Thank You!

Thank You!

For including me in your work!

Thank You!


For doing good things!

Thank You!


For doing good things!

For wanting to increase the innumerable multitude!

This first session is conducted as a Bible Class for this period!


Your questions are welcome at any time!


Your questions are welcome at any time!

Questions stimulate the thoughts of other class members!

Most condensed scriptural authorization - Col 4:2-6

Col 4:5-6

5 Walk in wisdom toward those who are outside, redeeming the time. 6 Let your speech always be with grace, seasoned with salt, that you may know how you ought to answer each one. NKJV

Finding Wisdom –

By Praying - James 1:7

James 1:5-8

5 If any of you lacks wisdom, let him ask of God, who gives to all liberally and without reproach, and it will be given to him. 6 But let him ask in faith, with no doubting, for he who doubts is like a wave of the sea driven and tossed by the wind. 7 For let not that man suppose that he will receive anything from the Lord; 8 he is a double-minded man, unstable in all his ways. NKJV

Finding Wisdom

By Listening to Her Proverbs 1

Prov 1:20-21

20 Wisdom calls aloud outside;She raises her voice in the open

squares. 21 She cries out in the chief concourses,

At the openings of the gates in the city

NKJV

Prov 1:21-23

She speaks her words: 22 'How long, you simple ones, will you love simplicity?For scorners delight in their scorning,And fools hate knowledge. 23 Turn at my rebuke;Surely I will pour out my spirit on you;I will make my words known to you. NKJV

Prov 1:24-25

24 Because I have called and you refused,

I have stretched out my hand and no one regarded,

25 Because you disdained all my counsel,

And would have none of my rebuke, NKJV

Prov 1:26-27

26 I also will laugh at your calamity;I will mock when your terror comes,

27 When your terror comes like a storm,And your destruction comes like a

whirlwind,When distress and anguish come upon

you.

NKJV

Prov 1:28-29

28 "Then they will call on me, but I will not answer;

They will seek me diligently, but they will not find me.

29 Because they hated knowledgeAnd did not choose the fear of the

Lord, NKJV

Prov 1:30-31

30 They would have none of my counsel

And despised my every rebuke. 31 Therefore they shall eat the fruit

of their own way,And be filled to the full with their own

fancies. NKJV

Prov 1:32-33

32 For the turning away of the simple will slay them,

And the complacency of fools will destroy them;

33 But whoever listens to me will dwell safely,

And will be secure, without fear of evil." NKJV

Prov 2:10-11

10 When wisdom enters your heart,And knowledge is pleasant to your

soul, 11 Discretion will preserve you;Understanding will keep you,

NKJV

Proverbs 8 Prov 8:1-3

8 Does not wisdom cry out,And understanding lift up her voice? 2 She takes her stand on the top of the high hill,Beside the way, where the paths meet. 3 She cries out by the gates, at the entry of the city,At the entrance of the doors: NKJV

Prov 8:4-5

4 "To you, O men, I call,And my voice is to the sons of men. 5 O you simple ones, understand prudence,And you fools, be of an understanding heart. NKJV

Prov 8:6-7

6 Listen, for I will speak of excellent things,And from the opening of my lips will come right things; 7 For my mouth will speak truth;Wickedness is an abomination to my lips. NKJV

Prov 8:17

17 I love those who love me,And those who seek me diligently will find me.

NKJV

Seek WisdomPray for Wisdom

Listen

How have things changed since my grandfather’s world, 75 – 100

years ago?

Reason This Question Is Necessary

You need to know what has changed and why it has changed in order to understand what we

need to do now!

In One Lifetime

There Have Been Three Different Worlds

One Life – Three Worlds


Rural

In 190090% of Americans were farming



In 20111 million people in the world leave farms to go to a city every week

Consider how city people are so very different from farmers


RuralSuburban


RuralSuburban

Urban

How have people changed by living under very different

conditions?

How are people in big cities different from rural people?

Reasons These Questions Are Necessary

Great Changes in Our Lifetime

Reasons These Questions Are Necessary

Great Changes in Our LifetimeWe Are to Be Wise Col. 4:5

Prosperity

ProsperityTransportation

ProsperityTransportationCommunication


Size of Personal Neighborhood


Size of Personal NeighborhoodMany Complex Choices

How are people different today?

What are city dwellers like?

What Then Are OurResponses To Urban People

Three Week Meetings

Three Week MeetingsTwo Week Meetings


One Week w/ “2 A Days”

Did any “farming centered” congregation ever have a

Gospel Meeting during “planting” or “harvesting”?

Why Not?


One Week w/ “2 A Days”Ten Night Chart Study



Five Night Film Strip Lesson

Does this mean that people can’t be taught today?

Does this mean that people can’t be taught today?

No – Just not on the same time frame!

BusyUrban

BusyUrban

Skeptical



Five Night Film Strip Lesson Teaching When They Visit



Five Night Film Strip Lesson Teaching When They VisitPrivate Study When Ready

BusyUrban

SkepticalDon’t Know

BusyUrban


Constant Changes

BusyUrban


Constant ChangesMany Choices Must Be Made

Beginning Functions In Current Evangelistic Efforts

Learning


Understanding

Applying Wisdom

Planning

Planning

Type of Event

Planning

Type of EventPurpose

Planning


Possibilities

Planning


PossibilitiesGoals

Planning


PossibilitiesGoals

Preparation Time


PlanningCreating Interest, Motivation


PlanningCreating Interest, Motivation

Place of Great Materials


PlanningBuilding Interest, Motivation

Place of Great MaterialsSecret of Urban Noise

The Power of Noise!

