Matthew Stuckey here and I want to make another video giving you a soul winning
tip and the last video I talked about the importance of memorizing the soul
winning verses. The purpose is so you'll be have a better idea of how to actually
explain those verses and in this video what I want to talk about is the
importance of practicing your soul winning plan. Now realize that if you've
been so many for many years I understand these these early tips are beginner tips
you probably don't have to practice your soul winning plan if you've been doing
it for 10 years but when you're first beginning obviously you need to practice
it and the truth is that as we're going soul winning you know what we don't
always get opportunities to preach the gospel so if you're a beginner and you
only get a chance every few weeks to preach the gospel it's gonna take you a
very long time to become proficient at it and if that's your choice to just
kind of wait until you get opportunities at the door then that's up to you but if
you want to accelerate and learn very quickly how to be proficient in
preaching the gospel you should take the opportunity to practice in your free
time just like in anything if you're gonna play sports or if you're gonna
play a musical instrument you know you're gonna spend time practicing so
you're actually ready for the actual performance or the game or the match or
whatever and so you say well Brother Stuckey how do I practice my soul winning
presentation? Well I want to give you a couple real practical easy ways that you
can practice your soul winning presentation outside of actually going
door-to-door and preaching the gospel and I want to just reiterate that this
is not meant to be a substitute for going out there and preaching the gospel
by all means go out there as a silent partner and you can learn you should be
out there as much as possible especially if you have people that can help train
you so you get the experience because the actual preaching the gospel is gonna
have even more of an impact but one way you can practice is with a friend or a
family member or a church member now if you have a church member that's
proficient in preaching the gospel then that is a great way to learn very
quickly how to actually preach the gospel because they can give you pointers
and they can give you tips and it can really help you learn very rapidly or if
you have maybe a fellow friend that you also go to church with or you have a
family member that you go to church with someone you feel comfortable with you
can start in practice preaching the gospel to them and I know that me and my
friends a long time ago we would practice preaching the gospel to each
other and we weren't perfect we we had a lot of things we needed to change in our
presentations but the truth is that just practicing with each other it really
helped us be ready for various situations and feel more comfortable and
so a great method that you can do is actually practice with someone else and
you know then you're gonna realize oh wait a minute you know I forgot to
mention this or I stumbled at this part you're gonna start seeing you know the
problems that you have so it's really about being willing to take the time and
be willing to humble yourself because maybe you feel embarrassed if you make
mistakes but that that is how we learn you know you learn through you know
guess and check trial and error and so one thing is practicing with somebody a
church member or a family member or a friend another thing is that you can
actually practice by yourself and you say well how can I practice preaching
the gospel by myself well there's a couple different ways one way you could
do it is actually practicing in front of a mirror and the reason why I would
recommend practicing in front of a mirror is because it's it's it's more
realistic than just practicing to yourself you know when you're not in
front of a mirror when you're in front of a mirror you can actually see the
interaction of how you're saying things and you can kind of like play both parts
and I get that this will seem weird or feel weird to you but the truth is I
actually did this in college and you know of course I did it when you know my
roommate wasn't home because I thought it would be you know kind of embarrassing
and everything nobody wants to talk to themselves obviously but at the same
time you're able to get practice by you know playing both parts so you'll kind
of say the part of the soul winner and then you'll say the part of the person
who is listening to the gospel now of course practicing with someone is better
but if you don't have that opportunity or if you want to just do a little bit
of extra practice you can practice by yourself either in front of the mayor or
you can just sit down on your bed or just you know actually stand in front of
a bedroom door or something and pretend to be knocking to make it as realistic
as possible and the thing is when you're practicing preaching the gospel you
don't necessarily have to practice beginning to end you could just practice
like a five-minute segment of the gospel how to show someone they're guilty how
to explain a certain verse and you know you can practice it in segments if you
want and that's actually a good method as you learn once you become comfortable
with one segment you're actually able to preach that maybe door-to-door and then
have your your soul any partner take over and then you can slowly add on to
that and another method you could practice by yourself is actually while
you're in the car while you're driving and so this is something I've done as
well where I'll practice certain parts or I've even done that for sermons I'll
kind of like preach certain parts of a sermon that I'm gonna preach we'll kind
of speak it out loud and it does help for getting practice and so of course
the best method is to actually be out there door-to-door but this is just
something you can do in your free time and so memorizing the verses is
essential and actually practicing your presentation because the Bible speaks
about the preparation of the gospel and you want to be as prepared as possible
because there's nothing more important thank you and God bless