Today I’m going to teach you how to share your faith one-on-one using the law to convict people of their sin.Then telling them of the news of Jesus taking the punishment that they deserve on his own back.
1.Start in the natural.It is always best to start in the natural realm and then swing to the spiritual.This is what Jesus did with the woman at the well (John 4:7).
2.Swing to the spiritual.You need to then make a deliberate swing to the spiritual.You need to mention the things of GOD.You can’t sit there waiting for people to come to you or for nonchristians to bring up the things of GOD you need to yourself.Jesus did this too when talking to the woman at the well (verse 10).
3.Bring conviction using the law.We must convict a guilty sinner and show him he is guilty by using the law of GOD.Jesus did this with the rich young ruler (Luke 18:18-23).After handing the person the tract or doing what ever you do to bring up the things of GOD simply ask if they consider themself to be a good person.Then you can ask if they would mind if you asked them a few questions to see if that’s true.Then gently take them through some of the Ten Commandments starting with “have you ever told a lie before".Other commandments that are good to ask are“have you ever stolen anything” and “ Jesus said (in Mathew 5:27,28) ‘who ever looks at a woman to lust after her has committed adultery with her already in his heart’.Have you ever done that?” and “Have you ever taken GOD’s name in vain?”.
4.Next ask them if GOD judges them by that standard on the Day of Judgment if they think they would be innocent or guilty.If they say innocent ask them why and point out that The Bible say’s that “GOD has appointed a day in which he will judge the world in righteousness” (Acts 17:31)
5.Next, ask them if they think that they would go to heaven or hell.From here, the conversation can go three way’s.One they can say “I don’t believe in hell”.If they say that kindly point out that if you jump in front of a bus and say, “I don’t believe in buses” what happens.Two, they can say that they are guilty but GOD will let hem go anyway.Usually because they think that because GOD is good and merciful or that because they have asked GOD for forgiveness that he will thus let them go.If they say that, once again point out that “GOD has appointed a day in which he will judge the world in righteousness” (Acts 17:31).And if a good kind forgiving and merciful judge sees a guilty criminal before him.What is he going to do, even if the person asks for forgiveness?He will punish that person because he is good.The same way GOD will punish guilty sinners because he is good.Three, they will admit that they are guilty and will thus go to hell.If a person say’s that ask if it concerns him and if he say’s yes if he would like to do anything about it.If he say’s no, plead with him about his salvation and talk about the reality of hell and what it will be like.
6.Share the gospel with them.Ask them to imagine themselves standing in a courtroom with a large fine over their head that they can’t pay.And then miraculously someone they don’t even know comes in and pays the fine for them.That’s what Jesus did.They broke the law and Jesus paid their fine.Tell them that if they just trust in Jesus the same way that they trust in a parachute to save their life.Because you don’t just look at a parachute and say, “I know you were manufactured to save my life” and jump out of the plane.You have to put it on that’s what The Bible say’s to “put on Christ” (I don’t know where) and you do that by trusting in Jesus the same way you trust in a parachute and repenting that means turning away from your sin.If you do that you will live in heaven forever.
7.Next you can pray for them (especially if they said hell concerns them).
It is as simple as that.Now, as Jesus said “Go, therefore into all nations, and preach the gospel, baptizing them in the name of the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit and lo, I a with you always even until the end of the age”.
Thanks, witnessing, for breaking that down a little. It helps to hear how people have responded in the past to you and your approach so that we can know what to expect.
I am so excited that you put a banner up! Awesome! Did you get it form the Battle Cry webpage?
the vision
8:22 AM, Oct. 5, 2006
.. Posted by Anonymous
THE VISION
So this guy comes up to me and says "what's the vision? What's the big idea?" I open my mouth and words come out like this…
The vision?
The vision is JESUS - obsessively, dangerously, undeniably Jesus.
The vision is an army of young people.
You see bones? I see an army. And they are FREE from materialism.
They laugh at 9-5 little prisons.
They could eat caviar on Monday and crusts on Tuesday.
