Ideas For Evangelism - Way of Life Literature

epent, ye shall all likewise perish” (Luke 13:3, 5). Thereis no salvation without repentance, and it is a Holy Spiritwroughtchange of mind that results in a change of life.To tell sinners that God demands that they repent mightcut down on the “decision” statistics, but it is the onlyhonest and scriptural path. God has commanded that theyrepent and Jesus said they can’t be saved without it, sohow can we fail to tell them this?One afternoon I accompanied a pastor to knock doors ina part of a city that was populated with universitystudents. A few times in one afternoon he shared a fiveminuteRomans Road plan (i.e., all have sinned againstGod, the wages of sin is death, and Jesus died for our sinand those who believe can be saved) and thenimmediately asked three questions: “Does that makesense to you?” (All of them said it made sense.) “Do youhave any questions?” (None of them did, because theydidn’t appear the least big interested.) And “Would youpray to receive Christ right now?” (None of them did.)Not only was the program “quick,” to say the least,” thepastor didn’t even hint to the people that there wouldneed to be a change in the direction of their life, aturning, a surrender to God.This is not a pastor who is into the numbers racket orwho is trying to impress some preacher’s fellowship orperhaps get his name in a national magazine. He is a manthat I respect, a mature Christian leader who has been inthe ministry for many years and who has taken ascriptural stand on some unpopular issues. I believe theproblem is that he is simply following a program of soulwinningthat he has been taught and that is standard fare195