All Saints Church
Thorpe Acre with Dishley 

Thorpe Acre Road, Loughborough, Leicestershire, LE11 4LF, England, UK

Witness
(~20mins)

The Purpose
To reach our friends who don’t know God through cell and so grow big enough to multiply (which is about 15 people).

How?
Effective witnessing should come out of the overflow of our life together in God.

As God challenges us to more radical lifestyles through the work of the Holy Spirit in cell life, we will be motivated to reach out to our friends. We need to experience how much God loves those who don't know Him. That will change our heart attitude towards our friends. This is a subject for prayer, and needs to be worked through in the group.

It's vital that evangelism is motivated from love - not duty. We need to receive God's heart for the lost and receive the Holy Spirit's empowering to reach out.

The role of the cell is to empower us to be witnesses and to reach our friends with the gospel. That's done through accountability in the group, to encourage prayer and an expectation that God is going to use us. The group can create strategies together to reach not-yet Christians, taking responsibility together for one another's friends eg socials to invite people’s friends along to.

A group of believers who loved one another was seen as a powerful witness by Jesus (John 13:35). By exposing a not-yet Christian to this loving community, they experience something of God and are drawn to question what is motivating the group. Once friends begin to respond to God through the group's witness, an excitement grows as everyone sees the power of the gospel at work. That changes the whole dynamic of the group, making growth and multiplication the normal expectation.