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    Turning Everyday Conversations into Gospel Conversations
    Turning Everyday Conversations into Gospel Conversations
    Turning Everyday Conversations into Gospel Conversations
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    Turning Everyday Conversations into Gospel Conversations

    By Jimmy Scroggins, Steve Wright and Bennett Leslee

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    We live in a broken world. And the gospel is how God puts broken people back together again. Once we repent and believe in Jesus, God’s Spirit helps us recover and pursue His design. God is the one who created the world and every human being in it. Authors Jimmy Scroggins and Steve Wright outline a reproducible method of sharing the gospel that has been tested in the real world. Turning Everyday Conversations Into Gospel Conversations is a simple strategy to train new and seasoned believers to join God in His reconciliation work.  Turning Everyday Conversations Into Gospel Conversations equips believers to use the innovative "3 Circles," a user-friendly evangelistic tool for a new generation. Scroggins and Wright train readers to incorporate the biblical metanarrative, as well as our own personal stories, to tell the good news that Jesus has made a way out of the broken places we find ourselves. Churches around the world are training people to share the gospel using this method. It has proven appeal across generations and cultures. They've heard stories about an 8-year-old boy leading his 26-year-old cousin to repent and believe in Jesus and a 70-plus-year-old church member, who had never before shared his faith, leading his Spanish-speaking neighbor to Christ. It’s been used to train the Mixtec in Mexico, Maasai Warriors in Kenya, and prisoners in America. It’s been presented on napkins, in concrete, in the sand, and using tortillas. The 3 Circles work, and this book will train you and your church members to use it. It doesn’t matter if you have been a Christian for decades or days, you can learn to do what God asks us to do—to make His appeal to others through us (2 Cor. 5:20). This short training manual will empower and inspire millions of Christians to turn hundreds of millions of everyday conversations into gospel conversations.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherBH Publishing Group
    Release dateNov 1, 2016
    ISBN9781462747856
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      Turning Everyday Conversations into Gospel Conversations - Jimmy Scroggins

      The time is now for us to get serious about training Christians to seize everyday opportunities to spread the gospel. This book puts us well on our way to doing just that. I recommend it to anyone who wants to obey Jesus’ command to ‘go and make disciples.’

      —Daniel L. Akin, president, Southeastern Baptist Theological Seminary

      I applaud Jimmy and Steve for adapting principles that have started multiplying movements around the world to their South Florida context. I would encourage any Christian who cares about spreading the gospel to read this book, learn from it, and develop a strategy for reaching their city, county, and state.

      —Ying Kai, founder of T4T Global Missions, church planter and pastor, author of T4T: A Discipleship ReRevolution

      Most Christians understand that Jesus has commanded us to carry the gospel to those who don’t yet know Him. But far too many Christians can’t imagine how to have those conversations without feeling like a salesman or a cult leader. In this book, Jimmy Scroggins and Steve Wright show the way with practical wisdom. This could light a fire under your personal witness or under the evangelism of your church or ministry.

      —Russell D. Moore, PhD, president, Ethics & Religious Liberty Commission

      I wholeheartedly recommend this book to any pastor or church leader who is interested in seeing the Holy Spirit do a work in their community. I have seen firsthand how the multiplying principles laid out here work. I have also seen firsthand how reproducing and reproducible the 3 Circles is as a gospeling tool. If people put into practice what they read here, I think we will see more and more Americans repent and believe in Jesus. And that fires me up!

      —Jeff Sundell, director of US Strategies, e3 Partners, Romans 15:23, #NoPlaceLeft

      Copyright © 2016 by Family Church

      All rights reserved.

      Printed in the United States of America

      978-1-4627-4784-9

      Published by B&H Publishing Group

      Nashville, Tennessee

      Dewey Decimal Classification: 248.5

      Subject Heading: WITNESSING \ GOSPEL \ CHRISTIAN LIFE

      Unless otherwise noted, all Scripture quotations are taken from the Holman Christian Standard Bible®, copyright © 1999, 2000, 2002, 2003, 2009 by Holman Bible Publishers. Used by permission. Holman Christian Standard Bible®, Holman CSB®, and HCSB® are federally registered trademarks of Holman Bible Publishers.

      Scriptures designated (

      esv

      ), are taken from the English Standard Version, © 2001 by Crossway, a publishing ministry of Good News Publishers. ESV Text Edition: 2011.

      Scriptures designated (NIV) are taken from the Holy Bible, New International, Version, NIV, © 1973, 1978, 1984, 2011 by Biblica, Inc.

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      Acknowledgments

      We are thankful that someone took the time to share the gospel with us. Our lives, our families, and our eternity all look different because of gospel conversations. As pastors, we have sought to personally share this amazing good news that has so radically changed our lives. We are grateful to God for the power of the resurrection.

      We also want to thank our wives, Kristin and Tina. Both of these women have supported us faithfully, have served daily by our sides, and have been used by God to shape us into the men we have become.

      Jimmy Scroggins and Steve Wright

      #3Circles

      Foreword

      An Everyday Gospel for Everyday People

      Bill Sullivan wasn’t someone you heard preach at a conference. He never wrote a book. He wasn’t even a pastor. He was a layperson who believed the gospel had the power to change lives.

      One night many years ago, Bill had a gospel conversation with a young, twentysomething couple named Mike and Glenda. They came to faith in Christ that night. A few days later, I stood on a pew and watched my parents get baptized. I never met Bill Sullivan, and at the time I didn’t fully understand what my parents did that night, but that gospel conversation changed my parents’ lives for eternity.

      It changed the trajectory of their three children and thirteen grandchildren too.

      I’m forever grateful this ordinary, everyday Christian took the time to have a gospel conversation with my parents all those years ago.

      I’m convinced that for the church in North America to make a dent in our continent’s lostness, we need more Bill Sullivans. The North American church needs more believers actively engaging their neighbors and coworkers in gospel conversations.

      Scripture is clear that the Great Commission isn’t just given to a select few trained pastors. It’s given to everyone. I’m convinced that more people are interested in hearing the gospel than most Christians are in sharing it.

      When I heard what God was doing at Family Church through Jimmy Scroggins and the 3 Circles, I knew this simple way of sharing Christ could dramatically multiply the number of people having gospel conversations throughout North America. To do it, you need no other resources than a pencil and paper. You need no advanced degrees.

      The approach you’ll read about in this book fits perfectly with what we’re trying to do at the North American Mission Board to mobilize Southern Baptists to plant new churches and engage their communities with the gospel. We’ve already partnered with Jimmy to train Southern Baptists to use the 3 Circles. We’ve released a smartphone app and print brochure called 3 Circles: Life Conversation Guide.

      We are constantly getting reports on the effectiveness of this tool. We’ve heard stories of senior citizens and young children both sharing their faith for the first time. People have shared Christ with servers at restaurants. They’ve told their coworkers about Jesus for the very first

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