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I will have to admit I have trouble with this. I love the Lord dearly and love reading His Word, which I do in public often. I guess I feel I don't know scripture well enough to quote it book-chapter & verse. As some have said, even here at CC, you can't use "because I believe the Bible, because the Bible said this...." to explain something to someone who doesn't believe the Bible or hasn't read it. It would be like someone telling us "A + B = Z because the Koran says so and I believe it." We wouldn't take that as fact either.
I do take every opportunity to let people, strangers, know I am a Christian and what church I attend and that I love it there because God's love is there, His acceptance is there. I don't know that I've led anyone to Christ, though.
I have a deep desire to be so caught up in it, so IN LOVE with Jesus that it drips from my mouth all day long. I've met people like that and wished I was more like they are, then I ask for forgiveness because I feel that is saying what God has given me isn't enough, that I'm not satisfied.
I'm interested in reading what others post on this thread. Maybe some of their experiences will help me.
Thank you and God Bless You.
I do take every opportunity to let people, strangers, know I am a Christian and what church I attend and that I love it there because God's love is there, His acceptance is there. I don't know that I've led anyone to Christ, though.
I have a deep desire to be so caught up in it, so IN LOVE with Jesus that it drips from my mouth all day long. I've met people like that and wished I was more like they are, then I ask for forgiveness because I feel that is saying what God has given me isn't enough, that I'm not satisfied.
I'm interested in reading what others post on this thread. Maybe some of their experiences will help me.
Thank you and God Bless You.
J
We have this thing that our outreach minister created called the "RAKE" program and what we do is that it is a baggy with a business card for our church, maybe some money, say your in the laundry mat and you put a few quarters in it, and we give it to the person and it has a piece of paper in it that says we are from such and such church and we just wanted to bless your day.
it really caught on, in fact a local radio station adopted it and now they do it to promote their christian radio station.
R= random
A= acts
K= of kindness
E= everywhere
it really caught on, in fact a local radio station adopted it and now they do it to promote their christian radio station.
R= random
A= acts
K= of kindness
E= everywhere
I think a testimony is a powerful witness that cannot be refuted.
So is love.
Then follow it up with Bible verses, or start with apologetics, or defense of the faith for those who are so far from God that they need to start with some proof there is a God. Here is a good link to some books that explain how to talk to people who are atheists or agnostics. I have read most of them, and they are definitely a good foundation to start with.
An Apologetics Reading Plan for Beginners - Apologetics 315
And I agree with Crossnote - pray, pray and then pray more. God saves, but we plant the seeds!
So is love.
Then follow it up with Bible verses, or start with apologetics, or defense of the faith for those who are so far from God that they need to start with some proof there is a God. Here is a good link to some books that explain how to talk to people who are atheists or agnostics. I have read most of them, and they are definitely a good foundation to start with.
An Apologetics Reading Plan for Beginners - Apologetics 315
And I agree with Crossnote - pray, pray and then pray more. God saves, but we plant the seeds!
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i don't bother trying to tally up souls to win.
the speaker this Sunday talked about a "most wanted list" praying for people that others have forgotten or given up for lost like the town drunk and claiming them for God.
I believe prayer works. that God works in the lives of those we pray for to come and know Christ.
I guess other things I've done is just be me. Read the Bible in public places often starts interesting conversations. had a couple conversations start that way and we spent a few hours discussing various scriptures and beliefs.
having the whole family hold hands and pray over your food gets people to take notice and sometimes comment. but none of the things are done with the intention to be noticed, its just things that have seem to remind others about God.
If someone asks "why are you so happy?" and a simple answer "because God is wonderful"
I guess the best "tactic" is to be genuine, not forced, not pushy and demanding others see it YOUR way. be willing to listen and pray with the other person. I would rather look for people who build my faith and who I can help build their faith in God than look for people to KNOW Jesus.
