How Do I Lead Someone to Christ?

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John Piper, Unknown, 163859, Pastor, Ask, Theology, Desiring God, Religion & Spirituality/christianity, Christianity, Religion & Spirituality, Questions

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🗓️ 10 August 2020

⏱️ 15 minutes

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Summary

To lead someone to Christ is a spectacular gift from God. But what should you actually say and do in the moment?

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0:00.0	How do I lead someone to Christ?
0:07.7	I love this question.
0:08.7	It's so good.
0:09.7	It comes from a listener named Brooke.
0:11.6	Pastor John Hello, for our online church services during the coronavirus season, I volunteered
0:17.9	to reach out to people who have contacted us to let us know that they want to trust in
0:22.0	Christ.
0:23.0	Yet, I don't really know how to do this.
0:25.6	I've grown up seeing people walk through a written prayer, but I wrestle with the doctrine
0:30.1	behind the idea that you can simply pray this prayer and you're good.
0:34.7	When someone says they're ready to accept Christ, how do you lead them?
0:40.4	Great question.
0:41.4	Great.
0:42.4	It is.
0:43.4	Oh, that every Christian was ready and eager to declare the good news and to lead people
0:51.5	into saving faith.
0:54.4	So thanks for the question.
0:56.3	It's very good for John Piper to go back and rehearse the basics of the gospel and the
1:03.1	practicalities of a phone call like this or a zoom chat or sitting across the table six
1:09.9	feet apart, maybe to share the gospel.
1:13.4	It's helpful to have a simple plan.
1:17.6	If we were all God, we wouldn't need to have a simple plan.
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