three steps in personal evangelism today I want to train you how you can reach people with the gospel jesus said in acts 1 verse 8 you will receive the Holy Spirit and you will be my witness actually this was the last word he spoke on planet Earth and this is for every believer every believer is a witness I was in Bejing I was asking a person where is a metro station he was not able to explain the way to the metro station but he brought me to the metro station this is a way how sometimes
Christians are sharing the gospel they are not able to explain the gospel but they bring people to a local church and then it's good to invite people to a local church but jesus said we will receive the Holy Spirit and we will be his witness I've met a young girl and she said well actually I was too shy to evangelize I thought evangelism is for reinert bonky and Billy Graham those famous evangelist but not for me and then we trained her how to share the gospel only in one day she led six people to the
Lord I want to tell you that you can learn that you can learn it to start a conversation to share the gospel and to lead somebody to the Lord and these are the three steps in personal evangelism number one how to start a conversation number two what exactly is the gospel and number three how to lead somebody to the Lord so let's start with the first point power to search conversation in the Bible we can find an amazing story how Jesus started the conversation how he was sharing the good news in John verse four he
was talking to the Samaritan lady and this is the way how he will start the conversation hey lady I want to tell you mama the Son of God no he was not preaching John 4 verse 7 Jesus said give me something to drink instead of preaching in the beginning very simple he was starting with daily life things I was in Brazil in a restaurant and I saw some people sitting there and said well maybe it's a good idea to tell her about Jesus so I was so excited I was standing there and I was sharing
the gospel for almost 15 minutes after 15 minutes one person said well we are all from a Pentecostal church well if I would start with a question only in one minute I could figure out these guys were Christians they were all from a Pentecostal church but I was so excited I was preaching for 15 minutes so in the beginning don't preach be friendly maybe you do an act of kindness or say briefie hello ask a question hey how are you today years ago I Ament pierce brosnan in a hotel in the beginning I was a
little bit nervous as a man at once this is James Bond so but I thought it would be a good idea to talk to him and tell him about Jesus so in the beginning this was a way how I started the conversation I said well mr. monk in the movie you are saving the world I'm doing it in reality haha he looked at me and then we began to talk I had his attention if you want to start a conversation if you want to share the gospel first of all you need the attention Jesus in
the story in John 4 was a similar to lady he had the attention and then he said if you would know who is asking you about water oh why this is powerful this is curiosity if if we work with curiosity it's absolutely great I was in China and and I was a button on a way to a hotel and the lady was sitting in front of me from Germany and she said oh you're from Germany what are you doing here I said well I'm on the way to the hotel because I want to meet the
Rolling Stones I want to talk through them and she said he wants to be the south that's not possible I said well very often I meet some of those people I'm flying around the world I'm talking to poor people to celebrities and then she was asking me what are you doing curiosity curiosity is very powerful so first of all we need the attention then number two the interest if you show interest you will get interest you know you have two ears and only one mouth it's important if we ask questions and if we listen you
know you can start with a very simple question but then please listen to the other person you know you can say well I found green happiness what about you are you happy well probably it's okay in my life is okay whatever ask some simple questions but get the interest I was sitting in the taxi and I saw cross and or what I could figure out this is a traditional Christian so I began to talk to him like this I see the cross what does that mean to you so then he said well the cross is
if I see the cross I think about Mary then I told him you know I know something about the cross and that changed my life can I share it with you I said of course please do it so number one we need the attention number two interest number three desire share your own story I tell you your story is important and you can explain and and can you can share your own story in a way that people really would listen even if you are from a Christian background your story is important don't underestimate your own
story I met a young girl and I told you well today you have to talk about Jesus she's around from a Christian background my story is actually quite boring I was not a drug addict but she was sharing a story and a business lady the owner of five star hotels got saved so don't underestimate your story write down your own story and please forget all I mean I call it Christianese you know if we talk about the blood of the Lamb and the New Jerusalem well share it in a way that people really could understand
what you are talking about be real be authentic but your personal story is very powerful very briefly I want to show you how you could talk to somebody I'm a young man is right here and of probably I've just met em hey hello sir nice to meet you let me join you today oh well I'm fine I have something for you this is quite powerful whoa please let me uh before I want to ask you a question imagine on a scale from one to five if you are happy what what would you say are you
happy Oh between two or three so it's okay okay but maybe you can do better many people around the world they say that they found real happiness when they found God what do you think about God well I've met him never before but I go to church some day maybe at Christmas or yeah but not you know very briefly I asked him a question if he's happy and then I asked him a question what does he think about God this is the way how you can start a conversation there are so many different ways but
first of all number one be friendly show interests get the attention get his interest in his desire and then in the next session I will train you how you can share the gospel