to understand Jesus & the faith life largely through the quality of our own Christian life or witness. The average believerâs life should be a Bible (living epistle); a personification of all that God is able to do & all that the kingdom connote. Therefore, we must continually upgrade & strengthen our witness until our lives & our witness become such compelling expressions of Christ. For many, their understanding of Jesus & the Christian life will be shaped by the quality of our witness. If we reveal Christ inaccurately or in a lopsided manner, we risk misrepresenting Him & causing others to hate or reject the Christian faith based on the witness they see. The Kingdom we represent is a spiritual kingdom, but as believers, we are part of the physical infrastructure that gives it validity & credibility on the earth. This calls for sincere reflection on the potency of our witness & the effectiveness with which we have communicated the reality of Jesus Christ & His Kingdom to the world. If systems & institutions readily embrace innovations that improve their operations, why does the Christian faith remain a matter of hesitation & debate for many? One reason for this is that many who profess Christ have not been a good example of what it means to be a Christian holistically. If we are not careful, we may attempt to redefine Christianity instead of rightly representing it. The fear is that people could begin to treat the Christian faith the way obsolete systems like a typewriter are discarded, not because the Gospel has lost its power, but because it has been poorly represented. An imbalanced Christian life that does not capture wholeness & victory not only limits the believer but also frustrates the efforts to see that Jesus is received or the advancement of the Gospel, which may even foster resistance to the faith. Being with Jesus has visible implications. You must understand the implications of being a witness. Itâs not enough to chant that you are a witness. Itâs not enough to say you are a witness. Beyond the singing, beyond the identification with the Christian faith, people will look for tangible evidence that validates your claim of having been with Jesus Christ. Every time you stand before the world & you wear a shirt that says, âJesus, I love You,â or a hat, as we do, or a wristband, or you sing that you love Jesus, that in itself is implicating you. This means that every public identification with Christ, whether through your words, your worship, or even the symbols you wear, places a responsibility on you. Our lives should become a sterling representation of the life of Jesus, the faith life, so that through our witness, men are drawn to Christ & inspired to love the Kingdom He represents. The goal of discipleship is transformation. A believer who has been properly trained should increasingly reflect the character, values & life of Jesus Christ. Character is universally accepted when it is seen & modeled in a believer - that we look like & model Christ wholly. People should see Christ in us before they can trace us to a geographical origin. Our relevance to society must go beyond preaching on Sunday & prayer; it must be demonstrated through our capacity to bring value, solutions & transformation to the world around us!