Category Archives: Outreach

Salesmanship

Here we get some insight from a veteran salesman soul winner on how to close the deal and get the result that you want out of a soul winning encounter.

Don’t give them an out. Don’t give them a choice. Use the stock prayer. Draw the net around the big flopping fish and land that soul for Jesus.

It never ceases to amaze me the arrogance of people who think that they can change a stranger’s entire belief system in a way that will alter their eternal destiny in one conversation that lasts about five minutes. It’s basically the spiritual equivalent of the game run by pick-up artists.

1. Get noticed and make contact.

2. Lower their self esteem and create a need for your affirmation.

3. Make a conquest out of them even though you don’t know them, don’t love them, and won’t ever see them again.

Visitation 101

Today’s video is from Southshore Baptist Church where church is the family business. Larkin (Children’s Ministry Director AND Director of Music) and his brother Braxton Hicks? (Assistant TO the Regional Dir…er…Pastor) show how to make a bad parody of an even worse activity that parodies itself so nicely it needs no help.

Part 1: Really, really white guy handshake.

Part 2: Who cares, I’m going back to watch the handshake again.

FWOTW: BSALT.org

According to today’s website pick there are ” 932 counties in the United States that do not have a solid, fundamental, independent, King James only, Baptist preaching church.” So in order to help this situation they’re picking the top 100 counties to launch new soulwinning efforts. You can even view state maps to see exactly how desperately your county needs a fundy curch.

It’s interesting that there seems to be a total inability to realize that the issue with church growth isn’t the lack of salesmanship but the product they’re selling.