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Hey everybody, this is Pastor 
John Ewart from Inglewood 

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Baptist Church in Rocky 
Mountain, North Carolina. 

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Thank you so much for tuning 
into our podcast. 

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You're going to hear from God 
today as we share from his word 

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about important issues facing 
your life that can guide you 

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according to the Bible. 
So I just want to welcome 

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everybody who's here presently 
physically with me. 

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I don't, you know, I'm curious 
to know this week if we actually

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get some snow. 
I think that would be 

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interesting. 
I'm hearing that possibility, 

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but I don't know what that means
in North Carolina. 

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The, the very first year we 
moved here, we moved from 

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farther N to North Carolina and 
we had snow and school was 

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closed and our kids were so 
excited and we lived on campus 

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at Southeastern for almost a 
year because we couldn't sell 

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our house from where we moved. 
And so we lived in about a 750 

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square foot little apartment 
with two kids and a dog and, and

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we're very close to one another,
but it was snowing. 

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There's no school. 
The kids are excited. 

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There's a hill right outside of 
where we're staying. 

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They're they're thrilled about 
what's going to happen. 

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And by the time they got out of 
bed and went outside, there was 

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nothing on the ground. 
So snow in North Carolina, and 

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I'm always curious, what does 
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Does it really mean anything 
white or not? 

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So we'll see. 
Who knows, Dude, be in prayer 

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because some of our folks are 
actually participating in the 

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graduation of Southeastern, 
which is supposed to be Friday 

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morning. 
And so we'll see what happens 

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there. 
Dylan's wife Holly is 

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graduating. 
So if you see Holly Anderson, 

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give her a pat on the back and 
congratulate her. 

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But I want to welcome everybody 
to this. 

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Let's review for just a moment 
because I am making some 

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assumptions. 
So as you get to what we're 

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talking about in this session, I
am assuming that you have 

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listened or participated in the 
other sessions. 

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And so that doesn't mean you had
to, but it would be helpful if 

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you did because I am thinking of
a stair stepping approach to 

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this. 
So I do hope that you're 

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building intentional 
relationships with lost people 

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in your life, that you're also 
praying for them even before 

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you're necessarily even talking 
to them. 

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You're talking to God about them
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about God. 
And also all during that time 

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you're working on moving the the
conversations to Christ in ways 

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that we've talked about before. 
I always think that's a vital 

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part of this experience of being
evangelistic. 

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And then, and then you're also 
ready to share your personal 

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testimony that we've talked 
about before and previous times.

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So if you haven't, you haven't 
picked up on any of that, go 

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back and listen to some of the 
other pieces and put it all 

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together and you'll kind of see 
the area. 

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Here's the one I really need to 
work on maybe in my life. 

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It'll be helpful to you. 
In this session, we weren't. 

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We want to talk about gospel 
tools. 

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I'm going to be careful about it
because I'm not just here to 

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show you tools or to recommend 
certain tools. 

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I want us to be able to analyse 
tools. 

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How do I critically analyse a 
gospel presentation? 

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That's really the idea here. 
So in a sense, think of this as 

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Part 1. 
Next session will be Part 2 of 

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what is the gospel? 
What has to be in the gospel? 

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What does somebody actually need
to hear to be saved and what are

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ways to share that with them? 
One of the ways to share that is

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to use some a tool of some kind.
And the next time we're talking 

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about doing it from memory and, 
and both of those things could 

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be done, could be done and you 
could have both skill sets. 

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But what we really need to talk 
about is what is it they need to

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hear? 
And so I'm going to use some 

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examples later of some some well
known gospel tools. 

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I'm also going to probably show 
you some things you've never 

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seen before because there's some
weird ones out there and talk 

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about some of the pluses and 
minuses, what's missing, what's 

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not missing. 
And then I'll probably make a 

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couple of recommendations for 
our current cultural situation 

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as to a couple of different 
approaches that might be 

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helpful. 
So let's talk about this. 

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So as we're talking about some 
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recognize that almost every 
single written tract or tool 

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probably has an app today. 
Virtually everything is online. 

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In fact, other than the oddest, 
most unique things here would 

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all be online. 
All the classic gospel 

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presentations are online 
somewhere. 

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Most of the tools that are put 
out denominationally have apps 

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and or online tool and and then 
there are some unique things 

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online. 
Some of what we're going to talk

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about are going to sound like 
we're talking about a little 

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written booklet, the old 
fashioned track, but recognize 

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that all of that would also 
translate into a website or an 

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app of some kind for almost 
everything. 

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One of the assignments that I've
often done in class is, and I've

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mentioned this to you before, is
to go look up the go find the 

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three best gospel presentations 
you can find online, and then go

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find the three worst gospel 
presentations you can find 

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online. 
And if you'll Google or search, 

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however you search bad gospel 
presentations or horrible 

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evangelistic presentations, 
you'll get hundreds of thousands

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of hits. 
That didn't mean they're all 

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bad. 
That's an interpretation. 

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But some of them are pretty bad.
And when I say bad, that might 

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be too strong of a language. 
They're lousy. 

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Is that better? 
So I use the Hebrew wretched. 

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No, that's really not true. 
Some of them, some of them are 

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incomplete, and some of them are
just so old fashioned that most 

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people in our culture today 
would never stop to pay 

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attention to them. 
They're so poorly put together. 

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They're so old fashioned, thrown
together. 

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Most people are not looking for 
the old praying ham sculpture, 

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sculpture with organ music in 
the background and King James 

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text on about A5 font scrolling 
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So there are better ways to do 
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And I know people who are in 
full time online evangelistic 

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ministry. 
That's what they do for a living

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and everything's completely 
online. 

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And so they're talking to people
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They do it online all the time, 
and so there's a lot of 

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interesting things out there. 
There are also even websites and

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Oregon apps where you could 
videotape your testimony, plug 

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it in, send that link to your 
friend. 

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They could hear your testimony 
and see your testimony. 

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And then it leads them into a 
pretty good gospel presentation 

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that's already there. 
It's a template. 

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So your, your, your video gets 
plugged in and there's a 

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template around that, that 
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So you might you maybe somebody 
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you're a little too shy to, to 
share the testimony with them, 

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would you, would you go to this 
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message I have here for you? 
I'd love if you do that and they

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have those kinds of things now. 
So lots of stuff on there. 

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So let's just talk about this 
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And so let's talk about some 
reasons for using a gospel tool.

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Now again, it's going to, it's 
going to sound like this is 

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about written things, but these 
are pretty generic to where this

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could apply to almost anything I
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One of the things that's helpful
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of content. 
In other words, I, I don't have 

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to sit here. 
I don't, I, you know, I may not 

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have that memorized yet or I may
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things like that. 
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outline I can follow in writing 
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And so the organization of 
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It'll take me from kind of the 
beginning of a gospel 

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presentation to an end. 
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keeps me keeps me that way. 
And so it's helpful. 

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Another thing about a lot of 
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something you can leave behind. 
This is something I use it more.

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We'll keep standing over here. 
I think it's the computer. 

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We, we, we've, we've tested this
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and we think it's this. 
So it's something I can leave 

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behind. 
So I don't, I don't, it would be

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rare for me to sit down with 
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booklet and read through it with
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That would probably not be what 
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What I would say is this booklet
has a great summary of what we 

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just talked about. 
And so take that home and read 

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that as well or go to this link 
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That's probably more what, what 
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have to. 
In the old days, we were trained

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to sit down with them and walk 
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And so you, we can do that too. 
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You know, one of the great 
advantages of a tool of some 

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kind is that no memories 
required for many of them. 

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Some of them still require 
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And I'll talk about some of the 
different kinds later. 

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But for a lot of, you know, 
yeah, if it's all written out 

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for you. 
And some are much more thorough 

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than others, which is why we 
need to analyse them a little 

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bit to think about what's 
missing from some of those 

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tools. 
But it, it certainly is helpful.

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You don't have to have 
something, you know the whole 

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thing memorized because you have
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It's kind of like the way I do a
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weddings, I don't have that 
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I have a written in a book and I
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don't have to remember anything.
Just listen to me. 

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I have it all written down in 
the book, right? 

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So I'll tell you, step forward, 
move, right, hold her hand, look

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at her, not me. 
You know those kinds, those 

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things, you know, I'm not taking
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No, no, you give it to her. 
Those kinds of things. 

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One of my favorite wedding 
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I'll get off of this, but this 
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So we're, we're in Oklahoma 
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There's an indoor garden in 
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It's a big glass thing. 
It's really famous. 

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I can't remember the name of it,
the Crystal Garden or something 

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like that. 
And it's huge. 

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I mean, it's huge. 
It's, it's bigger than this 

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room. 
It's a huge thing like a 

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football field and, and all 
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There's a river in there. 
There's a, it's a, it's a, a 

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miniature environment, 
waterfalls, the whole bit. 

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So it's a place for people love 
to get weddings. 

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They like in the winter, 
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married in there. 
And there's a, a bridge right 

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over a waterfall and there's a 
place over here for people to 

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sit and there's a place over 
here for the string quartet or 

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whatever you got going. 
And so I'm doing this, doing 

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this wedding, the string, the 
string quartet's going and, you 

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know, grandma's sobbing over 
here and we're standing on this 

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little bridge over the waterfall
and, and it's about 1000% 

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humidity in there in the winter 
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And so, you know, it's a little 
bit thick in there, almost a fog

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inside. 
And, and I learned the hard way.

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I changed my, I changed my 
method after this ceremony. 

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So I reached out to get the 
rings because I like to hold up 

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a ring and talk about, you know,
here's the symbol, the wedding 

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ring and what it means. 
I promise we're going to talk 

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about evangelism in a minute, 
but here's the wedding ring. 

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Here's what I mean. 
And I reach and, and the, and 

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the best man's going to hand me 
the rings. 

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And then I'm going to talk about
that and give him back out that 

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kind of idea, you know, And he 
starts to hand me the ring and 

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he drops it and this is a 
slatted bridge and a waterfall. 

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That ring goes straight down, 
hits the slat, bounces straight 

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up in the air and I catch it mid
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That's right. 
Thank you very much. 

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Good night everybody. 
Been nice knowing you. 

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Good to see you. 
It's those cat like reflexes. 

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After that, I have a big book 
with the rings on the book. 

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I have no idea why I told that 
story, but anyway, so the other 

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thing that it will do, which is 
what I did not just do is keep 

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the conversation on track. 
So a gospel tool will actually 

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help you kind of stay focused. 
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questions about the Trinity, but
let's let's let's right now, can

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we stay focused on what we're 
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We'll come back to that in a 
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So often it can help you do that
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will lead to a conclusion. 
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decision? 
Does it actually lead to a point

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of response and things like 
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that than other things. 
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actually use these gospel tools?
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These aren't all the things. 
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These can be an effective way to
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impersonal world. 
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very canned and you're just 
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actually sharing. 
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do, remember this hopefully is 
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first conversation you've ever 
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relationship and leading up to 
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honestly say, listen, I need 
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share with you. 
Let me use this tool to help me.

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doing. 
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I needed more or less. 
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always. 
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can supplement and they can 
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them take the place of it, but 
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the initiator and all some of 
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best practices, some better 
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pray. 
Always be praying. 

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Don't forget these earlier 
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you hand these things out, you 
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neither can a tool. 
These tools don't save people. 

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These tools hopefully present 
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helps people to hear it. 
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through that and saves them. 
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And so always remember that, 
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So we want to be sure and be in 
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even while we're thinking about 
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people. 
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right way. 
I, I am not going to 

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indiscriminately throw tracks 
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That is a methodology that has 
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They, they're, they've been 
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certain people with great 
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the village and just dump the 
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the village and they go flashing
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truck stop bathroom. 
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that evangelism. 
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littering. 
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think it's what ends up with 
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They're probably going to go in 
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irritate the truck stop owner, 
but and then and then ask God to

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help you select the right tool. 
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would suggest to you is that you
have a couple of them that you 

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know how to use. 
You'll have a favorite. 

