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  1. I love Soul Winning. Knocking doors of people have been praying for your visit, people that answer the door in tears as you intervene a tragic time of their life. Many are afraid to go. I've been trying to push other people in the church to go. Some churches I know I begged them to come out with me, we had a blast. Our current church 75% of the people there are there because someone knocked on their door, whether it was our church, or in a prior church life. We really believe this is a great thing and many churches are lacking. However, our problem is, we can't get people motivated to come. I did just make a video of Soul winning I will share here, and the thought was to use it not only as training, but to show people its not that hard! Ive seen a Church in Arizona that goes out large groups every week, and there's one in Tampa Fl that goes out ive heard as large as 100 soul winners per week. our church though we don't have that many people, less than 100 members if I had to guess, and on any given day could be as small as 30 people or as large as 50. its only me and one other guy, and the pastor and all their kids that like to go out. wondering how we can get people motivated? BTW nice to meet you all!
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  2. Yea man I get it, I've seen baptist jump with joy and count every Prayer as a salvation. But I know from personal experience, when they don't pray, its because something is holding them back, I know because I ask them, and then they usually tell me what it is, and we address those issues. As long as seeds are planted, God can give the increase. if a seed just sits in a seed vault, its not going to grow. Even if people were out there doing this, and maybe rushing into the prayer, I'd rather have people out reading the Bible to unsaved, than sitting on their butts just talking about it. You can't get better without practice. We've seen people say the sinners prayer, and a week later, pick them up for church, and deny Jesus right in front of us. one example was the husband and wife, we "led them both to the Lord". the Husband rejected Christ later on, but guess what, his wife was coming to church everyday after that. So who cares, if people want to count a prayer as a salvation, Jesus does the work, and gives the increase, and some seeds will grow and we will never get to meet that person. Which is sad, but for all the ones I do get to meet, if I get to meet 1 out of 100 and watch their life transform, thats worth it. I wouldn't be out doing this if I thought it wasn't working, trust me, I have much better things to do on a Saturday, Sunday, or week day, Sad to say, but if I did not see the fruit grow, I probably wouldn't be doing it at all... which means my faith in God's commandment to GO wasn't there to begin with. Luckily, he showed me people being reborn, and thats why I will do anything to get this message out, including any type of legal ramification you guys accuse of (this was all checked out legally btw). We could also go out like Ray Comfort does, who is not signing release forms but doing it through the video itself, I guarantee you none of those people want to be on video, and its full HD of their faces, especially the ones that are being embarrassed or made fun of because they are dumb atheist/scoffers.
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  3. I've seen the change first hand, even in my own family, I witnessed my nephew just come to the lord last month, he had a very troubled life, "123 repeat after me" well guess what after that day, he was in and out not completely sure, then the Holy Spirit moved through him, and he asked us to get baptized about 2 weeks after, and has been coming to church every Sunday. For time sake this is one example, however 75% of our members are in church because someone knocked on their door. let me tell you what the prayer does. God told us to do that. does it mean you will be saved? no, its what's in your heart, thats why we tell people its what in your heart that matters, not a magical prayer. but here is why the prayer is so important. if you ask someone to pray, and they say no, that is the ultimate litmus test of their heart. if you do not want to pray but say you believe all these things, something is wrong. because every time someone let me read scripture, and they dont want to pray after, I ask them what's holding them back. the list of answers will be, well I believe in science and evolution, well I had an abortion, well I murdered in the military, then we go back, walk them down romans road again and this time go through the points of their concern, and then they are either ready to receive, or you planted the seeds, and leave, and God gives the increase. in the video he literally invited her to church. just remember "you may be the only bible someone will ever read". There are kids on the streets of America, right now, that never heard of Jesus, I wouldn't believe that statement if I haven't saw it twice already. They took God out of schools, TV, even on a video game forum I saw, if you type in God, and hit post, it will change God to "time". ie. only God will know when ..... to Only Time will know when. so what is inviting someone to church when they dont even know what goes on in an church? you have to leave as much scripture as you can. I wish someone would have knocked my door in college, ESPECIALLY when I was in the Frat houses, doing wicked things. I was hungry for God and Love and Truth and looking in the wrong places. I would have listened, because it also happened to me later on in college and the seeds were planted.
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  4. The Gospel in a nutshell is John 3:16. Over and over in the Bible its called a gift, is a gift hard to receive ? if its "hard" that means you worked for it, you can not outwork what JESUS did on the cross. our works are as filthy rages. look up what a filthy rag was used for in bible days, its disgusting. Some Churches say "Repent of all your sins and then believe on Jesus". ... Well repent of your sins for salvation is no where in the Bible. The only sin you have to repent from is the sin of unbelief. I don't think this forum is supposed to be used for theological debate, that is endless, but seriously how do you people that teach works based salvation or Calvinim share "The good news" Knock Knock... Hey Jesus loves you, but you better put down the cigarette, stop cussing, dont even think of lust because Jesus saw that's adultery in your heart, dont hate, dont have envy, here's a list of 4,000 sins... stop doing those. OKAY BYE! that is not the good news. You Come to God first, he helps you with the rest, you come to him as you are.
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  5. It's better to invite them to church, IMO. My pastor friend literally knocked on every door in his town of about 5,000 residents. There was a college in town (Upstate NY) and he avoided the frats and soros. If anyone showed interest in discussing more about the bible he would try to witness to them. I went with him a few times mostly for encouragement and prayer. He also helped a pastor starting a new church up in Maine do the same thing. They knocked every door. It took him months to do this.
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