LC2024 Workshops
WORKSHOPS
SPEAKERS
MICHAEL BENSON
SAM BARBER
Workshop 2: "A People of Grace: Wesley’s Discipleship for Today’s Nazarenes"
DAVID FRISBIE
JERRY STORZ
DEAN BLEVINS
Workshop 2:"Question and Answer- Disability Ministry 101"
JOHN COMSTOCK
DARYLL STANTON
BARB STANLEY
Workshop 2: "Question and Answer- Disability Ministry 101"
SCOTT RAINEY
DOROTHY WHIPP
Workshop 2: "What do Children's Quizzing and Glue have in Common?"
TIM BREWER
JUANITA COPLEY
DARLENE FRANKS
KEVIN GILMORE
RICH HOUSEAL
JEFF SPANGLER
JAMES HICKS
TOM HRUSKA
TREY BROOKS
STAN REEDER
BRAD LEE
RYAN NELSON
Workshop 2: "Structuring for Success - The People Side of Disability Ministry"
JONATHAN TREES
LEAH WHICKER
DON WELCH
KALYN VOGELMANN
MIKE WONCH
Michael Benson
Michael Benson has served as President of the Church of the Nazarene Foundation since March 2012. He previously served as the Director of Stewardship Ministries for the Church of the Nazarene, Inc. He is a graduate of Mount Vernon Nazarene University and Nazarene Theological Seminary and also holds a Doctor of Ministry degree from Fuller Theological Seminary. Mark served as a pastor for over 22 years in New York and Ohio. Under Mark’s leadership the Foundation stewards over $140 million in assets and distributes over $10 million to ministry every year. Mark and his wife Ruth live in Ottawa, Kansas, and have five daughters and six grandchildren.
Workshop
A Method for Witnessing: Using an Eight-word Testimony
Arguably the most quoted testimony from someone who had an encounter with Jesus is the report of the man born blind. John records that after several high-pressured meetings and very pointed inquiries when pressed to acknowledge if the man who healed him was a sinner or not. The newly sighted man said that he didn’t know that but the one thing he did know was this: “Once I was blind but now, I see."
An eight-word testimony that clearly gives witness to what Jesus did for him. “I once was blind; Now I can see.” This can become a pattern for our witnessing to others. A word testimony of what God has done for you. Impossible to forget. Powerful in that it is yours and you have lived it. You are not witnessing what he has done for others but what Jesus did for you.
Jesus said we would be his witnesses. Many have used this pattern with new-found confidence and boldness to witness to others.