0078. Plan in Soul-Winning
Plan in Soul-Winning
"Then cometh He to a city of Samaria, which is called Sychar, near to the parcel of ground that Jacob gave to his son Joseph.
"Now Jacob’s well was there. Jesus therefore, being wearied with His journey, sat thus on the well: and it was about the sixth hour.
"There cometh a woman of Samaria to draw water: Jesus saith unto her, Give Me to drink" (Joh_4:5-7).
The best plan in soul-winning is personal work,–that is, the "one by one" method of reaching the lost. Christ gave notice to the disciples, "I must needs go through Samaria". There lies back of this "must needs", the vision of a lost woman, a sinner, who surely possessed a broken heart and a contrite spirit. What she needed was the personal touch of Christ. And so the scene is given. There is Christ sitting, wearied, at the well curb, talking salvation to the woman from Sychar.
It is the hand-picked fruit that is the marketable fruit. We need to press the importance of personal work. Today the unsaved seem to be staying away from the churches, more than ever before. If we are to win them, it must be by going to them, where they are, and by going to them one by one.
Even if the unsaved attend the church they often need the personal word to seal the preacher’s testimony. There may be some difficulty in the way, or there may be needed just the helpful aid of some interested friend to complete the work which has begun within their life.
The eunuch had been to Jerusalem for to worship, and was returning without the longed-for peace of soul. The Holy Spirit saw his plight and quickly summoned Philip to speed along the desert road toward Gaza. Thus Philip overtook the eunuch, and found him reading in the Prophet of Isaiah, concerning the Cross of Christ. To Philip’s query of "Understandest thou what thou readest"? the eunuch replied: "How can I, except some man should guide me"?
This is ever true. The great need of the lost man is the helping hand of some one who knows the way of life and who can explain the message of the Cross. May God help us to be equipped and ready for personal work.
Autor: R.E. NEIGHBOUR