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1 | Witnessing | 1 Pet 3:15 | bliss_7 | 173532 | ||
What is a good way to come up to anyone and witness to them about the Lord Jesus Christ? | ||||||
2 | Witnessing | 1 Pet 3:15 | DocTrinsograce | 173533 | ||
Dear Bliss, There's no magic formula in witnessing. God hasn't called us to formulas, methods, and techniques. The Holy Spirit operates uniquely in every person. There was a day when you could present the Gospel from the Word of God and people would respond to its authority. Most folks today are influenced strongly by post-modernism. Consequently they are reached much more effectively through relationship. Prayer, Bible Study, and full submission to the Lord will equip you with what is necessary to give an answer to every man. In Him, Doc "Forcing tactics can only do damage, perhaps incalculable damage, to men's souls... Evangelism must rather be conceived as a long-term enterprise of patient teaching and instruction, in which God's servants seek simply to be faithful in delivering the gospel message and applying it to human lives, and leave it to God's Spirit to draw men to faith through this message in his own way and at his own speed." --James I. Packer "We must recognize the different types of persons, and we must learn to discriminate between them. There is nothing so pathetic or so unscriptural as a mechanical way of testifying to others. There are some Christians who are guilty of that. They witness and testify, but they do it in a thoroughly mechanical way. They never really consider the person with whom they are dealing; they never try to assess the person, or to discover exactly what his position is. They fail completely to implement this exhortation. They present the truth in exactly the same way to all and sundry. Quite apart from the fact that their testifying is generally quite useless, and that the only thing they achieve is a great feeling of self-righteousness, it is utterly unscriptural." --Martyn Lloyd-Jones |
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