What does it mean to be an effective witness for Christ?

Well, today, on Insight for Living, Chuck Swindall offers a powerful piece of advice,

stop talking and start working.

Surprised?

In this study, Chuck explains why leading a quiet life,

minding your business, and working with your hands is the Bible's first step toward evangelism.

You see, excellent work habits earn the right to be heard, and it will season your speech

with grace and a pinch of salt. From his contagious Christianity series, Chuck

titled today's message, behaving properly toward outsiders. Go back again to the Gospel

of John. This time it's chapter 13. John 13. Look at verse one.

Now before the feast of the Passover, Jesus knowing that his hour had come, that he should

depart out of this world to the Father, having loved his own, who were in the world, he loved them to the end.

Isn't that good stuff? He loved them to the uttermost. Having loved his own who were in the world,

he loved them to the extreme.

In fact, it doesn't just mean he loved them to the end of his life and ministry.

It means he loved them, ice telos, into completion, would be a pretty literal rendering. In fact, Knox renders it. He gave them the uttermost

proof of his love. A.W. Pink says, he loved them to the farthest extent of their need and of his

grace. The NIV reads, he loved them to the full extent. The amplified says he loved them to the highest degree. I especially like Campbell Morgan's rendering. The words unto the end mean to completion. It has been rendered beautifully to the uttermost, Morgan Eds, but I am going

to dare to render it another way, which I maintain reveals the very spirit of it.

Having loved his own who were in the world, he saw it through. The hour had come.

He had come from God.

He was going back to God.

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