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I hope I have favorites. 
I'll share those with you, but 

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you might have a couple of 
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context is going to determine 
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And we'll talk a lot about that 
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might be in a situation because 
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culture, children, different 
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And by the way, we're going to 
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groups in another session. 
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we share with people from 
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lifestyles, different religions,
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kind of stuff's coming up. 
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there might be a tool that's 
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designed for children, some of 
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may not know English, etcetera. 
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about that later and then 
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listener understand what it is 
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appropriate. 
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fits the need of the person. 
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I'm, I'm not a one-size-fits-all
evangelistic methodology kind of

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person. 
And if you are great, if it 

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works for you, great. 
And if you're really living that

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out and it's working real, real 
well, keep doing it. 

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That's just not who I am. 
I, I, I, I like having my Batman

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belt full of all kinds of tools 
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Bless your heart. 
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certainly want to talk with the 
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That might seem common sense to 
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just kind of this, you know, 
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mission trips and it's really 
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them. 
They never share the gospel when

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they're home and then they have 
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go to the airport and as soon as
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start handing tracks out to 
everybody. 

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And they do it the whole time 
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back out the door in their 
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I've seen that a number of 
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indiscriminate handing out of 

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tools is not my favorite 
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Not saying that ever worked. 
God can do all kinds of things. 

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He uses talking, talking 
donkeys. 

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I mean, look at me, I'm an 
example. 

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So here we go. 
So I want to talk to him because

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what I want to do is I'm back to
leading that conversation to 

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Christ point because everything 
connects here. 

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I want to, I want to, I want to 
learn their needs. 

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I want to try to stimulate their
interest. 

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I want to try to steer the 
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first before I, I, I, I bring 
some tool out or something. 

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I'm still walking through these 
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I've, I've talked to you about 
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That's just kind of the idea 
that we've already talked about.

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They use the word promiscuously.
I just thought was good just 

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because I never get to use that 
word. 

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So, so don't be promiscuous with
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don't force them all people. 
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usually it's better distribute a
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than to just hand out a bunch of
them. 

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Now, I'm not saying it's never 
worked. 

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I'm not saying it's horrible. 
I'm just saying that's not my 

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favorite methodology. 
Remember the definition I want 

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to intentionally prepare for and
pursue. 

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And so I'm intentionally 
preparing to try to show the 

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gospel in the best way possible 
#5 use attractive gospel tools 

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that this may seem flippant to 
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carnal to you a little bit, but 
it's, but it's not. 

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If you want somebody to actually
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like it was at least created in 
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least by the 1990s. 
And some of our tools do not 

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look that way. 
Most of the people in our 

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culture today are not going to 
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They're not. 
They're going to have a hard 

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time understanding King James 
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So you might need a more modern 
translation. 

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You want something that's 
colorful. 

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They're used to that. 
Our world is visual. 

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The vast majority of learners in
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learners. 
That's not a guess. 

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And so they're used to getting 
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And so to think about how 
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something that would interest 
them enough to actually look at 

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it. 
And I recognize it's on the 

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power of the Holy Spirit. 
We're dependent upon the Holy 

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Spirit to do all this. 
I get all that, but let's do our

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best to to be prepared. 
So tracks that catch their 

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attention, tracks that are well 
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attractive. 
They're not wadded up in your 

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pocket. 
They're actually something 

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that's that that would be 
suitable to hand to somebody. 

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And then the last one in this 
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time is going to be in this next
session. 

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But but the last one here, get 
creative there. 

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Again, there's a variety of 
tools out there. 

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I'm going to show you different 
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Some of them for some of you 
will be weird. 

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They really weird will because 
some of these are very 

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postmodern. 
Most of our tools are not 

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postmodern. 
You got to think about it. 

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And I know you, those words 
don't necessarily mean anything.

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In fact, it was AJI Packer or 
Dia Carson who said the 

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postmodern is one of the 
greatest throwaway words of all 

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time because nobody knows what 
it means. 

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It means after modern. 
So you got to think about most 

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of these gospel tools were 
written by moderns, by people 

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back in the 20th century. 
And that that may seem weird to 

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you to say that, but back in the
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It's 2026 almost, so 2000 is 25 
plus years ago. 

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And you got to understand that 
there's a whole population out 

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there that never knew the 20th 
century. 

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They never knew 911. 
They've never not known the 

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Internet, they've never not 
known cell phones, They've never

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not known any of that. 
It's their whole life. 

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And so for us to reach this 
culture as a whole, many of 

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these tools are written in a 
very modern way. 

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And I'm going to I'm going to 
break that down for you later 

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very clearly. 
But some of these are going to 

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seem weird, like I would never 
do that. 

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That just seems weird. 
And when we get to those, you 

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can say it out loud, that just 
seems weird. 

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Let's practice that. 
That just seems weird. 

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Thank you very much. 
That was half hearted, but I 

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appreciate it. 
So let's talk about because this

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is really what I want us to 
think about, because I want you 

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to be equipped enough, 
theologically astute enough, 

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biblically well founded enough 
to be able to take a gospel tool

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and say, well, the basics are 
OK, but it's missing this and 

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this and this and this. 
So if I use this tool, I would 

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need to define this. 
I would need to define that. 

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I would need because it's 
assuming this and assuming that,

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or it's just so general that it 
really doesn't share what we 

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might consider the whole gospel.
So in our next session, we're 

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going to really define the whole
gospel even more clearly, which 

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will help you come back to this 
and evaluate even more clearly. 

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We just don't have time to do it
all in one session because we're

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going to talk about Bible 
stories next time and scriptural

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content and what must be in the 
Gospel presentation, right? 

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So we want to come back, but 
here are a few things we need to

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think about. 
Here's a series of questions 

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that me and others have put 
together. 

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These are not all original with 
me. 

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So but these are fairly, some of
these are fairly common sense, 

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but I don't know if you'd ever 
thought about them all to to 

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analyse something. 
For example, is the nature of 

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God defined to just assume God 
is a very modern thing to do and

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our world out there doesn't do 
that anymore. 

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You that's not my God, my God's 
blank. 

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I mean, just listen to the 
media, listen to somebody. 

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You know, we're we're going to 
pray that God does something. 

450
00:23:43,480 --> 00:23:45,920
But what do you mean by that? 
What God are you talking about? 

451
00:23:46,400 --> 00:23:49,560
Because we're so we got to go 
all the way back to our summer. 

452
00:23:50,240 --> 00:23:52,920
There's a reason why I shared 
that theological foundation with

453
00:23:52,920 --> 00:23:54,880
you. 
We got to go all the way back to

454
00:23:54,880 --> 00:23:58,760
talk about our isms and 
syncretism and pluralism and 

455
00:23:58,760 --> 00:24:02,240
universalism and all the, all 
these people are going to deism.

456
00:24:02,240 --> 00:24:03,760
They're all going to say they 
believe in God. 

457
00:24:04,400 --> 00:24:05,960
They're all going to use God as 
a word. 

458
00:24:06,920 --> 00:24:11,160
But their definition of God and 
our definition of a biblical 

459
00:24:11,160 --> 00:24:14,240
Jehovah, Yahweh are going to be 
very different things. 

460
00:24:15,280 --> 00:24:18,320
And so are we explaining the 
nature of God. 

461
00:24:18,320 --> 00:24:19,680
You can go sit there and say, 
well, how is that? 

462
00:24:19,680 --> 00:24:22,040
How can a little tool do that 
exactly? 

463
00:24:23,040 --> 00:24:25,120
That's part of the whole point 
of the session. 

464
00:24:25,680 --> 00:24:29,440
Most of them won't. 
Most of them can't. 

465
00:24:29,920 --> 00:24:31,880
Or you'd, you'd be carrying 
around a book. 

466
00:24:32,760 --> 00:24:34,480
You wouldn't have a, you 
wouldn't have a track, you'd 

467
00:24:34,480 --> 00:24:37,360
have an encyclopedia, right? 
Because there are entire books 

468
00:24:37,360 --> 00:24:39,080
written on the doctrine of God, 
right? 

469
00:24:39,520 --> 00:24:44,680
So how can you help define the 
nature of God? 

470
00:24:45,040 --> 00:24:48,200
Similarly, what is sin? 
This is going to be a big deal 

471
00:24:48,400 --> 00:24:50,400
and I'm going to hit this again 
in future sessions. 

472
00:24:50,400 --> 00:24:52,080
I'm going to talk about 
apologetically. 

473
00:24:52,080 --> 00:24:54,640
Here's a here's a short list of 
things. 

474
00:24:54,640 --> 00:24:57,800
You better know what you believe
about and you better be able to 

475
00:24:57,800 --> 00:24:59,800
explain to somebody what you 
believe about it. 

476
00:24:59,800 --> 00:25:02,480
And we'll do that. 
That's coming up later on in 

477
00:25:02,480 --> 00:25:06,120
another session because and what
kind of at the end of all this, 

478
00:25:06,120 --> 00:25:09,240
we'll hit that hard because how 
is sin defined? 

479
00:25:09,440 --> 00:25:12,920
Is sin presented as primarily an
offense against God or something

480
00:25:12,920 --> 00:25:15,320
else? 
Is sin presented in a way that 

481
00:25:15,320 --> 00:25:17,360
goes beyond outward sin to 
inward sin? 

482
00:25:17,360 --> 00:25:20,440
In other words, it's not just 
this thing you do. 

483
00:25:21,240 --> 00:25:25,160
This is what you think this is, 
this is how you feel. 

484
00:25:25,800 --> 00:25:29,400
See, this is a sin nature. 
It's not just the fact that I 

485
00:25:29,400 --> 00:25:33,280
ever do something bad, right? 
So because what's going to 

486
00:25:33,280 --> 00:25:35,760
happen in our culture today, our
world today, is we're going to 

487
00:25:35,760 --> 00:25:40,240
get into definitions of good and
bad and they're self defined. 

488
00:25:40,840 --> 00:25:44,360
I don't think that's bad, right?
In fact, I was. 

489
00:25:45,080 --> 00:25:47,320
You've probably see them too. 
I was reading a news article 

490
00:25:47,320 --> 00:25:51,640
just today or yesterday where a 
student gets a 0 on a paper 

491
00:25:52,200 --> 00:25:55,440
because they were presenting a 
Christian worldview about 

492
00:25:55,440 --> 00:25:59,960
gender. 
And the person grading the 

493
00:25:59,960 --> 00:26:04,280
person grading the paper who 
identifies with plural pronouns 

494
00:26:04,280 --> 00:26:08,920
and not a specific gender 
pronoun just hammers the student

495
00:26:09,960 --> 00:26:14,400
because the student and, and the
paper was how to share her your 

496
00:26:14,400 --> 00:26:16,880
opinion. 
The paper was the assignment was

497
00:26:16,880 --> 00:26:18,840
actually to share your 
perception and opinion. 

498
00:26:19,800 --> 00:26:24,320
So but you're not allowed to do 
that unless it agrees with that 

499
00:26:24,320 --> 00:26:26,000
person's opinion perception. 
See. 

500
00:26:27,040 --> 00:26:30,040
And so that, and that's a world 
we're living in now to where 

501
00:26:30,040 --> 00:26:33,920
they they have definitions. 
We better have definitions. 

502
00:26:34,760 --> 00:26:36,840
And what does that mean? 
What is sin? 

503
00:26:37,120 --> 00:26:40,280
And we've talked about some of 
that in the past, and it goes 

504
00:26:40,280 --> 00:26:42,440
on, you know, even more 
significantly. 

505
00:26:42,440 --> 00:26:45,000
And we'll talk a whole lot about
this next time together. 

506
00:26:45,000 --> 00:26:49,320
How is salvation defined? 
You know, how is salvation 

507
00:26:49,320 --> 00:26:50,920
defined? 
Is salvation by grace through 

508
00:26:50,920 --> 00:26:52,360
faith? 
Is that made clear? 

509
00:26:52,360 --> 00:26:55,080
Because because most of the 
world doesn't believe that. 

510
00:26:55,880 --> 00:26:58,320
Most of the world believes in a 
holy scale. 

511
00:26:58,920 --> 00:27:02,800
They're on a wholly balanced 
system of karma or some version 

512
00:27:02,800 --> 00:27:05,880
of good or bad, according to my 
definition, as I've said before.

