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If anyone wants to or is attempting to give the Gospel in Spanish, I'd like for you to take one of these tonight.
We've got a lot of them.
If you say,
What is Spanish?
Just ignore this, okay?
We had some tacos and some burritos.
Now, if that's the extent of your Spanish,
then you probably should wait.
But, if you are interested in giving the Gospel in Spanish,
or you already do,
please grab one of these.
They're really nice.
High quality.
It's a New Testament.
It's got an English on one side and Spanish on the other side.
So, it's a special little gift there.
So, we'll have those up here.
At any point tonight,
you come up and grab one.
Get one if you need one.
So, that's a special gift.
Thank you to Miss Ophelia for that.
That's definitely a great present.
I used it today.
The first person I talked to got saved.
So, there you go.
It works.
Apparently, this thing works.
Praise the Lord on that.
Just because we have people coming in,
I want to make sure
that we're getting all of our salvations counted.
Was there any salvations
that were not given
to a soul winning captain already
or not reported to anybody yet?
From this afternoon?
You had five as your group?
Okay.
Okay, that was with two different partners, right?
So, you had five. Was there anything else from today?
Okay.
You were with who in the morning?
Brother John.
Okay, yeah. Brother John.
Alright.
Anything else?
So, add seven to our other totals.
For someone.
Alright.
So, as Brother Oz is handing these out,
I'm not going to quite get started.
I'm going to wait until everybody kind of has one
and they're ready to go.
Is everybody kind of have one?
Is anybody missing one?
Okay. Basically, this is kind of
just like a real
elaborate soul winning presentation
is what this pamphlet is.
And I'm not going to necessarily
go through this word for word.
The goal of today
is that I'm just going to kind of
highlight some of the parts of
the Gospel presentation that I think are
maybe the most challenging
or things that people should try to work on
and try to improve no matter what
stage, area, or level you're in.
But I'm going to kind of focus
on the first half and then the second half.
And really, I find when
it comes to giving the Gospel,
there's kind of like two big
areas that people struggle with.
Number one is just
kind of the introduction.
Basically going from
saying hi to then giving the Gospel.
Getting to that point.
And then the second point is like
while you're giving the Gospel,
getting successfully to the prayer.
Basically closing the deal.
I feel like those are the two most difficult parts
of giving the Gospel is just kind of getting
to the starting point and then kind of
ending. And so tonight
I'm going to be focusing on the introduction.
Tomorrow I'm going to be working
I'm going to kind of focus on the ending.
And then I'm just going to have a few more tips
on Saturday.
So that just kind of gives you a high level of what we're going to be doing.
I have four questions
here in this introduction section.
Okay?
And these are pretty standard questions.
But the reason why
they're standard questions is because they work.
Okay?
And so I want to
make something clear. Soul winning
has been done by thousands of people
before us.
And they're going to do it after us.
And there's just certain things that just work.
And so really
what I find is when people try to get
cute or unique or try to do things
their own way, that's when you really
just kind of end up not being successful.
You know, you really want to kind of
stick to the tried and true
methods, formulas,
and everything like that. That given
obviously if you can get someone saved, who cares
how you did it, right? I mean we don't really care at the end of the day.
But the goal of a seminar
is to be the best we can be
at presenting the gospel and getting
even better.
And I find that when people start asking
other questions or getting in the weeds
at the introduction stage,
it never goes anywhere.
I'm thinking like, oh that's great. I want to
try that technique. Okay?
And so
you know, really
when it comes to
knocking on doors
or really presenting the gospel to anyone
at any time, the starting
point is pretty much just
always, if you were to
die today, are you 100%
sure you go to heaven? Really
that's just, you want to get to that question
as soon as possible.
And really I would say, you know, in a non
soul winning environment like just family and friends,
that's the hardest question to ask for me.
It's just to get that one question
out there. But you know, as soon as you get
it out there, you know, all
the cards are on the table and you basically have the
opportunity to then give the gospel. So when
I'm knocking doors, and I'm
running into strangers, I don't really
care if they like me or not. So I want to get
to that question as soon as humanly
possible. Okay? So
obviously I'm not saying necessarily
as soon as they open the door you have to ask that question.
You might say, hello.
Often times, we
offer them a card, right? We say, hey, we're
from a Baptist church. Okay?