I believe sometimes that our conversations with other believers can edify those who listen around us and we never know the lives we touch by living in a manner that brings glory to God.
though I admit at times some of my conversations might not be very edifying or glorifying but I think we should talk about what we should do and who we should be more than dwell on our past mistakes.
the speaker this Sunday talked about a "most wanted list" praying for people that others have forgotten or given up for lost like the town drunk and claiming them for God.
I believe prayer works. that God works in the lives of those we pray for to come and know Christ.
I guess other things I've done is just be me. Read the Bible in public places often starts interesting conversations. had a couple conversations start that way and we spent a few hours discussing various scriptures and beliefs.
having the whole family hold hands and pray over your food gets people to take notice and sometimes comment. but none of the things are done with the intention to be noticed, its just things that have seem to remind others about God.
If someone asks "why are you so happy?" and a simple answer "because God is wonderful"
I guess the best "tactic" is to be genuine, not forced, not pushy and demanding others see it YOUR way. be willing to listen and pray with the other person. I would rather look for people who build my faith and who I can help build their faith in God than look for people to KNOW Jesus.
I believe sometimes that our conversations with other believers can edify those who listen around us and we never know the lives we touch by living in a manner that brings glory to God.
though I admit at times some of my conversations might not be very edifying or glorifying but I think we should talk about what we should do and who we should be more than dwell on our past mistakes.
Well Nancyer I have no righteousness, no one saved under me, no one that "I" will ever save, and I am elated to the max over this. You ask why?
Becasue God has got it all through me. It is God's righteousness that I today partake in, it is God's salvation that I partake in, in has nothing to do with me, only that I beleive and partake in Christ and Christ's fiinished work. We are nothing more than responders that is all, we respond to the creator and the creator initiates in us what the creator wants and what God wants is for us to recieve his type of Love 1 cor 13:4-13, and thiscan not be recieved by flesh, only by the born again Spirit. So Sister just rest in God
One day I felt as you and was shown two trees one with much fruit hanging on it and the other was me, my tree and I only had like two pieces of fruit nad it was not flourishing like the other tree I saw
So God said to me go over to that other tree and pick a fruit and take a bite. So I did and oh boy, Igot a mouth full of wax, it was a fake tree and only looked good, just as the tree of evil in the garden that decieved Adam and Eve. What a lesson I learned. Just because it talks like a duck, andacts like a duck does not always make it a duck
So think on this then, does going to a church a gathering, reading the word make one a Christian?
Nor does going to Mcdonalds religously make one a hamburger. There are a lot of us faking salvation, but will come to know truth and repoent to God as David did in the Old Testament he showed a Godly sorrow over a worldly one big differance Sister as Ithink you already know and are saved by Christ, it is finished in you as it is in Christ
Becasue God has got it all through me. It is God's righteousness that I today partake in, it is God's salvation that I partake in, in has nothing to do with me, only that I beleive and partake in Christ and Christ's fiinished work. We are nothing more than responders that is all, we respond to the creator and the creator initiates in us what the creator wants and what God wants is for us to recieve his type of Love 1 cor 13:4-13, and thiscan not be recieved by flesh, only by the born again Spirit. So Sister just rest in God
One day I felt as you and was shown two trees one with much fruit hanging on it and the other was me, my tree and I only had like two pieces of fruit nad it was not flourishing like the other tree I saw
So God said to me go over to that other tree and pick a fruit and take a bite. So I did and oh boy, Igot a mouth full of wax, it was a fake tree and only looked good, just as the tree of evil in the garden that decieved Adam and Eve. What a lesson I learned. Just because it talks like a duck, andacts like a duck does not always make it a duck
So think on this then, does going to a church a gathering, reading the word make one a Christian?
Nor does going to Mcdonalds religously make one a hamburger. There are a lot of us faking salvation, but will come to know truth and repoent to God as David did in the Old Testament he showed a Godly sorrow over a worldly one big differance Sister as Ithink you already know and are saved by Christ, it is finished in you as it is in Christ