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標  題: How To Win Your Unsaved Loved Ones
發信站: 信望愛團契電子佈告欄 (Sun Oct  1 00:34:57 1995)
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     底下乃鼎鼎大名在美國奧克拉荷馬州主持Rhema Bible Training Center 
 的Kenneth Hagin 牧師（在台灣大概不是很多人知道啦，因為他著的書台灣都
 沒有翻譯耶！），對於如何贏得或拯救我們未得救的家人的建議，由於沒有翻
 譯本我就把原文分次節錄，希望對我們向家人或週遭的親戚朋友傳福音時能有
 所幫助。


   ☆  How To Win Your Unsaved Loved Ones ........

     One of the questions most frequently asked me is how to get unsaved 
 loved ones saved. This is my advice to you.

     First, realize that the Father draws people through the Holy Spirit.
 When the Word of God is preached, the Holy Spirit brings conviction upon 
 people through the Word.

     Jesus said, " No man can come to me, except the Father which hath 
 sent me draw him : and I will raise him up at the last day" (John 6:44).

     Second, pray that God will send someone across your unsaved loved 
 one's path. Jesus said in Mattew 9, "Pray ye therefore the Lord of the 
 harvest, that he will send forth labourersinto his harvest" (v.38). We 
 will study more about this latter.

     I don't believe, however, that there are any rules you can establish
 in soul winning that work for everybody. God might lead one person one way 
 and another person another way. We always must bear in mind the vital work
 of the Holy Spirit in drawing people to Christ.

     Sometimes the members of your family are the most difficult people to 
 deal with. They won't listen to you. Generally speaking, it is better for 
 you not to try to deal with them. Now don't misunderstand me -- sometimes
 the Spirit of God may lead you differently. I'm just laying down some 
 general rules here.


  $$$  How My Family Was won ........ 

     I was a teenager when I was born again. Some of my family were what we 
 call nominal Christians. They knew Jesus was their Savior, but they didn't 
 know much beyond that. I was led by the Spirit of God never to mention 
 anything to them about salvation -- and that included other relatives, like
 aunts, uncles, and cousins.

     One way the Holy Spirit leads us is by an inward witness or inward 
conviction. I had the conviction in my spirit that if my relatives saw  
reality in my life, they all would want it. (That's true in the natural 
realm, too. If you know somebody has a good recipe, you want it.)     
According to the Word of God, "... bodily exercise profiteth little  , but 
GODLINESS IS PROFITABLE unto all things..." (1 Tim. 4:8). 
 "Profitable" means that it pays off. Paul continued in verse 15, " Meditate
 upon these things ... that thy PROFITING may appear to all."        

     I never said one thing to any of my near relatives about the Lord, and I
 never asked any of them to be saved. I started preaching as a 17-year-old 
 boy, but I never asked them to come hear me preach. They came, but I never 
 asked them. I never said one word to any of them about salvation. I was led 
 not to. I knew in my spirit that I shouldn't.


  $$$  Don't Nag ...........

     Too often people nag their unsaved kinfolks until they don't even like 
 for you to be around them. Through the years when we went to family 
 Thankgiving or Christmas gettogethers, I tried to enter into their normal 
 activities and games.

     Before I was converted and began to preach, my family never prayed at th
 table, but afterwards they always asked me to say grace. I never said 
 anything else to them.

     But one thing about it : Through the years, every one of them got born 
 again!

     I have noticed that the two most common mistakes people make in dealing 
 with their family are these: (1) They try to be ultra-spiritual, and (2)
 they overdo witnessing.

     Yes, the Bible teaches witnessing, but you have to realize that there's
 an old proverb that says, " What you are so speaks so loud I can't hear 
 what you say." People who do a lot of talking may not have enough life to 
 back up their witness.

                                                    ..... To be continue

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:   There is no one like you that I've ever known
:   Who sings me a love song like You !
:   Let Your Wind blow right through !
:   My heart is Your home and I am here waiting for you !
:   Holy Spirit ! All consuming Fire !
:   Fill me ! Fill me with the joy of my heart's desire ! 



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  There is no one like you that I've ever known
  Who sings me a love song like You !
  Let Your Wind blow right through !
  My heart is Your home and I am here waiting for you !