pray, care, and share
relational evangelism strategy

This relational evangelism strategy that can be done in a six week time span or longer.

Prayer - 2 weeks

Make a list of 5-10 names of non-Christians that you know or would like to get to know and write them on an index card or sheet of paper. These people could be friends, classmates, or acquaintances who don't know Christ.

For two weeks, pray every day for the people you listed on your card.

• pray for them during your devotional time with the Lord
• partner with a friend and pray for each other's lists
• pray for your lists during small group time

Encourage others in your small group to do the same. This develops encouragement and accountability, and allows more students to be involved in praying for the friends.

Pray that God:

• will give you opportunities to share the gospel
• that hearts will be receptive
• the gospel will penetrate hard hearts

Resources

• Where Do I Start?
  help in coming up with your list of 5-10 people

• Top Ten List
  Help on coming up with a list of lost friends to pray for

Care

Over the next two weeks, look for opportunities to care for the needs of the people on your list. Simply asking questions and listening goes a long way. Maybe you could invite your non-Christian friend to do something with you. The event is not important, but the fact that you are investing your life in someone else is what matters.

Ideas

• have lunch with them
• go shopping together
• watch a ball game or go to a game on your campus
• get coffee or dinner out
• eat together in the cafeteria
• play video games
• watch a movie together in your room or apartment
• if appropriate, invite them to your small group

The goal is to deepen your relationship with your friend so that there is mutual trust and respect. It will allow you to communicate your love for them as a person before you share the gospel.

Continue to develop depth with your friends throughout the six weeks and after One Day of Faith.

Resources

• Developing Friendships of Integrity with Lost People

Share

The final two week period is designed to give you opportunities to share the gospel with your friends. Hopefully, a deeper relationship has been built, making discussion of spiritual issues less threatening to both parties.

Think through how you want to share the gospel with your friend and what tools you want to use (personal testimony, gospel tract, or other).

Have an evangelism training event at the beginning of the last two weeks to teach students in your movement how to share the gospel. This will give you and other students in your group confidence in sharing the message with their friends on One Day of Faith.

Resources

• Communicating Your Testimony
  Worksheet to help you write and communicate your testimony

• Five Clicks to Sharing Your Faith
  Interactive website that will help you prepare and communicate your personal testimony

• How to Initiate and Have a Spiritual Conversation file

• Hand To Hand
  An evangelism strategy to reach out to your friends. You can also use this strategy to train others.

• How to Introduce a Friend to Christ
  Have you ever been in a situation where you felt the time was right, the person was interested–but you just couldn’t think of what to say? This resource will prepare you to communicate the gospel easily and effectively.

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