513
00:27:06,080 --> 00:27:09,920
So if I've done more good things
versus bad things, I might make 

514
00:27:09,920 --> 00:27:12,960
it. 
And that was one of the things 

515
00:27:12,960 --> 00:27:15,440
about even Cambiz and I were 
talking about a couple of weeks 

516
00:27:15,440 --> 00:27:18,520
ago when he was here sharing 
about Muslims or we were talking

517
00:27:18,520 --> 00:27:20,080
about Muslims. 
And he goes, that's part of the 

518
00:27:20,080 --> 00:27:22,640
problem with Islam and Islam you
can never know if you're saved 

519
00:27:24,160 --> 00:27:26,320
and that, and that's something 
that I need to know because if 

520
00:27:26,320 --> 00:27:28,160
I'm sharing with a Muslim, I 
need to know that. 

521
00:27:28,160 --> 00:27:31,440
So one of the things I want to 
talk about is assurance, because

522
00:27:31,440 --> 00:27:34,800
I do know. 
I do know for sure. 

523
00:27:35,960 --> 00:27:38,280
And so, and the Bible tells me I
can know for sure. 

524
00:27:38,960 --> 00:27:40,960
Almost nobody else in the world 
believes that. 

525
00:27:42,120 --> 00:27:44,160
And so that's a big deal. 
It's one of those markers in 

526
00:27:44,160 --> 00:27:47,080
apologetics we'll talk about now
how I talk about, it's 

527
00:27:47,080 --> 00:27:50,000
important. 
The graciousness with how I talk

528
00:27:50,000 --> 00:27:52,320
about, that's important. 
But at the same time, I need to 

529
00:27:52,320 --> 00:27:55,560
point that out. 
So is salvation clearly tied to 

530
00:27:55,560 --> 00:27:58,680
1's faith relationship with God 
or to a more ritualistic or 

531
00:27:58,680 --> 00:28:01,640
emotional experience? 
Because you're also going to 

532
00:28:01,640 --> 00:28:03,640
have people out here who think 
they're Christians, right, 

533
00:28:04,880 --> 00:28:09,240
Especially in North Carolina. 
And but for some of them, that 

534
00:28:09,240 --> 00:28:12,960
was a very, it was the emotional
experience when they were at 

535
00:28:12,960 --> 00:28:17,320
children's camp and they base 
their entire salvific experience

536
00:28:17,320 --> 00:28:19,880
on the emotion or the opposite 
is true. 

537
00:28:19,880 --> 00:28:22,880
Sometimes parents don't believe 
their child was actually saved 

538
00:28:22,880 --> 00:28:24,440
because their child didn't cry 
enough. 

539
00:28:26,520 --> 00:28:28,560
I mean, those are real 
conversations in our world. 

540
00:28:29,480 --> 00:28:33,400
And so, or it's about ritual. 
It's again, it's about did I do 

541
00:28:33,600 --> 00:28:37,800
the sacraments the right way? 
And as long as I do, as long as 

542
00:28:37,800 --> 00:28:41,440
I do the, the sacraments the 
right way, I'm good. 

543
00:28:42,360 --> 00:28:45,560
So as long as I do the work the 
right way and I go through the 

544
00:28:45,560 --> 00:28:49,160
ritual the right way, 
everything's OK, you know, And 

545
00:28:49,160 --> 00:28:52,240
that, that's not, that's not 
even in a Christian context that

546
00:28:52,240 --> 00:28:55,000
could be in a animistic kind 
that, that could be Wiccan. 

547
00:28:55,320 --> 00:28:58,280
As long as I've cleansed myself 
with the smoke in the water or 

548
00:28:58,280 --> 00:29:00,320
whatever it might be in the 
right way, I'm fine. 

549
00:29:01,480 --> 00:29:04,520
I had bad thoughts today, but I 
went outside and I burned some 

550
00:29:04,520 --> 00:29:07,080
sage and I cleanse myself with 
the smoke. 

551
00:29:07,280 --> 00:29:09,880
And now my karma's fine. 
My aura is good. 

552
00:29:09,880 --> 00:29:12,080
I've manifested beauty and 
goodness. 

553
00:29:12,080 --> 00:29:14,560
And since I've manifested it, it
must be true. 

554
00:29:16,920 --> 00:29:18,680
Thank you. 
Thank you very much. 

555
00:29:19,480 --> 00:29:23,120
I appreciate that. 
Amen. 

556
00:29:23,120 --> 00:29:26,480
All right, so so. 
And is salvation the next one? 

557
00:29:26,480 --> 00:29:29,320
Is salvation actually presented 
as the restoration of the human 

558
00:29:29,320 --> 00:29:32,040
God relationship for all of life
or something else? 

559
00:29:32,560 --> 00:29:34,160
In other words, what what is 
this? 

560
00:29:34,800 --> 00:29:36,480
What is this thing called 
salvation? 

561
00:29:36,480 --> 00:29:39,080
What does it do? 
What does it produce? 

562
00:29:39,080 --> 00:29:40,840
You've heard me talk about that 
a number of time. 

563
00:29:40,840 --> 00:29:43,760
What's the function of salvation
in your life? 

564
00:29:43,760 --> 00:29:46,640
What does it actually produce? 
Which is why we talk about what 

565
00:29:46,640 --> 00:29:49,760
we talk about in the personal 
testimony by accepting Christ. 

566
00:29:49,760 --> 00:29:52,400
This is what it means. 
But here's what it means today. 

567
00:29:52,480 --> 00:29:56,160
There's a function here. 
There's there's a product here. 

568
00:29:56,440 --> 00:29:58,960
There's an effect here in my 
life. 

569
00:29:59,280 --> 00:30:03,400
And that's why those words are 
so important out here, to tell 

570
00:30:03,400 --> 00:30:07,400
that story of how it really does
change my life. 

571
00:30:07,880 --> 00:30:13,160
Because we all probably know 
people who claim to be born 

572
00:30:13,160 --> 00:30:16,440
again, who are probably church 
members, and yet they don't 

573
00:30:16,440 --> 00:30:19,600
participate in anything. 
They don't participate in 

574
00:30:19,600 --> 00:30:20,720
church. 
They don't participate in 

575
00:30:20,720 --> 00:30:22,960
spiritual disciplines. 
They produce no fruit in their 

576
00:30:22,960 --> 00:30:25,120
life. 
There's no evidence whatsoever 

577
00:30:25,120 --> 00:30:28,000
other than they might be sitting
in a chair on a Sunday, but out 

578
00:30:28,000 --> 00:30:29,720
in the real world, there's no 
evidence. 

579
00:30:29,720 --> 00:30:31,680
In fact, the people who know 
them in their life don't have 

580
00:30:31,680 --> 00:30:33,520
any clue at all that they 
identify as a Christian. 

581
00:30:35,000 --> 00:30:38,440
I'm not making those stories up.
These are people I know who 

582
00:30:38,440 --> 00:30:44,360
shared that with me. 
And so and so is, is this really

583
00:30:44,360 --> 00:30:46,000
salvation? 
See. 

584
00:30:47,400 --> 00:30:51,280
So then another one which would 
be obvious is how is Jesus 

585
00:30:51,280 --> 00:30:54,360
defined? 
You know, who is this? 

586
00:30:54,360 --> 00:30:56,760
And This is why we did a whole 
session on this earlier this 

587
00:30:56,760 --> 00:30:58,760
year. 
So who is Jesus? 

588
00:30:59,360 --> 00:31:01,120
If you hadn't heard that 
session, you can go back. 

589
00:31:01,120 --> 00:31:03,680
It'll be online. 
You can listen to it because we 

590
00:31:03,680 --> 00:31:05,360
need to know who Jesus really 
is. 

591
00:31:05,560 --> 00:31:07,640
What do I believe about Jesus? 
Why does it matter? 

592
00:31:08,720 --> 00:31:11,720
And so is he really God 
Incarnate this time of year 

593
00:31:11,720 --> 00:31:13,800
where Christmas time as this is 
being recorded. 

594
00:31:14,080 --> 00:31:19,160
So we recognize that that, you 
know, he's God Incarnate and 

595
00:31:19,160 --> 00:31:22,200
he's also the bridge, which is 
often a common example that's 

596
00:31:22,200 --> 00:31:25,320
used in gospel presentations. 
He's the bridge between man and 

597
00:31:25,320 --> 00:31:28,040
God. 
Or, or is he something else, 

598
00:31:28,280 --> 00:31:33,880
someone else, Right. 
And so we have to clearly define

599
00:31:33,880 --> 00:31:37,360
that because, because this time 
of year, people will talk to you

600
00:31:37,360 --> 00:31:39,640
about Jesus, but you know how 
they're going to want to talk to

601
00:31:39,640 --> 00:31:42,240
you about Jesus. 
They're going to want to talk to

602
00:31:42,240 --> 00:31:47,320
you about a nativity scene. 
And they don't know why he came 

603
00:31:47,960 --> 00:31:51,360
and what he did afterwards. 
And so then the other one is 

604
00:31:51,360 --> 00:31:54,840
just, is the necessity for the 
gospel stressed or not? 

605
00:31:55,880 --> 00:31:58,960
Is Jesus presented as the only 
way of salvation? 

606
00:31:59,520 --> 00:32:04,000
So in other words, you're lost 
and you need this, right? 

607
00:32:04,560 --> 00:32:06,960
This isn't just a wonderful 
story that happened to me. 

608
00:32:06,960 --> 00:32:11,440
This is something that affects 
you and everybody, and you need 

609
00:32:11,440 --> 00:32:13,400
this. 
And there's only one way to get 

610
00:32:13,400 --> 00:32:16,560
salvation, and that's through 
Jesus Christ. 

611
00:32:17,240 --> 00:32:21,320
And to be able to really point 
that out really becomes the 

612
00:32:21,320 --> 00:32:24,480
crutch of the matter. 
And so it is, is the fact that 

613
00:32:24,480 --> 00:32:28,400
Christ is Lord that next slide 
says is Christ Lord of your 

614
00:32:28,400 --> 00:32:31,280
life? 
Is future obedience to Him 

615
00:32:31,320 --> 00:32:33,960
something that's really clearly 
stated? 

616
00:32:34,280 --> 00:32:38,520
And then you get into the ideas 
of confession and repentance and

617
00:32:38,520 --> 00:32:40,720
faith. 
Are those things made clear by 

618
00:32:40,720 --> 00:32:46,600
the tool. 
So all these definitions, not 

619
00:32:46,600 --> 00:32:49,400
every tool does a good job of 
spelling all that out. 

620
00:32:49,680 --> 00:32:52,760
That doesn't mean it's a bad 
tool, It just means you need to 

621
00:32:52,760 --> 00:32:56,280
know how to fill in the gaps and
to recognize that if I just hand

622
00:32:56,280 --> 00:32:59,640
that to somebody without filling
in the gaps, they're not getting

623
00:32:59,640 --> 00:33:05,960
the whole story. 
And so we want to make sure as 

624
00:33:05,960 --> 00:33:10,560
often as we can that we're 
sharing the whole gospel with 

625
00:33:10,560 --> 00:33:14,760
somebody from beginning to end. 
Now, there are obviously 

626
00:33:14,760 --> 00:33:17,920
probably 20 other things we 
could talk about as far as what 

627
00:33:17,920 --> 00:33:19,320
about this, what about this, 
what about this? 

628
00:33:19,440 --> 00:33:21,440
Did it do this? 
And and you should do that. 

629
00:33:21,440 --> 00:33:24,200
I want you to do this. 
Think about did it define this? 

630
00:33:24,200 --> 00:33:26,600
Think about systematic theology.
Think about some of the 

631
00:33:26,600 --> 00:33:29,160
doctrines we talked about in 
theology one O 1 and here. 

632
00:33:29,560 --> 00:33:31,240
So what are some of these key 
doctrines? 

633
00:33:31,240 --> 00:33:36,240
Did did this help specify this? 
And and again, I don't 

634
00:33:36,240 --> 00:33:38,160
necessarily expect the tool to 
do that. 

635
00:33:38,360 --> 00:33:42,520
It would be pretty heavy, but is
it going to help for that to 

636
00:33:42,520 --> 00:33:44,360
happen? 
Then you come back to the 

637
00:33:44,360 --> 00:33:48,920
question of what must they know 
in order to be saved? 

