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Originally Posted by Esaias
How would I know? I do know lots of people complain about others not doing things they themselves aren't doing. So... your answer is that you are evangelizing people outside of the church?
So, what do you do? Open air.ministry? One-on-one? Tracts? Nursing homes? What are you engaged in, and what have you found effective?
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Esaias,
Sorry for the late response. I was out-of-state and returned yesterday evening. What is open air ministry?
Here are a few methods I find effective.
- I have business card type tracts that I hand out when meeting people. It basically asks the reader if they're in need of emotional or physical healing (it has all my contact information).
- When God speaks to me about people's personal life, I walk up to the person and tell them. That usually gets their attention really quick.
I don't focus on a certain method. I just live life and allow God to use me anywhere. There really isn't a science to it. It's all about opening your mouth, and your willingness to open your mouth.
One of my hobbies is target shooting, and I do own a lot of firearms. Long time ago I would find myself sparking up conversations with strangers regarding firearms. Then one day God convicted me by telling me, you talk more about guns than you do about me. Yikes! That was a slap on the face that I deserved.
If you're honest with yourself, you'll notice that it's so easy to spark up conversations with strangers about hobbies, etc. However, when it comes to witnessing about God to strangers, we think there's some type of science that's involved in witnessing to strangers. That's how excuses begin. If it was so simple to speak to someone about food or cars, all you need to do is transition that mentality to witnessing.
However, people don't because they're full of excuses. Have you ever been happy over one of your accomplishments and told everyone you know?
It was simple to tell everyone because you were proud of your accomplishments.
How simple it is to talk about something that interest us, yet so difficult to speak with strangers about a God whom we profess to love.
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