But just to be honest, everything that
I'm saying is pretty much meaningless
before that question. So there's
really no point in engaging any kind
of conversation with people,
you know, very long outside
of just dropping that question. Okay?
So if you really want to be a really good
soul winner, if you want to be really efficient,
you just want to get to that question. Because
we want to try and reach as many people as
possible because not
everyone's interested in the gospel, so it's a numbers
game. You know, it's kind of a numbers game
and really people have already
made up their mind whether they're going to listen to
you when they open the door and they
looked at you. And for some of you
like Ryan, it's kind of rough, so you want to get
to that question quickly. Okay?
But obviously, you know,
we're there to get
them saved and I've heard this analogy
or this story, it's really a story.
One of my bosses
said the greatest salesman that he's ever
known of, the greatest salesman
that was like in the Chicago area or something when he
was growing up, made more money than
the owner of the company, okay?
So this guy was making hand over fist
just millions of dollars,
was the greatest salesman, out selling
every other salesman
and they finally were like, okay,
let's learn from this guy. Like,
what are you doing? Why are you so effective?
And they're like, when you walk up the door
and you talk to people, what
do you say? And now
to give you a little context, the guy
sold medical equipment. And it was
something like an x-ray machine or something like
that, okay? But there was something that was
universal, every doctor's office needed
one, they had lots of them, there was a lot of
people they could possibly sell this to.
And he said, you know what I
do? I just wake up early in the morning,
I go to the office and I knock on the door
and as soon as they open it, I say, do you want to buy an
x-ray machine today?
And if they say
no, I just go to the next door.
And
they were like, no, no, no, no, like,
do you sell it? Like, what features
do you bring up? And he's like, I don't bring any
features up. I just literally
just walk up and just say, do
you want an x-ray machine today or not?
And if they say yes, then I'm like, hey,
here's the price, you know, here's
some of the features and they're ready to make a decision
right then and there. He says, I
usually sell them in five minutes or less
or the person's not interested and I move on.
You know, a lot of salespeople, they
just waste hours or
30 minutes with people that are not interested,
never going to buy,
you know, and if you've ever been in a sales job,
you've had your time wasted,
you know, by people. Sole winning's
no different. You know, you want to just,
you want to pop the question, as it were,
you want to say, will you marry me? No, I'm just kidding.
You want to just get it out there. You don't want to
date for forever, okay?
And the same as with sole winning. You want to
just get it out there. Hey, if you were to die today,
are you 100% sure you'd
go to heaven? And really, that's
just probably the best question you can ask.
Now, after
you ask that question, though,
you're going to need to ask some
follow-up questions because
typically, no
one is going to then give you a response
that's going to give you any clarity as to what
they believe. I would say in
Texas,
95% of the time,
this is what they're going to say. Yes.
Okay?
Which is meaningless. I mean, unfortunately,
today, it's kind of meaningless because
the vast majority
of those people that say yes actually don't even
know, though. So, you know,
or they're confused or they believe in works
or they, you know, they're not saved. So,
really, you're just getting that question
out there to get the conversation started.
But then you have to have some, you need to have
some really important questions to follow up
with to really dig into
what they believe. Now, this is what
I've always said. My first
goal is to figure out what
they believe. That's the only thing I
care about. I just want to know what
you believe before I can then
decide what I'm going to do. Because
if you believe salvation is by faith, I'm going to give
you a high five and give you a sodomite deception and
move on. Okay? So, you
know, I'm going to say get a King James Bible.
You know, that's basically what I'm going to say.
If they are not
saved, then I want to give them an opportunity to hear
the gospel today. If they're
really confusing,
you know what I want to do? Go to the next
door. And I'll
say this, a lot of people struggle with this.
You know, they're like, oh man, this guy was like
really confusing. I didn't know what to do. Leave.
If I cannot figure out what
they believe in just a few minutes,
like why do I think 20 minutes
is going to make that better? You know,
it's just like, because here's the thing.
Salvation is repentance.
Repentance is a change of mind.
If I can't figure out what
you believe, what are you going to repent of?
Right? And so we want to identify
very clearly what they believe
as fast as humanly possible to then give
them a good opportunity to hear
the gospel being presented to them. Give them
an opportunity to change their mind. And that's what
I'm often trying to word
to them. If they say salvation
is by works, I'm saying it's by faith.
