Personal Evangelism skills should require that we make use of the gospel outlines that are available. Here is a collection of gospel scripts and reflections on outlines of the gospel.
In my training, I only ask people to pick one gospel script and memorize it so well that you can follow the outline without stressing over it.
My faith has found a resting place, Not in device nor creed; I trust the Ever-living One, His wounds for me shall plead. I need no other argument, I need no other plea; It is enough that Jesus died, And that He died for me. — Hymn, My Faith has found a resting place …
This is an interesting evangelistic conversational starter: The publishers hope that you’ll continue the conversation at their website. The imagery is fantastic, as well as the editing. The narration is a little interesting and different perspective: You Cheated on Me, You Didn’t Trust Me, You Sinned, You Cut Yourself Off From Me,And Although You Are …
Got four minutes? Check out this lyrical gospel in a nutshell script, using GOSPEL as an acronym. Life in 6 Words: The GOSPEL communicates the whole story of the Bible in 6 key truths that capture the essence of God and human interaction. Rap artist Propaganda unpacks a simple 6 letter acrostic that spells out …
Have you ever felt like you’ve been caught off guard? Imagine sitting in a coffee shop talking about life with a friend. The conversation begins to go deep about some personal issue: your friend is confessing a deep sense of remorse over some sin in their life and how they seek forgiveness. Your friend looks …
I remember a model of evangelism that felt like a sales pitch. I would attend a seminar and learn the newest script for evangelism. The idea is that I would learn a series of conversational steps that would help people See their need for Jesus Make a decision to follow Christ Repeat a prayer after …
In doing research for this series on gospel scripts, I found another outline called FAITH. It seems pretty good and could be a simple tool to share your faith. Scripts are not automatic The purpose of a script is to provide you an outline to share your faith when the Lord provides the opportunity. You …
"Do versus Done" is very simple gospel presentation to think through, and gets at one aspect of the gospel message.
James Choung has written a few books on explaining the Christian Faith. On of the issues that he tackles is updating or improving the Bridge Illustration. The whole article is here at The Big Story | Tell It Slant . “Choung’s ‘napkin theology’ and its ‘four-worlds’ diagram promise to be for evangelism in the twenty-first …
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The key to using gospel scripts is to know ONE "inside out"so that your explanation is crystal clear. The idea is that you can use it at any given moment, or as they say, you can "do it in your sleep" (a phrase meaning that you can explain the script without having to think too hard because you are so familiar with it). Once you are deeply familiar with one, then add another one to your skill set.
I just finished reading Nick Pollard’s Evangelism Made Slightly Less Difficult: How to Interest People who Aren’t Already Interested (order your copy direct from Amazon). Nick is a full time evangelist and speaker who lives in Great Britain. With cover endorsements from Josh McDowell, George Verwer, and Lesslie Newbigin, I figured it would be a …
I was recently introduced to the Evangecube script for use in personal evangelism. I’ve heard about it for years, but never encountered one until last month.
In a post over at Jesus Creed » Letters to Emerging Christians, Scott McKnight does a good analysis of the “Romans Road” as a script for evangelism. He says two things that are worthy of pondering: The third thing now: the Romans Road works for some. It is just as important to say it doesn’t …
