Hello everybody, it's minister tall23 back with another video. In this video I want
to talk about the subject of ineffective soul-winning habits that get in the way
of people getting saved or hinder people from at least hearing the gospel or
having a chance to hear the gospel. These are methods, habits, practices that people
do from door-to-door soul-winning. Some of these things are things that I've done
myself in the past and I found to be ineffective and oftentimes the things
that I'm going to mention in this video actually hinder people from having a
chance to hear the gospel and can cause some problems in door-to-door soul-winning
and they don't really work and I think that a lot of these things are
things that we should avoid doing, okay? And I've made a video a few weeks ago
about the subject of how to be a more effective soul-winner. This video of
course is related but this one is more just talking about things not to do as
opposed to things to do. So these are things that I've seen people do. I've
done, like I said, I've done myself and it doesn't really work and I've changed
on these things and I found better success upon changing these things. So
maybe some of these things do work for you, maybe it's different in your
experience. If so, then keep doing it but just from my personal experience of
things I'm going to mention in this video I would say are ineffective and if you
want to know how to get more people saved and how to at least have a chance
to preach to more people then I would, you know, listen to some of these things
that I'm going to present in this video. So the first thing I want to mention is
that the whole purpose of going out soul-winning is to, of course, win souls.
That's why we call it soul-winning, okay? The Bible says that God is not willing
that any should perish but that all should come to repentance, right? That's
what God desires for mankind and of course not everybody is going to
come to repentance, not everybody is going to be saved, but that is our job as
ambassadors for Christ to beseech the lost, to be reconciled to God, okay? To
preach the gospel that they might be saved because it is a power of God unto
salvation to everyone that believeth. And not everybody's gonna believe but we
want to preach to as many people as possible, okay? We don't just knock doors
just for the purpose of knocking doors and I feel like one thing that that some
people do is that they knock doors just for the sake of knocking doors, just for
the sake of getting a certain neighborhood or a certain section done
and they're not really just seeking to save as many people as possible. They're
kind of just, you know, just doing it just to finish the job but they're not
actually seeking to preach to as many people as possible. And so one thing
that's kind of related to this is putting the emphasis or putting too much
emphasis on inviting people to church, okay? And this comes in many forms but
often times when people go door-to-door soul-winning they de-emphasize the reason why
we're even at the door and why we're even going out soul-winning and they
only just talk about handing out invites to the church or handing out tracts or
whatever. And the people who do this often do not even get a chance to preach
to people because the lost soul at the door oftentimes already having a church
to attend expresses disinterest. And again I've seen this many times and this
is something I used to do where you'd go to the door and say hey we're from a
Baptist Church inviting people to church and they say oh I already have a church
not interested and they close the door before you can get any other words in
because if you tell them we're here inviting people to church they think
that's the reason why you're there, okay? So number one they if they already have
a church they're going to express disinterest and number two that's not
even telling the truth because again the reason why we're going soul-winning is to
preach the gospel, okay? If you say you're there to just to invite people to
church that is called lying, okay? You're not actually telling the truth, okay? Then
why would you even call it soul-winning? Why are you considered a soul-winner if
you're just inviting people to church? When anybody who's experienced at soul-
winning knows you know ninety nine point nine percent of people even if you get
them saved are not going to come to church anyway. A lot of times because
they're just lazy or because they already have a congregation that they go
to, okay? Not everybody's gonna go to your church so that's not something you
should emphasize, okay? If somebody expressed disinterest in going to church
that is not them turning down the gospel that's them turning down an invite to
church, okay? There's nothing wrong with giving them an invite and saying hey can
I leave it with a card but again you should know that ninety nine point nine
percent of people who are invited will never show up at your church, okay? And
especially if they're not saved you know it doesn't matter if they want to go to
our church or not anyway because they're not saved. The church is the
body of Christ. It's people who are saved and baptized, okay? The church should not
be for unbelievers anyway, okay? Now you know theoretically somebody who's
unsaved could come to church and get saved at church you know somebody could
preach the gospel to them but again that's a very rare scenario. When we go
soul-winning the emphasis should be on preaching the gospel. You shouldn't just
say hey here's an invite no thank you I already go to church okay have a nice
day that's not even giving them a chance to get saved okay to hear the
gospel okay if they say that they go to a Catholic Church and they're not
interested in your invite then keep talking to them talk to them about the
gospel don't just focus only on preaching or talking about going to
church because that's what some people do that's what I used to do and if they
didn't like the invite you know in the past I would take that as turning down
you know the the the gospel but in reality that's not what's going on at
all and there's many times where I'll you know give somebody an invite and
they say well I'm not you know going to your church I don't even live here or
I'm just visiting or I already go to a church or something like that and you
can still give them the gospel and they can end up getting saved but some people
don't do that so that is an ineffective soul-winning habit of putting too much
emphasis on going to church which again church is important it's good to hand
them an invite you should do that but don't put that as the emphasis the
reason why we're there is to get people saved not to invite people to church
another thing that I see that some people do is asking people at the door
if they're busy okay 99% of the time when you present them with the option
when you say something like could I share this with you or are you pretty
busy right now even if they're not that busy they will choose the latter because
by phrasing the question that way by saying like hey can I show you this or