638
00:33:50,240 --> 00:33:52,000
Because they may not have to 
have every single thing 

639
00:33:52,000 --> 00:33:55,720
explained in every single 
detail, but what do they have to

640
00:33:55,720 --> 00:34:00,000
have explained in the basic 
points of the gospel in order 

641
00:34:00,000 --> 00:34:03,320
for salvation to be genuine? 
And we're going to spend a lot 

642
00:34:03,320 --> 00:34:05,880
of time on that in the next 
session, for sure. 

643
00:34:06,720 --> 00:34:11,000
But whether or not I can explain
the Trinity in a gospel track, 

644
00:34:12,639 --> 00:34:16,280
you know, when there are shells 
and volumes that don't do a 

645
00:34:16,280 --> 00:34:21,520
great job of doing it or versus 
do I believe in God? 

646
00:34:22,520 --> 00:34:25,960
Do I believe that Jesus is God? 
Do I believe the Holy Spirit is 

647
00:34:25,960 --> 00:34:30,920
God and that they work together 
to save me and, and, and so they

648
00:34:30,920 --> 00:34:33,560
think through what this takes. 
Now remember always this, which 

649
00:34:33,560 --> 00:34:35,040
is this is where it always 
becomes fat. 

650
00:34:35,239 --> 00:34:39,639
I, I, I always say this, I'm, 
I'm actually surprised anybody 

651
00:34:39,639 --> 00:34:45,960
gets saved. 
I mean, think about, think about

652
00:34:45,960 --> 00:34:49,960
that. 
Think about the complexity, the 

653
00:34:49,960 --> 00:34:54,400
complexity of the knowledge base
that salvation might require, 

654
00:34:54,400 --> 00:34:58,840
yet the simplicity of the Gospel
that actually saves. 

655
00:34:59,920 --> 00:35:05,360
So it really is quite a paradox 
and and I think it's part of the

656
00:35:05,360 --> 00:35:08,920
mystery of God, which is why we 
rest on the fact I don't save 

657
00:35:08,920 --> 00:35:11,640
people, you don't save people, 
God saves people. 

658
00:35:11,760 --> 00:35:16,200
So this is a faith act. 
I want to do the best I can at 

659
00:35:16,200 --> 00:35:18,480
providing the best information I
can. 

660
00:35:18,840 --> 00:35:21,600
And then you know, my definition
of evangelism, I'm going to 

661
00:35:21,680 --> 00:35:24,880
intentionally prepare for, I'm 
going to intentionally pursue 

662
00:35:24,880 --> 00:35:27,480
opportunities to personally 
share the gospel with people who

663
00:35:27,480 --> 00:35:29,600
don't know Jesus Christ and the 
power of the Holy Spirit. 

664
00:35:29,600 --> 00:35:34,040
Then I'm going to leave the 
results to God. 

665
00:35:35,160 --> 00:35:38,680
He has to make it work. 
And sometimes in our world 

666
00:35:38,680 --> 00:35:40,400
today, it'll take more than one 
encounter. 

667
00:35:41,240 --> 00:35:43,520
You know, it may not all happen 
at once. 

668
00:35:44,760 --> 00:35:47,480
There may be AQ and a that 
happens discussion that happens,

669
00:35:47,480 --> 00:35:50,600
which is where the relational 
dynamic comes back into play to 

670
00:35:50,600 --> 00:35:55,120
where it ought to be OK for them
to ask questions and for us to, 

671
00:35:55,120 --> 00:35:57,440
it ought to be a safe place for 
them to ask questions. 

672
00:35:57,560 --> 00:36:00,400
It's also a safe place. 
Some of the greatest theological

673
00:36:00,400 --> 00:36:03,360
words I ever have taught anybody
in seminary life or leadership 

674
00:36:03,360 --> 00:36:05,000
around the world is I don't 
know. 

675
00:36:06,000 --> 00:36:08,840
I don't know. 
It's a great question. 

676
00:36:08,840 --> 00:36:12,120
I don't know the answer. 
I always find it fascinating 

677
00:36:12,120 --> 00:36:14,240
that you think people like me 
ought to have all the answers. 

678
00:36:14,240 --> 00:36:18,440
I just find that fascinating. 
I'm not going to send the sin of

679
00:36:18,440 --> 00:36:21,720
omnicompetence. 
Only Jesus had all the answers. 

680
00:36:22,560 --> 00:36:26,840
So we can look together. 
But let's talk about some of 

681
00:36:26,840 --> 00:36:29,320
these tools for a minute. 
They're different categories of 

682
00:36:29,320 --> 00:36:32,240
tools. 
You have tracks that we've 

683
00:36:32,240 --> 00:36:34,520
talked about. 
I've mentioned online is not on 

684
00:36:34,520 --> 00:36:35,760
on your list. 
It ought to be. 

685
00:36:35,760 --> 00:36:39,520
All these things can be online. 
So any of these can translate to

686
00:36:40,360 --> 00:36:43,080
to online. 
Good thing we don't videotape 

687
00:36:43,080 --> 00:36:46,160
these things. 
It's just hot. 

688
00:36:47,600 --> 00:36:49,680
So all these things can 
translate. 

689
00:36:49,680 --> 00:36:52,200
I couldn't have done it again if
I I bet if I tried, I couldn't 

690
00:36:52,200 --> 00:36:58,360
hit that ring again, but caught 
it right in mid air cat like 

691
00:36:58,360 --> 00:37:02,560
reflexes. 
So you have tracks, little 

692
00:37:02,560 --> 00:37:04,680
booklets and I'll talk about 
those in a minute. 

693
00:37:05,000 --> 00:37:08,320
Cubes, which you may or may not 
be intimately familiar with, 

694
00:37:10,080 --> 00:37:14,440
colours, photos, story sets, all
kinds of web and mobile stuff. 

695
00:37:14,440 --> 00:37:16,640
I guess it is on there, sorry, 
and and various training things.

696
00:37:16,800 --> 00:37:18,760
Let me talk about these. 
I'm going to describe these in 

697
00:37:18,760 --> 00:37:20,800
detail because people are 
listening to audio. 

698
00:37:21,120 --> 00:37:22,960
So don't worry if you're 
listening, keep listening. 

699
00:37:22,960 --> 00:37:24,320
I'm going to describe some of 
these things. 

700
00:37:24,640 --> 00:37:28,000
Let me share some things that I 
don't recommend. 

701
00:37:29,480 --> 00:37:32,640
I'm not a big fan of the 
$1,000,000 bill. 

702
00:37:34,400 --> 00:37:37,120
Who here has never seen the 
$1,000,000 bill before? 

703
00:37:37,600 --> 00:37:38,920
Raise your hand. 
No, no, get them up. 

704
00:37:38,920 --> 00:37:39,880
Thank you. 
Several people. 

705
00:37:40,200 --> 00:37:42,800
So this is a fake $1,000,000 
bill. 

706
00:37:43,960 --> 00:37:47,600
It looks like it's printed on 
the same kind of paper that 

707
00:37:47,600 --> 00:37:50,320
currency is printed upon. 
It's fake. 

708
00:37:50,640 --> 00:37:55,320
The whole thing's fake and on 
the back in microscopic -4 font,

709
00:37:55,760 --> 00:37:58,160
you have a couple of words about
Scripture doesn't even show the 

710
00:37:58,160 --> 00:38:00,280
gospel. 
It's not good at all. 

711
00:38:00,280 --> 00:38:02,880
The contents not even good. 
If the content was good, you 

712
00:38:02,880 --> 00:38:04,600
know you, and I'm not kidding 
you. 

713
00:38:04,600 --> 00:38:06,640
You think I'm kidding? 
People will drop it on the 

714
00:38:06,640 --> 00:38:09,840
sidewalk and hide in the Bush to
see if anybody picks it up. 

715
00:38:10,880 --> 00:38:14,760
People leave them as tips for 
the waiters and waitresses. 

716
00:38:16,280 --> 00:38:19,920
Guess what they don't like? 
They don't like the fake 

717
00:38:19,920 --> 00:38:23,760
$1,000,000 bills. 
I had a waitress talk to me in 

718
00:38:23,760 --> 00:38:24,840
the lobby. 
The larynx. 

719
00:38:24,840 --> 00:38:26,480
Thank you for videotaping. 
You're smart. 

720
00:38:26,840 --> 00:38:28,640
That's so in the larynx. 
The smart. 

721
00:38:29,120 --> 00:38:32,280
That's hilarious. 
That the, the, the, what do you 

722
00:38:32,280 --> 00:38:33,400
call that? 
The lobby? 

723
00:38:35,120 --> 00:38:37,920
And she's a waitress. 
And she said, you know who the 

724
00:38:37,920 --> 00:38:40,960
worst tippers in the world are? 
Church people. 

725
00:38:41,760 --> 00:38:43,600
That's it. 
On Sundays, because the worst 

726
00:38:43,600 --> 00:38:47,040
tips are Sunday lunch. 
So we all be the best tippers, 

727
00:38:47,480 --> 00:38:49,560
you know. 
Now, I'm not saying don't leave 

728
00:38:49,560 --> 00:38:52,040
information with your waiter or 
waitress, but leave them a nice 

729
00:38:52,040 --> 00:38:55,040
tip along with it. 
But anyway, this this is A to 

730
00:38:55,040 --> 00:38:57,120
me, this is deceptive. 
It's a scam. 

731
00:38:57,440 --> 00:38:59,960
I don't like it, don't recommend
it. 

732
00:38:59,960 --> 00:39:03,680
I'm not going to not like a lot 
of things, but but the other one

733
00:39:03,680 --> 00:39:05,840
I just think thinks kind of 
interesting. 

734
00:39:06,000 --> 00:39:09,360
So so if I if I hold this up, I 
know you can't see it all the 

735
00:39:09,360 --> 00:39:10,800
way down front, somebody down 
front. 

736
00:39:10,800 --> 00:39:15,360
What does that word say? 
Says death in a weird font. 

737
00:39:16,160 --> 00:39:19,240
But all you got to do just turn 
to life. 

738
00:39:20,200 --> 00:39:24,400
And now it says life. 
So it's a it's an optical 

739
00:39:24,400 --> 00:39:27,040
illusion. 
You, you go death to life. 

740
00:39:27,440 --> 00:39:29,240
So you do that. 
He's actually filming to help 

741
00:39:29,240 --> 00:39:30,160
you all. 
That's kind of nice. 

742
00:39:30,160 --> 00:39:32,120
Thank you. 
So you're doing that, that 

743
00:39:32,120 --> 00:39:34,760
that's probably, and it's a 
Roman Rd. on the back, which 

744
00:39:35,160 --> 00:39:36,160
we'll talk about that in a 
minute. 

745
00:39:37,000 --> 00:39:38,840
All right. 
And then they're just 

746
00:39:38,840 --> 00:39:41,200
interesting ones. 
I've got tracks in different 

747
00:39:41,200 --> 00:39:44,120
languages. 
I've got NASCAR tracks, I've got

748
00:39:44,120 --> 00:39:46,840
baseball tracks, I've got 
basketball tracks. 

749
00:39:47,080 --> 00:39:51,400
I got a track for the Iditarod 
dog sledding competition. 

750
00:39:53,680 --> 00:39:57,560
So to even have even have 
sledders and mushers inside of 

751
00:39:57,560 --> 00:40:00,000
it is quite the thing that you 
can have. 

752
00:40:00,000 --> 00:40:02,440
So and the content's not 
horrible. 

753
00:40:02,600 --> 00:40:05,560
It's just some of these are kind
of gimmicky, event driven, 

754
00:40:05,800 --> 00:40:11,040
etcetera and whatever. 
Analyze them a whole different 

755
00:40:11,040 --> 00:40:14,160
genre and I'll come back to 
tracks in a minute are colors. 

756
00:40:15,240 --> 00:40:18,880
So there are multi colored 
soccer balls, there are multi 

757
00:40:18,880 --> 00:40:21,440
colored bracelets. 
So you can get Schwarzkopf 

758
00:40:21,440 --> 00:40:25,280
crystals in different colors to 
show the gospel necklaces. 

759
00:40:25,840 --> 00:40:27,920
The wristband, anything in the 
world. 

