Sermon for Rorate Coeli, the Fourth Sunday in Advent

In modern American Christianity, a testimony is often what one person tells another person, usually a friend or acquaintance, about what God has done for them. Sometimes it can be a long story about how they lived a riotous and dissolute life as a younger person and now have come to a moral life of faith in Jesus. Sometimes these can be self-serving and more about the person than about Jesus. If you look at a Biblical testimony, the testimony of John, you don’t see anything about a change in his life. Rather, John defines both who he is not and who he is. This is the mark of a good testimony – Jesus is the Christ, and you are not, but your life is now defined by Him.