Witnessing as sharing is also

Witnessing for our own benefit

My mother in her prime ran into a lot of people who seemed offended by her attempts to share her witness. One occasion when my mother was explaining her experience with the Holy Spirit to a relative stranger of our extended family, she garnered a come back that she was getting a little ghostie. 

I supposed that she was talking about the Holy Ghost, but I was not then Biblically self taught as was my mother.