Bouncing Back from Blunders
Proverbs 11:30 says, “He that wins souls is wise.” One of the benefits to sharing your faith is that it’s a continuing education. No matter how long one has been doing evangelism, you can always learn new ways to approach people and overcome objections. A soul-winner must also learn to rebound from mistakes made on the streets. One afternoon in Coon Rapids, Minnesota, I handed out tracts while running errands. As I was about to walk across a bridge back to the house I was staying at, I offered a tract to a man approaching me on his bicycle. Sometimes bike riders will snatch tracts out of my hand like a baton from a relay runner. Originally this man passed by me without taking the tract but then suddenly stopped. A second later, a woman riding closely behind crashed into him, fell onto a grassy area next to the sidewalk and started crying. At first I didn’t say anything as I was stunned by what just happened. Meanwhile, the ma...