Featured The Holy Spirit in Evangelism

May God richly bless your efforts. Plant the seeds and let God make them grow. Do not get discouraged if people do not want to be saved in your presence. You never know how many can come to faith behind your back.

 

One evening when I was with someone just knocking on doors and inviting people to church with the hopes of an opportunity to share the gospel we had knocked on about 10 doors with no response. Then we approached a home with a lot of people who were drinking and they cussed us out for even attempting to talk with them. Finally, even though at this time it was about dusk we went to a home that looked as if no one was there. There were no visible lights on, no car in the driveway, it just looked empty. When we knocked on the door a Hispanic woman opened the door and it was obvious she had been crying. We introduced ourselves to her and she began crying more. She explained that she grew up in a Catholic home but never really became devout herself. Now she was married to a truck driver who was gone most of the time and then was drunk and abusive when he was home. She was distraught over her life and earlier in the day she had thoughts of the Jesus she heard about as a girl. She has taken a dinning room chair and put it in the middle of the living room floor and was using that as a place to pray from. Her prayer, according to her, was that God would show himself to her. then we knocked on the door.

 

I think when the people of God are prayerfully engaged in seeking to bear witness for the Lord, the Lord directs their path to his elect people.

1 Cor. 3:5 ¶ Who then is Paul, and who is Apollos, but ministers by whom ye came to believe, even as the Lord gave to every man?

In context, his speaking to those who had been saved, baptized and added to the congregation at Corinth.

 

Thanks John, and you too, Evan.
It's been a good couple of days.
Around 1,000 Testaments given out. Some useful (DV)conversations and much prayer needed that some of these students will read these Testaments and find the Saviour.
Particularly pray for four Malaysian lads who talked with us for a long time and took the Testaments. It is absolutely forbidden in Malaysia for anyone to witness to a Moslem or to give them a tract or Scripture. Their only opportunities to find out about the Lord Jesus is either by Christian radio or when they go abroad to study. Yet most of them will never have read a Koran because they don't speak Arabic.

The C.U. at the University have a number of outreaches planned between now and Christmas. God willing, some of the seeds sown will be reaped.

 

I had a missionary friend over in japan for Camus Crusade for 4 years, and he saw 8 converts to Christ, which was considered reallygood for that nation, as they are amonghardest to reach with Gospel...

 

It is hard to win souls in America and besides God elects people to salvation not me so I do not win anyone.

 

Proverbs 11:30
The fruit of the righteous is a tree of life; and he that winneth souls is wise.
The fruit of the righteous is a tree of life; And he that is wise winneth souls.
The fruit of the righteous is a tree of life, And he who is wise wins souls.
The fruit of the righteous is a tree of life, And he who is wise wins souls.
The fruit of the righteous is a tree of life, and whoever captures souls is wise.
The fruit of the righteous is a tree of life, and the one who is wise saves lives.

laqach - to take, get, fetch, lay hold of, seize, receive, acquire, buy, bring, marry, take a wife, snatch, take away

Jude 23
save others by snatching them from the fire
save others by snatching them out of the fire
And others save with fear, pulling them out of the fire

 

I though tthe main problem with reaching Japan for Jesus was that the culture is pretty much material in outlook, and also very resistan to any outside influences coming in, as they value staying "pure" above all else?

 

It might be, but that would be due to Americans rejecting the given light so hard that God decides to now really move among those other groups and religions!

 

I'd say so. Humanism and atheism are the dominant religions in America. Most are flat indifferent towards the message. In Other places they flat out hate the gospel so perhaps it may be easier to reach them.

The harvest is plenteous but that may not be in America.

 

Yeah but many IFB are known for their easy believism preaching and evangelism (say this prayer, or walk this isle, etc). Phil Johnson said it in his rebuff of the IFB movement in 2005, and I spent many years as a IFBans I know easy believism is a major part of the movement.