Alright, well if you open up your binders there, you'll find the first page is simply,
it says at the top, a biblical overview of VBC's soul winning ministry.
And the purpose of this page is to kind of explain why we do soul winning, how we do
soul winning.
Now you're at a soul winning seminar, I'm assuming you already kind of know what soul
winning is, but just to give you an understanding of what we're doing, the way that this works
is you got blanks, so I'm going to give you the fill in for your blanks and you can write
those in as we go along.
Number one, the question is who, and the answer is you.
So if you want to write in you, Mark 16, 15 says this, and he said unto them, go ye into
all the world and preach the gospel to every creature.
And the key word there is go ye.
He's saying it's our job to go, you are supposed to go.
Number two, what, what are we doing when we go soul winning, when we preach the gospel?
We preach, that's the fill in there, or teach the gospel.
The second fill in is baptize converts and disciple them.
That's our goal, that's our agenda, that's what we're doing.
We preach or teach the gospel, baptize converts and disciple them.
Mark 16, 15 says, and he said unto them, go ye into all the world and preach the gospel
to every creature.
Matthew 28, 19 says, go ye therefore and teach all nations, baptizing them in the name of
the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost, teaching them to observe all things
whatsoever I have commanded you, and lo, I am with you always, even unto the end of the
world.
Amen.
So who is you, what, preach or teach the gospel, baptize converts and disciple them.
Number three, when, till the end of the world.
There is no stop, you know, we're not, we're not Mormons on a two year mission, alright.
We're going to do this for the rest of our lives.
So it's till the end of the world.
And again, Matthew 28, 20, I read the verse for you there, but it says at the end there,
unto the end of the world.
Number four, where, till we've reached the whole world.
We want to, the key word there is reached, till we've reached the whole world.
Acts 1, 8 says, but ye shall receive power, after that the Holy Ghost has come upon you,
and ye shall be witnesses unto me both in Jerusalem and in all Judea and in Samaria
and unto the uttermost part of the earth.
Number five, how, two by two from house to house.
Two by two from house to house.
And this is important for you to understand.
A lot of times when we say we go out soul winning and we go into the community and we
go out in groups of two and we knock on doors and we, we canvas an area or whatever.
Sometimes people say like, oh, did you get that from the Mormons or did you get that
from the Jehovah's Witnesses?
No, we actually got that from the word of God.
In Mark chapter number six and verse seven, the Bible says this, and he, talking about
Jesus, called unto him the twelve.
And I began with his original twelve apostles there and began to send them forth, notice,
by two and two and gave them power over unclean spirits.
So Jesus sent out his disciples, the Bible says by two and two.
In Luke chapter number ten and verse one, the Bible says this, after these things the
Lord appointed others seventy also.
So he started off with twelve soul winners, now his church has grown, he's got seventy
soul winners, so that's great, and he sent them two and two before his face into every
city and place, whether he himself would come.
So we see that the pattern was that Jesus sent people out by two and two, he sent them
two and two.
In Acts two twenty the Bible says this, and how I kept back nothing that was profitable
unto you, but I've showed you, this is the apostle Paul speaking, and I've taught you
publicly and then he says this, and from house to house.
So we know that we are to go by two and two and we are to go from house to house and that's
how we're going to reach our community, we're going to knock every door in our community
with the gospel of Jesus Christ.
And then of course number six, why?
Why do we do it?
Because people are going to hell, that's why we do it.
Because if people do not receive Christ as their savior they will spend eternity in hell.
Luke sixteen twenty three says, and in hell he lift up his eyes being in torments and
see if Abraham afar off and Lazarus in his bosom.
Second Corinthians four three says, but if our gospel be hid, it is hid to them that
are lost.
This morning you've got the gospel, you've got salvation, but if you hide that gospel,
you are hiding it from the people who need it the most which are the lost.