They wouldn't even notice.
They know the meaning of the Matrix, the way the west was won.
They are mobile like the wind, they belong to the nations. They need no passport.. People write their addresses in pencil and wonder at their strange existence.
They are free yet they are slaves of the hurting and dirty and dying.
What is the vision ?
The vision is holiness that hurts the eyes. It makes children laugh and adults angry. It gave up the game of minimum integrity long ago to reach for the stars. It scorns the good and strains for the best. It is dangerously pure.
Light flickers from every secret motive, every private conversation.
It loves people away from their suicide leaps, their Satan games.
This is an army that will lay down its life for the cause.
A million times a day its soldiers
choose to loose
that they might one day win
the great 'Well done' of faithful sons and daughters.
Such heroes are as radical on Monday morning as Sunday night. They don't need fame from names. Instead they grin quietly upwards and hear the crowds chanting again and again: "COME ON!"
And this is the sound of the underground
The whisper of history in the making
Foundations shaking
Revolutionaries dreaming once again
Mystery is scheming in whispers
Conspiracy is breathing…
This is the sound of the underground
And the army is discipl(in)ed.
Young people who beat their bodies into submission.
Every soldier would take a bullet for his comrade at arms.
The tattoo on their back boasts "for me to live is Christ and to die is gain".
Sacrifice fuels the fire of victory in their upward eyes. Winners. Martyrs. Who can stop them ?
Can hormones hold them back?
Can failure succeed? Can fear scare them or death kill them ?
And the generation prays
like a dying man
with groans beyond talking,
with warrior cries, sulphuric tears and
with great barrow loads of laughter!
Waiting. Watching: 24 - 7 - 365.
Whatever it takes they will give: Breaking the rules. Shaking mediocrity from its cosy little hide. Laying down their rights and their precious little wrongs, laughing at labels, fasting essentials. The advertisers cannot mould them. Hollywood cannot hold them. Peer-pressure is powerless to shake their resolve at late night parties before the cockerel cries.
They are incredibly cool, dangerously attractive
inside.
On the outside? They hardly care. They wear clothes like costumes to communicate and celebrate but never to hide.
Would they surrender their image or their popularity?
They would lay down their very lives - swap seats with the man on death row - guilty as hell. A throne for an electric chair.
With blood and sweat and many tears, with sleepless nights and fruitless days,
they pray as if it all depends on God and live as if it all depends on them.
Their DNA chooses JESUS. (He breathes out, they breathe in.)
Their subconscious sings. They had a blood transfusion with Jesus.
Their words make demons scream in shopping centres.
Don't you hear them coming?
Herald the weirdo's! Summon the losers and the freaks. Here come the frightened and forgotten with fire in their eyes. They walk tall and trees applaud, skyscrapers bow, mountains are dwarfed by these children of another dimension. Their prayers summon the hounds of heaven and invoke the ancient dream of Eden.
And this vision will be. It will come to pass; it will come easily; it will come soon.
How do I know? Because this is the longing of creation itself, the groaning of the Spirit, the very dream of God. My tomorrow is his today. My distant hope is his 3D. And my feeble, whispered, faithless prayer invokes a thunderous, resounding, bone-shaking great 'Amen!' from countless angels, from hero's of the faith, from Christ himself. And he is the original dreamer, the ultimate winner.
Guaranteed.
Hey previous, anonymous poster, awesome post. Who are you?
the vision...
8:29 AM, Oct. 6, 2006
.. Posted by Honza
pretty full-on isn't it? but really inspiring too.
If you read Friday 29's Honzablog entry and follow the link to the report on ACC that some other guy blogged, then read down till you come to the bit about Brendan Nottle (a truly crazy guy, but in a good way) and then click on the link 'vision' you will find yourself in the 24-7 prayer website, and you can find out about the origin of it, and maybe get the car-boot mix chill CD copy, or watch the animation, or perhaps read it in Spanish or Norwegian!
I gotta write shorter sentences.
Really.
I must...