I want you to change your mind, right?
If they say you can lose your salvation, I'm saying
you can't lose your salvation.
Can I show you? So the whole goal
is to identify a statement that's not
true, that they sincerely
believe, and then to
try and show them how the Bible is saying something
different. Now, I will say this.
On the surface, sometimes people will give
you answers that are not, you're just
not sure about. Okay?
So you have to kind of dig in
or try to figure out. This is where
also people struggle.
That's why I have these questions.
Because these questions work
90 some percent of the time,
every single situation.
You don't really have to go through the weeds,
go in the weeds. Now, after someone
has said yes or no, they know
they're going to heaven or whatever, I just then say
okay, what do you believe someone has to do
to be saved? This is an important
question because it's open-ended
and you're going to have any and all kinds of
responses. Okay?
At this point. I would
say that the second question is really
more about learning what they believe
rather than
being done. You should never
be done with just that question typically.
You probably need a follow-up
no matter what. So if I
say what do you have to do to be saved,
you know, unless they're just saying
you know, I have
no idea, I don't know anything about the
Bible, I probably wouldn't
end it. They say it's believe in Jesus,
accept Jesus in your heart, any of these
other things. Doesn't matter what they say
or pending of your sins. If they say
something wrong, I would always follow
up with this. So do you think salvation
then is just faith alone in Jesus?
Or faith plus works?
And I'll tell you, I haven't used that
always in my soul wanting, but I have in the last few years
and it works great.
In fact, it surprised
me because I thought like no one
would say it's faith and works.
And it's like everyone says it's both.
Especially if they're Catholic.
I mean if they're Catholic, this is the
greatest question you can ask because
they'll just straight up say it's both.
They'll say it's definitely both. It definitely
works. And basically
once they've said
very clearly and unambiguous
words, it's both.
Now I have the opportunity to start the gospel.
And now I have the opportunity to just give
them a gospel and say, okay,
actually the Bible says it's just faith alone.
Can I show you that?
And now I can get right. I mean you can
honestly get started giving
the gospel to someone in 30 seconds.
Because you can say, hey,
I'm from Steadfast Baptist
Church. Here's a card.
Would you, you know we'd like to come to our churches.
Church service, but more important,
if you were to die today, you're 100% sure you'd go to heaven?
Oh, yeah.
Well, what do you believe it takes to get to heaven?
Oh, be a good person.
Follow the commandments. Do right.
So would you say salvation is just faith alone
or faith both works? Oh, it's both.
Well, actually the Bible says
it's just faith. Can I show you?
And I'm telling you that conversation
happens often. Where it's just
literally that simple. It's that quick.
And the reason why I bring this up
is you want to have the opportunity
to get started as fast as possible.
Now, of course,
many people will not go through that
narrative or that dialogue, okay?
So here's another follow-up
question you can have. Let's say they're kind of
still a little bit vague. Let's say
they say, well, it's accepting Jesus
into your heart. You say,
what does that mean? I usually
don't go that on that road. Okay.
They say, it's accepting Jesus
into your heart. Okay, if someone
believes in Jesus, could they do anything to lose
their salvation? That's
a good question to see where they're at.
Let's say they say, no.
I will still ask one
more question. I will make sure I ask, so then do you
think it's just faith alone in Jesus one time
or is it faith plus works?
And if they say it's
salvation one time, just faith alone,
it seems safe to me, even though he said
accept Jesus in your heart or some kind of
vague answer or whatever it is that they
gave. I don't have any clear statement
to repent of, you know, with them.
Okay. Now,
if you get really into the
weeds, this is, you know,
if these questions haven't worked and it's
still confusing, okay, and it's not on
your worksheet, I will suggest
one more question you
could kind of ask, and this would be kind of the
question I would ask. I would say something like this.
So would you say salvation is just a one time
trusting in Christ or is it
a lifestyle?
And that will help you in the
big situations because
some churches
will often teach that faith
means being faithful,
like having a lifestyle of
faithfulness. So when they hear faith
alone, they're like, well, yeah, it's faith alone.
