The Gospel
A Script That's Not a Script
Getting the Gospel in Your Head
Memorizing a Gospel Presentation
This page is for Christians who are striving to learn to share the gospel with others. The message on the "An Earful" page.
Keep in mind that the most important thing is to simply get the gospel message in people’s ears. God will get it to their heart.
Memorizing take work and effort - mostly repetition.
Read through the "An Earful" page at least once a day until you have it down cold. You likely won’t ever “recite” it word for word, but this will help you to be absolutely solid on the flow of the gospel and give you confidence to share it with others.
Week 1 - Read through the “God’s Glory” verses several times daily until they’re memorized.
Week 2 - Memorize the “My Sin,” verses.
Week 3 - Memorize the “God’s Provision” verses.
Week 4 - Memorize the “My Salvation” verses.
If you do this, within a month you’ll have it down.
Both the Script and the verses are important. We’re saved throuth the Word of God, and the hope is that our explanation/script is helpful in understanding the Gospel message.
It’s perfectly acceptable to use a “cheat sheet.” You can use this website as a cheat sheet, something you’ve written down, a series of “turn to page ___” in your Bible with verses highlighted, a tract, or some other memory aid. The goal is to be able to share anytime, anywhere, but as you work toward that goal, always feel free to use whatever helps or aids that work for you.
The best way to practice is to simply ask a brother or sister at your church if you could practice the gospel by sharing it with them, or better yet, their kids. You could also ask a non-Christian friend if they would mind helping you memorize by listening. That's a win-win!
Starting Conversations
How do you “break the ice?” How can you move a conversation from generic chit-chat to the gospel?
There will rarely be a gentle path that naturally gets to the gospel unless the gospel is frequently a topic you discuss. The more you reguarly discuss the details and aspects of the gospel with others, the more naturally you’ll be able to steer the conversation to the gospel.
If you discuss the gospel, specifically the four elements on the "An Earful" page, with others often, you'll grow in your ability to both share and discuss it.
Ultimately, you simply need to just turn the corner. Simply ask a question. Some examples are:
• Do you go to church anywhere?
• Do you believe in Jesus? What church do you to to?
• Hey, at church this Sunday, my pastor said....
What do you think about that?
• How are things going in your life spiritually?
• Do you consider yourself a spiritual person?
• In your opinion, what does it take to go to heaven?
You could also, at any time, ask, “have you heard the good news?”
The answer is simple: Jesus solved the problem of sin when He died on the cross.. then proceed to share the rest.
Other Practical Evangelism Ideas
Be intentional to be ready to share the hope in you!
• Carry tracts with you ($1,000,000 bills, “Fooled” cards, etc.)
• Read through the list of Conversation starters below.
• What other creative things can you do to:
Start/transition into an evangelistic conversation?
Get the gospel in their ears?
• Plan to participate in evangelistic events & activities.
• Simply invite them to come to church with you.
• Ask “Hey! Have you heard the good news?”
• Simply ask if you can share the gospel with them?
• Say, “I’m learning to share the gospel with others, would you mind if I practiced by sharing it with you?”
• Ask: “Hey, can I ask you a question? In your opinion, what does it take for someone to go to heaven?” Then, if you don’t get a good answer, reply, “cool, would you mind if I took a couple minutes to explain how the Bible answers that question?” Then share!
At the end of the day - prayer and action are the keys. You really do just have to do it (scary though it sometimes can be).
You can always text them a gospel link:
https://gospelears.com (this website's home page)
https://agameyoucantwin.com (our companion website)
Conversation Questions
GOAL: Get the gospel in their ears.
With each of these questions - after genuinely listening to their answer, it’s only natural to follow up with how you’d answer the question. Think through how to transition into the gospel as quickly as possible. Additionally, check out “The One Minute Gospel” at the very bottom of this blog.
• Where are you in your spiritual pilgrimage? (Follow with your answer)
• In your opinion, how does someone become a Christian? (Can I share with you how the Bible answers that question?)
• What single thing would you like to make absolutely certain you do, if at all possible, during your lifetime?
• Do you know anyone who is a workaholic? Is that OK? Why/Why not?
• If you could be anyone at any point of history, who would you be & why?
• What are you reading that is not an assignment or required by your work?
• Do you think you’ll go to heaven when you die? Why/Why not?
• What are you doing to grow/improve yourself personally?
• How would you define who/what God is?
• How would you describe your father and his impact on your life?
• Do you have a mentor? Tell me about his/her impact on your life.
• What would you say is the most unusual/strange thing about you?
• What is your greatest strength?
• How do you deal with it when truly difficult things happen to you or your friends and family?
• What things in have happened in your life to convince you God does or doesn’t exist?
• What do you consider to be two major turning points in your life?
• Do you have a fundamental truth in your life that serves as the foundation for everything?
• Who that you know personally has made the biggest impact on your life?
• How would you describe your mother and the impact she has had on your life?
• In your opinion, who was/is Jesus Christ?
• If you could know God personally, would you want to? Why/Why not?
• If you could ask God one question and He would answer audibly, what would you ask Him?
• If you were to inherit a million dollars today, and couldn’t spend it on yourself, what would you do with it and why?
• How would you describe your perception of who Jesus is?
• What is your spiritual background?
• Have you ever read the Bible?
• Have your views on religion changed since high school? How?
• Do you think there’s a difference between generic Christianity and Biblical Christianity? What is it?
• What is your philosophy of life based on?
• Do you think Christianity is relevant to your life? Why/Why not?
• If Jesus was who He claimed to be, how would that affect your life?
• What’s your ultimate goal in life?
• What is it that prevents you from trusting in Jesus? If that could be resolved, would you follow Him?
The key here is to begin conversations really listen, then strive to guide them to a right understanding of the gospel.
Remember - the goal is get the gospel in their ears.
