Comments on Disturbed Christians: How NOT To Witness

Courtney, it is good for us to share our testimony...

2011-09-06T16:18:21.724-07:00

Courtney, it is good for us to share our testimony's of God's work in our life's when witnessing but ultimately the message that saves is not our stories, but instead it's the Gospel of Christ and Him crucified (Rom 1:16-17), God's Story! Hence the reason why we have have all been commanded to preach the gospel, and it's also why Paul keeps going on about the Gospel, which remains 100% true independent of our experiences and story's. What I have found with people who's focus in witnessing is sharing their story is that it becomes a man-centred message rather than God-centred, we are not the centre of God's salvation plan, He is! The message of Salvation is based on an event, the death and resurrection of Christ, and not on our experience's and what has happened in our lives!

In respect to the article, I don't think it's right to criticize people, such as Todd Friel and his method, which is used by Ray Comfort's Ministry, knowing personally that they are very faithful when it comes to witnessing to the lost, probably more faithful than 99% of the Christians I know!

"One day a lady criticized D. L. Moody for his methods of evangelism in attempting to win people to the Lord.

Moody's reply was "I agree with you. I don't like the way I do it either. Tell me, how do you do it?"

The lady replied, "I don't do it."

Moody responded "I like my way of doing it better than your way of not doing it."

All I ask, is that before we start criticizing other people, saying such things as: "How not to witness", we better be doing it ourselves. The reason I say this is that your final remark seems a bit like the elderly lady response in that story: "How do you do that? I don't know, yet. I'm still figuring that out."

"For from him and through him and to him are all things. To him be glory forever. Amen." Rom 11:36

I absolutely agree with this post. I think if we ...

2011-07-02T09:00:03.440-07:00

I absolutely agree with this post. I think if we think about salvation as the end goal for non-believers, then perhaps, yes, a guilt trip is the way to go in way of evangelism. But, while yes, salvation is clearly important, I think LIFE in Jesus is what should be represented in our evangelism. Yes, Jesus died for our sins and has saved us from eternity apart from Him, but He has also set up a plan for a life that can be abundant with Him- a life that is more than guilt and shame and hoops to jump through. This is the true message of the gospel- so why can't we share this? While a "formula" (as mentioned by stormbringer above) may be useful, I think that telling our personal story as it relates to us is much more powerful. And at the end of the day, I'd rather use words I'm passionately connected to with people I claim to "love" over a grossly over-manufactured track/formula any day of the week. Jesus is a part of our stories. So let's tell them.

Guilt trip or Holy Spirit conviction? About two pe...

2011-06-24T18:37:54.854-07:00

Guilt trip or Holy Spirit conviction? About two percent of Christians share the gospel. How many of them are doing the "get saved by reading this prayer and everything will be cool"? Or the "relevant" stuff the article mentioned? Sure, there's no "formula", but then, it's good to have some kind of basis or structure for those of us who are not God in the flesh.

yeah, it was probably Amway

2011-06-03T07:53:21.847-07:00

yeah, it was probably Amway