I found this helpful evangelism website a few hours ago. I hope it’ll help you out. [[:

http://www.effective-evangelism-training.org/

We need to get back to the basics.

I was watching Trading Spouses earlier today and the lady that was on there is a Christian and she did a very poor job of sharing the gospel… she kept saying this, “Trust in God” “trust in God. Please, please.” She failed to share with them why they should trust in God. She seemed religious. And she did too much attacking and not hardly enough attracting them to Jesus. I think I sometimes do too much attacking and forget that the fight isn’t against flesh and blood. At the end of the show, that lady went CRAZY! She ripped up the $50,000 check because the other mom was “dark-sided.” The ‘dark-sided’ lady seemed awhole lot nicer than the christian lady. If she would have read it, (the check) she would have though differently about it… what in the world happened with showing the love of Jesus?

Since I’ve started reading Christianity In Crisis, I question everyones beliefs. What those people in that book believe is way to farfetched. Like, Jesus wore designer clothes and had a mansion and was rich along with the 12. Jesus did wear “designer” clothes…they were designed by somebody. Whether they were up-to-date is another story!! And someone in the book believes that by smacking people in the face, kicking people in the face and in the gut with a knee will “heal” them from what they are hurting from. I’d rather suffer with what ever I’d have than be smacked in the face,kicked in the face or in the gut. This guy only did it to them because “God” said to do it. Oh, and he threw a child on the ground because she was/is crippled. What kind of “god” would tell him that?! If that’s what it takes to get healed, I’ll pass on the offer. I laughed so hard I cried when I read it… it may have been funny, but people truly believe this crazy things!!
& when he kicked the guy in the gut, he said, “you may be feeling a bit more pain right now….cancer is spirit and we have to draw it out.” Since when did healing become painful?!! And when did cancer become a “spirit”?!!
The people and their farfetched beliefs are Joyce Meyer,Joel Osteen, Kenneth Copeland, some other guy named Kenneth, John Hegge and many more.
I’ve watched Joel before, whether I believed what he said or not is another story… I could never watch Joyce for some reason, now I know why!! I’ve watched John before. My grandparents like him… and when I told my gma he’s in the book she looked at me like I was crazy. The author says these crazy cultic beliefs have snuck their way in to the Body Of Christ…and clearly they have. We need to do what mascuitos (i suck at spelling sometimes!) do when one of their ‘members’ gets killed, they go out and find what ever it is and attack it… I feel like I just contradicted myself but I really didn’t. I know what I mean, I just don’t know how to explain it clearly.

(about the crazy lady, if I were an un-believer and I met her, I’d question Christianity and it’s claims alot harder…I’d probably be thinking ‘if that’s what happens after becoming a christian, i’ll stay an un-believer! and I’d probably say to her, “If I truly believed that, I’d be crawling on broken glass to tell everyone about it.”)

1 tim. 4:12,
Katelyn Marissa

Quick question; Will you (and everyone who reads this) pray for my Dad? I shared Jesus with him in april…I missed school to do so. I gave him my Bible that my gma gave me, I highlighted ALOT of things in there. I shared my testimony with him and gave him three page letter completly filled with Jesus. I remember putting this saying in there; “If you were the only person on earth, Jesus would have still went to the cross for you.” I gave him a list of great christian songs. Like Hold On- 33Miles, Hold Fast- MercyMe and This Is Now- 33Miles, The Space In Between Us- Building 429 and a boatload of more songs. I also gave him a bookmark that I got in Springfield,MO over spring break. I’m trying not to cry. The box I used to put all of this in, was the box that had my casts in it. I was born with clubed feet… and my mom has always told me that I hold a special place in my dads heart. I was fatherless growing up… (I had to go to the bathroom and I had to cry. I couldn’t hold it in any longer after I said the words) My parents have been basically seperated since the summer of last year; and they have been divorced since May 8th 2009. It hurts. alot. The song I’m listening to is helping. (No One Else Knows- Building 429) I wish Jesus would just ‘put skin on’. I mean just Jesus…not anyone else.

Psalm 68:5 “Father of the fatherless and protector of widows
is God in his holy habitation.”

