Ideas For Evangelism - Way of Life Literature

What’s Wrong with Most SoulWinning ProgramsSince attending Bible School in the 1970s, I have gonethrough several evangelistic courses and they containmany helpful things. Yet something is wrong with thestandard technique, because all too often they produce ahost of empty professions, and hopefully we know thatan empty profession of faith that doesn’t change the lifeis not biblical salvation.“Therefore if any man be in Christ, he is a newcreature: old things are passed away; behold, allthings are become new” (2 Corinthians 5:17).“He that saith, I know him, and keepeth not hiscommandments, is a liar, and the truth is not inhim” (1 John 2:4).I read about a pastor who reported 4,000 professions infive years of ministry, but the church only grew from 98to 100.I read about a first-year missionary who reported over700 professions of faith and 25 baptisms.One evangelist comments: “How could you even penthose words without asking yourself if there isn’tsomething wrong with that picture? I seem to remember3,000 saved at Pentecost, and 3,000 baptized! The mostrefreshing missionary that I have heard in a long timegave his update to our church recently. He has been inPoland for 14 years and to date knows of only fivepeople who have been saved under his ministry. Just likeat Pentecost, he only counts the ones who have beensaved, baptized, and are in the church. Most of our ‘one,two, three, pray after me’ fellows would have dropped187