THE
PREACHER & EVANGELISM: The Word One To One evangelistic resource – studies in
John’s Gospel
Richard
The Word One To One - Jonathan Carswell & William Taylor
Rico Tice - 1954/55 - Billy Graham evangelism - 90 per cent of
converts were already in churches
1990s - Gospel untrue? Irrelevant? Homophobic?
Today - tolerance and permissiveness and no journey towards God
Lots of people have a Xian friend they like
Would you like to look at the Bible with me?
People need someone to help them
The importance of individual invitation
The Bible from the front, small group, one to one, reading for
self at home
Has anyone ever looked at the Bible wit you one to one?
Do you understand? What does it mean for us in practice? Next
step?
Word on to one gives QQ and AA - you don't need to be a Bible
teacher just a Bible sharer
Shepherds don’t give birth to sheep; sheep give birth to sheep
Evangelism, opening the Bible for every Christian - would you read
the Bible with me?
More than an intellectual conversation - how to lead someone to
Christ?
John Lennox on John 1:1-3 - the Bible has challenges and answers!
Golden tonsils top insurance broker was silenced by v4!
Word one to one - John 1-4 - 4 booklets covering Jn's gospel
Episodes - like a box set - the non-Christian won’t know what
comes next
People are v biblically ignorant
verse by verse exposition so that by the end they can read it and
understand it
An acceptable accessible version of John's gospel
People don't know there is an OT & they are not sure if Isaiah
is a bird or a plane!
people often think the Bible probably has some good stuff in it!
They are often willing to look at it.
People esp. men don't want to look idiots. Don't embarrass them.
Only Xians read out loud! People read in their heads! In business,
no one has ever read a contract out to me!
An amazing claim in John 1v2: that a person existed eternally from
the very beginning and is the maker of all things, the source of all life
The Bible has sold more books than any other. Don't you think it's
worth checking out?
1 in 5 people say yes to doing it! Sometimes roughly 50 per cent
say yes.
each episode is about 20 mins. You might do one, two or three.
people say why has no one shown me this before?
start on a level playing field - both have the booklet out, not a
bible
people are interested in peace and security, not asking about X or
Xianity
Jeremy Marshall, chairman of Xianity Explored, terminally ill - an
advantage!
We have to start further back than we did 20 or 40 yrs. ago
people have v little knowledge of the Bible
50 per cent of people in the UK think J was not a real person or
are not sure
in business we go to them at a time that suits them
church seems weird / frightening / alien to people
trust the supernatural power of the Word to transform
Ask lots of people!
Would you like to read the Bible with me?
God's word connects, resonates - you don't know what is going on
in someone's life but God can put his finger on things
people will open up one to one
Jesus and the Samaritan woman
Philip and the Ethiopian Eunuch
Jesus walks off the pages of the Bible and meets with people
The church staff must help people to do it - how to do it - help
one another
The person doing the training and encouragement must do it himself
The pastor must do the work of an evangelist and needs to have
non-Xian contacts
Model how to do it
The biggest dread is not people saying no but people saying yes!
Then you have to do a Bible study with them!
it is okay if people say no - The parable of the sower - throw out
the seed
people often fall in love with doing one to ones and typically do
4 one to ones at once
this will transform your prayer meeting - pray people will say
yes, pray for the one to ones going on
you have to jump into the pool! just do it!
the bible, you and the other person are conversation partners. it
does not matter too much who does most of the talking sometimes it is 10 - 90
sometimes 50 - 50
Word one to one could be done one to two - could be done in youth
group - every BB group in Singapore are apparently doing it
thewordonetoone.com
cf. uncover - studenty resource, younger people, time limitation
not too much on one page - taking time to go through it
a natural discussion / conversation
middle class English people have a file of self-justification - I
tried - I wasn't too bad, I ran the marathon for charity - John 5 - you must
honour the son if you are to come to the father
Posts
No comments:
Post a Comment