Share Jesus Without Fear

[evangelist6589]

This Saturday a evangelist is leading the men's group through this book. Its been a long time since I read this book, so I do not remember everything. I am a WOTM Preferred evangelist and its a real shame that the church will not use anything by Comfort & Cameron because they have written some very good evangelism books. So what are your thoughts on this book? What type of evangelist is the author? Is this a book on friendship or lifestyle evangelism? Although I am WOTM preferred I said I would still come if I am not working. Using the 10 commandments is a very powerful way to evangelize these days, but by no means am I suggesting it is the only way to witness.

Do you think after people read through the book people in the church will be more interested in doing contact evangelism? (Something only one other known person on this board named Jordan does).

 

[Martin Marprelate]

This Saturday a evangelist is leading the men's group through this book. Its been a long time since I read this book, so I do not remember everything. I am a WOTM Preferred evangelist and its a real shame that the church will not use anything by Comfort & Cameron because they have written some very good evangelism books. So what are your thoughts on this book? What type of evangelist is the author? Is this a book on friendship or lifestyle evangelism? Although I am WOTM preferred I said I would still come if I am not working. Using the 10 commandments is a very powerful way to evangelize these days, but by no means am I suggesting it is the only way to witness.

Do you think after people read through the book people in the church will be more interested in doing contact evangelism? (Something only one other known person on this board named Jordan does).

I bought the book some time ago. I looked for it just now and couldn't find it, which means I probably lent it to someone who hasn't given it back I was a good book as I recall. There were ways given to turn conversations towards the Gospel and how to introduce Christ in a way that won't frighten people away. I've got eleven hours on an aeroplane tomorrow (if a guy with a laptop doesn't blow the plane up half way across the Pond!) and I shall be sitting next to someone. If my opening gambit is telling the guy that he's on his way to hell, the conversation may be a short one. But if I can find a way of giving my testimony and asking him about his life before doing the hard pitch, then, humanly speaking, I've got a better chance of holding his attention.

So I would say, go to the meeting and buy the book.

 

[evangelist6589]

I bought the book some time ago. I looked for it just now and couldn't find it, which means I probably lent it to someone who hasn't given it back I was a good book as I recall. There were ways given to turn conversations towards the Gospel and how to introduce Christ in a way that won't frighten people away. I've got eleven hours on an aeroplane tomorrow (if a guy with a laptop doesn't blow the plane up half way across the Pond!) and I shall be sitting next to someone. If my opening gambit is telling the guy that he's on his way to hell, the conversation may be a short one. But if I can find a way of giving my testimony and asking him about his life before doing the hard pitch, then, humanly speaking, I've got a better chance of holding his attention.

So I would say, go to the meeting and buy the book.

Thanks Martin. I already have the book I just read it a long time ago. However skimmed it last night and no question his view of success in evangelism differs than what most on this board hold to be true so the book is interesting. I hope I can go but I may be working. But maybe I can work 2nd shift instead so I can make the meeting.

 

[Don]

(Something only one other known person on this board named Jordan does).

Why did you include this statement?

 

[JonC]

This Saturday a evangelist is leading the men's group through this book. Its been a long time since I read this book, so I do not remember everything. I am a WOTM Preferred evangelist and its a real shame that the church will not use anything by Comfort & Cameron because they have written some very good evangelism books. So what are your thoughts on this book? What type of evangelist is the author? Is this a book on friendship or lifestyle evangelism? Although I am WOTM preferred I said I would still come if I am not working. Using the 10 commandments is a very powerful way to evangelize these days, but by no means am I suggesting it is the only way to witness.

Do you think after people read through the book people in the church will be more interested in doing contact evangelism? (Something only one other known person on this board named Jordan does).

I thought his book was interesting, and I liked his testimony. I don’t think most object to his view of success in evangelism, but many here have objected to the use of a prayer to invite Jesus into one’s heart (something Fay relies upon in his book).

That said, you are wrong about everyone except you and one other member advocating “contact evangelism”. Your mistake is in attributing what people have been trying to tell you as a sort of superficial gospel that is light on Christ and more inclined to developing lasting relationships. I wish you understood that true “contact evangelism” is not hit and run exercise but rather a concise presentation of the gospel message coupled with an expression of the gospel itself.

I think this book may help you understand this as Bill Fay speaks of an encounter that finally reached him with the gospel of Christ. The encounter was through an acquaintance who was a Christian Jew. The believer developed a relationship with Fay and when things looked their worse God used this relationship to draw Fay to Himself (or as Fay tells it, to pray for Jesus to enter his heart).

 

[JonC]

Why did you include this statement?

I wondered the same (it is a silly comment). Probably because those who hold to what is truly "contact evangelism" view his method as contact without evangelism. Or his fingers may have passed his brain on this one....it's happened to me on occasions.

 

[Don]

I wondered the same (it is a silly comment). Probably because those who hold to what is truly "contact evangelism" view his method as contact without evangelism. Or his fingers may have passed his brain on this one....it's happened to me on occasions.

The thing is, how does he know what we do or don't do on Tuesday evenings, or Wednesday evenings with neighborhood children, or weekends, or when others are enjoying Spring Break or summer vacations? Are we supposed to be announcing all our works for the Lord, so that others may pat us on the back? Or are we supposed to be exercising Matthew 6:3?

And this is why I think he's really nothing more than a troll. He introduces a topic, but cannot resist injecting something that he knows will have his "critics" spinning in circles.

End of rant. Please return to the actual subject of the thread. Maybe in the future we can avoid posting the thinly veiled condemnations of others.

And yes, I'm in a mood. Situations at work that are causing myself and another guy to consider putting in applications elsewhere.

 

[Rolfe]

Why did you include this statement?

The monkey was playing with the keyboard again.