760
00:40:28,080 --> 00:40:30,760
And then one of the most famous 
is what's called the wordless 

761
00:40:30,760 --> 00:40:33,120
book. 
Anybody remember the wordless 

762
00:40:33,120 --> 00:40:36,040
book? 
All right, you can get I bet you

763
00:40:36,040 --> 00:40:38,440
can do this. 
You sometimes get used it gets 

764
00:40:38,440 --> 00:40:42,000
used at VBS. 
What would black stand for? 

765
00:40:42,600 --> 00:40:47,760
Sin and death. 
What would red stand for? 

766
00:40:48,280 --> 00:40:57,440
The blood of Jesus, white 
forgiveness and then the streets

767
00:40:57,440 --> 00:41:02,480
of gold and growth. 
The greens actually for growth. 

768
00:41:02,760 --> 00:41:05,800
They come in all sizes, all 
shapes, all colors, different 

769
00:41:05,800 --> 00:41:08,120
colors for different things, all
kinds of color stuff. 

770
00:41:08,720 --> 00:41:12,560
If you can take the colors and 
you can put the words to that 

771
00:41:12,680 --> 00:41:15,920
and make it help you to share 
the gospel with somebody, knock 

772
00:41:15,920 --> 00:41:18,720
yourself out. 
Probably not going to be my 

773
00:41:18,720 --> 00:41:23,360
number one tool. 
The Evangea Cube, world famous, 

774
00:41:24,720 --> 00:41:26,560
the Evange cube, I can't even do
it. 

775
00:41:26,640 --> 00:41:30,360
There are videos and 
instructions and it's like the 

776
00:41:30,360 --> 00:41:34,800
Rubik's Cube of the gospel. 
So you, you flip it around and 

777
00:41:34,800 --> 00:41:37,760
it makes different pictures and 
there's an order to it. 

778
00:41:38,280 --> 00:41:40,160
I, I'm never any good at the 
order. 

779
00:41:40,160 --> 00:41:44,640
They're great videos about this,
by the way, online in parts of 

780
00:41:44,640 --> 00:41:48,160
the world. 
This is the number one gospel 

781
00:41:48,160 --> 00:41:49,960
tool. 
I was trying to see if I could 

782
00:41:49,960 --> 00:41:52,240
get to here we go. 
Here's the cross. 

783
00:41:52,920 --> 00:41:55,360
So if you know what you're 
doing, I I know people who can 

784
00:41:55,640 --> 00:41:57,520
manipulate this just like a 
Rubik's Cube. 

785
00:41:58,760 --> 00:42:03,720
Now where? 
Tell me a context where a 

786
00:42:03,720 --> 00:42:10,280
wordless book or something like 
the Rubik's Cube or a storying 

787
00:42:10,280 --> 00:42:15,200
cloth, which is simply a piece 
of cloth often used by 

788
00:42:15,200 --> 00:42:19,520
missionaries, especially out in 
developing nations, where they 

789
00:42:19,520 --> 00:42:23,640
can unfold the cloth, lay it on 
the ground, and it it has images

790
00:42:23,640 --> 00:42:26,840
of Bible stories. 
For some of you, you're ready. 

791
00:42:27,440 --> 00:42:29,960
Flannel graphs, are you? 
OK, All right. 

792
00:42:31,160 --> 00:42:34,200
So for some of you, there used 
to be these things and they cut 

793
00:42:34,200 --> 00:42:36,840
out pieces of flannel and they 
would stick them on the board 

794
00:42:36,840 --> 00:42:38,840
and they would make Bible 
stories out of it. 

795
00:42:39,000 --> 00:42:41,640
So some of you have no idea what
a flannel graph is. 

796
00:42:43,080 --> 00:42:45,120
Anyway, so these these, this is 
storing cloth. 

797
00:42:45,320 --> 00:42:49,600
So a storing cloth, a, a Rubik's
Cube, an Evanji cube. 

798
00:42:49,600 --> 00:42:51,520
And by the way, these come in 
all kinds of sizes. 

799
00:42:51,720 --> 00:42:54,880
They have demonstration ones 
that are 6 feet tall. 

800
00:42:55,120 --> 00:42:58,360
And then you can also have 
they'll fit on your key chain. 

801
00:42:58,840 --> 00:43:01,880
So all kinds of, there's also 
videos of all this. 

802
00:43:02,840 --> 00:43:07,720
In what context? 
What audience would something 

803
00:43:07,720 --> 00:43:10,680
without words like that be very 
helpful? 

804
00:43:13,040 --> 00:43:17,560
Oral orality situations to where
you have people who either don't

805
00:43:17,560 --> 00:43:19,320
read or can't read your 
language. 

806
00:43:20,480 --> 00:43:22,760
Who else? 
Children. 

807
00:43:23,200 --> 00:43:24,640
Those are the two I think of the
most. 

808
00:43:24,640 --> 00:43:25,760
They're probably some other 
ones. 

809
00:43:26,320 --> 00:43:30,280
And so, and these are actually 
very well used tools. 

810
00:43:30,960 --> 00:43:33,720
People in certain contexts use 
these all the time. 

811
00:43:33,880 --> 00:43:37,080
When I'm in Malaysia and I've 
tried to teach this, I just turn

812
00:43:37,080 --> 00:43:39,240
it over to the students and 
they're just sitting there, you 

813
00:43:39,240 --> 00:43:42,920
know, and the gospel is being 
shared and there's instructions 

814
00:43:42,920 --> 00:43:46,520
with them that have all the 
words you might need to share a 

815
00:43:46,520 --> 00:43:48,120
fairly complete gospel 
presentation. 

816
00:43:48,360 --> 00:43:51,040
So if you have the gospel 
memorize, which we'll talk about

817
00:43:51,040 --> 00:43:53,960
next time, and you know the 
words to say, those kinds of 

818
00:43:53,960 --> 00:43:57,160
tools can be very helpful. 
Again, in Vacation Bible School,

819
00:43:57,160 --> 00:44:00,320
we've often used colours to 
share like that. 

820
00:44:01,280 --> 00:44:04,240
And then you have kind of these 
things. 

821
00:44:04,240 --> 00:44:06,640
Let's talk about some classic 
tracks for a minute. 

822
00:44:06,880 --> 00:44:09,680
How many of you know the four 
spiritual laws? 

823
00:44:12,240 --> 00:44:16,360
OK, bunch of them round for 462 
years. 

824
00:44:16,360 --> 00:44:18,200
Have no idea how old the four 
spiritual laws are. 

825
00:44:18,200 --> 00:44:20,000
They're it's not that old, but 
it's pretty old. 

826
00:44:20,640 --> 00:44:24,160
Been around a long time. 
In fact, one of these came from 

827
00:44:24,160 --> 00:44:28,200
Friendly Immanuel Baptist Church
in Sallisaw, OK, one of my early

828
00:44:28,200 --> 00:44:30,760
pastorates right there. 
So I've kept it all these years.

829
00:44:31,920 --> 00:44:35,680
My favorite track now. 
So anybody remember the four 

830
00:44:35,680 --> 00:44:41,280
spiritual laws? 
All right, anybody never heard 

831
00:44:41,280 --> 00:44:43,560
the four spiritual laws? 
Thank you very much. 

832
00:44:43,800 --> 00:44:46,520
So it's a basic gospel 
presentation. 

833
00:44:46,520 --> 00:44:49,320
We'll see it sort of next time 
together again. 

834
00:44:49,480 --> 00:44:53,000
Law one, God loves you and 
offers a wonderful plan for your

835
00:44:53,000 --> 00:44:54,600
life. 
OK. 

836
00:44:55,040 --> 00:44:58,080
Law two, man is sinful and 
separated from God. 

837
00:44:58,080 --> 00:45:00,400
Therefore he cannot know and 
experience God's love and plan 

838
00:45:00,400 --> 00:45:03,920
for his life. 
And there's Scripture between 

839
00:45:03,920 --> 00:45:07,000
each of these points. 
Law 3, Jesus Christ is God's 

840
00:45:07,000 --> 00:45:09,400
only provision for man's sin. 
Through him you can know and 

841
00:45:09,400 --> 00:45:11,200
experience God's love and plan 
for your life. 

842
00:45:12,960 --> 00:45:16,360
Again, Scripture, Law four, we 
must individually receive Jesus 

843
00:45:16,360 --> 00:45:18,800
Christ as Savior and Lord. 
Then we can know and experience 

844
00:45:18,800 --> 00:45:20,160
God's love and plan for our 
lives. 

845
00:45:20,520 --> 00:45:25,480
And then there's there's some 
verses and then there's some a 

846
00:45:25,480 --> 00:45:28,840
prayer, a sinner's prayer, and a
little bit of follow up. 

847
00:45:29,000 --> 00:45:34,040
OK, the basic classic gospel 
presentation. 

848
00:45:34,880 --> 00:45:39,480
What's wrong with that? 
What's critically from an 

849
00:45:39,480 --> 00:45:43,000
analysis standpoint? 
Something you might wonder 

850
00:45:43,000 --> 00:45:46,680
about? 
Follow through. 

851
00:45:46,680 --> 00:45:48,920
What else? 
Say that again. 

852
00:45:49,680 --> 00:45:50,880
Warmth. 
That's it. 

853
00:45:51,200 --> 00:45:52,920
That's good. 
I hadn't thought about that kind

854
00:45:52,920 --> 00:45:54,160
of laws. 
Law one. 

855
00:45:54,160 --> 00:45:55,040
Law two. 
Yeah. 

856
00:45:56,240 --> 00:45:58,160
Huh. 
Note eternity. 

857
00:46:03,520 --> 00:46:05,600
How it all began. 
Who's God? 

858
00:46:07,000 --> 00:46:12,480
What sin? 
It's assuming It's assuming a 

859
00:46:12,480 --> 00:46:16,760
biblical background. 
It's assuming that I care what 

860
00:46:16,760 --> 00:46:20,520
the Bible says. 
It's assuming I care who God is.

861
00:46:21,280 --> 00:46:24,960
It's assuming I know who God is.
Now certain contexts and 

862
00:46:24,960 --> 00:46:30,080
cultures, it might work fine in 
a church saturated context. 

863
00:46:31,160 --> 00:46:34,360
There's enough knowledge base to
where some a gospel presentation

864
00:46:34,360 --> 00:46:38,920
like this might be fine in a lot
of context in the world today, 

865
00:46:38,920 --> 00:46:42,680
they have no idea what you're 
talking about and you just got 

866
00:46:42,680 --> 00:46:45,160
to understand that that's what's
going on out there now. 

867
00:46:46,000 --> 00:46:51,480
And so we also could have the 
Roman Rd. where you use verses 

868
00:46:51,480 --> 00:46:54,520
throughout Romans. 
Again, wonder uses God's words. 

869
00:46:54,520 --> 00:46:57,760
Fantastic, but it's making the 
same assumption. 

870
00:46:58,720 --> 00:47:02,560
Most classic got Billy Graham 
steps to peace with God. 

871
00:47:03,080 --> 00:47:09,320
Same thing again, nothing wrong 
with the tool, but you better 

872
00:47:09,560 --> 00:47:12,040
understand God's purpose for 
your life. 

873
00:47:12,040 --> 00:47:14,480
Peace and life. 
Who's God? 

874
00:47:15,800 --> 00:47:17,040
What God? 
Which God? 

875
00:47:17,040 --> 00:47:20,960
That's not my God, so you're 
going to have to understand how.

876
00:47:21,000 --> 00:47:25,800
What do I need to explain to 
people along the way right now? 

877
00:47:25,800 --> 00:47:27,520
There's a couple of them today, 
and there's many of them. 

878
00:47:27,520 --> 00:47:29,480
Some of these are written by 
Reformed people. 

879
00:47:29,640 --> 00:47:31,520
So in other words, this one's 
called grace. 

880
00:47:32,040 --> 00:47:35,600
It's written by some friends of 
mine who are stronger in 

881
00:47:35,600 --> 00:47:38,960
Reformed theology, and they 
don't like the idea that we're 

882
00:47:38,960 --> 00:47:41,280
accepting Christ. 
They like the idea that Christ 

883
00:47:41,280 --> 00:47:43,480
is accepting us. 
So it's written that way. 

884
00:47:43,480 --> 00:47:45,720
So just recognize those 
perspectives. 