And it's like, well, do you have to have the
works? Well, you're gonna have the works. You'll kind of
hear stuff like that. No, you
can't have, you would have both or, you know,
if someone's not going to church, then
they're not saved. And it's like, but it is faith
alone. And you're like, you can't figure
out why there's a disconnect. It's
because in their mind, the word faith
means faithful.
So you have to use different words
to describe it. You say, okay, so is salvation
believing one time or
is it a lifestyle of
believing? And it's like, oh, it's a lifestyle.
That will help trigger
in your mind what they actually believe and they're trusting
it. And you could say, actually, it's not a
lifestyle of faith. It's a one
time trusting. Can I show you how
that's different? Now, again, in
this section, it's really important that you
pay attention to what they actually believe
so that you can really contrast it well
when you're actually giving the gospel.
And here's a couple things
I hear that I don't like
when someone's giving the gospel,
okay?
They say, hey, where do you
go to church? Saint Mary's?
Oh, we wouldn't take you from a good church.
Wrong.
First of all,
if they're not saved, they're not going
to a great church, number one.
Okay. Number two,
never a Catholic church, right?
And number three, I'll be honest,
I probably do want to steal them away from their church
because they're probably not going to
a great church. So I would just remove that
from my vocabulary completely,
okay? Now, I say more
important than church or
something that's, you know,
something that's more important is going to heaven.
You might say something like that, but I'm not going to
suggest to them that the church they're going to
is good, especially when they're not
saved or it's a Catholic church. I don't want to leave them
on that note. Other things that you kind of
hear in the introduction that are kind of confusing
is,
and, you know, it's not a
big deal, but it just kind of is weird.
You'll say this, if you're
to die today, you're 100% sure you go to heaven.
Yes, that's a great answer.
And I'm thinking like, but why
is that a great answer?
Because it doesn't, you don't even
know what they believe. What if I said I'm
100% sure I'm going to heaven because I rescue
cats? Great, great
answer. That's not a great answer.
You know, you don't want to necessarily
give them false positives
or say statements that aren't necessarily true.
So, I
typically, this is what I
say, okay? And you don't have to
copy me exactly, but I'll say
this, well, people believe
differently on what it takes to get to heaven,
so do you mind me asking what you believe it takes
to get to heaven? Because they seem confident
and you're about to say,
actually, buddy, I think you're on your
way to hell. Think about the
logic there, right? But a lot
of people are very agreeable on the idea that
churches teach different things and believe
different things. So, I just simply
say, okay, well,
churches and people believe differently on what it
takes to get to heaven then, what do you
believe? And that'll actually help
soften and it's not giving them
assurance in their bad answer.
You're not like saying, oh, that's great
that you already believe, you know, this bad
idea of how to get to heaven.
Or especially if they even bring
up a false reason
of going to heaven, you know, like, oh, it's repenting
of your sins. Oh, that's great. Okay,
well, you know, no,
that's not great.
Here's one other thing that I've
noticed, and these are just some little tips.
Sometimes, people will give
you a partial right answer.
They'll say something like, what do you think it takes to get
to heaven? Believing in Jesus.
Okay? And you say, that's, okay,
yeah, the Bible says that, amen.
Do you think someone can lose their salvation?
And they're like, yes.
Well, actually, the Bible says something completely
different, let me show you.
Now, let me explain why I don't like that.
You're not about to show them that it's
not believing in Jesus that saves them.
Okay? Or you should just leave,
all right? You're going to show them
that it's still believing in Jesus,
but you're going to show them something different on eternal
security specifically. So, if you want
to contrast what they've
said, you should make it
more specific. You should say, well,
actually, the Bible says you can't
lose your salvation. Can I show you that?
Or, if
they're giving wrong answers, you could say, well, the Bible
says it's faith alone. Instead of just saying
they're wrong, I like to say
specifically what's wrong.
Right? Or the Bible says something completely
different. I've seen people do this
and then the person's so confused during the
gospel because they're like, I already told
you I believe. Why are you showing
me believe when I told
you believe and now you're telling me
it's something different, it ends up
getting really confusing for the person. So, I
want to focus on the thing that they said that is
different. Right? Because if I say, well,
the Bible says you can't lose your salvation,
I can still hammer believe all day long and it won't
confuse them. Whereas if I just told them
I'm going to tell you something completely different
after you told me believe,
that gets them all weirded out
and confused and they don't understand
and they're just kind of like, they're lost anyways.
