Bezeugen Blast - Volume 3, Number 34

Evangelism Season

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Evangelism Season

3:16

Life Conversations

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Evangelism in tthe New Testament

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Volume 3, Number 34

August 26, 2009

Greetings!
In my continued efforts to share the Gospel with the City of Carrollton, I covered 49 more houses this weekend. In the process I had 11 one on one conversations and gathered seven more prayer requests. We also filled the cart again with donated food for Metro Crest Social Services. This brings the totals to 195 houses reached, 53 one on ones and 33 prayer request gathered. Please continue to pray for the efforts of reaching the City of Carrollton for Christ.

Todd and I were able to meet for lunch at the mall on Monday. We had some good witnessing encounters, especially with Cedric and Charlie. Cedric was very receptive to the Gospel. Please pray for him to repent and trust Christ.

I hope you will enjoy reading the rest of the newsletter to catch the highlights of what is going on.

We have a new Gospel tract that will be going out in the September tract club mailing. If you are not already a member of the Bezeugen Tract Club, why not enroll online today. If you are a member, please invite your friends to join!

Evangelism Season

In Season and
Out of Season

The fall is an exciting time of year. There are many sports fans (me included) that eagerly await the start of football season. On the next three weekends we will see the kick off first of the High School season, then of the college season and finally of the NFL season. People arrange their schedules, travel to games and spend hundreds of dollars on tickets and souvenirs. They organize fantasy leagues so they can compete against their friends. In short, they prepare for football above all else.

Statistics say that less than TWO PERCENT of professing Christians share their faith regularly. It got me to thinking: "what if there were an Evangelism season?"

Please read the rest of the article on our BLOG!

3:16

Genesis 3:16
In my first post on this subject, we looked at John 3:16. John 3:16 is perhaps the best known verse in all of the scripture. That verse is known by believers and unbelievers alike. It is the central theme of the Bible. That God loved man so much that He sent His only son to die for the sin of the world. I've looked at verse 3:16 in other books of the Bible as well as the surrounding verses to read them in context. As I've studied this, I've seen some amazing consistency throughout the scripture. God's Word is repetitive enough, that if a man will seek Him, he will find Him. So let's go to the beginning of the Bible and look at the 3:16 of Genesis.

Please read the rest of the article on the blog.

Life Conversations Call

Cross Pollination Ministries
My friend Brad Aldrich was instrumental in my learning to witness. In fact, the first time I went to a mall to witness was with him to train about 20 students from the University of Nebraska. Brad has recently started a program called Life Conversations Calls. On these calls, up to six people call in to a conference call bridge. They are then able to ask questions of Brad and role play with him to practice witnessing. This is a great opportunity to get some one on one training. The calls will take place next Tuesday, September 1st at the following times (all Central time zone so adjust for your area of the country):

10:00 am
11:00 am
12:30 pm
1:30 pm
2:30 pm
3:30 pm
4:30 pm
5:30 pm
7:30 pm
8:30 pm
9:30 pm
10:30 pm

Dial in number: 605-475-4825
Access code: 515794

Each call lasts for 30 minutes. You can check out a two minute video introduction to the Life Conversations Calls on the Cross Pollinations Ministries website.

Enjoy! Tell Brad that Carl sent you!

Basic Evangelism Training Seminar

2009 Schedule

Statistics say that less than two percent of professing Christians share their faith regularly. Why? As we have polled people the overwhelming answer is FEAR! Some people are afraid that they don't know what to say. Some are afraid that they will be asked a question they don't know the answer too. Some are afraid of embarrassment. We can help!

The Basic Evangelism Training Seminar is a two hour seminar to provide effective and Biblical training to show you in a practical way how to share your faith in Jesus. The next scheduled session is tomorrow night in Pilot Point. Please come join us. The following dates are scheduled for the remainder of 2009:

August 27 - Pilot Point
September 17 - Carrollton
October 15 - Pilot Point
November 19 - Carrollton
December 17 - Pilot Point

Each session is scheduled for 7-9PM. The Pilot Point sessions are held at the Hot Grill Steak house. Join us 30 minutes in advance and have dinner with us!

In addition to these dates, we are available to schedule a session at your church, Bible study, small group, house, retreat, etc. For more information, including links to directions to the locations and times, please see the Bezeugen web site. I hope to see you at a seminar this fall!

Evangelism in the New Testament

A Plea for Biblically Relevant Evangelism
Jon Speed has written an excellent book on Evangelism in the New Testament. The second printing has just come out. And we have a fresh supply of the books that we'd like to send you for FREE! All we ask is that 1) you have not already received this book from us, 2) you will read it, 3) if you like it you will pass it on to your pastor or a member of your elder board and 4) if you don't like it you will pay the postage to mail it back to us so that we can give it to someone else who will enjoy it. If you are interested, please email me your address. For book details see One Million Tracts.

Prayer Requests
We appreciate your prayers Pray for wisdom and strength in how to reach Carrollton, TX with the Gospel. Pray for plans for to Duane Seaberg visit Dallas! Pray for Basic Evangelism Training Seminar dates for the rest of 2009 Pray for scheduling of one more movie night this year. Pray for revival in the church.

Bezeugen is on YouTube
New videos online Please check out our videos on YouTube. On the YouTube page you can subscribe to the Bezeugen videos and receive an email every time we post a new one! Don Wharton has a wonderful song about Evangelism called If You Don't Go. Don was gracious enough to give me permission to use the song to make a video. The video is online. Please check it out.

Thank you for your support and partnership in the Gospel.

Please remember that we have Free Evangelism Resources available for you on our web site. Choose from a number of books and DVDs.

Please use the link at the bottom of this email to forward this email to your friends and ask them to subscribe to the Bezeugen Blast!

God Bless,

Carl Kalbfleisch
Bezeugen Ministries

Witnessing Events
and Calendar

Monday's and Thursday's at lunch: witnessing at Valley View Mall, Galleria Mall, Gravevine Mills Mall, Irving Mall or Brookhaven College. If you would like to join us, please contact me for the specific location and time for a given day.

August 27 - Basic Evangelism Training Seminar, Pilot Point, 7-9PM

August 29 - Carrollton for Christ. We will be witnessing door to door in Carrollton on Saturday afternoon. Time is TBD. Contact me for more details.

August 29 - TLC Ministries will be witnessing and doing open air at the Cowboys pre-season football game. We hope to join them there. TLC will arrive at the stadium in Arlington around 4PM. Please let me know if you plan to attend.

August 30 - Project Ezra at Arbor Hills Nature Preserve, Plano, TX. 10-10:45 AM.

September 5 - Carrollton for Christ - AM. Please RSVP for details if you plan to join us.

September 5 - witnessing and open air at Oklahoma-BYU game in Arlington, TX. We will arrive in Arlington at 3PM and witness and open air preach until kickoff at 6PM. If you would like to ride with us from Carrollton, please let me know. We will leave Carrollton at 2PM and be back at approximately 7:30PM. If you are planning to meet us there please let me know so we can meet you.

September 6 - Project Ezra at Arbor Hills Nature Preserve, Plano, TX. 10-10:45 AM.

September 12 - witnessing and open air at Oklahoma-Idaho State game in Norman, OK. This game is a 6PM kickoff. Plan to meet at the Greek House in Norman at 2:30 and have a sandwich. Then head over to campus and do open air, one on one and tract distribution. Please let me know if you can attend so we can look for you at the Greek House.

September 17 - Basic Evangelism Training Seminar in Carrollton from 7-9PM

We appreciate your prayers. Please come join us!!

We appreciate your prayers. Please come join us!!

See all witnessing events: www.bezeugen.org/events/

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