A basic element of Christianity is sharing the Good News of what God has done in Jesus Christ. But witnessing is not always done well, not just in effectiveness but in terms of ethics. I like these two rules for witnessing that theologian Miroslav Volf offers:
1. Witness to others only if you are prepared to let them witness to you.
2. Witness to others in the way you think others should witness to you.
It’s amazing how closed we can be to people that we want to be open to us!
Along these lines, I recommend John Elmer Thiessen’s Ethic’s of Evangelism. He has some good things to say about this,
Sounds like these should be called “The Golden Rule” of witnessing.