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Ever wondered how you can share 
the gospel a little bit better. 

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Have you ever thought? 
How can I be more effective at 

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my witnessing? 
Well, here are five ways of how 

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you can do it coming. 
Right up number one, build 

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rapport. 
Now, before I get into the 

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really deep truths of the 
Gospel, before I say some quite 

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strong things. 
To this person in front of me. 

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I like to try and build a little
bit of a connection with them. 

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I like to try and click with 
them a little bit build some 

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Rapport. 
So I might say to them, you 

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know, I really like that. 
Red, that red jumper, that is a 

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nice hoodie. 
I would wear that myself or I 

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might say to them. 
Where are you from? 

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And then they'll tell me and for
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I talked some guys that you can 
see on YouTube. 

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I'll leave a link in the 
description box and they were 

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Australian. 
I said, oh, I've got an, I've 

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got a cousin. 
From Australia, you might have 

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heard of him. 
He's a famous swimmer. 

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But I then spoke. 
Some I said, I'd love to go to 

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the Great Barrier Reef. 
So ask them little questions. 

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Where are you from? 
That's a nice jumper. 

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What do you do for a living? 
Oh, so you're a farmer, are you?

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That's really interesting 
because my uncle owns a farm and

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you're trying to sort of show 
that you're a normal person 

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before you go into hitting them 
with the hard truths about the 

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offense. 
That is the gospel. 

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Number two boy to boy girl, to 
girl. 

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Now. 
This is just a bit of a note of 

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Of caution, you'll often find 
that say a young man goes and 

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approach is a young woman and 
wants to share the gospel. 

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Sometimes in the world. 
We live different, sort of 

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connotations, can come up. 
Do you agree with that? 

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I'm all right or wrong, you 
know, sometimes it can seem like

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the hitting on them or the 
flirting. 

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I'm you've got to be careful. 
So we have a rule in young life 

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and in United Beach mission of 
the organization's. 

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I'm part of what we try and say 
boy, too. 

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A girl to girl. 
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This doesn't always work and 
you've got to think of it this 

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way, if there is a soul there 
and no one's going to share the 

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gospel with them and they're of 
the opposite, sex will, please 

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do go and share the gospel, but 
just as much as you can try and 

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share it with with the same sex 
as you and you'll find, you can 

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click more and talk to them more
and be more free without any of 

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these sort of wrong thoughts or 
wrong motives go in there. 

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Does that make sense? 
I hope I'm not coming across as 

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a dinosaurs or dated. 
But I'm just trying to put a 

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note of caution there that we've
got to be as careful as 

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possible. 
When we share the gospel that 

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our intentions are totally. 
Pure number three, the 80/20 

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rule. 
Now, if you're a seasoned 

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evangelist, if you've been 
sharing the gospel for years and

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years, I think the majority of 
Angeles, myself included. 

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I only learnt this rule. 
Two years ago. 

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We need to hear this. 
So often when we're sharing the 

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gospel, we can just love to go 
onto these monologues and and 

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get out as Watch information is 
passed out. 

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Just regurgitating all of this 
information, just ramming as 

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much down their throats. 
But what we actually need to do 

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is we need to ask questions and 
we need to listen. 

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So, the 80/20 rule is this? 
You let them speak for 80% of 

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the time and then you speak 20. 
So if you'll notice a lot of the

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time I try as I'm speaking, I'm 
sharing the gospel. 

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I try to get as much out of them
as possible. 

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Listen to them. 
Ask them questions. 

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Why did you say? 
Say that. 

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Why would you think that? 
So you believe that God doesn't 

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exist. 
But then you believe that 

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evolution is true. 
Why do you think why does that 

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come into your mind? 
What is making you doubt? 

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God exists, but and you try to 
get as much information. 

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Just like a good doctor, 
diagnoses the situation, 

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diagnosis, the illness listens 
and then he can diagnose it 

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properly. 
So that's what you want to do. 

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Listen, as much as possible, and
then you can give Straight Dar 

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straight to the heart and know 
exactly what they're thinking. 

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Don't just be about yourself, 
show a real interest. 

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A real concern in that 
individual that precious soul 

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Who's right in front of you and 
then get ready to proclaim the 

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gospel. 
Number four, keep the main 

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thing, the main thing. 
Now the devil loves to take his 

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on rabbit Trails so sometimes 
someone might start wanting to 

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talk to you about the the lbgt 
gay rights issues. 

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All of those things, sometimes 
they'll want to talk to you 

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about atheism. 
Sometimes you yourself, you want

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to have, you might have your own
sort of passion like the end 

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times and you start talking 
about all these different 

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things. 
But what we really need to do, 

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what the real medicine is. 
We need to get back to the 

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Cross. 
We need to as many common says, 

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put blood on. 
Would we need to make sure we're

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showing what Jesus did the 
ugliness of our sin repentance 

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faith in Jesus Christ. 
Our Resurrection, you need to 

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always get it back to that and 
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Keep it directed to the gospel. 
Yes, answer the question, but 

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never forget to get back to the 
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The main medicine, the main 
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The power is not in us. 
The power is not in you. 

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The power is in Salvation is in 
the Gospel of Jesus Christ, and 

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fifthly and finally end. 
Well. 

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Now so many Christians can make 
a mess of this and I failed in 

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this so often we can just go on 
and on and on and on and on and 

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not know when to And it's 
important to know when to leave 

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the conversation there and not 
to keep going on and on and on 

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and thinking the longer the 
conversation, the more holy than

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Mo, the more respectable. 
No, just try and cut it and keep

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it succinct. 
What you want to say. 

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The other thing is this just be 
so careful. 

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If you've got into quite a 
heated, emotional debate. 

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Make sure you leave on a good 
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You don't want them to walk away
and say, I just had an argument 

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with a Christian for the last 
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You Them to walk away and say, 
you know what, that Christian, 

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all those thoughts, I had about 
Christians. 

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It was really someone who has a 
bit different. 

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He had a kindness in his heart. 
She had a compassion that was a 

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bit different. 
And then finally, the best way 

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to end well is leave them with a
portion of God's words. 

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Many of you ask, what, what is 
the book that you give out at 

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the end of your open as well? 
It's John's gospel. 

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We give out John's gospel and 
you can buy these from Young 

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Life campaign, National young 
life if you put that in. 

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In on Google you can find them 
there or you can find it also on

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10 of those.com and we give out 
these John's gospels. 

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Give them a portion of God's 
word, give them a tract, so that

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when you're gone when you're 
silent and no one's no one's 

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there to speak to them. 
They can still hear from God's 

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words. 
And then the Holy Spirit can 

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speak to them. 
That's the best thing you can do

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because let's be honest. 
This is far more powerful than 

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anything we can say with our 
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So, leave them with God's word. 
May God bless you. 

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Thank you for thinking about 
this and thank you for being 

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willing to want to go out and 
share the gospel. 

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So let's do it. 
And let's do it effectively to 

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give glory to our Mighty God.