Comments on: High School Evangelism (Part 1) http://benbartosik.wordpress.com/2008/03/04/high-school-evangelism-part-1/ The thoughts of a youth ministry intern on God, faith, love, and life. Wed, 19 Aug 2009 04:00:49 +0000 http://wordpress.com/ hourly 1 By: mantecanaut http://benbartosik.wordpress.com/2008/03/04/high-school-evangelism-part-1/#comment-79 mantecanaut Wed, 05 Mar 2008 21:06:53 +0000 http://benbartosik.wordpress.com/?p=109#comment-79 Hmm,so what you're saying is: "With all the religious bigotry and violence in the world,what we need is more indoctrination of kids into a bronze age tribal cult." Well done guys,its the 21st century,but lets keep thinking like its the 1st century yeah? Hmm,so what you’re saying is: “With all the religious bigotry and violence in the world,what we need is more indoctrination of kids into a bronze age tribal cult.”
Well done guys,its the 21st century,but lets keep thinking like its the 1st century yeah?

]]> By: Dave http://benbartosik.wordpress.com/2008/03/04/high-school-evangelism-part-1/#comment-78 Dave Wed, 05 Mar 2008 14:49:52 +0000 http://benbartosik.wordpress.com/?p=109#comment-78 Hey Ben you got some great thoughts on a very practical topic. After thinking about how i felt at that stage in my life, i think that what you wrote about just trying to survive socially unscathed is exactly where my mind was at the time. And it even extended into my university years. One of the things that got me past that in university was realizing that i was actually living in disobedience to the Word (Matt 28:16-20 "...go and make disciples...") . How could i call myself a Christian (ie. a follower of Christ) and not really follow him, or trust his words enough to do them. So realizing my own hypocrisy helped me to change that. Another thing that really helped too was training in evangelism. After coming into University i joined Campus Crusade for Christ. They offered a lot of different chances for training in evangelism. Before receiving training, i knew my own faith but had a really hard to expressing it clearly. Afterwards it was still hard, but i had a better understanding of how to clearly communicate the Gospel. While in high school, i actually cannot remember i time where i was directly taught how to share my faith. So two important things in getting me out to share my faith were first understanding the authority of the word and commands of Christ and then being trained in how to go about doing it. Hey Ben you got some great thoughts on a very practical topic.

After thinking about how i felt at that stage in my life, i think that what you wrote about just trying to survive socially unscathed is exactly where my mind was at the time. And it even extended into my university years.

One of the things that got me past that in university was realizing that i was actually living in disobedience to the Word (Matt 28:16-20 “…go and make disciples…”) . How could i call myself a Christian (ie. a follower of Christ) and not really follow him, or trust his words enough to do them. So realizing my own hypocrisy helped me to change that.

Another thing that really helped too was training in evangelism. After coming into University i joined Campus Crusade for Christ. They offered a lot of different chances for training in evangelism. Before receiving training, i knew my own faith but had a really hard to expressing it clearly. Afterwards it was still hard, but i had a better understanding of how to clearly communicate the Gospel. While in high school, i actually cannot remember i time where i was directly taught how to share my faith.

So two important things in getting me out to share my faith were first understanding the authority of the word and commands of Christ and then being trained in how to go about doing it.

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