885
00:47:46,360 --> 00:47:50,160
The eternal life track, which 
was is probably still is 

886
00:47:50,160 --> 00:47:53,160
produced by the North American 
Mission Board, is actually the 

887
00:47:53,160 --> 00:47:56,840
old evangelism explosion 
presentation, which then became 

888
00:47:56,840 --> 00:47:59,680
the CWT presentation. 
And I know those things may not 

889
00:47:59,680 --> 00:48:03,080
mean a thing to any of you all, 
but there was a time in the 20th

890
00:48:03,080 --> 00:48:09,680
century where these were the 
most popular evangelism 

891
00:48:09,680 --> 00:48:12,960
programs. 
And this, this is one of the 

892
00:48:12,960 --> 00:48:17,600
most thorough gospel tracts in 
the sense that it's longer and 

893
00:48:17,600 --> 00:48:21,120
explains more than a lot of 
other ones do, but it's still 

894
00:48:21,120 --> 00:48:24,680
very much a modern version. 
And you're going to understand 

895
00:48:24,680 --> 00:48:27,280
this more when I show you a 
postmodern one in a minute. 

896
00:48:27,720 --> 00:48:30,840
You're going to say what? 
This is what? 

897
00:48:32,040 --> 00:48:35,360
Thank you very much. 
One that you all use. 

898
00:48:35,920 --> 00:48:40,000
I know you do 3 circles. 
It's a moderate, more modern 

899
00:48:40,000 --> 00:48:44,760
current version and it's based 
upon the whole idea is it's 

900
00:48:44,760 --> 00:48:48,840
based upon a coffee shop 
conversation where you're 

901
00:48:48,840 --> 00:48:52,000
writing on a napkin and you're 
writing certain things in on a 

902
00:48:52,000 --> 00:48:54,440
napkin and it talks about God's 
design. 

903
00:48:54,960 --> 00:48:57,640
But at least it starts off by 
saying we live in a broken world

904
00:48:57,640 --> 00:49:00,280
surrounded by broken lives, 
broken relationships, broken 

905
00:49:00,280 --> 00:49:02,960
systems, etcetera. 
It is at least providing some 

906
00:49:02,960 --> 00:49:06,160
context. 
And so you have God's design, 

907
00:49:06,360 --> 00:49:11,000
you have brokenness, you have 
the gospel and and recovery, 

908
00:49:11,560 --> 00:49:13,600
salvation, etcetera, circles 
back around. 

909
00:49:14,600 --> 00:49:18,080
And so in this and what we see 
in today's world because of 

910
00:49:18,080 --> 00:49:22,040
denominationalism, there's 
books, there's there's videos, 

911
00:49:22,240 --> 00:49:26,560
there's kits, entire kits that 
you can buy for training with 

912
00:49:26,560 --> 00:49:31,800
thumb drives and videos and C DS
and everything in the world to 

913
00:49:31,800 --> 00:49:35,280
train you from our North 
American mission board, 

914
00:49:35,920 --> 00:49:38,880
especially in that another one 
they had a while back was called

915
00:49:38,880 --> 00:49:40,160
who's your one? 
Anybody here? 

916
00:49:40,160 --> 00:49:43,480
Do who's your one? 
The idea is who's that one 

917
00:49:43,480 --> 00:49:46,960
person you know who's not saved 
and then ways to reach them. 

918
00:49:47,400 --> 00:49:49,800
So you have denominational 
things too as well. 

919
00:49:50,240 --> 00:49:52,560
Let me show you a couple others.
I don't mind three circles. 

920
00:49:52,560 --> 00:49:55,520
If I'm going to use a basic, 
pretty normal gospel 

921
00:49:55,520 --> 00:49:57,680
presentation, I would probably 
go to three circles. 

922
00:49:58,360 --> 00:50:01,560
It's as good as any and it's it 
looks nice. 

923
00:50:01,560 --> 00:50:04,120
There's a lot of support tools, 
things online you can send 

924
00:50:04,120 --> 00:50:07,640
people to. 
So the Three Circles or the life

925
00:50:07,760 --> 00:50:11,600
if, as it's often called, the 
Three Circles Life Conversation 

926
00:50:11,600 --> 00:50:17,800
Guide is probably pretty good. 
I'll be honest with you, I 

927
00:50:17,800 --> 00:50:21,920
actually like the story better. 
Not necessarily from all the 

928
00:50:21,920 --> 00:50:25,920
content, but the story. 
And there's apps and websites 

929
00:50:26,080 --> 00:50:29,200
and videos and all kinds of 
tools for the story. 

930
00:50:30,360 --> 00:50:34,400
And what the story does is the 
story tells the meta narrative. 

931
00:50:35,080 --> 00:50:37,440
That's the whole point. 
It tells the whole story. 

932
00:50:37,760 --> 00:50:42,200
So it starts with creation. 
And so it goes all the way back 

933
00:50:42,200 --> 00:50:45,600
to beginning and it walks 
through at least 4 stages of the

934
00:50:45,600 --> 00:50:48,200
grand narrative. 
So you've got, you've got, 

935
00:50:48,480 --> 00:50:51,360
you've got the creation. 
Let me read their words because 

936
00:50:51,360 --> 00:50:53,400
they're a little different than 
some of the other words. 

937
00:50:53,400 --> 00:50:57,960
So you have creation. 
You have what, what went wrong? 

938
00:50:57,960 --> 00:51:01,000
You have a session on the, the 
fall, the rescue, the 

939
00:51:01,000 --> 00:51:04,080
restoration. 
And so it tells the whole story.

940
00:51:04,240 --> 00:51:06,720
And again, there's all kinds of 
material that goes along with 

941
00:51:06,720 --> 00:51:12,360
that to, to help. 
So it's, it's a little more 

942
00:51:13,040 --> 00:51:15,480
helpful, I think, because when 
you start dealing with these 

943
00:51:15,480 --> 00:51:18,920
questions of of who's God and 
etcetera, this at least goes all

944
00:51:18,920 --> 00:51:22,680
the way back to Genesis rather 
than starting in Romans or John.

945
00:51:25,600 --> 00:51:31,920
Then there's Campus Crusade for 
Christ, bless their hearts, who 

946
00:51:31,920 --> 00:51:35,760
deal with college campuses. 
They produce, and this isn't 

947
00:51:35,760 --> 00:51:37,880
even the latest version of some 
of these things. 

948
00:51:37,880 --> 00:51:41,200
These are older editions of 
them, but they produce more 

949
00:51:41,200 --> 00:51:44,560
postmodern tools. 
This particular tool is called 

950
00:51:44,560 --> 00:51:50,880
Solarium, SOUL areum Solarium. 
Now, there are instructions as 

951
00:51:50,880 --> 00:51:56,760
to how to use them, but the 
basic idea of solarium is just a

952
00:51:56,760 --> 00:52:01,000
series of photographs about it. 
Anything or everything. 

953
00:52:01,080 --> 00:52:04,040
This is a clock. 
This is 2 old people holding 

954
00:52:04,040 --> 00:52:07,200
hands. 
I'll show them to the screen. 

955
00:52:07,200 --> 00:52:10,760
Somebody walking up an 
escalator, a girl playing with 

956
00:52:10,760 --> 00:52:12,920
balloons. 
I mean, just everyday 

957
00:52:12,920 --> 00:52:15,000
photographs. 
OK, You sit there. 

958
00:52:15,000 --> 00:52:17,560
What in the world does this have
to do with anything? 

959
00:52:18,480 --> 00:52:21,240
Well, the idea is, is that. 
And this, I'm telling you, I 

960
00:52:21,240 --> 00:52:25,720
know many college students who 
use this, you go to a college 

961
00:52:25,720 --> 00:52:30,320
campus, spread a blanket out on 
the ground, spread these photos 

962
00:52:30,320 --> 00:52:33,760
out, or go to the student union 
or whatever, the student center 

963
00:52:34,440 --> 00:52:37,560
at a table and somebody will 
pick up a, a photo. 

964
00:52:38,240 --> 00:52:40,360
And then there's a series of 
questions. 

965
00:52:40,800 --> 00:52:42,840
What does that photo mean to 
you? 

966
00:52:43,600 --> 00:52:46,200
And you're, you're, you begin to
dialogue with them about their 

967
00:52:46,200 --> 00:52:49,480
worldview and you begin to 
dialogue with them about their 

968
00:52:49,480 --> 00:52:52,520
belief system. 
And there's a guided questioning

969
00:52:52,520 --> 00:52:57,280
process to lead them back into a
gospel conversation. 

970
00:52:57,800 --> 00:53:00,400
Now, you may sit there and say, 
I would never do that because 

971
00:53:00,400 --> 00:53:05,360
that's weird. 
But you've got to understand 

972
00:53:05,560 --> 00:53:09,960
that's much more where a whole 
generation is living today. 

973
00:53:11,240 --> 00:53:15,040
They want to have dialogue. 
They want to tell stories and 

974
00:53:15,040 --> 00:53:17,640
they want to talk about their 
story, right? 

975
00:53:17,840 --> 00:53:21,920
They want you interested in them
as a human being and to learn 

976
00:53:21,920 --> 00:53:25,040
about them. 
Now, even more interesting, and 

977
00:53:25,040 --> 00:53:27,040
I can never hold these things 
without them sliding out of my 

978
00:53:27,040 --> 00:53:29,480
hand. 
And there again are instruction,

979
00:53:29,960 --> 00:53:34,640
instruction pieces to this. 
Again, this is a campus cruise, 

980
00:53:34,640 --> 00:53:37,160
a crew thing, and it's a deck of
cards. 

981
00:53:37,280 --> 00:53:40,600
Now, there's another version of 
this that's newer than this, but

982
00:53:40,600 --> 00:53:42,360
these are called the perspective
cards. 

983
00:53:42,360 --> 00:53:45,560
It's a whole deck of cards. 
So, so there are a bunch of 

984
00:53:45,560 --> 00:53:48,280
every one of these. 
Some of the cards are the 

985
00:53:48,280 --> 00:53:51,320
meaning and purpose of life, 
like this one talks about 

986
00:53:51,320 --> 00:53:54,800
descendants. 
Others might mean, might say 

987
00:53:54,800 --> 00:53:57,240
wealth. 
So all these different worldview

988
00:53:57,240 --> 00:54:00,040
ideas of why are we here? 
What's the meaning of life to 

989
00:54:00,040 --> 00:54:03,640
the world out there would be on 
on the orange cards and they're 

990
00:54:03,640 --> 00:54:07,000
all there. 
Then you've got your, the nature

991
00:54:07,000 --> 00:54:09,960
of God. 
This one's agnosticism and there

992
00:54:09,960 --> 00:54:13,160
would be a whole different, you 
know, different views about God,

993
00:54:13,400 --> 00:54:17,760
right that you would have then 
you have source of spiritual 

994
00:54:17,760 --> 00:54:19,960
truth. 
This one says hard evidence and 

995
00:54:19,960 --> 00:54:23,080
there'd be a series of all the 
all the all the weird looking 

996
00:54:23,080 --> 00:54:25,800
orangey thingies colors. 
They would all be about sources 

997
00:54:25,800 --> 00:54:29,480
of truth. 
And then you have human nature. 

998
00:54:29,560 --> 00:54:32,880
This one says broken and there's
all different ones that talk 

999
00:54:32,880 --> 00:54:34,520
about the different kinds of 
human nature. 

1000
00:54:35,360 --> 00:54:39,520
And then you have Jesus is and 
it and you know, and it's 

1001
00:54:39,520 --> 00:54:42,200
everything from lunatic to 
spiritual being to son of God, 

1002
00:54:42,200 --> 00:54:45,160
all kinds of stuff, right? 
And then you have you even have 

1003
00:54:45,160 --> 00:54:48,160
a prayer, you have prayer cards 
and you have training cards, 

1004
00:54:48,160 --> 00:54:50,920
etcetera to go with it. 
Here's the idea that you would 

1005
00:54:50,920 --> 00:54:52,440
have these in these different 
categories. 

