Ever wondered how you can share the gospel a little bit better. Have you ever thought? How can I be more effective at my witnessing? Well, here are five ways of how you can do it coming. Right up number one, build rapport. Now, before I get into the really deep truths of the Gospel, before I say some quite strong things. To this person in front of me. I like to try and build a little bit of a connection with them.
I like to try and click with them a little bit build some Rapport. So I might say to them, you know, I really like that. Red, that red jumper, that is a nice hoodie. I would wear that myself or I might say to them. Where are you from? And then they'll tell me and for instance. I talked some guys that you can see on YouTube. I'll leave a link in the description box and they were Australian. I said, oh, I've got an, I've got a cousin. From Australia, you might have
heard of him. He's a famous swimmer. But I then spoke. Some I said, I'd love to go to the Great Barrier Reef. So ask them little questions. Where are you from? That's a nice jumper. What do you do for a living? Oh, so you're a farmer, are you? That's really interesting because my uncle owns a farm and you're trying to sort of show that you're a normal person before you go into hitting them with the hard truths about the offense. That is the gospel. Number two boy to boy girl, to girl.
Now. This is just a bit of a note of Of caution, you'll often find that say a young man goes and approach is a young woman and wants to share the gospel. Sometimes in the world. We live different, sort of connotations, can come up. Do you agree with that? I'm all right or wrong, you know, sometimes it can seem like the hitting on them or the flirting. I'm you've got to be careful. So we have a rule in young life and in United Beach mission of the organization's.
I'm part of what we try and say boy, too.
A girl to girl. Now. This doesn't always work and you've got to think of it this way, if there is a soul there and no one's going to share the gospel with them and they're of the opposite, sex will, please do go and share the gospel, but just as much as you can try and share it with with the same sex as you and you'll find, you can click more and talk to them more and be more free without any of these sort of wrong thoughts or wrong motives go in there.
Does that make sense? I hope I'm not coming across as a dinosaurs or dated. But I'm just trying to put a note of caution there that we've got to be as careful as possible. When we share the gospel that our intentions are totally. Pure number three, the 80/20 rule. Now, if you're a seasoned evangelist, if you've been sharing the gospel for years and years, I think the majority of Angeles, myself included. I only learnt this rule. Two years ago.
We need to hear this. So often when we're sharing the gospel, we can just love to go onto these monologues and and get out as Watch information is passed out. Just regurgitating all of this information, just ramming as much down their throats. But what we actually need to do is we need to ask questions and we need to listen.
So, the 80/20 rule is this? You let them speak for 80% of the time and then you speak 20. So if you'll notice a lot of the time I try as I'm speaking, I'm sharing the gospel. I try to get as much out of them as possible. Listen to them. Ask them questions. Why did you say? Say that. Why would you think that? So you believe that God doesn't exist. But then you believe that evolution is true. Why do you think why does that come into your mind? What is making you doubt?
God exists, but and you try to get as much information. Just like a good doctor, diagnoses the situation, diagnosis, the illness listens and then he can diagnose it properly. So that's what you want to do. Listen, as much as possible, and then you can give Straight Dar straight to the heart and know exactly what they're thinking. Don't just be about yourself, show a real interest.
A real concern in that individual that precious soul Who's right in front of you and then get ready to proclaim the gospel. Number four, keep the main thing, the main thing. Now the devil loves to take his on rabbit Trails so sometimes someone might start wanting to talk to you about the the lbgt gay rights issues. All of those things, sometimes they'll want to talk to you
about atheism. Sometimes you yourself, you want to have, you might have your own sort of passion like the end times and you start talking about all these different
things. But what we really need to do, what the real medicine is. We need to get back to the Cross. We need to as many common says, put blood on. Would we need to make sure we're showing what Jesus did the ugliness of our sin repentance faith in Jesus Christ. Our Resurrection, you need to always get it back to that and you too. Keep it directed to the gospel. Yes, answer the question, but never forget to get back to the main thing. The main medicine, the main power.
The power is not in us. The power is not in you. The power is in Salvation is in the Gospel of Jesus Christ, and fifthly and finally end. Well. Now so many Christians can make a mess of this and I failed in this so often we can just go on and on and on and on and on and not know when to And it's important to know when to leave the conversation there and not to keep going on and on and on and thinking the longer the conversation, the more holy than
Mo, the more respectable. No, just try and cut it and keep it succinct. What you want to say. The other thing is this just be so careful. If you've got into quite a heated, emotional debate. Make sure you leave on a good note. You don't want them to walk away and say, I just had an argument with a Christian for the last 10, 15 minutes. You Them to walk away and say, you know what, that Christian, all those thoughts, I had about Christians. It was really someone who has a bit different.
He had a kindness in his heart. She had a compassion that was a bit different. And then finally, the best way to end well is leave them with a portion of God's words. Many of you ask, what, what is the book that you give out at the end of your open as well? It's John's gospel. We give out John's gospel and you can buy these from Young Life campaign, National young life if you put that in.
In on Google you can find them there or you can find it also on 10 of those.com and we give out these John's gospels. Give them a portion of God's word, give them a tract, so that when you're gone when you're silent and no one's no one's there to speak to them. They can still hear from God's words. And then the Holy Spirit can speak to them. That's the best thing you can do because let's be honest. This is far more powerful than anything we can say with our words.
So, leave them with God's word. May God bless you. Thank you for thinking about this and thank you for being willing to want to go out and share the gospel. So let's do it. And let's do it effectively to give glory to our Mighty God.