THE ART OF SOUL – WINNING

SOUL- WINNING

Soul winning is part of the GREAT COMMISSION (Mark 16:15).

The bigger picture is to make disciples of course (Matthew 28:18-20), but only one who is saved first can be a disciple. It’s WISE to win souls (Proverbs 11:3).

Evangelism is PROTECTIVE ARMOR (Ephesians 6:15) It’s part of the whole Armour of God! Without proactively sharing your faith with nonbelievers, you’re leaving yourself spiritually unprotected and not as strong.

God empowers Christians to be WITNESSES (Acts 1:8).

Many Christians are afraid of sharing their faith.

Most of us tend to not share our faith in Christ because of fear.

Almost all have some amount of fear of rejection. The person thinks, “It’s embarrassing. I don’t want people to turn me down, or to tell me ‘No’ or to stop being my friend.”

Many people have a fear of failure. Some Christians think to themselves, “I’ve tried evangelism before. It was scary, I tried handing out tracts and nobody accepted them. Most of the tracts ended up on the ground or in the trash.”

Another common one is this: “Every time I go out publicly to talk to people about Jesus, I get these crazy, psycho people wanting to argue with me.” (and some of them even claim to be Christians).

EVANGELISM THROUGH LOVE

Evangelism starts with love. Allow God to continually fill you with His heart for lost people. If we are doing evangelism out of a sense of duty, obligation, or an “I should”, we will not be effective. Nor will our efforts bring pleasure to God. When you are in a loving relationship—with a friend, a family member, or even a stranger—you can be there to listen, model Christlikeness, see, and be seen. Such is a means of evangelism. God is love, and imitating Christ—who is God—is a means of demonstrating his sanctifying power in us to the glory of his name.

God is love” (1 John 4:8). Even though God and love are not necessarily interchangeable, yet Scripture knows no better word than love to describe the fundamental nature of God. To speak of God as holy, just, good, gracious, omnipotent, omniscient or in any such manner is to speak of Him only partially. But to speak of God as love is to speak of Him all inclusively. Love embraces God’s essential nature–who He is in His whole person and actions.

The crisis in the church today is not dissimilar from the crisis at Ephesus. The challenge facing the church, particularly, in evangelism, is not so much the fine art of communicating knowledge, but the divine art of communicating love God’s love. “The success of our work depends upon our love to God and our fellowmen.” Without love, our doctrine, our pastoring, and our evangelism are all futile. But where a love for God and for human beings is translated into action, pastoral nurture and evangelistic outreach will have boundless success.

PILLARS OF EVANGELISM

The Five Pillars of Discipleship stresses the importance of five basic principles in Christian growth: Word of God, prayer, evangelism, fellowship, and praise and worship.

QUALITIES OF LOVE

Mutual respect, compassion, understanding, honesty, transparency, acceptance, trust, commitment, communication, affection, and appreciation.

GOLDEN RULES OF EVANGELISM

The “Golden Rule of Evangelism” is the “Golden Rule,” Jesus said, “So whatever you wish that others would do to you, do also to them” (Matthew 7:12)

• BE PATEINT TO HEAR THEIR PROBLEMS
• SHARE YOUR LOVE BY HELPING THEM
• GIVE THE CONFIDENCE AND FAITH THAT YOU HAVE
• FINALLY REVEAL THE SECRET. THIS IS CHRIST LOVE

TESTIMONY

Sometimes God allows some crucial path which cannot be understand by our worldly mind. I faced this situation in my life. By the Grace of God, I have started many troop churches with my friends. I don’t have time to attend the meetings in my institutional church. The problem raised in my home due to this issue. My mother-in-law forced me to come to church and complain about me in church
about my ministries. I faced many problems both in my home and church. God teach me patience to overcome this situation. I obey to my mother-in-law by attending the church without any argument by planning the time of troop church in some other time. Now my mother-in-law introduced many new souls to start troop church. This is the Great gift given by God for obedience.
I have a chance to do something about all thoughts that are not well-pleasing to God, before they enter my heart and become a part of me! 2 CORINTHIANS 10-5
GOD NEEDS OBEDEINCE WITHOUT ANY ARGUMENT. THIS IS THE SECRET OF WINNING SOULS.

Sol.A. JOTHIKUMARI