1006
00:54:52,440 --> 00:54:54,840
Now pick one from that pile and 
see which one you think is 

1007
00:54:54,840 --> 00:54:57,640
right. 
And in a sense, you're this 

1008
00:54:57,640 --> 00:55:01,320
person creating a hand. 
Think of a card hand, think of a

1009
00:55:01,320 --> 00:55:04,320
poker hand. 
And in in before it's over, they

1010
00:55:04,320 --> 00:55:09,400
have these series of cards that 
best describes them that I have 

1011
00:55:09,400 --> 00:55:13,880
learned more about you in that 
moment then probably 2 hours of 

1012
00:55:13,880 --> 00:55:16,960
conversation because this is 
what you believe. 

1013
00:55:17,400 --> 00:55:19,280
I know what you think the 
meaning of life is. 

1014
00:55:19,280 --> 00:55:22,000
I know who you think God is. 
I know who you think Jesus is. 

1015
00:55:22,000 --> 00:55:25,640
I know what your world view is. 
And then there's instructions as

1016
00:55:25,640 --> 00:55:29,160
to how to springboard off of 
that into discussions leading 

1017
00:55:29,160 --> 00:55:32,200
the back to the gospel. 
Now you see the difference in 

1018
00:55:32,200 --> 00:55:36,440
these kinds of tools. 
Some of these are SH listen to 

1019
00:55:36,440 --> 00:55:38,840
me. 
They're the presentation. 

1020
00:55:39,680 --> 00:55:45,600
Others are the dialogue post 
postmodern pre Christian America

1021
00:55:45,720 --> 00:55:50,000
is dialogical. 
If you don't listen, think about

1022
00:55:50,000 --> 00:55:51,920
this. 
They saw me. 

1023
00:55:52,880 --> 00:55:55,680
I was seen. 
I was heard those kinds of 

1024
00:55:55,680 --> 00:55:57,920
phrases. 
You'll see them on TV all the 

1025
00:55:57,920 --> 00:55:59,520
time. 
It was nice to be heard. 

1026
00:55:59,880 --> 00:56:04,880
It was nice to be seen, right. 
And that that's a very, that's a

1027
00:56:04,880 --> 00:56:08,320
very important process because I
mean, you, you we're living in a

1028
00:56:08,320 --> 00:56:11,160
world now where people actually 
believe with all of their heart 

1029
00:56:11,160 --> 00:56:15,520
that because they have a website
or a posting of some kind or a 

1030
00:56:15,520 --> 00:56:17,840
podcast of something, they're a 
published author. 

1031
00:56:20,880 --> 00:56:22,280
Are you? 
I'm a published author. 

1032
00:56:22,320 --> 00:56:23,760
Really. 
Well, yeah, I have a podcast. 

1033
00:56:23,760 --> 00:56:25,640
I've got 14 followers, You know 
that. 

1034
00:56:25,640 --> 00:56:30,040
It's fantastic. 
I thought I was going to lose 1 

1035
00:56:30,040 --> 00:56:31,880
at Thanksgiving because Aunt 
Mary was mad at me. 

1036
00:56:31,880 --> 00:56:33,080
But we're, we're hanging in 
there. 

1037
00:56:34,280 --> 00:56:36,240
I'm not, I live with this. 
I've lived with this for the 

1038
00:56:36,240 --> 00:56:41,360
last two decades of my life with
this, this group of people who 

1039
00:56:41,400 --> 00:56:43,320
who believe this. 
Now, fortunately most of them 

1040
00:56:43,320 --> 00:56:46,400
were Christians. 
But out in this world today, 

1041
00:56:46,440 --> 00:56:49,640
there are people in a certain 
generation especially. 

1042
00:56:49,960 --> 00:56:53,160
And if you don't listen to them,
that's disrespectful and rude. 

1043
00:56:53,400 --> 00:56:57,000
And This is why many people in 
certain generations thinks, 

1044
00:56:57,080 --> 00:57:01,320
think it's actually wrong. 
It's actually rude to share the 

1045
00:57:01,320 --> 00:57:04,760
gospel with somebody and those 
are Christians. 

1046
00:57:05,600 --> 00:57:10,360
Supposedly certain age group 
among Christians will say that 

1047
00:57:10,360 --> 00:57:14,720
it's wrong. 
It's rude to force the gospel on

1048
00:57:14,720 --> 00:57:17,440
somebody. 
Now, it tells you a lot about 

1049
00:57:17,440 --> 00:57:20,680
their theology. 
See, I'm not saying that they're

1050
00:57:20,680 --> 00:57:23,960
members of Inglewood. 
They might be, but I'm not going

1051
00:57:23,960 --> 00:57:27,040
to say that. 
So, but but so there are people 

1052
00:57:27,040 --> 00:57:30,920
out there who believe that. 
And So what we've got to 

1053
00:57:30,920 --> 00:57:35,000
recognize is, is that we're 
looking at human value versus 

1054
00:57:35,280 --> 00:57:38,240
gospel value and how we bring 
these two things together in a 

1055
00:57:38,240 --> 00:57:42,440
contextual way. 
And So what we what, regardless 

1056
00:57:42,440 --> 00:57:45,240
of the tool you use, I do think 
there are certain got tools that

1057
00:57:45,240 --> 00:57:48,280
are much better than others. 
Some of these are just Gene and 

1058
00:57:48,280 --> 00:57:49,360
I were talking about this 
earlier. 

1059
00:57:49,560 --> 00:57:51,040
Some of these I just can't 
figure out. 

1060
00:57:51,040 --> 00:57:53,040
This is the old answer one, 
what's the answer? 

1061
00:57:53,040 --> 00:57:54,440
I can't figure out how to fold 
that. 

1062
00:57:54,520 --> 00:57:57,000
This is like an evange cube. 
I have no idea how to do that. 

1063
00:57:57,440 --> 00:57:59,400
You know, you've it forms 
across. 

1064
00:57:59,400 --> 00:58:03,120
That's cool. 
But anyway, and the wristband 

1065
00:58:03,120 --> 00:58:05,240
things never work because 
nothing will fit over my hand. 

1066
00:58:05,240 --> 00:58:08,120
So I don't I don't, you know, if
you all people with small hands 

1067
00:58:08,120 --> 00:58:10,240
and wrists, there you go. 
But for me, that's as close as I

1068
00:58:10,240 --> 00:58:12,120
get. 
So here's the gospel. 

1069
00:58:14,960 --> 00:58:18,280
So so there's certain tools that
are better for me than for 

1070
00:58:18,280 --> 00:58:21,280
others because I, you know, fat 
hands, I guess. 

1071
00:58:21,320 --> 00:58:25,360
But but anyway, so, so 
regardless of which method you 

1072
00:58:25,360 --> 00:58:32,120
use, what we've got to 0 in on 
is what's the content I prefer 

1073
00:58:32,400 --> 00:58:35,160
and I believe in our culture 
today, and I mean Rocky 

1074
00:58:35,160 --> 00:58:36,680
Mountain, North Carolina 
culture. 

1075
00:58:37,680 --> 00:58:39,720
I don't mean some weird city 
someplace. 

1076
00:58:40,280 --> 00:58:42,240
Because remember, I've shared 
with you before in other 

1077
00:58:42,240 --> 00:58:46,160
contexts, we have a higher 
unchurched rate within 10 miles 

1078
00:58:46,160 --> 00:58:48,360
of this building than Seattle, 
WA has. 

1079
00:58:51,080 --> 00:58:56,720
I'm going to pause and we've got
10s of thousands of more people 

1080
00:58:56,720 --> 00:58:59,000
moving in here. 
And I can't, I can't imagine 

1081
00:58:59,000 --> 00:59:02,760
them being much different. 
They might be, but I can't, I 

1082
00:59:02,760 --> 00:59:06,840
can't depend upon that. 
And so for us to reach this 

1083
00:59:06,840 --> 00:59:10,880
world, we've got to know what we
believe about certain things. 

1084
00:59:11,560 --> 00:59:15,560
I've got to know what I believe 
about God. 

1085
00:59:16,360 --> 00:59:19,360
I've got to know what I believe 
about the nature of sin. 

1086
00:59:19,880 --> 00:59:24,080
I've got to know what I believe 
about man because those things 

1087
00:59:24,080 --> 00:59:27,400
go hand in hand. 
My, my theology of man and my 

1088
00:59:27,400 --> 00:59:29,400
theology of sin going hand in 
hand. 

1089
00:59:29,400 --> 00:59:34,360
Because is man good? 
Is man innately good? 

1090
00:59:34,480 --> 00:59:37,440
Because that's exactly what the 
media will teach us. 

1091
00:59:38,360 --> 00:59:41,760
And that's part of the problem. 
Part of the problem with so many

1092
00:59:41,760 --> 00:59:45,600
questions in our world today is 
that belief right there that 

1093
00:59:45,600 --> 00:59:49,560
because I'm innately good, I 
deserve something already. 

1094
00:59:50,360 --> 00:59:53,720
So when anything happens that I 
don't like, I didn't deserve 

1095
00:59:53,720 --> 00:59:56,960
that, you know, that's the evil 
problem. 

1096
00:59:56,960 --> 01:00:00,320
Again, why do bad things happen 
to quote UN quote good people 

1097
01:00:00,320 --> 01:00:02,080
where the problem is, is that 
sentence wrong? 

1098
01:00:02,080 --> 01:00:08,320
And so why, why doesn't God 
punish sinners more is a better 

1099
01:00:08,320 --> 01:00:13,480
question. 
And so God's gracious and he 

1100
01:00:13,480 --> 01:00:17,720
gives us time and he gives us 
life even when we don't deserve 

1101
01:00:17,720 --> 01:00:19,680
it. 
But I better know what I believe

1102
01:00:19,680 --> 01:00:21,880
about that. 
I better know what I believe 

1103
01:00:21,880 --> 01:00:25,560
about the fall, and then I 
better understand the process 

1104
01:00:25,560 --> 01:00:27,840
that God went through. 
And this Sunday in the sermon 

1105
01:00:27,840 --> 01:00:29,520
that I'm going to preach at the 
beginning of Easter called The 

1106
01:00:29,520 --> 01:00:32,160
Perfect Plan, I'm going to talk 
about why. 

1107
01:00:32,520 --> 01:00:35,400
Why then? 
Why there? 

1108
01:00:35,560 --> 01:00:38,240
Of all the human history, the 
thousands of years that took 

1109
01:00:38,240 --> 01:00:44,880
place, why did Jesus come in 1st
century Palestine at that moment

1110
01:00:44,880 --> 01:00:46,280
in time? 
I'm going to talk to you on 

1111
01:00:46,280 --> 01:00:50,240
Sunday about Galatians 4 and 
what the fullness of time means 

1112
01:00:50,680 --> 01:00:52,040
from a whole bunch of different 
angles. 

1113
01:00:53,040 --> 01:00:56,200
Why then? 
Why there, right? 

1114
01:00:56,280 --> 01:00:58,480
What was different about history
at that moment? 

1115
01:00:59,280 --> 01:01:02,640
So the fact that God's 
orchestrating all this and then 

1116
01:01:04,280 --> 01:01:06,360
really significantly is who is 
Jesus? 

1117
01:01:09,560 --> 01:01:12,760
I wish we emphasized the 
incarnation more than we do, I 

1118
01:01:12,760 --> 01:01:18,560
feel like at times. 
And then why the cross, why the 

1119
01:01:18,560 --> 01:01:22,680
resurrection? 
And then sometimes we stop and 

1120
01:01:22,680 --> 01:01:24,800
we get stopped right there. 
We've got to talk about 

1121
01:01:24,800 --> 01:01:26,240
repentance. 
We've got to talk about 

1122
01:01:26,240 --> 01:01:28,600
confession. 
We've got to talk about grace 

1123
01:01:28,600 --> 01:01:31,640
and faith and belief and what 
that means and how do you do 

1124
01:01:31,640 --> 01:01:35,720
that right? 
And whether you like the 

1125
01:01:35,720 --> 01:01:38,440
sinner's prayer, you don't like 
the sinner's prayer, whatever 

1126
01:01:38,440 --> 01:01:42,240
the sinner's prayer means, what 
are you going to do to help that

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01:01:42,240 --> 01:01:48,600
person get to that place? 
And then what discipleship is 

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01:01:48,600 --> 01:01:52,280
just as important, right? 
So next time we get together, 

1129
01:01:52,280 --> 01:01:55,960
we're going to talk about, I 
have, I have from this set right

1130
01:01:55,960 --> 01:01:58,920
here, from the America's 
Affinity of the International 

1131
01:01:58,920 --> 01:02:00,280
Mission Board. 
I stole it from them. 

