Now, as far as how much time I spend on this, I take as much time as is necessary, but
I don't take more time than is necessary. So I don't beat a dead horse. As soon as
somebody knows that they're a sinner, if I say, hey, the Bible says we've all said,
yeah, of course, yeah. Boy, do I know that. Well, let me show you five more verses on
that, though, because I'm so thorough. There's no point, right? It doesn't make
any sense. I mean, if I show somebody they're a sinner and just immediately,
yeah, of course we're all sinners. Okay, point two, yep, we deserve hell. That's
what it says. Done. Move on. No reason to just stay there. Now, some people just
think, well, you can't be too thorough. Yeah, you can. Why? Because people only
have so much time. You're gonna lose people's interest. People are gonna get
bored. Now, on the other side of that are these kind of wham, bam, one, two, three,
repeat after me types, and we definitely don't want to do that. So we want to take
as much time as is necessary. And look, if you're dealing with somebody who's
mentally disabled, this could take an hour. You know, this could take a really
long time, and it's worth it to take that time. But you just have to gauge who
you're talking to. This is a dialogue that you're having where it's gonna be
different with every person. You know, if somebody's catching on real quick, you
move on. But typically, point one and point two go pretty fast usually, unless
they choke on it, then you have to kind of park it. Then when I get to the part
about who Jesus is and explain that, if I get the feeling that this person already
knows a lot about Jesus, then I don't need to spend as much time explaining
who Jesus is as somebody who has no clue, right? So you kind of gauge their
reaction. You kind of look at them as you talk to them and decide how much
time they need to understand who Jesus is, to understand the concept of his
death barrel and resurrection, which isn't really that complicated. It doesn't
really take long to explain that. And then as far as what must we do to be
saved, if they instantly see that it's believed, then two, three verses is
sufficient, and then you move on to the eternal security point. Now, how long does
this take altogether? My typical Gospel presentation, if I walk up to a door and
that person is very receptive, it's just kind of that perfect door where it's
sort of like the demonstrations that we upload to YouTube. Like, I have a video on
YouTube called the Basic Soul Winning Demonstration Video, and I uploaded that
video 10 years ago, literally. And, you know, that video right there is just kind
of a perfect scenario of that door that you want to find, right, where
that guy's just ready to get saved. But let me tell you something, there are a lot of
doors like that. I've had a lot of experiences just like that demo. So my
basic Gospel presentation, if it's a really easy door and people are
just receptive, takes me 10 minutes to go through the plan of salvation. Because it
only takes me probably one minute or a minute and a half to tell them that
they're a sinner and that they're on their way to hell, because that's not
that complicated, right? A few minutes explaining who Jesus is, a few minutes on
the fact that it's believing, and then I spend about probably four or five
minutes on the eternal security of the believer, because that's the thing that
people are usually the most messed up on or have the hardest time grasping. It's
the concept that people struggle with the most. I mean, we're a sinner. Oh, it's
easy to get people on their way to hell. It's obvious. It's right there. We know
hell is there for a reason. You know, Jesus is the Son of God. You usually have
people at hello with that. You know, okay, Jesus died on the cross. He was buried
and rose again. These are simple things. But where the rubber really meets the
road is, what do we have to do to be saved? You know, and the fact that we
can't lose it, because that's what really shows that we believe it's by
faith, because a lot of times this losing your salvation is a back door to work
salvation. Did I say a lot of time? A hundred percent of time that's what it
is. Okay, so the point is that, you know, we want to spend as much time as is
necessary, but we don't want to beat a dead horse, okay? And we want to spend
most of the time talking about the things that they need to hear the most,
like about the fact that salvation is by faith and that you can't lose your
salvation. So those are the things that I'm gonna spend the most time talking
about. Now in a super receptive, just unbelievable situation, you know, maybe
this could come down to like eight minutes or something possibly for me, but
usually it's gonna take ten minutes for an easy door and for a more challenging
door maybe 15 minutes, but you could get doors where you spend 20, 30, 40, 50
minutes. I've spent hours preaching some of the gospel and I'm not saying that
that's the wrong thing to do, because sometimes that's appropriate as long as
you're making progress that whole time. I'm not gonna spend hours just arguing
with somebody, but sometimes somebody is sincere, they're trying to understand,
they're trying to learn, maybe they're mentally disabled or maybe they're just
really steeped in a false doctrine and they're trying to see it though
or they're at least interested and receptive, then you know I'll spend as
much time as is necessary with that person. I've spent hours with someone
that eventually at the end of a few hours got saved, right? But typically this
process takes about 10 to 15 minutes in my experience.