Article April 25, 1994 Issue

Witnessing with spiritual sense

Paul Osborne Williams

Since ancient times true witnessing has been vital. The Bible in Deuteronomy, for example, states that one witness was not regarded as sufficient, but that two or three witnesses would be needed to establish something as true (see 19:15). What underlies a desire for credible backing is people's need to know what is really so in a situation.

Those who see a relationship between recognizing truth and the experience of spiritual healing and regeneration are vitally concerned with what really is true. They can find much guidance in what Christ Jesus said about witnessing. Jesus cited John the Baptist as a witness for him and in addition said, "But I have greater witness than that of John: for the works which the Father hath given me to finish, the same works that I do, bear witness of me, that the Father hath sent me." In this same discussion Jesus says, "And the Father himself, which hath sent me, hath borne witness of me" (John 5:33, 36, 37).

As in Jesus' time, so today, the evidence of spiritual healing has not always been accepted by the human mind as credible. The failure to acknowledge this evidence is not due to the fact that those healings brought about through prayer—through God, Spirit, bearing witness to what is true—have not been clear and often obvious. There have been plenty of obvious healings. Skepticism arises from the preconceptions of material sense, which inclines people not to accept that the harmony they see established has been brought about by spiritual power. To acknowledge Christ-healing means to acknowledge God as the source of the evidence given and to acknowledge the God-bestowed authority of the one demonstrating God's power to heal. This acknowledgment calls for spiritual sense.

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