Witnessing is sharing God's love and the experience of salvation with others. It is not an academic excercise as the world is more inclined to - it is rather sharing of one's personal experience.
If someone, who has not experienced salvation or not living a faithful life tries to witness, it would turn out to be an artificial act and will not be fruitful at all. As much as a blind cannot lead another blind, a person who does not know Christ cannot witness Christ to others.
Any attempt to witness must be preceded by a transformed life. The transformation that has taken place internally would be visible ( manifested ) externally reflecting God's love to those around us. Our friends will notice the difference in us. They will first see in us what we would share with them in words. For witnessing to be effective, our words and deeds must converge and complement each other.
We cannot witness in words alone. Our deeds must speak louder than our words. They must see in us what we preach. We cannot show our faith without work ( James 2: 17-20).
Our witnessing is a spontaneous outflow of our internal belief, driven by the love of God ( 2 Corinthians 5:14 says that the Love of God constrained us..) and expressed in words.
Finally, we must glorify God in whatever we do whether in words or in deeds. ( Colossians 3:17)
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