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ISSUE 2 JULY 2021

How can we be witnesses to Christ?

Emirose Thattil
Isabel Alexander:

There are many ways of being witnesses to
Christ. One way is to continue reading and We can bear witness by being a
understand the word of God. Take time to just life witness and
read and reflect the bible. Another way is to exemplary life. having an
We
should
actively come to Church even after graduating evangelize and speak to others
from CCD. This means staying engaged with about Jesus.
your church family and trying to participate in We should also
church activities. The third way of being worship God and participate in the
witness to Christ is being engaged with your Holy Mass. We are also to do acts
family. This means attending family prayer, of charity, for example, giving
helping your family, and simply spending time food and hungry to the homeless.
with them. The fourth way is by bringing Christ We should engage in social work
and
speak
to school and studies. Before you start studying social against evil/wrong
systems
or do work, say a simple prayer, and once you Gospel values. and stand for
are done say a quick thank you to Christ.
Finally, the greatest way to be a witness to
Christ is to be a kind person. Treat everyone
with kindness. Be respectful of people's spaces,
love everyone. Know that everyone is a child of
God, therefore love everyone.

Merissa Joju

The first way to being a witness to Christ is
embodying our own relationships with God the best
way possible, through prayer. Then, we can focus on
Tia Dinker be like Christ, we have to go through Christian
our personal selves in order to show others what
prayer and a relationship with God can do. In order to

suffering and sacrifice to understand the life of being
By a true Christian and living like Jesus, though we may
being never be able to understand all He did to sacrifice for
active
church in the us. We only grow closer to God through receiving the
community, sacraments and continuing on in our faith journey,
to showing others the complexities of Christianity and
spreading the word of God
people
who how beautiful the journey can be. Living like Christ
haven't and embodying the Gospel, while sharing it with
footsteps those who do not know the good news, is our mission
heard it, following in the
of as disciples so it is one of the ultimate ways of being
Christ, witnesses to Christ. We start being witnesses to
following the guidelines set
Christ in our own families and communities, which is
by the church, attempting
to be a saint. missionaries, so we need to bring up our own families
the only way we can eventually be out in the world as
and communities and bring them to God.

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