# Witnessing

**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/witnessing/631853
**Category:** About This Message Board
**Created:** [August 18, 2012, 4:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/witnessing/631853 "2012-08-18T04:23:48Z")
**Posts on this page:** 4
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### Author: ![IceQube](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/dfb087/32.png) [@IceQube](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/IceQube)
#### Post date: [August 18, 2012, 4:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/witnessing/631853/1 "2012-08-18T04:23:48Z")

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What is “witnessing”?

The “Great Debates” sub-forum’s tagline mentions “witnessing.” :dubious: What is this? 😕

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### Author: ![friedo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/8edcca/32.png) [@friedo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/friedo)
#### Post date: [August 18, 2012, 4:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/witnessing/631853/2 "2012-08-18T04:25:44Z")

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Talking about Jesus.

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### Author: ![IceQube](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/dfb087/32.png) [@IceQube](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/IceQube)
#### Post date: [August 18, 2012, 4:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/witnessing/631853/3 "2012-08-18T04:26:58Z")

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> [@friedo](#):
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> Talking about Jesus.

Oh. The first thing I thought of happened to be Jehovah’s Witnesses, so I guess I wasn’t that far off.

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### Author: ![Colibri](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/colibri/32/1841_2.png) [@Colibri](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Colibri)
#### Post date: [August 18, 2012, 4:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/witnessing/631853/4 "2012-08-18T04:32:21Z")

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[Christian witnessing.](http://www.allaboutgod.com/christian-witnessing.htm)

Since this is about forum descriptions, I’m going to move this to ATMB.

Colbri  
General Questions Moderator