This is a blog to encourage people to share their salvation story, even if they think their particular story sounds boring compared to others. All salvation stories have this in common: they’re about Jesus, and they’re miraculous. Are you a boring miracle? Is there such a thing?
Some Christians have a fantastical story of sin and redemption. But other Christians might feel like they don’t. Over the years I’ve spent in church and Bible study groups, I’ve talked to many Christians who were hesitant to tell their testimony simply because they feel there isn’t much of a story to tell compared to other people’s crazy testimonies.
Many people fear giving their testimony because they feel like their story is not impressive enough. Maybe you were a Christian at such a young age that following Christ has always been a given, sort of implanted in your worldview and remained clear and stable. Or, maybe you’re a person who did become a Christian as a teen or adult, but the story doesn’t have one of those dramatic tales of wild debauchery that eventually led to a pit of utter despair. In today’s times of extremes of human behavior lighting up our screens, passions painting social media, and everyone’s stories competing attention in a perverse game of grandiosity, it can feel out of place to have a nice, quiet little story of salvation. It could even feel strangely embarrassing not to have an action-packed, sensational tale that highlights the epitome of the grotesque human condition before being ripped up from the gutter by an army of angels. I get it. But you need to look past it. It’s ok. It’s more than ok. It’s the true reality. And it’s amazing.
Your story is your story, and your story of repenting of your sins and becoming a follower of Christ is equally miraculous, and full of Grace I might add, as anyone else’s story. So wear it proud, and boast not in your sin nor your goodness, but in the glory of God, of which poured out to us via the blood of Christ and soaked your life in white-as-snow salvation and, subsequently, undeserved righteousness that radically, yes radically, transformed your heart, mind, soul, and eternal destination. Is there more than one Satan?
Is there more than one nature of sin? Is there more than one way to be redeemed? Is there any such thing as an accidental Christian? Is there a part of God’s glory that is less glorious? Were there some drops of Jesus’s blood that weren’t as essential? Is there any such thing as a boring miracle?
Besides, the story isn’t about you. It never was. As the old hymn we used to sing in church says, “Go, tell it on the mountain, over the hills and everywhere…Go, tell it on the mountain, that Jesus Christ in Lord.” From the mountaintops, shout it boldly. Proclaim Jesus as Lord, which is the core of the story. Leave the rest to the Holy Spirit.
Where Christ’s story meets your story, the angels are singing praises to the Lord. When you tell your story, you let others hear the heavenly music. Tell it and tell it often. The world is desperate for it.
Jordan Tate 