They're an unsaved person. So, you can't really
expect them to be very strong in their faith
or understand what's going on. So, you just want to
make sure in even the introduction
you're not giving them false positives,
telling them something that's not true
and it, here's the thing.
Because soul winning is so
repetitious, people
say the exact same things over and over
and over. So, that's why you want to kind of
retrain yourself sometimes to have some good habits.
So, that way you're not just constantly saying these
weird things or
strange ideas or something like that.
So, when we get a chance to practice
maybe let your partner give you some weird answers
and maybe say something normal
rather than like, hey
that was a great answer. You know, saving cats
is going to get you in heaven buddy. See you later.
You know, and I've seen
this even and I brought this up in other
soul winning instructions is
I've seen someone knock on a door
it's a Catholic. The guy goes to
Saint so and so church
and he asks
him what he has to be saved. He says, believe
follow the commandments
get baptized, repent
of your sins. He's like, it's like
everything. And the guy's like, well actually
it's just believing. And he's like
sweet, I'm in.
And then the guy goes, well
can I show you from the Bible? And he's like, well I don't have time.
And then he's like, okay see you later.
You pretty much almost
gave that guy more confidence he's going to heaven
than before. And I'm
thinking like, that was a fail.
Like if you're not saved, I don't
want you to feel more comfortable being
unsaved than when I first ran into
you. Okay. Now I'm not saying you have to just
be like, well you're going to hell buddy. See you later.
You don't have to be a jerk about it.
You don't have to be rude about it. But I don't want to
leave people thinking
that they're more saved
than before when they're not.
I want to walk away making it
clear where they stand. And I would
say, well actually the Bible says belief is a
100% trust in faith
in Christ. And if you think it's
all those things then you don't believe
correct. So check out
the video at least. You know.
Maybe at least that will plant the seed to then
watch the video. Why would the guy watch the video if he's
already on his way to heaven?
He doesn't really care anyways.
So you want to at least plant the right kind of
seed and give people the right
kind of expectation when
giving the Gospel.
Now in this worksheet
it has lines and stuff where you could
write notes or you could have
your own questions or things.
So this is just kind of something if you want to fill out
on your own, you can
kind of work through, use to your
discretion if that's something you
want to do. Especially if you're newer to soul winning.
It just kind of helps you and then you can
practice with someone. And if you're a silent
partner, if you've never gone soul winning
or you're feeling not very confident
I recommend
you know, deciding
exactly what you're going to say
before you go and say
it. And when I first
started going soul winning, I gave the exact
same Gospel presentation
over and over and over and over. I mean
just broken record. Because
that's all you do. I mean
it's just a broken record. It's the same
Gospel. It works on every
single person that's interested.
Obviously the Gospel doesn't work on reprobates.
We get that. But you know
that's not because your presentation's bad.
It's because they don't want to believe.
And typically
this is what intimidates people. They think
well I don't know how to respond to
the Black Keeper Israelite.
You walk away.
I made the mistake
of not walking away early enough
today, alright.
I don't know what's easier now. Jews
or Black Keeper Israelites. I mean it's just like
man, they both are really convinced they're
Jews. And it's just like, you're not
bro.
But you know, if someone's
not getting saved by
the tried and true methods
it's not you that's the problem.
Okay, so you have to realize that.
It's their the problem.
So you want to have a very consistent
Gospel that you're using over and over
and if you
you know, over time you identify
areas that
are kind of inefficient or not really working
well, then change them.
But for the most part, it should be pretty
much the same thing, Romans, Rhodes, same verses
going over the same concepts, same
things. And you'll start seeing that
the same Gospel works on the same
people. You know, it's
really, it's kind
of prideful and arrogant when you start going
and doing weird stuff.
Okay, and it's kind of a red flag when people
have these really unique Gospel
presentations. And I'm not against
you getting someone saved from Isaiah.
But that's weird.
Okay.
That is really weird.
And there's even a reason why
a lot of people have their Gospel
structured in the way that we kind of have
it structured because it flows
the best, it makes the most sense,
it's the most efficient. You know,
you want to make sure that you're kind of covering
all the bases. Otherwise
you're going to have a hard time closing the deal.
