There are many people who promote the Christian faith on a public platform, but who is the best witness of the faith in this area?

And what can we learn from this person?

To answer that question, I'm going to lay out three criteria for what makes someone the best at publicly sharing the Christian faith.

So let's start with number one, personal holiness.

When looking to see if someone is a good witness of the faith, we should always ask,

does this person demonstrate the work of the Holy Spirit in their life through identifiable fruits

of the Holy Spirit? In other words, does this person's life exhibit, as Galatians 522 says,

love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, and self-control.

And is there witness generally free of what that same part of Galatians calls the works of the

flesh, things like enmity, strife, jealousy, anger, selfishness, and dissension?

This is important because evangelism is not about helping people get the right

answers on a theology test. It's about helping people become new creations in Jesus Christ.

That's why St. Paul says, if I have prophetic powers and understand all mysteries and all knowledge,

and if I have all faith so as to remove mountains, but have not love, I am nothing.

The best Christian witness will show, as Paul says, that love is patient and kind, love is not

jealous or boastful, it is not arrogant or rude. Love does not insist on its own way. It is not

irritable or resentful. It does not rejoice it wrong, but rejoices in the right. Love bears all things,

believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things. Number two, bold proclamation. It's not

enough to just have the fruits of the Holy Spirit. Many non-Christians practice love, joy, patience,

and the rest. You could be the most joyful, most

patient person in the world, but if you never speak the name of Jesus to another person,

then you haven't given anyone good news. You haven't given them the gospel. That's why our

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