Category Archives: Team Orientation/Training

Sharing Your Testimony:  Do’s and Don’ts DO: 1. Share your:    + Name    + Where you live    + Your profession    + Why you came 2. Share what being a Christian means to you:    + Your life before Christ    + Your life after Christ 3. Share how you became a Christian: [...]

Follow-up After you have helped the person pray to receive Christ, there is a need for immediate follow through. We suggest the following: 1. Express your happiness and joy over this decision. Explain how happy the Lord Jesus must be. Congratulate the new disciple. 2. Ask the new disciple to thank the Lord for saving [...]

Plan Two: Marking a New Testament for Witnessing. There are three basic steps in marking and using a New Testament to share the Gospel. First, you mark the essential point, such as God loves us. Second, you underline and read the essential verse. Third, you tell the person what you want him to hear about [...]

Plan One: Use a Witnessing Booklet. Many effective soul-winners use a witnessing booklet to lead others to Christ. These effective witnesses have found a witnessing booklet that shares the plan of salvation in a very normal and natural way for them, and they keep using it. They keep a supply on hand and carry several [...]

Personal Preparation Most of the things we do of any real importance or value require preparation. Witnessing and soul-winning are no exception. Preparation needs to be done in two basic areas. First, you need to have a “time with God” every day. Faithful and effective soul- winners set aside some quality time every day for [...]

What Witnessing is NOT! May we suggest a few “negatives” in a positive manner? This is necessary because many Christians have misconceptions about witnessing and winning the lost to Christ. 1. Witnessing is not button-holing people. There is nothing wrong with approaching people about Christ (even strangers) in a loving, caring manner. It is never [...]

Personal Witnessing Series adapted from the Texas Partnerships Manual. What is “Witnessing?” In the broadest sense of the word, we are “witnesses” simply because we are Christians. We may be a good witness or a bad witness, but we ARE witnesses whether we want to be or not. We witness by the life we live, [...]