{"id":307,"date":"2010-08-04T03:02:04","date_gmt":"2010-08-04T03:02:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.marklydecker.com\/?p=307"},"modified":"2011-08-14T22:02:10","modified_gmt":"2011-08-15T02:02:10","slug":"how-do-you-present-the-gospel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.marklydecker.com\/?p=307","title":{"rendered":"How Do You Present The Gospel?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>My friend David Proffitt of the <a title=\"Presenting The Gospel\" href=\"http:\/\/www.aletheiatampa.com\">Aletheia Church <\/a>at USF in Tampa uses a four fold plan to share Christ with the people he meets.\u00a0 Here it is:<\/p>\n<p>1.\u00a0 Make sure you CONNECT with the person you are speaking with.\u00a0 That is, listen to people and see what concerns them, what they enjoy, etc.\u00a0 Find out about them!<\/p>\n<p>2.\u00a0 While you are listening, discover what drives the values in their life.\u00a0 This will give you an understanding of how to present the gospel.\u00a0 In other words, discover and use the proper apologetic.\u00a0 Answering peoples concerns in life is honest and shows integrity on your part.\u00a0 People don&#8217;t trust in Christ when they don&#8217;t trust the messanger.<\/p>\n<p>3.\u00a0 Present the gospel.\u00a0 It is easy to make friends and forget to share the most important message in the world&#8230;Jesus.\u00a0 Everyone deserves to hear about redemption in Christ Jesus.<\/p>\n<p>4.\u00a0 Always, and I mean always, give a person a chance to say no.\u00a0 People need an opportunity to qualify their relationship to God.\u00a0 I have seen many people share their faith like it is a good idea rather than a something that needs to be accepted or rejected.\u00a0 That is respectful to the person and the importance of this issue in their life.<\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s it.\u00a0 People need to hear and deserve to hear from you.\u00a0 Think relational encounters: Connect, Apologetic, Present, Ask.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My friend David Proffitt of the Aletheia Church at USF in Tampa uses a four fold plan to share Christ with the people he meets.\u00a0 Here it is: 1.\u00a0 Make sure you CONNECT with the person you are speaking with.\u00a0 That is, listen to people and see what concerns them, what they enjoy, etc.\u00a0 Find [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[26],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.marklydecker.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/307"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.marklydecker.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.marklydecker.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.marklydecker.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.marklydecker.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=307"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.marklydecker.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/307\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":554,"href":"https:\/\/www.marklydecker.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/307\/revisions\/554"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.marklydecker.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=307"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.marklydecker.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=307"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.marklydecker.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=307"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}