1132
01:02:00,280 --> 01:02:04,800
They know I have it from Lima, 
Peru, this little box 93 Bible 

1133
01:02:04,800 --> 01:02:06,560
stories, I think it is, or 
something like that. 

1134
01:02:06,920 --> 01:02:10,560
And we're going to talk about 
which of these contents would I 

1135
01:02:10,560 --> 01:02:13,360
share with somebody. 
And we're going to not, we're 

1136
01:02:13,360 --> 01:02:15,560
going to not going to walk 
through all 93 stories next 

1137
01:02:15,560 --> 01:02:18,800
time, but we are going to talk 
about how, how does that help me

1138
01:02:18,800 --> 01:02:23,880
shape what the gospel ought to 
be and what I have to share with

1139
01:02:23,880 --> 01:02:24,640
you. 
So are we in here? 

1140
01:02:24,640 --> 01:02:27,720
We are. 
So I'm back way over here in pre

1141
01:02:27,720 --> 01:02:32,520
evangelism and I'm intentionally
seeking to have a very 

1142
01:02:32,520 --> 01:02:35,560
intentional relationship with a 
lost person in my life, but I'm 

1143
01:02:35,560 --> 01:02:38,000
also praying everyday for him 
and I'm also praying for the 

1144
01:02:38,000 --> 01:02:40,480
stranger that that person XI 
don't even know yet. 

1145
01:02:40,680 --> 01:02:42,800
Now I I'm assuming you're doing 
all that. 

1146
01:02:43,320 --> 01:02:45,920
If you want to live 
evangelistically, if you really 

1147
01:02:45,920 --> 01:02:49,920
want to live this essential of 
discipleship out, every part of 

1148
01:02:49,920 --> 01:02:52,840
this is essential. 
So I'm really praying that way. 

1149
01:02:53,000 --> 01:02:55,560
So I'm praying for my friend, 
I'm praying for my neighbor, I'm

1150
01:02:55,560 --> 01:02:57,960
praying for the guy that I'm 
going to meet at the gas station

1151
01:02:57,960 --> 01:02:59,200
or whatever I'm going to do 
today. 

1152
01:03:00,240 --> 01:03:04,120
Then I'm intentionally engaging 
in conversation. 

1153
01:03:04,400 --> 01:03:07,400
I'm dialoguing with them. 
And remember, we talk about 

1154
01:03:07,400 --> 01:03:10,040
listening. 
I'm listening, I'm learning 

1155
01:03:10,040 --> 01:03:13,000
about them. 
And so the same thing that these

1156
01:03:13,040 --> 01:03:16,720
perspectives cards do or the 
solarium pictures do, I'm just 

1157
01:03:16,720 --> 01:03:19,600
doing it in conversation. 
I'm learning about you. 

1158
01:03:19,600 --> 01:03:24,200
Who are you? 
Why are you? 

1159
01:03:24,280 --> 01:03:26,720
Why do you think we're here? 
I mean, what, what's going on in

1160
01:03:26,720 --> 01:03:30,000
your life and how can I build 
common bridges with you? 

1161
01:03:32,040 --> 01:03:38,280
If I get a grandpa, I got you, I
get a husband, I've got you, I 

1162
01:03:38,280 --> 01:03:40,520
get a father, I got, we got, I 
got a bridge. 

1163
01:03:41,240 --> 01:03:43,120
You, you, you like college 
football. 

1164
01:03:43,120 --> 01:03:49,480
You, you, you have no hope. 
How do you build common bridges 

1165
01:03:50,680 --> 01:03:53,480
so that you can dialogue with 
them and then and then 

1166
01:03:53,480 --> 01:03:57,800
authentically, authentically 
apply what's going on in the 

1167
01:03:57,800 --> 01:04:00,280
function of Christianity in your
life? 

1168
01:04:00,880 --> 01:04:04,120
Here's what Christianity is 
actually producing in my life 

1169
01:04:04,120 --> 01:04:06,880
today. 
Because remember, I'm in 

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01:04:06,880 --> 01:04:11,880
relationship #1 down here, I'm 
intentionally engaged in a 

1171
01:04:11,880 --> 01:04:13,760
relationship with God and His 
people. 

1172
01:04:13,960 --> 01:04:17,680
And I'm passionate about that. 
I'm in the Word, I'm in prayer, 

1173
01:04:17,760 --> 01:04:22,120
I'm in church, I'm worshipping, 
I'm serving, I'm fellowshipping 

1174
01:04:22,120 --> 01:04:24,440
all the essentials. 
There's a reason why we're 

1175
01:04:24,440 --> 01:04:26,920
learning all these things. 
I'm doing all that. 

1176
01:04:26,920 --> 01:04:29,880
I'm engaged in that. 
And now I'm in an overflow 

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01:04:29,880 --> 01:04:33,080
situation to where it's the most
natural thing in the world to 

1178
01:04:33,080 --> 01:04:35,960
sit here and talk about. 
You know, last Sunday we heard a

1179
01:04:36,360 --> 01:04:40,000
spiritual giant in our pulpit 
who just shared about hope and 

1180
01:04:40,000 --> 01:04:44,520
love of people made me weep as 
he talked about his love for a 

1181
01:04:44,520 --> 01:04:47,400
lepers woman. 
And so we talked about and, and 

1182
01:04:47,400 --> 01:04:49,960
how God blessed through that. 
And it's just the most natural 

1183
01:04:49,960 --> 01:04:53,320
conversation in the world I 
could have in that bridge. 

1184
01:04:53,640 --> 01:04:55,360
Would you like to know why I 
believe that? 

1185
01:04:55,560 --> 01:05:00,400
Here's my testimony, and my 
testimony gets applied 

1186
01:05:00,400 --> 01:05:02,040
contextually to wherever you 
are. 

1187
01:05:02,040 --> 01:05:04,800
Depending upon who you are, what
your life situation is, that 

1188
01:05:04,800 --> 01:05:07,720
might be the more, more part of 
the testimony I would share. 

1189
01:05:09,080 --> 01:05:11,400
And then would you like to know 
how that happened to me? 

1190
01:05:12,760 --> 01:05:17,840
Boom, gospel presentation. 
You may not have time for all 

1191
01:05:17,840 --> 01:05:20,960
that, but I want to 
intentionally prepare for all 

1192
01:05:20,960 --> 01:05:23,560
that. 
I want to intentionally pursue 

1193
01:05:23,560 --> 01:05:26,440
all that. 
I want to do the best job I can 

1194
01:05:26,640 --> 01:05:28,280
because this isn't an event for 
me. 

1195
01:05:28,280 --> 01:05:32,480
This is life. 
This is who I want to be, not 

1196
01:05:32,480 --> 01:05:36,080
just something I want to do. 
It's not just for each week. 

1197
01:05:36,680 --> 01:05:39,160
It's not just because I have a 
reach assignment for my Connect 

1198
01:05:39,160 --> 01:05:41,520
group. 
I'm doing this because I love 

1199
01:05:41,520 --> 01:05:46,000
Jesus and I want people to be in
heaven and I want them to have a

1200
01:05:46,000 --> 01:05:48,960
life right now that has meaning 
and purpose. 

1201
01:05:50,120 --> 01:05:53,280
Because I look at this world and
I watch the media and I look at 

1202
01:05:53,280 --> 01:05:56,400
the news. 
And you know, when I watch the 

1203
01:05:56,400 --> 01:05:59,120
news that we were talking about 
this earlier today, something 

1204
01:05:59,120 --> 01:06:04,880
bad happens, a tragedy happens. 
And I know some people, their 

1205
01:06:04,880 --> 01:06:08,480
reaction might be I'm scared or 
I'm worried. 

1206
01:06:09,480 --> 01:06:12,920
My reaction, I think Teresa will
tell you I'm mad and I'm sad. 

1207
01:06:12,920 --> 01:06:21,240
I don't have to be worried. 
I don't have to be scared, but I

1208
01:06:21,240 --> 01:06:25,240
sure am sad that that's 
happening to those people who 

1209
01:06:25,240 --> 01:06:30,760
don't know Jesus. 
And I'm mad because Satan is at 

1210
01:06:30,760 --> 01:06:35,200
work and sin is at work and 
stupid bad choices are at work, 

1211
01:06:36,240 --> 01:06:38,200
and sometimes they're mine, you 
know? 

1212
01:06:41,360 --> 01:06:45,640
And So what can I do to help 
offset that? 

1213
01:06:46,520 --> 01:06:49,000
What can I do? 
Who can I be? 

1214
01:06:49,440 --> 01:06:52,800
How can I live to show and to 
share, right. 

1215
01:06:53,800 --> 01:06:58,040
So when we get together next 
time, come prepared for a little

1216
01:06:58,040 --> 01:07:00,960
theology. 
One O 1 again, because we got to

1217
01:07:00,960 --> 01:07:03,880
break down who God is again, 
we're going to tie everything 

1218
01:07:03,880 --> 01:07:06,880
together. 
Who who's God and all these 

1219
01:07:06,880 --> 01:07:07,840
different things. 
We're going to talk 

1220
01:07:07,840 --> 01:07:11,040
apologetically. 
And we're also at at some point,

1221
01:07:11,080 --> 01:07:14,240
if not next time, then soon 
after, we're going to talk about

1222
01:07:14,240 --> 01:07:15,240
it. 
Then then what about this? 

1223
01:07:15,280 --> 01:07:20,960
What about my gay friend or my 
gay Co worker or, or, or what 

1224
01:07:20,960 --> 01:07:27,920
about what about my uncle who's 
an alcoholic or, or, or how do I

1225
01:07:27,920 --> 01:07:31,520
share with some of my next door 
neighbor who's a Hindu or a 

1226
01:07:31,520 --> 01:07:33,040
Buddhist? 
Right? 

1227
01:07:34,400 --> 01:07:37,680
Or an atheist. 
So we're going to talk about 

1228
01:07:37,680 --> 01:07:43,720
some of those specifics. 
OK, weird enough Solarium 

1229
01:07:44,320 --> 01:07:47,560
perspectives cards. 
There you go. 

1230
01:07:48,040 --> 01:07:50,080
Or you could always use one of 
Harry Fowler's bookmarks. 

1231
01:07:50,120 --> 01:07:51,920
Amen. 
Amen. 

1232
01:07:51,920 --> 01:07:53,200
There you go. 
Let's pray together. 

1233
01:07:53,200 --> 01:07:57,320
Father, thank you so much for 
Harry Fowler and company who 

1234
01:07:57,320 --> 01:07:59,200
love you so much. 
They want to tell everybody 

1235
01:07:59,200 --> 01:08:01,640
about you. 
And so, Father, help us. 

1236
01:08:02,280 --> 01:08:04,640
Help us with our own 
personalities, our own 

1237
01:08:04,640 --> 01:08:09,440
experiences, our own 
preferences, even maybe 

1238
01:08:09,440 --> 01:08:12,600
opinions. 
Help us, Father, to find the 

1239
01:08:12,600 --> 01:08:16,520
right methods and tools not to 
save people. 

1240
01:08:17,279 --> 01:08:20,080
Father, the right method and 
tool to save people for us to 

1241
01:08:20,080 --> 01:08:24,000
absolutely love you and depend 
upon you and believe in you. 

1242
01:08:24,600 --> 01:08:29,080
But Father, for us to best 
prepare for us to best pursue, 

1243
01:08:29,479 --> 01:08:32,359
help us, Father, to be best 
equipped. 

1244
01:08:32,960 --> 01:08:36,359
So thank you, Father, for that. 
Now bless us as we go out to do 

1245
01:08:36,359 --> 01:08:39,520
that now in Christ's name, Amen.
God bless you all. 

1246
01:08:39,520 --> 01:08:43,720
Thank you. 
Thank you so much for listening 

1247
01:08:43,720 --> 01:08:45,319
today. 
And I also hope that you'll go 

1248
01:08:45,319 --> 01:08:47,560
to 
ourwebsite@englewoodbaptist.com 

1249
01:08:47,560 --> 01:08:50,600
as well as our app and find many
other resources that will bless 

1250
01:08:50,600 --> 01:08:52,800
you and your families. 
Thank you once again.