![]() ![]() Prison Evangelism has successfully utilized the book How to be a Child of God in over three hundred prison units with over 130,000 distributed. The witness book, the Book of the Gospel of John (NLT) and a handbook on prayer and meditation would be a great start for a new believer. My answer to date is to attempt to use the NLT version of the bible and especially the Book of John to include into a simple witnessing package including How to be a Child of God as a sort of one stop store to get someone started.Īs a companion, I would attach the book Seeking God through Prayer and Meditation. I get letters from prisoners who by and large complain that they don’t understand the bible, but would like to know more about Jesus. But what about the guy who has not arrived as believer? He has never met the Holy Spirit and has no idea who He is. I understand the notion that when you ask the Holy Spirit to take over, then you gain understanding of scripture as He interprets it for you. Even the simplest of evangelism tracts aimed at these rely on bible verses that do not explain the meaning. I work in prison ministry, around drug rehabs, and Alcoholics Anonymous. Most of us don’t actively read the bible, so why would a non-believer bother when he can’t understand it in the first place? The problem is, we are believers and they are not. Somehow, we expect that we can simply take someone to church and they will automatically absorb magically the faith and knowledge that has been imparted to us for years. How about taking a new believer or non believer to a modern Baptist Sunday school class and let him hear about Joshua leading the chosen people of Israel across the Jordan River to their next battle after Moses died.Īs believers, we know the Word of God is the Word of God and we place much stock in verses, preaching of the message, bible study and the things of Christian life. ![]() Our answer is to “give them a bible” or if they are lucky, we might take them to church where they meet with more confusion as they listen to us talk to each other in the same kind of way using expressions familiar to nurturing Christians. The problem is, the people we need to be attempting to reach have no idea what we are talking about. We continue to force feed to non-believers terms like “the substitutionary death of Jesus Christ”, propitiation, “atonement for our sins”, “redemption”, “salvation”, ”blood of the lamb” and all the other terms we as Christians toss around in hymns and conversation as we discuss our faith with one another. ![]()
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