Okay, and that's, that's a different, that's
a different topic. But I still want to just
you know, mainly focus on the introduction.
If
someone's not interested,
okay,
let's talk about a few different examples.
If I walk up
and, and they kind of like start opening the
door and then start closing the door,
what I do is I walk away.
Or if they're like, thanks, bye, you know.
I'm not like trying to shove my Bible
and foot in the door
and like get a verse in them.
In fact, at any level that they're not
interested, I leave.
And pretty much no matter where
I am in the Gospel,
I'm just being honest with you. The best
thing to do is just to leave when people are
not interested, just to figure out if they're interested.
You know, or I'll just ask,
do you want to hear this? If they say no,
I'm like, okay, watch the video, bye.
Right, so
typically I'm trying to identify people
that are interested.
If they for some reason have
an excuse that seems legitimate,
I might compel that person, right.
Let's say they say, you know what, I really want to hear
this, but I'm kind of running a little late.
Then I might say, well, don't
you have just five minutes or don't you have ten minutes
or you have a few more minutes or, you know, I might
compel that person when they've said they
really want to hear. Or they're like,
you know, I got to, I'm watching
this show. It's like, pause it,
bro, you know. Or they're like, hey,
I got something on the stove. It's like, hey,
just turn it off and come over here.
You know, it's like if they're interested, I want
to give them the Gospel. I want to help
them get over whatever obstacle is stopping
them from hearing the Gospel right then and there.
But I'm not really interested in trying to make
someone interested, right.
If they're already closing the
door, not wanting to hear,
I'm just like, bye.
You know, see you later. There's eight
million people in this area.
Okay, and I don't know where you live
exactly, but I guarantee there's
more people to give the Gospel to than you could
ever do in your lifetime.
So you only have so much
time, so many hours, so many minutes to give the
Gospel, you might as well find the people that are
receptive, that want to hear,
that are interested, and then try to give
them the Gospel. Now, of course, if it's your
family member, you know, pester them till
they get saved, right. You're at the family
barbecue, got nothing better to do.
Make them want to hear the Gospel, okay.
But, you know, when you're going out soloing and you
want to try and find the receptive,
find them that are interested.
There is another
case, though. Sometimes people
don't seem very interested,
but you'll say, can I give you one verse?
And I try to offer that as much
as I can, right.
Say, hey, can I just show you one verse?
And what I typically do is I'll go to Ephesians
2, 8, and 9, but you could go to Acts
16, John 3, 16.
Typically, I'm going to go to a verse
that highlights what they said
was wrong, right.
If they said they can lose their salvation,
I might try to go to a verse that talks
about something related to
not losing your salvation. Maybe John
1, 12, and talk about how you're a son
and how a son can't change
the fact of who his parents is later.
That way, they have just an immediate
something showing them that it's different.
Typically, they believe in works, so that's
why I'm going to Ephesians 2, 8, and 9. I just show them,
look, it says not of works right here.
Now, occasionally, what
happens is because they just saw the
Bible say something completely different what they believe,
they all of a sudden get interested,
okay. So
what I'll do is I'll show them Ephesians
2, 8, and 9. I'll explain it a little
bit. I'll say, well, so the Bible says
that Jesus paid for all of our sins,
he was buried, he rose again,
and he's offering us a free gift.
That's why it's not of works.
That's why it's not what we do. It's putting a full
trust in him that saves us.
Are you sure I can't show you another
verse or are you sure I can't show you a few
more verses on this?
Now, again, I still want to ask them
are they interested or not?
Because sometimes they'll say one
verse and then someone just starts giving them like
eight verses, you know,
and they're like slowly closing
the door. And it's like, dude, just
come on. Like, you know, don't
waste time on people that aren't
interested. I'm just telling you it's kind
of a rookie mistake. It's kind of just
something that you got to pay attention to a little
bit, use some discernment.
But I tell you there's plenty
of times where I've given them one verse or
a verse and a half or something like that
and then I'm like, can I show you a few more
verses? They're like, yeah, I might as well.
Because they just thought you were kind of weird at
Jehovah's Witness or something at first.
But now that you're kind of normal, some of you
and, you know, you've got,
you've shown them some good verses in the
Bible. They're kind of like, you know what?
I want to hear what this guy has to say now
or this gal or whatever.
