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How to bring men to Christ

Chapter 2: PREFACE
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About This Book

The author offers a practical manual for personal evangelism, beginning with essential conditions for success—personal conversion, love for souls, Bible knowledge, and prayer—and then gives step‑by‑step guidance for initiating conversations and guiding different kinds of inquirers. Chapters address dealing with the indifferent, anxious seekers, those with doubts or false hopes, lack of assurance and backsliding, skeptics and complainers, procrastinators, and the willful or deluded, supplementing instructions with biblical passages, illustrative cases, and pastoral suggestions. The final sections include practical hints for workers and a discussion of the baptism of the Holy Spirit, stressing Scripture‑based persuasion, clear presentation of salvation, and pastoral sensitivity.

PREFACE

This book is written because it seems to be needed. The author has been repeatedly requested by Ministers, Y. M. C. A. Secretaries, Christian Workers, and his own students to put into a permanent and convenient shape the substance of what he has said at Conventions, Summer Schools and in the class–room on personal work. The time has come to yield to these requests. Never before in the history of the Church were there so many who desire to win others to Christ. The good work done by the Young People’s Society of Christian Endeavor is in no other direction so evident as in the many thousands of young people in this land who to–day are on fire with a desire to win souls. But while they desire to do this work, many do not know how. This little book aims to tell them. There are several well–known and valuable manuals of texts to be used with inquirers, but this book is intended not only to point out passages to be used but to show how to use them, illustrating this use by cases from actual experience. It is hoped that from a careful study of these pages any earnest Christian can learn how to do efficient work in bringing others to the Saviour.