you're pretty busy you know basically it makes it sound like what the preaching
the gospel is something they could be put off and it's not urgent which it is
urgent because you know we don't know when anybody could die you know the
person you're preaching to that could be the last chance that they have to hear
the gospel so don't just kind of like yeah you could just watch it later you
know you can just you know we can come back another time or you can come to our
church and hear it or something like that don't present it to them like hey
are you busy no if they're busy and they're actually really busy then
they're gonna tell you okay I've seen people who do this method where every
single door they they say can I show it to you or are you pretty busy and every
time they ask that question 99% of the time they say I'm busy okay even if
they're not okay but when you stop asking that question and you just say
can I show this to you if people understand how urgent is and how
important is they're gonna make time regardless of what's going on in their
life okay so that's another thing you want to make sure that the gospel is
urgent and if not most important and you don't put anything else before that you
don't want to make it sound like it's something that can just be put off for
later okay another thing is taking vague answers or wrong answers as right and
this is something that I don't understand why people do this it's
almost like they're looking or expecting the person to have the right answer now
again you know you shouldn't expect people to have the wrong answer either
but you should take them for what they say when you ask somebody at the door
what they believe they have to do to go to heaven okay if they give a vague
answer or a wrong answer don't correct them and then just try to get them to
agree with you if they say something wrong they're not saved okay if you ask
them what they have to do to go to heaven they say have a relationship with
Jesus or or be a good person or something and then you say oh well we
believe that it's by faith would you agree with that and they say yeah they
already told you the wrong answer okay they're just agreeing with you just for
the sake of agreeing with you that they're not saved okay you want to
preach to them still you don't want to just feed them the right answers okay so
let me give an example like this this is an example this isn't like a particular
example with situations like this have happened before I've seen this happen
where somebody would feed the lost person the right answers even though
they clearly don't believe the right thing or understand how it is to get
saved okay for example if you say what do you have to do to go to heaven they
say have a relationship with Jesus which is extremely vague and it you know there
could be many different meanings of what that is right and then somebody's just
like yeah you know it's just by faith I've literally heard that where people
give a unclear answer like accept Jesus or have a relationship with Jesus or
something you know some vague non-denominational like phrase that they
just parrot and they'll just throw that out there and they'll be like yeah it's
just by faith it's like that's not what they said right okay and then you they
ask well can you ever lose your salvation they're like huh I'm not sure
I don't know I think if you repent God will forgive you actually the Bible says
that once you're saved you're always saved would you agree with that yeah I
think so okay you're saved no that person's not saved okay if they think
you have to have a relationship with Jesus and they're not sure if they can
go to hell and they think you still have to repent of your sins after you sin
that person's not saved okay they didn't give a clear answer they don't know what
they're talking about they're just agreeing with you and just repeating you
know typical phrases that they've heard it's clear that they don't understand
what they have to do to go to heaven okay so it's kind of like people are
just looking for the right answer and even just something that very very
slightly might be sort of kind of right they'll accept that as right and not
even give them a chance to hear the gospel again we want to get as many
people saved as possible we shouldn't just assume people that you know don't
even know what they're talking about or saying vague things are already saved
when they don't even you know know what it takes to be saved you know what I
mean so that's another ineffective habit you want to take vague or wrong answers
as right you don't want to feed them the right answers either you want to
actually make sure to understand what they believe okay if they don't believe
the right thing or they don't know how to go to heaven and preach the gospel to
them don't just you know assume that they're saved even though they're not
giving you the clear answer right so that example I've seen many times and it
almost seems like like the soul winners just wanting the person to believe right
just so they don't have to preach okay it's almost like some people who go
soul-winding are like afraid of preaching right okay is it's kind of
weird right so another thing that's an ineffective soul-winning habit is being
scared of people answering the door which again if you're going soul-winning I
don't know why you'd be scared of that you want them to come to the door so you
can preach to them okay many people I've seen this and again you know when I
started doing this when I started going soul-winning I kind of did this too
because I was kind of nervous at first of just knocking once and you know
barely waiting like 10 seconds before leaving or just not ringing the doorbell
because oh you know I'm afraid I might make them mad or whatever not knocking
hard or whatever some people like literally they knock like as soft as
possible they go to the door it's just like and it's like a big house it's like
they might be on the other side of the house or like upstairs or something
they're not gonna hear a tiny little quiet knock you have to knock hard
sometimes ring the doorbell because you want them to come into the door okay you
don't want to just again we're not just knocking doors just for the sake of
knocking doors just for the sake of filling up a map we actually want to
preach to people and get people saved so you know you're just wasting your time
if you're just knocking on a door quietly or not ringing the doorbell just
for no reason you know that's like you want people to come to the door that's
that's the whole goal right because you want to see if they're saved and they're
not saved you want to give the chance to preach to them right another ineffective
soul-winning habit is beating around the bush and not getting straight to the
point okay sometimes people just make a bunch of small talk as I've kind of
mentioned before you know of just you know talking about like inviting people
to church or or not even mentioning the gospel they're kind of just oh yeah you
know we're a church in the area that kind of stuff and again you know it's