I think I’m going to go read my writing that is based on the song No One Else Knows that I posted on my site… when you click on my name it goes to my site (:

I got my dad something in branson,missouri last year in the summer. And it was a stuffed animal… I was going to get him something nascary but I decided he has too much nascar things. So I went with something special… I saw him July 5th at his work. and I forgot to bring it with me. And Kayce (my annoying sister whoes moving out in 2 weeks because me and my mom are moving just as last summer) said to me, “I’ll tell dad what you got him if you don’t tell me what you got Jacob for his birthday.” He got a little license plate that was patriotic with his name on it. I told my sister no and left it at that. She told me she wouldn’t tell jacob…I didn’t trust her at all and I still don’t. When we got to his work, kayce told him what I got him.. and as if it weren’t bad enough already, she adds if you don’t want it, I’ll take it. (He even looked like he wanted it) Like I would dare give that to her after what she did to me… I’m not going to lie here, I really do hope someone treats her the exact same way she treated me. I wasn’t feeling mad, I was more on the betrayed and hurt side. Before she told him, I was fearing rejection from him for the thousandth time. and it doesn’t get easier at handling rejection. I haven’t given it to him yet, but will you (and everyone who reads this) please pray that when I do give it to him, he won’t reject it…

and please pray that my mom will get approved for the apartment we want to move into… the credit part has been approved.. but things can change. And if they do change, the house we’re in will probably be submitted to Extreme Makeover: Home Edition. And if they don’t change, I get to be the “New Kid” at a new high school. Pray that I will make it through a new high school…. at least the people will most def. know that I love Jesus, if not anything else.

Pray that my dad will accept Jesus. I asked if he had been reading the bible i gave him and he said a little. and then I asked about the papers I gave him and he said yes.

95% of Christians have never led anyone to Christ. I don’t want to any longer be in the 95%…

1 tim. 4:12,
Katie

Description:
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I wish I would have posted this earlier, but I totally forgot about the book. Sorry Greg about not posting it earlier. [[:

1 tim. 4:12,
Katelyn Marissa

I memorized what’s on the back of the book. It says; Most people don’t expect you to understand what we’re going to tell you in this book. And even if you understand, they don’t expect you to care. And even if you care, they don’t expect you to do anything about it. And even if you do something about it, they don’t expect it to last. WE DO.

Most people don’t even expect us to be capable of having an intelligent conversation with an adult.

What does the Bible have to say about teens? Nothing. The word teenager is only 70 years old.

their site; http://www.therebultion.com

Hope I helped. AGAIN [:

And I thought I’d never get caught reading a book… [:

1 timothy 4:12,
Katelyn Marissa

Thanks for your comment and your honesty. Your prayers are appreciated as we seek to figure this whole thing out. It seems to me that the relational/relentless grid really helps to clarify what God is guiding us toward. It will be interesting to see how it all unfolds. Hopefully it leads to more effective evangelism and longterm discipleship!

Thanks again.

greg

The book I’m reading has a good question to ask people when sharing Jesus. It was “Is there any good reason why you would not accept Jesus as your personal Lord and Savior?” The book is called “How to share your faith” by Greg Laurie. He said something like share your own story becuase no one has a story quite like mine or yours and he said to not over glorify the past or exaggerate. Sometimes there’s that temptation to exaggerate on how bad we were and make things sound worse than they truly were…and to make a beeline to the cross. The apostale Paul always made a ‘beeline to the cross’ in sharing his testimony.

Its a really helpful book [:

I’m also reading a book titled “Questioning Evangelism” and “Christianity In Crisis: 21st Century” they all are really good books…

I read in the first book that most people don’t reject what’s in the box (the gospel), they reject the wraping paper (how we present the gospel to them)…we really need to watch how we present the gospel to people.

there’s another book that I really want and its titled “The Hole In Our Gospel” the description I read of it, sounded pretty good. It’s probably whats on the back of it. I love the last part of the description that says “two thousand years ago, tweleve men changed the world. I believe it can happen again.” (I found the book on http://www.mardel.com along with all the other books)

We need a R.I.O.T (Righteous Invasion Of Truth).

Romans 1:16,
Katelyn Marissa