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Wednesday, April 5, 2017

A Strategy to Evangelize the Entire World 1: Exponential Soul-winning



“But he that received seed into the good ground is he that heareth the word, and understandeth it; which also beareth fruit, and bringeth forth, some an hundredfold, some sixty, some thirty.” Matthew 13:23

I believe that this verse about bringing forth fruit to the tune of 30, 60, or 100, is referring to actual soul-winning numbers. A fruit tree brings forth fruit after its kind, and a Christian brings forth other Christians. Ideally, fruit trees produce fruit every year, and those are realistic annual soul-winning numbers because people who go out once a week for over an hour in a receptive area will likely win about 30 souls per year. Those who are even more dedicated and go out for several hours might win 60 or 100 souls per year. If more people achieved even close to these numbers, we could easily evangelize the entire world in a very short time.

We know that the majority of people will never get saved, but when I say evangelize the world, I mean that everyone would hear a clear presentation of the Gospel. Reaching the world begins with winning one soul at a time.

Here’s the math. Let’s say that I am the only saved person in the entire world, and imagine that I decide to win just one person to the Lord each year. Not only do I get that one person saved, but I train him to be like me, meaning I teach him to be a soul-winning Christian.

After one year of that program, there are now two Christians in the world. Since I make that guy like me and he wins and trains another person, by the end of two years, we have four people. After six years, we have 64 people in our church. At that point we are still a small group, but once we get about 10 years in, there are 1,024 of us. Just to simplify the numbers, let’s say that we had 1,000 people at the ten-year mark. By the time we are 20 years in, we are up to 1,000,000! Keep in mind, these are not just converts but people who are each winning one soul per year. The number of soul winners keeps increasing exponentially until by the time we get to year 32, we have over 4 billion. Now we know 4 billion people aren’t going to get saved, but long before we get to that high of a number of people out soul winning, everyone in the world will have heard the gospel multiple times.

There are millions of saved people in this world, so when I look at these numbers, it shows me that the vast majority of Christians are bringing forth no fruit. They never win anyone to the Lord, and they certainly don’t train anyone to be a soul winner. This is why we need to shoot for winning 30, 60, or 100 people to the Lord each year instead of only one. Those are the biblical numbers, and that level of productivity will help make up for the Christians who do nothing.

Planting churches all over the United States and sending out foreign missionaries are important goals for each local church, but don’t underestimate your own personal reach. If you win enough people to the Lord, some of them will become soul winners themselves and reach people in their own circle of influence, which will likely extend to another city, state, or country. Whether you are a man or woman, a child or an older person, you can have a part in this task of evangelizing the world.

If you have never presented the Gospel or have gotten a little rusty, you can start out as a silent partner. Being a silent partner was how I learned soul winning at age 17. After a couple of hours of listening to an experienced soul winner present the Gospel, I started talking myself and improved over time. Some people are silent partners for months before they feel comfortable doing the talking, and that’s fine. The important thing is that you get started right away. Meanwhile, you can speed up the learning process by watching Pastor Jimenez’ Soul-Winning Seminar, which has a wealth of information beneficial to both beginners and experienced soul winners.

Here is the sermon: A Strategy for Evangelizing the Entire World

5 comments:

  1. Steven Anderson has been completely vindicated regarding Donald Trump.

    Some people not in your group have noticed, for what that is worth.

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  2. Well said Pastor.

    This is good strategy. I never hear this kind of thinking in church regarding soulwinning on an "industrial" scale. I reckon because it is because of "The Way of the Master" and other false teacher influences which discourage ambitious soulwinning.

    Another thing I don't hear very often is POST-soulwinning:

    Then they that gladly received his word were baptized: and the same day there were added unto them about three thousand souls. And they continued stedfastly in the apostles' doctrine and fellowship, and in breaking of bread, and in prayers. (Acts 2:41 - 42, KJV)

    Go ye therefore, and teach all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost: Teaching them to observe all things whatsoever I have commanded you: and, lo, I am with you always, even unto the end of the world. Amen. (Matthew 28:19 - 20, KJV)

    And how shall they preach, except they be sent? as it is written, How beautiful are the feet of them that preach the gospel of peace, and bring glad tidings of good things! (Romans 10:15, KJV)

    And he took them the same hour of the night, and washed their stripes; and was baptized, he and all his, straightway. And when he had brought them into his house, he set meat before them, and rejoiced, believing in God with all his house. (Acts 16:33 - 34, KJV)

    To build and commission this soulwinning army, we need to not only to "knock doors," but to "take names" also. We need to baptise them straightway/same hour/same day, arm them immediately with the Sword and then send them out as silent partners.

    I believe this is the missing link in most church soulwinning programs and the rocket fuel for this entire strategy.

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  3. Some guys say they are working on cloning Jesus.

    http://metro.co.uk/2017/04/12/could-we-clone-jesus-scientists-are-closing-in-on-the-dna-of-christ-6571178/

    Not sure what to think of that.

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  4. Anonymous, Here is the post where Pastor Anderson discusses the other parts of the Great Commission and links to a sermon about it.
    http://sanderson1611.blogspot.com/2016/12/the-3-steps-of-great-commission.html?m=1

    God bless!

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  5. Anonymous. I wouldn't worry about that. Loads of assumptions in that article. Here's another rabbit trail, Ron Wyatt who claimed to have found 2000 year old blood which only had 24 chromosomes (23 female and 1 male). Check the video on Youtube "Revealing God's Treasure". I can believe the Noah's Ark and Sodom evidence, even the Exodus trail, but I am not entirely sure about his claims on the Ark of the Covenant and really doubt the blood claim. Plus he had some SDA beliefs though wasn't actually SDA I think.

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