What’s Your “Go To” Way to Share the Gospel?

Ask the Pastor with J.D. Greear

J.D. Greear

Christianity, Religion & Spirituality

4.9 • 624 Ratings

🗓️ 28 March 2022

⏱️ 11 minutes

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Summary

In this week's episode of the Ask Me Anything Podcast, Pastor J.D. answers a question from a listener named Barbara. She asks what passages and method he uses when he shares the gospel with people.

Show Notes:

There’s not a set way to share the gospel, and there’s certainly no “magic bullet” formula that’ll work every time. I wish there was! However, there are several helpful tools you can use to help you share the gospel.

You don’t have to know how to answer every single question to be able to share with someone. But it does help to have somewhat of a “plan” if you’re not used to doing it.

Here are some tools that I find helpful:

Romans Road
Taste & See (a resource from The Summit Church)
The FISH method:

(Build) Friendships
Initiate spiritual conversations
Share the gospel: Romans 6:23
Help them believe

Again, none of this offers some kind of secret formula that’ll automatically make someone get saved. But all of these help you package the gospel clearly, and it can be helpful to know what you’re going to say before you say it.
And the golden rule of evangelism: Don’t be weird. Just be yourself. Talk about what God has done in your life.

Here is a link to The Summit Church's Taste & See document, a resource he mentioned in the podcast.

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0:00.0	Welcome to Ask Me Anything.
0:19.6	I'm Matt Love. I'm here with Pastor J.D. Greer, and we have a great question today that was submitted by one of our listeners.
0:25.2	It comes from Barbara.
0:26.5	She writes, in one of Pastor J.D.'s sermons, he mentioned sharing Christ with a young lady on an airplane.
0:31.8	He takes her through scriptures, and she eventually comes to faith.
0:34.7	Could Pastor J.D. please share with us what passages he takes people through
0:38.3	when he shares the gospel? J.D., what a great question, and let me be clear. You only hear the good
0:43.6	stories. There's a lot of stories that do not end that way, and there's no magic bullet way of sharing
0:49.7	the gospel. There's no passage that always closes the deal. I feel like, you know, I have the privilege of
0:57.6	getting to select which stories I tell and they're ones in which I don't make an idiot out of
1:02.7	myself and also ones in which people respond favorably. But realize that for any, the greatest
1:08.3	evangelist I've ever known and I would not put myself from the top 10
1:11.6	the thing that they will always say is man you start down a lot of roads and it's like casting seed
1:17.6	that's what the analogy Jesus used and a lot of seed that you cast out there falls on hard ground
1:23.3	it has nothing to do with you has nothing to do with the way you cast it I mean imagine the soar being
1:27.2	like oh if I'd just put more wrist action when I threw the seed it would have nothing to do with it had to do with you. It has nothing to do with the way you cast it. I mean, imagine the soul or being like, oh, if I'd just put more wrist action when I threw the seed, it would have
1:29.9	had nothing to do with it. It had to do with the nature of the soil. And our job is to sow the seed
1:35.0	widely and realize that the seed is perfectly good. It's just that God, the Holy Spirit, he has to prepare the soil in order for it to be effective.
1:45.3	There's no set way I share the gospel. I've been through a dozen evangelism classes,
1:52.5	learned, you know, CWT, evangelism explosion, the four spiritual laws, the bridge, the three circles,
2:00.7	the two mountains, the, mountains, the 815 triangle.
2:04.9	I don't know.
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