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    Soul Winning Made Simple
    Soul Winning Made Simple
    Soul Winning Made Simple
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    Soul Winning Made Simple

    By Bob Gray, Sr

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    Dr. Gray transformed Longview Baptist Temple’s Visitation program into a church-wide Soul Winning night. The church grew from 13 on visitation to hundreds going soul winning each week. This book will take the fear out of soul winning.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherBob Gray, Sr
    Release dateAug 3, 2010
    ISBN9781452349633
    Soul Winning Made Simple
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    Bob Gray, Sr

    Dr. Bob Gray Sr. pastored for 33 years and has been an ordained Baptist preacher for 40 years. He pastored the Longview Baptist Temple for 29 years. He became their pastor in 1980. Since then the church’s attendance grew from a low of 159 to averaging 2,041 in 2008. Dr. Gray retired March 1, 2009 and LBT called his son Dr. Bob Gray II to be their pastor. The last year Dr. Gray pastored LBT they baptized 4,466 converts. In his 29 years of pastorate at LBT they had 1,116,887 people who trusted Christ for payment of their sins. 253,042 walked the aisles professing faith in Christ and 164,457 of those followed the Lord in baptism. LBT was the number two church in America in professions of faith and baptisms. $ 9, 328,835.69 was given to missions and $ 335, 584.81 to help the less fortunate in those 29 years. Dr. Gray had 506 trust Christ through his personal soul winning with 153 of those following the Lord in baptism in 2009. In his 29 years in Texas he has preached in every state in the union except for North Dakota plus 17 foreign countries. He has personally led 14, 957 to Christ and had 4,399 of those follow the Lord in Baptism in those 29 years. Under Dr. Gray’s leadership the ministries of LBT developed to include the following: TEXAS BAPTIST COLLEGE- a four-year Christian college LONGVIEW BAPTIST ACADEMY- A Christian school for bus kids INDEPENDENT BAPTIST WORLD MISSIONS- A local church mission board NATIONAL TEEN CONVENTION- A nation wide conference for teens NATIONAL SOUL WINNING CLINIC- 29 years of training pastors & workers THE BAPTIST MAGAZINE- 11 years of publishing During Dr. Gray’s ministry at LBT the bus ministry expanded by purchasing a 15,000 square foot building on Cotton street for maintenance of the buses. The church grew to owning 42 buses and operating 30 Sunday school bus routes. He led the church in four major building projects plus the purchasing of numerous properties. The church’s property value grew to over 17 million dollars. Dr. Gray attended the Galesburg-Augusta grade school and high school system of Galesburg, Michigan, and graduated in 1963. He was an All-Conference football player and second team All-State tackle. He attended Michigan State University 1963-67 and was employed in 1967 by Fisher Body Division of General Motors for seven years in Kalamazoo, Michigan. He attended Hyles-Anderson College in Crown Point, Indiana, where he graduated Summa Cum Laude in 1976. He was employed by Hyles-Anderson College while working on his Masters Degree. Dr. Gray has received doctorates from Hyles-Anderson College, Tri-State College, and Texas Baptist College. He has authored 10 books as of this writing. Dr. and Mrs. Lee Ann Gray have been married for 45 years and have four children with ten grandchildren. Both of their sons are in the ministry. Dr. Bob Gray II was installed as pastor of LBT on March 1, 2009. Dr. Scott Gray is a faculty member at Hyles-Anderson College. The two daughters, Kim and Karen, are active in the ministry and personal soul winners. Kim is married to Mark Simmons, a deacon and Sunday school teacher at LBT. Karen is married to Tim Forgy, a Texas Baptist College graduate, and is employed as Youth Pastor for LBT.

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      Soul Winning Made Simple - Bob Gray, Sr

      Soul

      Winning

      Made Simple

      By Dr. Bob Gray

      Copyright Dr. Bob Gray 2010.

      Published by Bob Gray Sr. at Smashwords

      This book is also available in print at http://www.solvechurchproblems.com

      This ebook is licensed for your personal enjoyment only. This ebook may not be re-sold or given away to other people. If you would like to share this book with another person, please purchase an additional copy for each person. If you are reading this book and did not purchase it, or it was not purchased for your use only, then please return to Smashwords.com and purchase your own copy. Thank you for respecting the hard work of this author.

      All Scriptures are taken from the King James Version of the Bible.

      CONTENTS

      THE PHILOSPHY OF SOUL WINNING

      LEADING A SOUL TO CHRIST

      PREPARING TO WIN SOULS

      POSING THE QUESTION

      PRESENTING THE PLAN

      GIVING ASSURANCE OF SALVATION

      GETTING YOUR CONVERTS TO CHURCH

      GETTING YOUR CONVERTS DOWN THE AISLE AND BAPTIZED

      PREPARATION AT THE CHURCH HOUSE

      PREPARATION BY THE SOUL WINNER

      THE PHILOSPHY OF SOUL WINNING

      Behind every meaningful accomplishment is a well-defined philosophy. Once a philosophy has been determined, a course can be charted, and history will be made. Church work is no exception. If the pastors and members of our New Testament Baptist churches could decide what God’s philosophy toward church work is, and then if they could apply His methods to His work, there is no telling what God could do. If every Christian would adopt the right philosophy in this matter of church building, we could more effectively accomplish the work that God has called us to do.

      When I pastored the Longview Baptist Temple, I was not called to build a New Testament church. The members of LBT are not to build a New Testament church, either. Pastor, you are not here to build a church, and neither are your people. If we are not supposed to build a church, then who is? According to Matthew 16:18, Jesus is supposed to build the church; He said, I will build my church.

      If it is not our job to build a church, then what is our job? Our job is to win everybody we can to the Saviour. Our job is to baptize everybody we can baptize. Our job is to preach the truth. When the smoke clears, you will be left with people that God can begin to use to win others to Christ. If the pastor is trying to build a church, he will compromise truth for attendance. If the pastor is trying to build a church, he will compromise truth for money. The pastor’s job is not to build the church, nor is it the members’ job to build a church. Our job is to fulfill the Great Commission.

      Does that mean we should ignore church attendance? No, it does not. At the Longview Baptist Temple, we have a Fall push and a Spring push. I am not opposed to building church attendance. I am for great numbers, and I am for building Sunday School classes, but you must understand that the Lord will build the church. Our objective is to take care of the commands of Christ, which include soul winning, baptizing converts, and preaching and teaching truth. If attendance becomes our primary goal, we will sacrifice other commanded things in order to get and keep the crowd.

      Years ago, in the Russell Anderson Room at Hyles-Anderson College, Dr. John R. Rice said, Give me a hundred out soul winning on Thursday night, and I’ll give you a thousand in attendance on Sunday morning. Unfortunately, what has happened in America is that we have become so consumed with the thousand in attendance on Sunday that we have absolutely neglected the hundred out soul winning on Thursday.

      The following are some observations on developing the right philosophy on soul winning.

      Make Soul Winning the Most Important

      Activity in the Church

      We can participate in many activities in the church. We ought to pray while men are sleeping, so that we can work with men

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