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Second Nature, Part One: My Story

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I have always struggled with method evangelism.  There are so many. Since becoming a Christian I have read, watched, and listened to evangelists and minsters all over the country who argue their method wins souls at high success rates and their proof is in the pudding.  I have met ministers, teachers, elders, and church leaders who constantly and consistently share the gospel with people and have developed solid methods for leading people to Jesus, but I have always had difficulty adapting.  While I will always believe the teaching scripture is the way to go, I have had great difficulty implementing these ways in my daily evangelism. However, it wasn't until I asked, "why" that I began to understand why it didn't work for me.  Moments of Clarity I was working at small congregation in Northern California, trying to get somethings going when I stumbled upon a seminar of a brother from the south, who claimed to have won hundreds of souls for Christ and revitalized his ch
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The Greatest In The Kingdom

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We are very aware of those who are best in their craft.  For example, if I were to ask you who the greatest wide receiver in football ever was, who would you say? QB? Linebacker? Safety? What about baseball players? Chances are you have an answer of some kind for all of those because you pay attention to the sport. So what if we paid attention to the stories in scripture as much as we paid attention to our favorite sports teams? How does this change the dynamic and attitude of the church and its members?  In any sport, there will always be a great, a player better than the last. But what about the kingdom? What about followers of Jesus? Does it really matter who the greatest preacher ever was? or church leader for that matter?  When we dig into the gospel accounts it's clear who the greatest is, but it's also clear that those who follow Jesus must do so with an attitude of humility (Luke 9:46-48).  In a few different places, the writers who record the story of Jesus insert thes
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