When there are 50 choices, what urbanites hear from their associates about a choice they

have to make is the most important information to them!


PlanningBuilding Interest, Motivation

Place of Great MaterialsSecret of Urban Noise

Power of Recommendations

You are the most knowledgeable “Religious Specialist” in many of your associates lives but when you don’t say anything, it is all

lost!

What have you recommended lately?

We could have the greatest impact with our “Noise” but

Satan has intimidated us into a terrible silence!

What is our greatest opportunity?

Gentle Nudges By the Godly on Skeptical People

John 4:5-6

5 So He came to a city of Samaria which is called Sychar, near the plot of ground that Jacob gave to his son Joseph. 6 Now Jacob's well was there. Jesus therefore, being wearied from His journey, sat thus by the well. It was about the sixth hour. NKJV

John 4:7-8 The Warm Bridge

7 A woman of Samaria came to draw water. Jesus said to her, "Give Me a drink." 8 For His disciples had gone away into the city to buy food.

NKJV

John 4:9

9 Then the woman of Samaria said to Him, "How is it that You, being a Jew, ask a drink from me, a Samaritan woman?" For Jews have no dealings with Samaritans. NKJV

John 4:10

10 Jesus answered and said to her, "If you knew the gift of God, and who it is who says to you, 'Give Me a drink,' you would have asked Him, and He would have given you living water.“ NKJV

John 4:11-12

11 The woman said to Him, "Sir, You have nothing to draw with, and the well is deep. Where then do You get that living water? 12 Are You greater than our father Jacob, who gave us the well, and drank from it himself, as well as his sons and his livestock?" NKJV

John 4:13-14

13 Jesus answered and said to her, "Whoever drinks of this water will thirst again, 14 but whoever drinks of the water that I shall give him will never thirst. But the water that I shall give him will become in him a fountain of water springing up into everlasting life." NKJV

John 4:15-17

15 The woman said to Him, "Sir, give me this water, that I may not thirst, nor come here to draw."

16 Jesus said to her, "Go, call your husband, and come here."

17 The woman answered and said, "I have no husband.“ NKJV

John 4:17-20

Jesus said to her, "You have well said, 'I have no husband,' 18 for you have had five husbands, and the one whom you now have is not your husband; in that you spoke truly."

19 The woman said to Him, "Sir, I perceive that You are a prophet. 20 Our fathers worshiped on this mountain, and you Jews say that in Jerusalem is the place where one ought to worship." NKJV

John 4:21

21 Jesus said to her, "Woman, believe Me, the hour is coming when you will neither on this mountain, nor in Jerusalem, worship the Father.

NKJV

John 4:21-2422 You worship what you do not know; we know what we worship, for salvation is of the Jews. 23 But the hour is coming, and now is, when the true worshipers will worship the Father in spirit and truth; for the Father is seeking such to worship Him. 24 God is Spirit, and those who worship Him must worship in spirit and truth." NKJV

John 4:25-26

25 The woman said to Him, "I know that Messiah is coming" (who is called Christ). "When He comes, He will tell us all things."

26 Jesus said to her, "I who speak to you am He." NKJV

John 4:27

27 And at this point His disciples came, and they marveled that He talked with a woman; yet no one said, "What do You seek?" or, "Why are You talking with her?"

NKJV

John 4:28-30

28 The woman then left her waterpot, went her way into the city, and said to the men, 29 "Come, see a Man who told me all things that I ever did. Could this be the Christ?" 30 Then they went out of the city and came to Him. NKJV

John 4:39-41

39 And many of the Samaritans of that city believed in Him because of the word of the woman who testified, "He told me all that I ever did." 40 So when the Samaritans had come to Him, they urged Him to stay with them; and He stayed there two days. 41 And many more believed because of His own word.

NKJV

John 4:42

42 Then they said to the woman, "Now we believe, not because of what you said, for we ourselves have heard Him and we know that this is indeed the Christ, the Savior of the world." NKJV

A Great Objective Today

Developing the courtesy and the skill of the gentle touch

But Jesus left them!

Understanding the priority of the greater opportunity!

I have illustrated the “Urban Process”

Are there alternative approaches?

Back to the Gospel Meeting?

Or the Cottage Meeting?

Find someone with time and motivation to study right now?


Prisoners


PrisonersDoor Knocking (to find people who are at home with time)


PrisonersDoor Knocking (to find people who are at home with time)

Emigrants

Who did Jesus work with mainly?

Who are the greatest opportunities?

Col 4:5-6

5 Conduct yourselves wisely toward outsiders, making the best use of the time.

ESV

Col 4:5

5 Walk in wisdom toward those who are outside, redeeming the time.

NKJV

How have things changed since my grandfather’s world in

Lawrenceburg, TN, 95 years ago?

The power of the right prospect!


The power of a thoughtful action and a purple flower



The power of even a blunt inviter



The power of even a blunt inviter

The power of multiple invitations

Thank You!

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