Ideas For Evangelism - Way of Life Literature

parents, perhaps by a co-worker or friend, perhaps bypersonal Bible reading.The Preparatory Work of the LawIn light of dealing with sinners properly, consider themake up of the Bible. The reason why such a largepercentage of Scripture is devoted to presenting the Lawis to prepare the way for the gospel. The Law is theschoolmaster that leads sinners to Christ (Gal. 3:24). TheLaw shows man how holy God is and how sinful man is.Until a person understands his great guilt before God, hewill not flee to Christ in a scriptural sense (Heb. 6:18).Preachers used to understand that the ground of thehuman heart must be plowed up with the Law before itcan bear the sweet fruit of the gospel. Some of the oldevangelists would hold meetings and not even preach thegospel for the first few days, preparing the way bypreaching hard on sin and judgment. In the 1960s OliverB. Greene preached 25 radio messages in a row on thewrath of God. I doubt he could even get away with thaton any of the national Christian radio stations today.Everything is quick and shallow today, and we have allbeen affected by the spirit of the times.The Sinner Typically Reinterprets the Gospelaccording to His Religious BackgroundFurthermore, it is important to be careful and thorough inpresenting the gospel because people tend to interpret itin light of their religious background. When a RomanCatholic first hears about being born again, for example,he naturally thinks about baptism. When he hears about“receiving Christ,” he thinks that it is something that is206