One thing that I've implemented is when I ask the questions
at the end, I ask them to tell me what they believe.
And I learned that from Brother Corbin,
who learned it from Pastor Anderson,
but I know it's not something they've always done,
but when you incorporate that into your soul winning,
instead of you just trying to check all the boxes
at the very end, then you, I mean obviously you wanna
check the boxes, you wanna ask the questions,
but the Bible says out of the abundance of the heart,
the mouth speaketh.
And so you can get them to repeat facts,
you can get them to say, you know, to pass the test,
and how, but how many people have we let pass the test
that weren't really necessarily saved?
I don't know, but here's what I do know,
they're gonna tell you what they believe.
They told you what they believed when you first got there
when you asked them, they're gonna tell you
what they believe at the end, regardless of getting
the questions right, and I've proved this,
and I've seen it happen, it's true.
I'll say, you know, what do you have to do to be saved?
Just believe.
And how long are you saved once you believe?
It's eternal life.
All right, well, what do you personally believe
it takes to be saved?
Oh, you just gotta be a good person.
I mean, I've seen it happen.
I'm like, so they wanna repeat what you told them
when you're asking the question like they're a teacher
at school, just because a teacher teaches you
something at school.
Like, think about this, if you were in a classroom
and you know what the teacher wants to hear,
you raise your hand and give them back the answer
that they wanna hear.
But when you're soul winning, this is their soul.
So if they don't fully understand the gospel,
then it's up to you to just say, hey, you know,
what do you believe it takes to be saved?
And they will tell you.
And that's when you can just pinpoint that doctrine.
And then, again, if you fix what they believe is wrong,
then you ask them again what they believe.
Don't just say, okay, well, I fixed it,
and now what are you gonna do to be saved?
I just think, personally, people will tell you
what they wanna believe, and that's just something
I learned, and I've been soul winning for a long time,
but that, like, revolutionized my soul winning.
It, like, really helps.
I would say, put that into practice,
and I know that that has really nothing to do
with the sermon, but it is a point of
we can always get better.
We can always learn more things.
We can always know the Bible more.
And guess what?
When you read the Bible on a continuous basis,
you're gonna learn more.
But if you just say, I'm gonna read the Bible one time.
Oh, read it cover to cover.
I'm done for the rest of my life.
That's not gonna, you're gonna lose everything
that you learned because it's a continuous learning process
with God.
It's something, he wants to teach you more things
a little bit at a time.
He's not gonna teach you everything at once.
It doesn't work like that.
It's not a chip that you can put into your brain
that you just know everything about the Bible.
It's something you continuously have to learn.