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When we were at HAC we were required to go soul winning each week for a specified amount of time, and if I remember correctly, present the plan of salvation to at least one person. We were also required to take the Personal Evangelism class as freshman. There is no doubt that soul winning was the heartbeat of HAC. Here is the topic for this thread - How has your "method" of sharing the Gospel/soul winning changed through the years? Do you still go door-to-door? Do you have a set time to go? Do you share the plan of salvation the same way you did at HAC? Do you do follow-up? Do you share the Gospel at all? I am attaching a post by Walt that caused me to create this thread.
Walt - Looking back, I see very few experiences that were valid - most of it was high pressure used-car salesmanship to get people to say a prayer and then manipulate them into coming to church. We'd go out Thu; talk someone into saying a prayer, and then call them Saturday, and the Sunday morning - we weren't supposed to let them drive themselves because they may not stay for the invitation, so we were supposed to pick them up -- possibly "bribe" them with on offer of a free lunch. Then, at the invitation, we were supposed to pressure them into going forward. None of this seems anything like the change evidenced in the lives of believes in the New Testament. The numbers reflected that, too -- hundreds or thousands of "salvations", with maybe one or two people who actually became active in the church.
Walt - Looking back, I see very few experiences that were valid - most of it was high pressure used-car salesmanship to get people to say a prayer and then manipulate them into coming to church. We'd go out Thu; talk someone into saying a prayer, and then call them Saturday, and the Sunday morning - we weren't supposed to let them drive themselves because they may not stay for the invitation, so we were supposed to pick them up -- possibly "bribe" them with on offer of a free lunch. Then, at the invitation, we were supposed to pressure them into going forward. None of this seems anything like the change evidenced in the lives of believes in the New Testament. The numbers reflected that, too -- hundreds or thousands of "salvations", with maybe one or two people who actually became active in the church.