I've got a few more minutes.
So you piqued their interest.
That would be the goal of one verse
is to pique their interest
and see if they're interested.
If they're still not, watch the video.
Have a good day. See you later.
And I'm telling you, if you stick to this
method, you're going to see the
most people saved typically.
Because people are often, they're just wasting
too much time not getting
to the punchline or they're wasting
time with people that are not interested
or they're just bringing up
random things that end up
kind of distracting them later on.
They don't have clear answers to use later in the gospel
and so it's confusing.
Because I've seen people get, saved people
saved again. But let me tell you
something, you can't get someone saved again.
Hebrews 6 already said that it was
impossible. To lose
your salvation. So we're not going to renew them
again under repentance.
But you can
identify if they're
saved and that's why I want to
ask really clear questions, get really clear
statements. And I've had some people
give a wrong statement but then they end up
being saved. That's why it's important to ask a
handful there, give some clarification.
I asked the lady if salvation, faith
alone or
faith that works, she says believing in Jesus
and I said can you lose your salvation? She said
absolutely. I said okay
well how does someone lose their salvation?
I don't know.
And I was like what if I sinned?
She's like well no Jesus paid all of our sins.
And I'm like so
if someone believes in Jesus and he paid all their sins
can they lose their salvation? She's like
actually no. They can't lose their salvation
you're right. I hadn't really thought
about it but you're right. It's just faith alone
there's no way you could lose it. And I
figured I should save. But you know I've seen a lot of
people as soon as they hear something that's not quite
right they just dive right into the gospel
and then they just waste all this
time with someone that actually or already believed it.
Okay. And then
that's also where you get in these scenarios where you
say well they said something wrong at
the door but then all of a sudden they said that that's what they
always believed.
It's like probably because they did.
You maybe didn't ask
very good questions or get a really clear
statement from someone
at the very beginning and you
just started showing them verses and it
just ends up being a waste of time again.
So
I have these
questions kind of listed in this thing.
It's also in this worksheet and then I kind of have a
are you interested
or not? And then you kind of
have that one verse.
This is one page of seven.
But I'm telling you this is probably
the hardest most difficult part
of giving the gospel and it's one
that takes a lot of just
practice to kind of get really good
but you can be
a brand new soul winner and be really good
if you just do exactly what this says.
If you try to kind of
do your own weird stuff often
it just doesn't go anywhere
and you confuse people.
I just
want to really encourage you to try and use
the methods that people have used for
a long time and they work
really successfully. Also I do believe
that someone has to believe internal security
to be saved. There is some soul winning
methods out there that don't ask about eternal security
or they don't double check
what they mean by believe
and those are not good
gospel presentation skills.
So you might have new people
show up or you might
go soul winning with other people
and they don't ask those follow up questions
you need to step in as a
silent partner to ask that question if they're going to walk
away. So if
someone is not doing
a very good job or not asking
more questions you need to realize
that's not a good method of soul
winning. I've gone with people
I've gone with pastors
and they don't even ask those questions. I'm thinking like
I don't think that guy is saved.
They just said they were a Christian. We don't even know what that
means. Let's
actually kind of dive in a little bit.
It's called confrontational soul
winning. Now let me explain what confrontational
means. It's not like
hey if you were to die today
are you 100% sure
you go to heaven?
It's not that. What we're
doing is we're confronting what they believe
and we're challenging what they believe.
Because you and I both know if you've gone soul winning
sometimes you just ask
hey we're from Baptist Church and they're like great
I love Baptist churches.
If you were to die today you're 100% sure you go to heaven
why would you ask that question?
Because it's confrontational.
Or like
I can't believe you just asked me that.
And it's like why not?
It's the most important question right?
If you're going to get to know somebody
if you're out evangelizing what could be more important
and so we want to drop those questions
and those questions are confrontational
they will startle people sometimes
and there's a purpose
to it because it really just begs the
question what do you trust in bro?
Is it faith alone in Christ or
not and so
I want to give you guys an opportunity
to kind of partner up with
some other people in the
church and kind of practice this
a little bit.
Now I'm going to give some
tips for just our workshop part
this is not
this has nothing to do with giving the gospel
if you are going to help someone you might
come up with some good responses
okay.
