"I went soul winning and all I took with this crummy selfie".
Sunday was a big day for me. It was my first time attending a new church in London, but even more excitingly, it was my first time ever going soul winning. A group of guys from the church I visited, kindly took me under their wings, and I honestly don’t think I could’ve had a better first experience. I have been on a zealous high for days! Soul winning is something I've wanted to do for a long time but have never been able to find anyone to join me. I'm quite shy and still new to reading the Bible, so going it alone didn't seem like an option. Every church I approached said soul winning wasn't something they did and were not interested in starting. All of my attempts to reach out to churches, were pretty half-hearted and it wasn’t until recently that I felt a real desire to get out there and give the gospel. I was so excited to finally give it a go but I was definitely nervous.
Thankfully, I was paired up with Brother Glodie, an experienced soul winner who’s passion for Christ is tangible. We knocked doors in an apartment block, in Mitcham armed with Youtube cards, tracts and New Testament Bibles. I acted as a silent partner, with Bro Glodie taking the lead.
Just before we knocked the first door I said “I always just think that noone will want to listen”, but my skepticism was about to be shattered. On the very first door we knocked there was a salvation!
Praise the Lord!
Praise the Lord!
A young woman called Alex, told us she had been brought up a Christian but when asked what she thought you had to do to go to heaven, she gave the typical answer “be a good person”. Bro Glodie showed her from the Bible that salvation is based on faith alone, that we do not have to earn our way into heaven or repent of sins to be saved. Alex was extremely receptive, and gave us time to thoroughly go through the plan of salvation with her, covering everything from why we need faith, to the idea of “once saved always saved”.
I have been guilty in the past of having little compassion for the unsaved, but I physically felt my heart change as we gave the gospel to Alex. There’s something about looking someone in the eye, knowing that whatever you say next could determine their salvation, that just hits you hard.
After we gave the gospel to Alex, we saw two young boys (around the age of 13) messing around downstairs. One was wearing a Halloween mask, and they were shouting something to us. We decided to go downstairs and at least try to give them the gospel, though we weren’t really expecting much to happen. To our surprise, the boys were also extremely receptive. They were of Brazilian evangelical origin, and one boy translated in Portuguese, to his friend. They had also been taught a works based salvation and when asked if they were sure they’d go to heaven, they said “around 70%”.
The conversation we had with them touched my heart immensely. I don’t want to disclose what was said, but one of the boys in particular had a very hard home life and desperately wanted his family to be brought to salvation. They listened attentively to everything Bro Glodie and I said, and also had lots of questions and stories for us to listen to us as well. Both boys got saved, and are now 100% certain of their salvation. I just pray God does great things in their lives from here on out.
Our soul winning streak, seemingly dried up from there. We knocked a couple more doors with either no answer, or people who were not interested, which is fine. That’s kind of what I expected for the whole day so to even get one salvation was amazing. God really showed me the power of his word, and that I should never lean on my own understanding.
The conversation we had with them touched my heart immensely. I don’t want to disclose what was said, but one of the boys in particular had a very hard home life and desperately wanted his family to be brought to salvation. They listened attentively to everything Bro Glodie and I said, and also had lots of questions and stories for us to listen to us as well. Both boys got saved, and are now 100% certain of their salvation. I just pray God does great things in their lives from here on out.
Our soul winning streak, seemingly dried up from there. We knocked a couple more doors with either no answer, or people who were not interested, which is fine. That’s kind of what I expected for the whole day so to even get one salvation was amazing. God really showed me the power of his word, and that I should never lean on my own understanding.
I hope I get the chance to go soul winning again soon and that, eventually, I can give the gospel myself someday. Thank you to Brother Glodie for showing me the ropes and praise be to God for his marvellous works.
“Thanks be to God, which giveth us the victory through our Lord Jesus Christ. Therefore, my beloved brethren, be ye stedfast, unmoveable, always abounding in the work of the Lord, forasmuch as ye know that your labour is not in vain in the Lord”
- {1 Corinthians 15:51-58}
For more info on soul winning in the UK, visit www.soul-winning.co.uk
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