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How to Avoid False Professions

May 20, 2020 by Bob Wilkin in Blog - evangelism, evangelistic invitations, False Professors

I did not know that your email account would shut down if you got to 15 gig of data. And I had no idea anyone could accumulate that much stuff. That happened last Friday. I was forced to clear out a lot. I ended up deleting 12 gig worth. I hope I didn’t delete anything

Tips for Having an Evangelistic Conversation (Colossians 4:5-6)

April 6, 2020 by Shawn Lazar in Blog - apologetics, Colossians, evangelism

How can you have a conversation with people about your faith? I mean a real conversation. Not a fight. Or an argument. Or a clash of egos. I mean a dialogue in which you’re hearing the other person, and that person hears you, and both sides are genuinely listening. Here’s a video by apologist Greg

C. F. W. Walther on Horrible Evangelism

March 3, 2020 by Shawn Lazar in Blog - evangelism, preparationism, Walther

Not everyone believes the promise of life the first time he hears it. Some people are so committed to salvation by works that they think the promise of eternal life is ridiculous. Before such a person will believe, he will probably have to go through a process of conviction first. He will need to be

Try Using Questions in Evangelism

December 30, 2019 by Bob Wilkin in Blog - communicating with unbelievers, dialogue versus monologue, evangelism, using questions in evangelism

I recently read a book called Questioning Evangelism: Engaging People’s Hearts the Way Jesus Did, second edition (Kregel, 2004, 2017). It is by Randy Newman, who for a time was on college campus staff with Campus Crusade for Christ. Newman’s purpose is not to explain what the saving message is. For the most part he

Are You Cross Wise?

September 30, 2019 by Bob Wilkin in Blog - Assurance, assurance is of the essence of saving faith, evangelism, the cross and evangelism

There has been confusion for twenty years now concerning what Zane Hodges wrote about the cross and resurrection. In 1999 at our national conference, he delivered two messages on how to lead a person to Christ. In those messages he said that believing that Jesus died on the cross for our sins and rose bodily

Invitations in the Evangelistic Ministries of Jesus and His Apostles

August 15, 2019 by Bob Wilkin in Blog - evangelism, invitations, John 11:25-27

When I was on staff with Campus Crusade for Christ, I was required to file weekly reports on how many students I evangelized, what their response was, and how many students I discipled.  I was told if I did not get to the invitation prayer in the Four Spiritual Laws, then I could not count

The Messiah and Eternal Life (John 6:68-69; 11:25-27)

May 20, 2019 by Shawn Lazar in Blog - Christ, Christology, eternal life, evangelism

Some people say we must believe that Jesus is the Christ, without necessarily believing in Him for eternal life or any other kind of salvation. By contrast, we argue that when you believe that Jesus is the Christ—i.e., the Savior—you must have some understanding of the kind of salvation He brings. To believe in Jesus

Pastors Who Give Several Different Salvation Messages

April 22, 2019 by Bob Wilkin in Blog - evangelism, Evangelistic preaching

The good questions keep on coming. One reader asks, “Have you ever come across pastors who are well known that give differing salvation messages? It seems that sometimes they’ll give the correct, Biblical salvation, but at other times they will give salvation by works. I don’t understand. If they give the Biblical, faith-alone salvation, why

Talk Faith (Deuteronomy 11:18-19)

March 28, 2019 by Shawn Lazar in Blog - evangelism, Faith, kids, parenting

My daughter Daphne will be starting 1st grade in the Fall. We’ve been homeschooling her for Kindergarten and sending her twice a week to a co-op for classes with other homeschoolers. I knew she was making good progress in math. She’s learning to draw well. And she’s supposed to be learning Spanish at the co-op

Studying the Real Thing (John 3:16)

February 21, 2019 by Ken Yates in Blog - evangelism, false gospels, Grace

I don’t know if it is true or not, but many years ago I was told that the Treasury Department has a specific way of training agents involved in preventing counterfeit money. They do not train them by showing them different examples of illegal currency. Instead, they spend thousands of hours studying what authentic money