BROTHER JERRY MARTIN WRITES TESTIMONIES

 
Mr. Jerry Martin

Brother Jerry Martin is writing down testimonies to print in the Faith Temple (Taylors, SC) bulletin. Jerry wants to share inspiration from our church folk.

“We’d like to do a testimony column,” Jerry said, speaking from Faith Temple’s pulpit on Sun., Nov. 5, 2023. “This is not about coming down to you and sticking a microphone in your face — because people really panic and lock up, then… You can’t give your WHOLE testimony at all times. That’s called a ‘biography.’ We’d like to get your testimonies: simple, short.”

Churches enjoy oral testimonies (spoken statements), but Jerry wants to jot down testimonies (written statements). He plans to write about what the Lord has done or is doing for you.

As an example, Jerry penned part of his testimony last week. He wrote about the day he “actually realized that there was a God!” 

“That might not mean anything to anybody else, but to me that was kind of important,” he said.  

Jerry believes in sharing.

“There’s a lot of knowledge and wisdom and experience that would be good to get out to you onto a piece of paper that might benefit somebody else … might benefit our young people.”

 While Jerry and Danny Phillips drove to start work as carpenters for a recent Kentucky mission project, Jerry began thinking about testimonies. 

“Part of what brought this about was Danny and I went to Kentucky a few weeks ago, and we were just riding up there, chit-chatting. Some things Danny said sounded like things I had experienced; some things I said helped him. So you kind of find out — wow! — like there are people on your same frequency that might benefit from knowing some of these testimonies.”

Jerry wants your help.

“Please, if you’ve got something you’d like to say, let’s say it,” he said. 

“Let’s put it on paper. You don’t have to stand up in front of the church. I know that’s kind of unnerving to people. You don’t have to hold a microphone. But let me have your testimonies. When you say it, you’re  acknowledging it to be true in your life. And I think that gives us some tremendous horsepower to get through the hard times, the difficult times.”

Jerry’s effort includes shut-ins who cannot attend our church gatherings.   

Jerry suggests 4 ways to get testimonies to him: call him, write your testimony down on a piece of paper, send him an e-mail, or “I will come to you and sit with a notepad, and you can tell me your story as I write,” he says. 

Jerry shared two verses to back up his proposal: 

“They overcame him by the blood of the Lamb, and by the word of their testimony…” (Rev. 12:11).

“Come and hear, all you who fear God, and I will declare what he has done for my soul” (Ps. 66:16).

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