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Ideas For Evangelism - Way of Life Literature

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his support a long time ago! Myself, I would drop theguy with 738 saved and 25 baptized and shift the supportto the fellow from Poland!”After I graduated from school and moved back to myhome town before we started missionary deputation, mypastor asked us (my wife and me) to follow-up on thechurch’s Foster Club outreach. Each week the ladieswould report a good number <strong>of</strong> salvations, but no onewas following up the “decisions.” We were given a stack<strong>of</strong> cards and began our follow up, but we quickly foundthat these “saved people” wanted nothing to do with usand had no interest in the church in particular or thethings <strong>of</strong> Christ in general. Most wouldn’t even let usinto the home. I thought to myself, that is not the type <strong>of</strong>salvation I got.When we were given the “decision” cards for follow upon a county fair ministry in Oklahoma in 1999, <strong>of</strong> thehundreds <strong>of</strong> pr<strong>of</strong>essions that were recorded we could notfind even one person who gave any evidence <strong>of</strong> salvationor was even interested in attending church. A pastorfriend followed up on the more than 100 “salvationdecisions” that were made at a county fair ministry inKentucky in 2011, and he did not find one soul who waseven interested enough in Christ to attend church.While visiting a large fundamental Baptist church inCalifornia, a friend went on visitation with the mostnotable soul winner in the church. A lady answered thebell at one house and stood impatiently behind the screendoor while the soul winner went hastily through the plan<strong>of</strong> salvation. She wanted to attend to her child, who wasfussing in the background, but he begged her to listen tothe presentation. During the entire time, she was looking188

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