Geoffrey's Notebook

10 Useful Witnesses Verses (*Note: question received via text - thought I'd post more details here.) For sharing the good news you should find some various sections to either explain or work with someone where they are. They may be dealing with the vanity of the world and you could use most of Ecclesiastes, or they may simply have the question, What is the good news? and you could use Romans 1:1-4 or 1 Cor 15:1-6. Wherever the person is, and with whatever materials you can remember, the Holy Spirit will lead with some appropriate passages and concepts to work from.  However, it's helpful to have some specific verses memorized for when it comes time to lead someone through the threshold of salvation. Those would be the first ones I'd memorize so that way you could at least help someone who asks the question, What must I do to be saved? Here are 10 of those that I'd begin with. They cover a variety of actions that help with believing for salvation: 1. Romans 10:9 Confess ...

Question:  What does it mean in Proverbs when it talks about winning souls? How were souls won in that day?  *sent via email  Geoffrey's Notes: We use this term soul-winning now to talk about evangelism, and we've borrowed it from Proverbs 11:30: The fruit of the righteous is a tree of life; and the wise winneth souls. For example, C.H. Spurgeon has an excellent book called The Soul Winner  ( free on Kindle ), which grabs the title from this Scripture. Though it's a borrowed phrase, it is a good use of it. In our time, when we say soul-winning, we mean to help someone believe on the Lord Jesus and be saved. They are won  or gained for the kingdom or at least for eternity. Those souls,  people, are saved. In the time before the cross, what did this mean? "... the wise winneth souls" or "he that is wise wins souls." Today someone may be won for eternity with full assurance of heaven. But at that time, if you helped someone through the wisd...