One Basic Reason To Believe Christianity

Watching the news can be a very enlightening experience. As I was listening to a reporter, I began focusing on where the reporter was and less on what the reporter was saying. Then, it dawned on me: the reason why news reporters are usually on site at the scene of an event is to give credibility to what they are saying. Often, when we try to tell someone about an event they seem more interested when they learn that we were actually there - that alone makes them more open to our account of the story.

The earliest believers of Jesus were influential because their account of the story of Jesus was rooted in the fact that they were actual eye-witnesses of the events. Eyewitness testimony is and has always been one of the determinative elements in the pursuit of truth. You find this principle in any court of law. Jesus sent out His earliest followers to share news of what they had seen and heard. The fact that they were eyewitnesses, gave their ‘testimony’ an open audience.