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Once we have experienced the exciting life in Christ that is real, we will want to share it with other people, just as the Apostle John wanted to “declare” it to all his readers in the first century.  Many people (including some Christians) have the idea that “witnessing” means wrangling over the differences in religious beliefs or sitting down and comparing churches.  That isn’t what John had in mind!  He tells us witnessing means sharing our spiritual experiences with others—both by the lives we live and by the words we speak.  As we read his 1^st epistle , we will discover John had in mind five purposes for sharing:

That we may have fellowship (v. 3).  This word fellowship is an important one in the vocabulary of a Christian.  It simply means “to have in common.”  As sinners, men have nothing in common with the holy…