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So I watched this video telling me how to witness by door knocking.
1. Most people are not going to talk to you for 10 minutes when you interrupt their T.V. time, let's just be realistic about that. The only ones who really care to talk to door knockers are preachers or bible college students who like to argue when the mormons come around.
2. Why does everyone who posts anything about witnessing online always feel the need to push the fact that people are going to hell versus heaven. It is a scare tactic to coerce people into saying a prayer, but it never gives them any of the reality of what it means to live as a child of God or discipleship.
3. The prayer mentality in itself is a joke. Dietrich Bonhoffer discusses this as 'cheap grace' in his book The Cost of Discipleship. True grace is that which calls people into discipleship, not just to simply say a prayer to be saved.
4. I thank God that I am Calvinist for this reason: If the man at the door rejects the preacher, then the preacher gives up on their salvation and moves on taking it as a personal rejection and then sins in judgment of this person. But, if God's Spirit comes into this man's life, it doesn't matter how long it takes, God won't give up on him - He will come to salvation.
5. Just a quick though towards "The Way of the Master" style of evangelism. I don't think Jesus ever did this. Ever. Just saying.
I thank God for the Gospel, but door knocking is never used in the Bible for evangelism. Instead, Jesus called His disciples to give their lives to the demonstration of what it means to live in God's Kingdom. If we will truly worship God with all our hearts, souls, strengths, and minds, then God will shine through our lives and words without ever handing a tract to anyone. I am not saying don't tell people what the Bible says, I am just saying that we need to be witnesses to the people at work, school, library, in traffic, at sporting events, in restaurants, etc. Not just when it is convenient to put on a suit, grab our King James Bible, and spend an hour disturbing our neighbors.
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so...how coerced was the guy at the door! it seemed as though the pastor was doing a whole lot of talking, as if to say, "i really don't care what you think, or to hear your thoughts; i just want you to see that i'm right" under the auspence of, "i want to get you saved".
Dude I get what you're saying but I have to make a comment about number 5. The exact WOTM method was not used by Jesus but the Principle was. Jesus helped the woman at thw well understand her sin by pointing out the fact that she was an adulterer. Jesus in several places helped people see sin by referencing in some way to the person's shortcoming of keeping God's moral law. Not that everyone has to do that to be Biblical, I just believe after witnessing to literally thousands of people that it is most effective. By the way, I applaud you're zeal to preach the gospel in word and deed.
I will agree with you that sometimes the WOTM method can be effective. My problem is that when Comfort and Cameron present it, they present it as THE biblical way of witnessing. And since watching them I have sat in on two separate lectures telling me that it is the only way to do evangelism. If it works for you, great. By all means use whatever method will bring people to Christ, but to walk up to someone on the street, get them to say a prayer, and then leave them without discipleship - that is VERY unbiblical and I cannot support that.
Thanks for the comment.
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