Things that you've heard out soloing
that people say that kind of tripped you up
or a little bit weird you know
and try to help people
get better at asking questions so
you know if they say you know you're
going to just basically take turns pick a partner
take turns
someone's unsaved you're not saved.
Here's how you got to do it alright?
Here's how you do acting alright?
You just pick your character
like I'm a Jehovah's witness
alright?
I'm a black Hebrew Israelite
you know
and in America today you get to pick
whatever you want alright? You get to pick whoever you are
so you can just be whatever you can be
Catholic, Jehovah's witness
and look some of those are good because
if they're a black Hebrew Israelite
you want to see how long it takes for them to get out
of that conversation
and reject you. Hopefully it's soon
okay. Hopefully it's real
quick when you drop some bombs like you know
hey go to Psalms 86
it's like
no bye
you know
I'm not that interested
hey who are the Jews?
bye you know
I don't really want to talk you know
you just don't want to waste a lot of time
again the goal is just to have
a safe environment for some people
to practice kind of work on things and even if
you're good you know get
get used to asking some of these other questions
maybe not saying some weird
stuff when they bring up
you know oh well
I go to St. Mary's
I don't want to take you from a really great church
and this is the goal
okay
when you're practicing with someone and they do
something weird say that
it's weird to them
don't be like that was weird
you know be like
that was weird
hey I don't think you should say that
hey maybe you should try this right
that's the goal is to have a safer environment
and look when we go soul winning
I want the environment to be like this
where if someone thinks you can improve
on something you should want to hear it
and you should say it
because I'll tell you I have dozens
of people they come up to me and they say
hey so and so did this weird thing
and this is what I always say
what did you say? nothing
and it's like
say something
say that was weird
that was bizarre
hey why don't you do this next time
and again if someone is going to get offended
at doing something bizarre at soul winning
it's really just their hearts not right in my opinion
so we can all improve
we can all get better
and maybe they have a good reason
oh okay I thought that was bizarre before
but now I guess it makes sense I don't know
but you know at least
engaging with people
and we want to
get to a point where we feel
comfortable giving the gospel to family members
and you know that's difficult
if you can talk to your family members here
maybe you can talk to your family members
out there alright?
anybody have a question or a thought
in the introduction?
I'll give you a second to think about that
brother Nick
so I would say
just get to the point where you start
I would say this
practice with your partner on the introduction a few times
and then if you've kind of gone through that
if someone wants to try and give
the whole gospel as like a practice
then let them do that
good question
any other questions about any of that?
so what I want to do is
try and move people around a little bit
if they
don't have a partner
you can just practice with your spouse even
I don't care it's not that you can't if you want to
but basically we just still
want to give people an opportunity
to preach
the gospel so
if
I want to do this just to get an idea
if you have not been
presenting the gospel for over a year
just raise your hand real quick
we've not been preaching the gospel to people
for over a year
so let's have
let's have Brian
why don't you move to Ryan's table
over here
sit with Ryan
and
Lucy why don't you sit with Mr. Banik
is that okay?
do you want to sit over here with Ms. Faith
with Millers right here
just to your right
hey brother
hey brother Jason
do you want to sit with
at Jimmy's table
and John Ball's table for me
and then
you guys can work together
I'll sit over here with you real bad
alright
so I think we're good to start
so
we've gone a little over time
let's just take about forty-five minutes
and then
I'll sit over here with you real bad
okay
alright
so I think we're good to start
so
let's just take about forty-five minutes
thirty, forty-five minutes
just let each other kind of work
on the gospel introductions
just take some turns
and then whenever you're good to go
you're good to go, there's not going to be an official
stopping point
there's still maybe some bagels or something
if you want one grab one
if you want one of these New Testaments grab one
thank you so much for coming
I'm going to say a quick word of prayer and then we'll get started alright
thank you
thank you Heavenly Father for giving us the opportunity
to come together and enjoy this food and fellowship
I pray that you would just
bless all the people that are here
that you would just help their conversations
you would help us to have a heart to learn
and to grow
that we would take the gospel very seriously
that we would have a
fervent zeal to preach the truth
with the best of our ability
and I pray as we go out soul winning
this week and the rest of our lives
to have the boldness to put into practice
the things that we learned tonight
in Jesus' name we pray, Amen