Resurrection Isn’t Boring
I know what people mean when they say they have a dull or boring testimony. I’ve probably said the same thing myself. However, I want to push back on that because the truth is that a dull or boring testimony is an oxymoron. There is no such thing. Usually, what people mean is they’re thinking of someone else’s story they heard that was very obviously dramatic. It was someone who was living in flagrant rebellion against God and was dramatically and drastically pulled out of it into a whole new life. And we praise God for stories like that.
But then they maybe look at their own testimony, and it begins in a Christian home, and there are some struggles here and there, maybe a rededication to Christ, but they’ve been following after him ever since.
Saved to Sin No More
Brad Wetherell
In this encouraging book, Brad Wetherell explores Scripture to show how union with Christ offers true freedom—helping believers fight sin, rest in grace, and live with lasting hope.
In comparison, that sounds boring or dull. But the reality of every Christian conversion is that we have gone from death to life, that we have died to sin and come alive to God in Christ Jesus. Every Christian testimony is a story of resurrection—and resurrection is not boring.
Imagine Lazarus telling his story. No one’s bored to hear that he was dead and he came back to life. And every Christian has that testimony. Remembering this will help us really soak in the goodness and the magnitude of God’s grace to us. We didn’t need any less saving than anyone else. We were dead, but we’ve become alive in Christ Jesus.
Brad Wetherell is the author of Saved to Sin No More: How Union with Christ Empowers a Life of Holiness.
Brad Wetherell is senior pastor of the Orchard, a multisite church in the northwest suburbs of Chicago. He holds a doctor of ministry and serves on the steering committee of the Gospel Coalition’s Chicago regional chapter, which gathers pastors for encouragement, fellowship, and prayer. Brad and his wife, Kristen, have three children.
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