Ideas For Evangelism - Way of Life Literature

8. THE TYPICAL SOUL-WINNING PROGRAMDOESN’T DEPEND ON GOD ENOUGH ANDISN’T GEARED TO LOOK FOR GOD’SWORKING.Our part in evangelism is to proclaim the gospel properly,to warn people of the judgment of God and to urge themto be saved and to pray for them. That is all that we cando. We cannot save anyone. We cannot manipulate theminto being saved. We cannot sneak the gospel to them insuch a way that they get saved without hardly knowing it.Salvation is a divine miracle from beginning to end. Wedon’t believe that God “sovereignly chooses” who willbe saved or that He has elected only some to be saved,but we do believe that salvation is 100% the work ofGod. It is God who must convict (John 16:8-11),enlighten (John 1:9), draw (John 12:32), regenerate andimpart the Holy Spirit (Titus 3:7). What we do inevangelism is to look for this miracle-working power ofGod in individual’s lives. If that work is not present,there will be no salvation. God does this work ofregeneration in answer to repentance and faith, but theonly way that we can know that the repentance is realand the faith is true saving faith is by the miracleworkingpower of God in the individual’s life.Quick Prayerism typically focuses on the technique andprogram of getting people to pray a prayer and ignoreswhat is happening in the person’s life. This is why it isnot unusual for Quick Prayerists to get people to pray asinner’s prayer when they aren’t interested enough evento invite the soul winner into the home. A Bible Collegeteacher told me recently about a student of his whocontinues to put pressure on people while door knocking214