Receptivity Communication How to find people A Start

Receptivity & Communication

How to find people?

A. Start from near:

Which person was the greatest influence in your coming to church? (%)

B. Consider Receptivity 1) Dissatisfaction 2) Stress 3) Growing Religions 4) New Settlement 5) Social and Economic Change 6) War or Crisis 7) Transition

C. Do not loose Church Visitors A church uses “three contacts—a phone call within twenty-four hours, a visit that week by the minister of evangelism, and a visit, also that week, by a team of lay people.

“People who are receptive and winnable today may not be tomorrow—or at least next year” (George Hunter).

How to approach people?

1) Love 2) Friendship

3. What should Christians not do?

Don’t ar____. If you win, you have lost him. Don’t pr______. Witness, use your testimony. Never talk boastfully, or attempt to be familiar. Don’t point your fi_____ in your party’s face. Don’t in____ the party while he is speaking; there is danger of offending him. Avoid long stories or illustrations. Don’t be in a hurry. Don’t pick green fruit Don’t force, beg, or coax. (R. Stanley Tam, Witnessing Everywhere, p 10)

4. Use Personal Testimony

a. Advantages of a personal testimony 1) unique 2) identifiable 3) interesting 4) relevant 5) personal 6) authoritative

b. Four requirements of a good testimony (Harry Poe) 1) Introduction 2) Crisis 3) Climax 4) Resolution

c. Two kinds of testimony § Apostle Paul type 1) “What I was before I receive eternal life, ” 2) “How I receive eternal life, ” 3) “What eternal life has meant to me. ” § Timothy type - It would be effective to emphasize how “internal feelings, purposes, and motives have been changed by Christ.