Ok, thank you.
I appreciate your compassion for the lost coworkers. Everyone needs the gospel. It's rare when anyone is willing and courageous enough to share Christ though.
Everyone is different.
I don't know if these guys actually hate God or if they are simply wicked. I've worked with guys who threatened to rape my family and were full blown reprobates. I have no patience for them. If your coworkers make those type of statements about violence towards you, yours, or others, I'd report it to the owner right away and also follow up by making a formal written dated statement. If they are trying to get under your skin, that is often the attitude of nominal religionists who gang up, thinking they are asserting themselves like a dog marking a tree. Again, I wouldn't lose sleep over them, but take it to the Lord as a serious matter and you still might want to take it to the owner.
I have seen really wicked people get saved, like outlaw bikers, but it's not common. Usually God has to hurt them real bad so the only place to look for help is up. The typical worldly person usually doesn't want to hear about anything that might point to their sins, so they mock the messenger. You could pray for God to show them their mortality and give you an opportunity to share the gospel at a time when their heart is tender. That sometimes happens, but you will likely be most effective and good at it if you are already witnessing with friends from church. If you are not attending a soul winning church, then I encourage you to find one within driving distance. Make sure they have the right gospel on their website and pastor explains it clearly of course. Ask what time of the week they go soul winning and if they have someone else you can go with. The following should ideally be done in pairs, one being the silent partner and the other leading. Once you feel comfortable, then normally you take turns. It's the best way to get the gospel to many in my opinion. Don't worry about the fake "Christians", JWs and Mormons giving it a bad name. Jesus addressed those who did, yet still told His disciples to go. . The New Testament Believers were soul winners and the fundamental Baptists go soul winning. I haven't seen other evangelicals do it lately although there's the push to get the lost to church. That's not enough. My last was an evangelical non-denominational church, but the pastor's weren't open to soulwinning or starting an outreach ministry even though it was following an Andy Stanley mega church format.. When the pastor preached against using the word Saved, because it might make someone feel uncomfortable or lost, I took that as a reason to go.
There Are all kinds of places of outreach, but it helps to find a like minded pastor. Let me know if I can be of help . I have lots of very good material on the subject. Perhaps a list of churches in your area that you can look into if you like.
Soul Winning demonstration.
Example #1
Example #2
The guys at work might not want to hear the Word. Then again, they might be open to an interesting Bible story on occasion. . It might not lead them to the Lord, but at least plant seed . They probably won't be very familiar, but everyone likes a good story. If they don't like that, no big deal, just memorize verses and look forward to weekly soul winning times where you meet and go out from
church.
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And here we have the heretic, Steven Anderson, in his own heretical words.
From "Example 1", after Heretic Anderson quotes Acts 16:30-31, or beginning at the 4:16 mark in the video:
Heretic Anderson: "Does it say that you have to be baptized?"
The ignorant man: "No."
Heretic Anderson: "Does it say that you have to give up any of your sins, or to be willing to give up sin? Like turn your life around...turn over a new leaf?"
The ignorant man: "It doesn't say that."
Well, let's read the passage, shall we?
Acts 16:30-33
"And brought them out, and said, Sirs, what must I do to be saved? And they said, Believe on the Lord Jesus Christ, and thou shalt be saved, and thy house.
And they spake unto him the word of the Lord, and to all that were in his house. And he took them the same hour of the night, and washed their stripes;
and was baptized, he and all his, straightway."
Obviously, and to the chagrin of Heretic Anderson and his beguiled followers, part of "the word of the Lord" which Paul and Silas spoke to this Philippian jailer and his household had to do with water baptism because he, the Philippian jailer, and all of his household were water baptized straightway or immediately after Paul and Silas had finished speaking to them.
Also, we can know, of a certainty, that part of the word of the Lord that Paul spoke to these people included the need to repent and to bring forth works worthy of repentance. How can we know? Because Paul himself told us so right here:
Acts 26:19-20
"Whereupon, O king Agrippa, I was not disobedient unto the heavenly vision: But shewed first unto them of Damascus, and at Jerusalem, and throughout all the coasts of Judaea,
and then to the Gentiles, that they should repent and turn to God, and do works meet for repentance."
Do you see how heretics like Anderson work?
But wait!
There's more!
At the 8:10 mark of the same video, Heretic Anderson says:
"Even if you did something awful like kill somebody, or even kill yourself, okay, God will not take away your salvation from you."
Nice.
Christians can kill other people, and even themselves, and still be saved.
If you are planning on preaching this type of garbage to your co-workers, then may the Lord Jesus Christ himself rebuke you.
Steven Anderson is an absolute plague upon true Christianity, and so are his beguiled disciples.
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