Reaching Out To You.


Evangelise! part 1 Recently, I got hold of an interesting book by Norman Geisler and David Geisler, titled “Conversational Evangelism.” After 2 weeks of reading, it has truly broadened my understanding on evangelism. To many, evangelize is to spread the Gospel to non-believers. It means more than just that. For evangelism to be effective, it must involve listening and being ready to answer the question raised by our friends. 1. Listen We need to listen and understand the questions that our friends have before we deliver the right answer to them. Through listening, we can understand and uncover intellectual, emotional and spiritual barriers that are keeping them from placing their faith in Christ. Once, I attempted to share the Gospel with 3 of my close friends. It was only through that conversation that I got to know the barriers that my friends were having. One of them got a bad experience about Christianity before and one is skeptical towards religions as a whole. Another one is more concern in areas such as commitment and tithing. It was then I realize that they have these thoughts all the while in their lives. It was also through conversations that I realize the amount of lies and deceptions that the devil has planted in the minds of my friends. We want to listen to their hearts concerns and to lead them out of the maze. Only then, they will be more open and receptive as we share the Gospel to them. 2. Being ready to answer By being ready to answer their questions will help to remove the road blocks that hinder them from coming to Christ. “But in your hearts set apart Christ as Lord. Always be prepared to give an answer to everyone who asks you to give the reason for the hope that you have. But do this with gentleness and respect,” - 1 Peter 3:15 Besides that, engaging in dialogue with them helps to surface the truth for themselves. “We demolish arguments and every pretension that sets itself up against the knowledge of God, and we take captive every thought to make it obedient to Christ.” – 2 Corinthians 10:5 We can help them to surface the truth for themselves by asking questions to the beliefs that they hold onto, by understand the discrepancies and the inconsistencies in their beliefs and this will help them to see the truth for themselves. Contributed by Amos Lee. part 2 next week! Look forward to!: NEW Discipleship modules! NATIONAL DAY OF PRAYER! Kindly hear announcement this week! This Week @ Detonate: It's gonna be an exciting saturday! Our special speaker is first time on the pulpit! Do give him/her your fullest support as we are in the habit of doing so! Worship starts at 445pm! Don't miss the good stuff! Labels: Evangelism, Impact Lives	Detonate? 1. To EXPLODE or cause to explode 2. A youth ministry from ZionFullGospelChurch email us here! :) 3. Detonate News Your Voice if you are using firefox or safari to tag, please refresh after hitting enter :) Recent Updates Truth bout PEACE Something GREATER God's perspective for a conversation. get in the game! our generation! love is. i can move the mountains! Are You Ready to Give Up? He kNEW it. true courage. (no not the show..) Archives November 2007 January 2008 February 2008 March 2008 April 2008 May 2008 June 2008 July 2008 August 2008 September 2008 October 2008 November 2008 December 2008 January 2009 February 2009 March 2009 April 2009 May 2009 June 2009 July 2009 August 2009 September 2009 October 2009 November 2009 December 2009 January 2010 February 2010 March 2010 April 2010 May 2010

Evangelise! part 1