Most Ridiculous Soul Winning Tactic

[Historian]

Soul winning has come up in a few threads, and it reminded me of this guy I used to know here in Asia. Sunday nights we're ride from way out of town back in to the subway. This guy would sometimes hitch a ride in our van. The ride was along dark country dirt roads for the first hour. There would often be people pedaling these "bike-trucks" along the side of the road, with family members riding in the little bed behind. So this guy would take these tract booklets (they had to be heavy enough to throw) and hurl them out the window as we passed, trying to hit the passengers of these vehicles in the head. When we asked him about it, he said "These people are so superstitious. They're all afraid of the dark, so I'm giving them something good to read in the dark! They'll get scared when it hits them on the head and they'll read it."

We called this "Terrorism Evangelism"


Looking forward to your stories...

[Darrell]

wow. that's crazy.

[supernova8610]

Ditto what Darrell said.

[TonyT]

"giving them something to read in the dark." Really? How'd that work out? Did he happen to lob some flashlights too?

[Historian]

(01-07-2011 12:04 AM)TonyT Wrote:  "giving them something to read in the dark." Really? How'd that work out? Did he happen to lob some flashlights too?

I know. That's why I used the term "ridiculous" my title. We asked him about that. He didn't have a good answer. I also told him that if I was superstitious and nervous about being out at night, and some big van full of foreign devils came roaring out the night and something was thrown at my head–I'd ritually burn it, not read it.

[hac84]

The use of fear and guilt to motivate the soulwinner. When I was in the Fisherman's Club at HAC, If our "team" had no one saved or baptized the previous week, we had to wear a rubber hot dog around our neck while the others barked like dogs.

[Jenni]

Once I was working at a camp near Lake Chetek in Wisconsin, and a preacher came who wanted to preach about Noah. It was junior week, so there were, like, third and fourth graders in the pews. He had all the camp staff go into the two side rooms next to the stage, and when he talked about Noah being in the ark and the rain starting to fall, etc. etc., he had us pound on the walls with our fists and shout, "Let us in! We believe you now! Let us in! We're dying!"

I did not see how the kids reacted (no windows in the side rooms), but if I had been in the pews, I would have been scared into salvation, even if I was already saved.

If any of you were present for that sermon, allow me to offer my apologies for acting like an idiot. I should have protested.

[Tony Mel]

My pet peeve has always been to ask a silly question in order to start the topic of evangelism.

For example-

Soulwinner: Hello there! What are you up to?
Unsaved: About to wash my car.
Soulwinner: Would you like to hear about the One who can wash you spotlessly clean?


It just sounds forced.

[hac84]

When I was in grade school/Jr.High I put tracts everywhere--payphones, in store merchandise (flower pots, clothing pockets, shoes, books, etc....) and on every car windshield at St.Bingo's Catholic Church. All the tracts looked like the 1958 model. I also wore a tie and carried a NT with me to the playground.

Jenni, do I know you? I went to that camp.

[Tony Mel]

Saint Bingo??