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A witness for Orthodoxy can be either a cleric any member of the Church, clergy or a laypersonlay; in any case, they should be worshipping with the Church regularly, and observing all normal practices of the Church as practiced locally and with the guidance of their spiritual father. During discussions about the Orthodox faith, a prepared witness will know Orthodox doctrine and be versed in Orthodox apologetics in order to best answer questions. It can also be helpful if the witness is familiar with various non-Orthodox ideologies.
A witness for Orthodoxy can and should pray for God's help in his or her task. Evangelism should be conducted out of love, and should be personal.
Orthodoxy believes teaches that only a person's free will can must accept faith, it does not believe freely; faith cannot be coerced in compulsory or any way. Such a conversion would be insincere conversionsand invalid.
== Prayers ==
Fr. Maxim Kozlov, Church of the Holy Martyr Tatiana, Moscow State University.
==See also==*[http://groups.yahoo.com/group/orthodoxwitness Orthodox Witness, an online e-group devoted to the discussion of witnessing Orthodoxy[Proselytism]]
* Green, Michael. ''Evangelism In The Early Church''. (ISBN 0802827683)* Oleksa, Michael J. ''Orthodox Alaska: A Theology of Mission''. (ISBN 0881410926) ==External links== '''Resources for Orthodox evangelism''' * [http://groups.yahoo.com/group/orthodoxwitness Orthodox Witness, an online e-group devoted to the discussion of witnessing Orthodoxy]* [http://www.antiochian.org/dynamis/1116475200.html An Orthodox homily on the Gospel of John and belief]* [http://www.orthodoxresearchinstitute.org/articles/mission/makarios_zimbabwe_evangelism.htm Mission and Evangelism by Metropolitan Makarios]* [http://orthodoxwitness.wikispaces.com/ Wiki-editable webpage on witnessing Orthodoxy, including prayer lists.]* [http://wiki.ehow.com/Bring-Someone-to-the-Orthodox-Chrisitan-Faith Wiki How to Bring Someone to the Orthodox Christian Faith]* [http://www.orthodox.net/articles/evangelism.html Eastern Orthodox Christian Evangelism is Different by Fr. David Moser]* [http://orthotracts.org/ orthotracts.org] '''Other resources'''* [[Wikipedia:Proselytism|Proselytism]] (broadly defined) at Wikipedia [[Category:Church Life]]