What about in your personal life, friends, family, co-workers, and the best thing about
that kind of soul winning is that it's really easy to disciple those people because you
know them personally, so you can actually keep helping that person grow.
A lot of people that I've worked with and I've won to Christ, I've been able to then
ride in the work truck with them and play preaching, popping in CDs of preaching and
listening to that, or listening to Alexander Scorby reading the Bible with co-workers
that I've won to the Lord, hey, let's learn more about the Bible, you just got saved.
And so I've had a lot of great experiences with discipling and mentoring and training
people that I won to the Lord that were my relatives or friends, family, co-workers because
you're going to see those people over and over again.
So we don't want to only go soul winning door to door, but we also want to do this in our
personal life.
So when we're talking about starting the conversation, that's relevant to our personal lives as well,
right?
We want to be able to start the conversation on that airplane.
Start the conversation in the work truck.
Start the conversation at a family gathering.
Here's a good rule of thumb.
If you're alone with someone, give them the Gospel.
You say, I'm waiting for an opportunity.
If you're alone with someone, give them the Gospel.
That's your opportunity.
Now, sometimes if you're in a group and there are a lot of people around, it can be difficult,
awkward, ineffective.
When you're alone with someone, that is a great time to give them the Gospel.
So how do you start the conversation?
Well, the way that you start the conversation is that you just bring up the subject of church.
And that's not a hard thing to bring up.
Let's say you're getting to know someone, you're chatting with someone, whether it's
on an airplane, whether it's on the job, whether it's with your friends.
It's not a strange question just to say, hey, do you go to church anywhere?
Do you ever go to church?
I mean, is that just a crazy question?
So that's a pretty natural, smooth way to bring up the subject of spiritual things.
It's just, hey, do you go to church anywhere?
Or are you a Christian?
Now, once you've asked the question, are you a Christian or do you go to church anywhere,
guess what?
Now you're back at the door.
So here's one of the most important things I learned about soul winning in my personal life.
Do it similar to the way you do it at the door.
Because I remember before I became a door-to-door soul winner, I would try to witness to my
relatives, my coworkers, my friends, and I never had any success.
I always failed at it.
And here's why.
Because I would just sort of dialogue with that person.
And it would just kind of become a discussion or an argument or a chat session.
And you just kind of get off on rabbit trails and you're just kind of all over the place.
Well, when you go door-to-door soul winning, you're kind of following a plan.
You kind of have a program because you're doing it over and over again, week after week
after week, month after month, year after year.
So you get good at it, you get in a routine, you get a system down that works,
you get methods that work.
Listen, if those methods work, use them in your personal life.
So if you can get to the point of are you a Christian, which is a super normal question
to ask, right, do you go to church anywhere?
Then you just say, well, hey, more important than that.
Do you know for sure if you die today, you go to heaven?
And then you're right into your normal pattern of soul winning that you're used to.
So nothing could be simpler.
Nothing could be easier.
So one of the biggest tips, if I could just give you one tip about soul winning
in your personal life is do it similar to the way you do it at the door.
The more similar it is, the more successful you'll be.
Because you're successful at the door, you know.
And I think soul winning door-to-door is much easier than soul winning in your personal life.
Because when it's door-to-door, you're thinking, like,
I'm never going to see these people again, you know.
So you don't really care if you make an idiot of yourself.
But you really don't want to embarrass yourself in front of your friends, family, and coworkers.
So you're a little more nervous, right?
The pressure's on.
Door-to-door is the way to learn.
You want to win your relatives to the Lord?
You want to win your coworkers to the Lord?
You know what?
Go door-to-door soul winning.
That's where you're going to get the tools and the skills and the experience that you can turn
around and be an effective soul winner in your personal life.
That's been my testimony.
Because I failed, failed, failed, failed, failed.
Then I got into soul winning church, went door-to-door, and then succeeded, succeeded,
succeeded, succeeded in my personal life.