Ideas For Evangelism - Way of Life Literature

God absolutely first in his life. The sincere answer,obviously, will be no. Ask if he has always honored andobeyed his father and mother, whether he has ever stolen,ever lied, ever coveted that which belonged to someoneelse.Go further and show that God requires that we keep Hislaws from the heart. External obedience is not enough.Thus, lusting after a woman is likened to adultery (Mat.5:28) and hating someone is likened to murder (Mat.7:21-22).Show that “whosoever shall keep the whole law, and yetoffend in one point, he is guilty of all” (James 2:10).This establishes the fact that all men are sinners whoconstantly break God’s laws and deserve God’spunishment. It means that all men are under God’sjudgment and will be punished with eternal punishment,because we can never pay the full amount that God’s lawdemands. Thus the wages of sin is not only physicaldeath but also eternal torment in the lake of fire (Rev.20:15).This type of plowing of the ground of the soul is what theSpirit of God uses to bring proper conviction to the heartand to remove the sinner’s false sense of hope andcompels him to fervently want to know what he can do tobe saved.4. THE TYPICAL SOUL-WINNING PROGRAMDOESN’T EMPHASIZE THE IMPORTANCE OFPATIENCE AND THOROUGHNESS.The typical soul-winning plan is far too hasty andshallow. We need to deal with people more carefully,201