What do you know of the Christmas Gospel?
Share your testimony:
How to
write your testimony?
- Pray God for guidance on what to write
- Explain the situation before Jesus came into the picture
- What happened when Jesus came into the picture?
- How is your situation now?
- Avoid using curch words
- Be honest
- Try to write within a frame of 300-500 words
There are many ways of writing your testimony. It can be of how you met Jesus and how life changed because of it, or it can be a testimony of a specific event or situation in your life where you experienced God interferring. Let the Lord guide you in what to write, and point to Jesus as saviour.
Read some examples:
Ankit (27) Just a few months ago, I was lost. I didn’t know what tomorrow would bring -sometimes not even the next moment. I would wake up with anxiety rushing through my body, worrying about my life and future in a foreign country, with my family and friends thousands of miles away. I didn’t know if I’d have work next month, or how I’d pay rent. But now... I wake up each morning, drink my coffee in peace, and feel secure, hopeful, excited, and loved. You may ask: What has changed? The answer is simpler than you think. It’s nothing—and everything. Let me start from the beginning. I was born into a Hindu family of engineers. My grandfather, my father, my only brother—all engineers. And me too. So everything we believed and practiced was rooted in science and logic. Naturally, I became an atheist. My family gave me everything material—I was well fed and well kept— but my heart was empty. I chased after the pleasures of the world: love, money, women, distractions, philosophies, even religion. And while they felt good for a moment, afterward I only felt emptier. It was like a child riding a carousel. At first, it’s magic... but after a few spins, the thrill fades. Soon the child wants more speed, brighter lights, a different horse. That was me. No matter what I tried, the thirst for worldly desires was endless. So I drowned myself in work and moved to Paris to pursue my passion for filmmaking, thinking that would finally make me whole. It didn’t. But on my very first day in Paris, I met someone who would become my best friend andbrother—Emil. I didn’t know it then, but meeting Emil was the beginning of something life-changing. Over the next three years, I spent countless hours with Emil and his family - talking with his father and mother about God. Their home was filled with love, warmth, and deep conversations that gave my restless heart peace. You can’t choose where you’re born, but you can choose where you will end up. And I ended up with God, and with the Aasen family. On December 31, 2024, I made the most important decision of my life: I accepted Jesus Christ as my Lord and Savior. And from that day forward, everything changed. My life was filled with purpose, joy, and a peace I had never known before. So yes—many of my old problems still exist. But now I live with hope, because I know Jesus is watching over me. He has a plan for my life. And that changes everything. It didn’t come easily. My journey was full of suffering and searching. But I learned something important along the way. Let me explain with a parable: If a man is shot by an arrow, the doctor will first try to remove the arrow and heal the wound. But if the man insists, “Wait! Before you treat me, tell me who shot the arrow, how it was made, and what kind of wood it came from”—that man will die. In the same way, you don’t need all the answers before starting your journey with God. You need to be saved first. And once you are, the answers will come—in His time, in His way. Words alone cannot explain God. Only experience can. Philosophies and debates can take you part of the way, but to truly know God, you must experience Him yourself. Build a relationship with Him. And when you do, you’ll understand Him—not just with your mind, but with your heart.
Selma (20) I grew up in a Christian home, and every Sunday I was rather unwillingly dragged along to Sunday school at church. My parents believed in Jesus, but I rarely heard them talk about what God had done in their lives, and I didn’t notice them practicing their faith outside of church. My perception of Christianity was boring, full of rules, and without life. I called myself a Christian mostly out of tradition, and what I actually believed was that all religions in different ways led to the same God. Why Jesus had to die had never sunk in, even after hearing it countless times throughout my childhood. Most of the time, I felt like I didn’t quite fit in. I was interested in deeper and more complex things, and I often heard from others my age that I was far too “grown up.” And it was true. I must have been no older than eight or nine when I started thinking about my own sexuality, and a few years later I also discovered pornography. For a long period, I felt attracted to both boys and girls, and in general, my self-image was completely distorted. The things I consumed online were garbage, and the friends I did have weren’t a good influence either. I had many thoughts that I had no purpose on earth—and I believed them—and it even went so far that I considered taking my own life. When I was 11 years old and my dad had just come home from a mission trip in the Middle East, I overheard him telling my mom about what a man he met had prophesied over me. The man had asked whether my dad had a daughter, and when he said yes, the man said: “She will travel to Africa, and she will tell many people about Jesus.” I broke down in my room when I heard this, because those words meant the opposite of the lies I had believed. God actually had a plan for my life, and I wasn’t going to be useless. After this, the suicidal thoughts lifted, but since I still hadn’t understood the gospel, I continued living in sin and without a personal relationship with God. Life was still empty, and I longed for something more. A year later, my mom, dad, brother, and I went to the local cinema to watch a documentary about what it looks like to be a disciple of Jesus today. The film followed people traveling to different places around the world—praying for the sick who were healed, casting out demons in Jesus’ name, and baptizing those who came to faith in Him. Watching this awakened something new in me. This was the kind of life I was hungry for—meaningful and alive in the power of the Holy Spirit. Why had I never seen this in real life? A few weeks later it was Easter, and my dad got us to join a seminar weekend in Denmark, where the people from the film were based. There they explained the whole gospel, and for the first time I understood what it truly meant: that I am a sinner and NEED Jesus. For only through Him can we be cleansed and have a place in Heaven after this life. During those days, I witnessed miracles and healings. Experiencing and understanding that all of this was real became powerful proof that God is real, that Jesus lives, and that I had to repent and make a choice to truly follow Him. On Easter Sunday 2018, I was baptized, burying all sin and my old life, and rising into a new life in Christ. Immediately, I stopped swearing completely, and I decided not to lie anymore. I did not go back to pornography, and I understood that the feelings I had had for the same sex were not from God. God had completely transformed me on the inside and ignited a fire in me to share the gospel. I knew I was loved and saved by Jesus. Being kind to others had previously been difficult—but the love I received on the inside began to flow naturally out of me. This became truly worth sharing, no longer about getting anything out of it for myself. When we returned to everyday life, I got to pray for several of the students at school and friends outside of school, and many of them told me their pain disappeared from their bodies. During a class outside where we talked about what we wanted to become when we grew up, there was only one thing I wanted to be—a disciple of Jesus! I’m not sharing all of this to show what a cool testimony I have—but because Jesus really can completely transform our lives when we let Him. Many people have been surprised when I’ve told them about my life before I met Jesus, because it is so far from the life I live and the person I am today. But it truly is evidence of how good God is! I no longer live in myself, for Christ lives in me. All that is really required is a choice to believe that Jesus has died for us—and to follow Him. We must understand that no matter how much good we do in this world, it cannot save us. For all have sinned, and therefore God cannot accept us as we are, because sin separates us from Him. That is why you and I NEED Jesus. What is absolutely certain is that God is good and has already made the best path for us—if we choose to walk on it. Living close to God is still a daily choice, but I do not doubt for a second that He exists and that the Bible is His Word—for what is written there is not just theory; it works in practice!