good to hand out invites it's good to invite people to church but that's not
the main reason why we're there and you know of course you want to be nice to
people you don't want to just be robotic you know you want to if they say
something you know about something else you know don't just ignore them don't be
rude but you're not there just to have you know a conversation about the
weather or something you're there to preach them the gospel okay so right away
when you get to the door and somebody answers you should make it clear that
you're there to preach the gospel and keep our questions to the people and
responses clear and concise don't be around the bush don't be vague just ask
them plainly do you know for sure you're going to heaven someday why are
you going to heaven can you ever lose that if they get any of those questions
wrong say hey can I show you what the Bible says because the Bible says it's
just by faith in Jesus is very easy okay just get to the point okay stop you
don't have to waste time at the door at talking about other things or or kind of
just asking vague questions that aren't clear just ask them a clear question
what do you have to do to go to heaven okay and that's another thing make sure
you ask them something like that like what do you have to do to go to heaven
instead of what do you have to do to be saved because not everybody knows what
it what it means to be saved or not everybody knows what it means to have
eternal life or some people might even you know know for sure they're going to
heaven but they don't know these other like technical terms you know so you
just want to be clear you know you want to say something in a way that everybody
can understand it and just get to the point so that's another ineffective
soul winning habit of kind of like not you know being clear about what why
you're there in and asking the questions clearly right so the last thing I want
to talk about and again you know this is kind of a shorter video but you know try
to apply these things in in your soul winning I think that they're effective
if you don't do these things so the last thing is incorrectly applying Titus 310
which says you know a man that is an heretic after the first and second
admonition reject incorrectly applying that to people who are just having a
tougher time understanding or somebody who's having a longer time to understand
something because a heretic is not somebody who just you know doesn't
understand it right away a heretic is somebody who just refuses to believe it
or who is contentious and is trying to preach to you false doctrine right but
there's a lot of times where people will go to a door and they'll show them a
verse and somebody just won't get it and they'll ask a question and they're
honestly earnestly trying to understand what you're telling them but people will
just for some reason take it as they're being contentious and they're heretic
just because they've been brainwashed into a false religion or something and
they have false beliefs okay showing them one or two verses and them not
believing it immediately is not them being a heretic it's just sometimes
people are ignorant sometimes people are less intelligent sometimes people need
more grace more explanation okay so that's another thing you don't want to
just reject people and turn away from people and call them a heretic and not
give them a chance just because they're having a harder time understanding what
you're telling them okay that doesn't make them a heretic again they just
might be ignorant of some basic biblical concepts or just a little bit less
intelligent okay you just have to be patient with some people okay and go
through the gospel more but at the same time you don't want to you know get to a
point where they're just repeating everything that you're saying either and
you know just like a parent you know you actually want to make sure they're
understanding and if it sometimes it does get to a point where they it's just
clear that they're just not getting it everything's going over their head
they're not paying attention you know in that sense it might just not be their
day you should move on you know again you know we don't have all day we should
preach to other people but still the people who are actually trying to
understand and who are at least getting it even if it might take longer you know
it has to take longer you might have to show them more verses just be patient
okay you don't have this you know not every door is gonna take 10 to 15
minutes some doors are gonna take 20 30 40 minutes you know that's just how it
is some people have a harder time understanding okay so just as a quick
recap of these ineffective soul winning habits number one don't put the emphasis
on inviting people to church because the reason why we go out is to preach the
gospel okay you can hand people a church invite you can invite people to church
but that's not the main reason why we're there and you shouldn't lie to
people and tell them that's the main reason why we're there and if they turn
down the invite that doesn't mean they're rejecting the gospel you should
still ask them about going to heaven anyway okay the second ineffective
soul winning habit is asking them if they're busy okay don't ask them if
they're busy just offer to share it to them and if they're really busy if they
really have something going on they'll tell you okay number three taking vague
or wrong answers is right if somebody doesn't give a clear answer of what they
believe about salvation and it's based on the Bible then you'd assume that
they're unsaved and offer to preach to them don't just feed them answers and
assume because you're just too scared to preach to them number four don't be
scared of people answering the door actually make it known that you're there
knock on the door you know loud enough so that they can hear it whatever they
are the house ring the doorbell etc wait give them some time you don't just stand
there for ten seconds and leave you know wait 20 30 40 seconds for people to
come to the door right don't be around the bush get to the point don't just
waste your time just saying meaningless things you're talking about the weather
or just making smallpox make it clear why you're there preach the gospel okay
and then the last thing is don't incorrectly apply it is 310 the people
were just having a hard time understanding don't assume that their
heretics you have to be patient with people and you have to give more time
and more verses to certain people who are just ignorant or less intelligent so
thank you buddy for watching I hope these things make sense I hope they help
because again you know like I said some of these things are things that I've
done in the past my personal experience and in my personal experience they don't
work okay because you're gonna have less opportunities to preach the gospel if
you do these things okay so in my opinion from my experience just as some
advice I would avoid these ineffective soul-winning habits so thank you buddy
for watching god bless you and goodbye