This document provides guidance for sharing the gospel with someone who is spiritually unaware or seeking. It outlines seven steps: 1) focus your heart on Christ; 2) pray for opportunities and passion to share faith; 3) share your testimony and life; 4) ask about their beliefs and answer questions respectfully; 5) share the core truths of the gospel; 6) pray for God to work in their heart; 7) respect their choice to accept or reject and continue showing Christ through actions. The goal is to help people know Christ and become disciples who make disciples.

1. SHARE
Part One
Sharing with someone
who is spiritually dead.

2. This Reproducible Process
•Is based on the example of Jesus
•Focuses on what to do
•Is a way to fulfill the Great
Commission

3. Discipleship
•Not a cut and dry, same message
fits all plan.
•Your message and actions must
correspond to the person’s spiritual
development.

4. The goal is to help
people know Christ and
grow to become a
disciple who makes
disciples.

9. Sharing the Gospel with
someone who is “spiritually
DEAD”
or a “seeker.”

10. 1. Set your heart fully and
completely on CHRIST. (1
Pet. 3:15a)

11. 2. Ask God to give you a
PASSION for people and to
provide opportunities to share
your FAITH.
(2 Pet. 3:9; 1 Pet. 3:15b)

12. 3. Share your testimony and
your LIFE.
•My life before I met Christ
•How I came to trust Christ
•How Christ has changed my life

13. Ask about what they BELIEVE and
answer their questions.
•Do you have any kind of spiritual
beliefs?
•Who do you think Jesus is?
•Do you believe in heaven or hell?
•If you died today, where do you think
you’d go?

14. Speak with RESPECT
•1 Peter 3:16
•Don’t argue!
•Convincing them is God’s job,
not yours.
•Have the attitude of Christ.

15. 4. Share the GOSPEL truth
A. God made us for a
relationship of love and
obedience with Him
B. Man didn’t trust God, but
chose his own way, rejecting
God.

16. Share the Gospel truth
C. All of us have turned away;
none of us fully trust and obey
Him.
D. Because God is holy, He can’t
ignore our rebellion. His
punishment is death.

17. Share the Gospel truth
E. Because God is loving, He has
provided a rescue plan in
Jesus. He offers us a chance
for a clean slate and a fresh
start if we trust in the person
and work of Jesus.

18. Share the Gospel truth
F. God gives us a choice: We can
keep going our own way or we
can turn and trust Jesus and
follow His way.

19. 5. Pray for God to work in
their HEART and mind. (1
Cor. 3:6-7)

20. 6. Respect the person’s
CHOICE to accept or reject
it.

21. 7. Show Christ in your
ACTIONS.

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