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    Soul Winning and...

    By Bob Gray, Sr

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    Dr. Gray has been an aggressive soulwinner for 38 years. He conducted 29 National Soul Winning Clinics with thousands attending. This book will help answer critics of personal soul winning.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherBob Gray, Sr
    Release dateAug 14, 2010
    ISBN9781452368412
    Soul Winning and...
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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 and... - Bob Gray, Sr

      Soul Winning

      And…

      By Dr. Bob Gray

      Copyright Bob Gray, Sr 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

      Soul Winning and the Joy Issue

      Soul Winning and the Motives Issue

      Soul Winning and Repentance

      Soul Winning and the Miracles Issue

      Soul and the Joy Issue

      "I am the true vine, and my Father is the husbandman.

      Every branch in me that beareth not fruit he taketh away: and every branch that beareth fruit, he purgeth it, that it may bring forth more fruit.

      Now ye are clean through the word which I have spoken unto you.

      Abide in me, and I in you. As the branch cannot bear fruit of itself, except it abide in the vine; no more can ye, except ye abide in me.

      I am the vine, ye are the branches: He that abideth in me, and I in him, the same bringeth forth much fruit: for without me ye can do nothing.

      If a man abide not in me, he is cast forth as a branch, and is withered; and men gather them, and cast them into the fire, and they are burned.

      If ye abide in me, and my words abide in you, ye shall ask what ye will, and it shall be done unto you.

      Herein is my Father glorified, that ye bear much fruit; so shall ye be my disciples.

      As the Father hath loved me, so have I loved you: continue ye in my love.

      If ye keep my commandments, ye shall abide in my love; even as I have kept my Father’s commandments, and abide in his love.

      These things have I spoken unto you, that my joy might remain in you, and that your joy might be full." –John 15:1-11

      Americans spend millions of dollars a year trying to buy joy, only to find that joy is not for sale. Americans spend millions of dollars a year trying to overcome depression, only to find that money cannot buy happiness. Americans spend billions of dollars a year on entertainment ($6.4 billion on movies alone in 1997), only to find a short-term solution for a long-term problem. Christians are spending millions of dollars a year on contemporary Christian music, only to find their appetites for the world’s music heightened. Christians are spending millions of dollars a year on Christian self-help books, only to find that the Christian psychologists and the power-of-positive-thinking preachers do not have the answer.

      A lost man can never have true joy because he does not have Christ. That is why he has devised so many different amusements. He must have something to occupy his time and to keep his mind off the real problem; the fact that he is lost and is on his way to Hell. Far too often Christians think they must endure the Christian life while a lost person is having a wonderful time. What an unfortunate attitude. The truth is, a lost person had better live it up now because this is the only Heaven he will ever have. On the other hand, for a Christian, this life is the only Hell he will ever have to experience.

      Still, a Christian can have joy if he desires to be joyous. God so desires His children to have joy that He provided a way for us to obtain it. From the outset, however, we must realize there are some common misconceptions about how to obtain joy. For example, joy does not come from reading a psychiatrist’s book. Neither does it come from knowing your spiritual temperament, nor by reading books on the power of positive thinking. Joy comes from God.

      The Bible is a book of prescriptions. Just as a physician prescribes a specific remedy for a specific ailment, God’s Word has a prescription for everything that ails a child of God. Everything in life involves cause and effect. You cannot have the effect—in this case, joy—without the proper cause. We need to discover, from the Bible, what causes joy. I am often asked how I can joke around and be happy all of the time. Many people want to know how I am able to stay on topside. I stay on topside by applying the Bible prescription for joy.

      We sing, "If

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