VCC Reachout

April 27th - June 15th
Coitsville Campus Prayer Room (by auditorium)
9:30-10:45am

Victory Christian Center will be offering an eight week training course based on the award-winning TV series “The Way of the Master” hosted by Kirk Cameron and Ray Comfort. The course is specially formatted to train believers to simply and confidently share the gospel with family, friends, and strangers.These lessons will teach you to overcome your fears by using a proven, powerfully effective way to make the gospel make sense. You won’t be at a loss for words. You don’t need to be an expert in apologetics. Instead, you’ll learn the forgotten biblical principle of bypassing the intellect (the place of argument) and speaking directly to the conscience (the place of the knowledge of right and wrong) — the way Jesus did.

Each session will consist of a thirty-minute segment on DVD featuring Kirk Cameron and Ray Comfort. Through their captivating teaching style they not only tell you how to witness, they show you, through fascinating on-the-street conversations with gang members, atheists, cult members, intellectuals, etc. Classes start April 27th on Sunday Mornings at 9:30am in the Prayer Room by the Coitsville Campus auditorium.

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“I would like to encourage anyone who may have a fear of sharing the Gospel of Jesus Christ to consider taking the Basic Training Course. This is the first semester that we have offered the course, and we currently have over 130 people signed up. The Way of the Master is making a great impact due to its simplicity and straightforward approach.”
Charles F. Stanley, Senior Pastor, First Baptist Atlanta, Founding President, In Touch Ministries.

“The Way of the Master” has been commended by John MacArthur, Ravi Zacharias, David Jeremiah, Joni Eareckson Tada, Josh McDowell and many other Christian leaders:

“The ‘Way of the Master’ series has turned my church into soul-winning machines!” –Pastor G.F. Watkins, Texas

“Your course was the most amazing evangelism training program I’ve ever seen . . . it is fresh innovative, captivating, equipping and inspiring. It is far better than anything I’ve ever seen before.” –Allen Atzbi, youth pastor, Cornerstone Christian Center of Boca Raton, FL.

“It has revolutionized our church.” –Pastor Kevin Sanford, Galway, Ireland

“My life will never be the same. My church will never be the same.” –Pastor Paul Yanchek, Ohio

Check out this awesome video from the TV show ER.
Warning: PG14 Offensive Language

Victory Christian Center will be offering an eight week training course based on the award-winning TV series “The Way of the Master” hosted by Kirk Cameron and Ray Comfort. The course is specially formatted to train believers to simply and confidently share the gospel with family, friends, and strangers.

These lessons will teach you to overcome your fears by using a proven, powerfully effective way to make the gospel make sense. You won’t be at a loss for words. You don’t need to be an expert in apologetics. Instead, you’ll learn the forgotten biblical principle of bypassing the intellect (the place of argument) and speaking directly to the conscience (the place of the knowledge of right and wrong) — the way Jesus did.

Each session will consist of a thirty-minute segment on DVD featuring Kirk Cameron and Ray Comfort. Through their captivating teaching style they not only tell you how to witness, they show you, through fascinating on-the-street conversations with gang members, atheists, cult members, intellectuals, etc.

PRE-REGISTRATION IS CLOSED
WALK-INS ARE WELCOME

“I would like to encourage anyone who may have a fear of sharing the Gospel of Jesus Christ to consider taking the Basic Training Course. This is the first semester that we have offered the course, and we currently have over 130 people signed up. The Way of the Master is making a great impact due to its simplicity and straightforward approach.”
Charles F. Stanley, Senior Pastor, First Baptist Atlanta, Founding President, In Touch Ministries.

“The Way of the Master” has been commended by John MacArthur, Ravi Zacharias, David Jeremiah, Joni Eareckson Tada, Josh McDowell and many other Christian leaders:

“The ‘Way of the Master’ series has turned my church into soul-winning machines!” –Pastor G.F. Watkins, Texas

“Your course was the most amazing evangelism training program I’ve ever seen . . . it is fresh innovative, captivating, equipping and inspiring. It is far better than anything I’ve ever seen before.” –Allen Atzbi, youth pastor, Cornerstone Christian Center of Boca Raton, FL.

“It has revolutionized our church.” –Pastor Kevin Sanford, Galway, Ireland

“My life will never be the same. My church will never be the same.” –Pastor Paul Yanchek, Ohio

I seemed to get a bit more rejection today. Maybe it was the colder weather. But I had some great conversations with two people by the name of William and Tamisha.

I talked to William at the bus station. I asked him if I could give him a million dollar tract and he rejected it at first but seemed open to conversation. He did take it after a few of his friends took one and I asked him if he had a Christian background. He said “Yes.” I asked him “if he died right now would he go to heaven?” and he said he was pretty sure he would. I asked him “why do you believe that” and he got a little frustrated at this point (a lot of people do) and said that he didn’t know if he wanted to talk about this right now. I’m learning to be more aggressive so I pushed through and kept the conversation going. I brought William through the Law and he turned out to be a Liar, Thief and Adulterer at heart but he couldn’t understand why he wouldn’t go to heaven because he had always asked forgiveness for his sins and of course the usual “God is a loving God so He will be merciful to me and let me in heaven.” I explained to him that the only way to know that he was going to heaven is by his fruit.

At this point William remembered that he had once given his heart to the Lord and there was a drastic change in his life for a season. I then challenged him to begin to work out his own salvation with fear and trembling and to make his calling and election sure. I gave him an orange Gideons pocket New Testament and challenged him to read it everyday.

Just after this I met Tamisha . Tamisha was very quiet but thought the same way as William. She asked God to forgive her on a regular basis and felt that she would most likely go to heaven when she died. I brought her through the Law and found she had broken at least three of the Ten Commandments, that she would be guilty before God on judgment day and that she would go to hell. I explained to her that in the garden of Eden God told Adam “don’t eat the fruit from the Tree of the Knowledge of good and evil. In the day that you eat of that fruit you shall surely die.” When Adam disobeyed God he DID die. Not physically but spiritually. I told her that when Jesus was on the earth He had a conversation with a religious leader of the day by the name of Nicodemus. Nicodemus came to Jesus and told Him that he knew that He was from God because no one could do the works that He did unless God is with him. Jesus said to him “You must be born again to see the Kingdom of God.” Nicodemus said “How can I being an old man enter the second time into my mother’s womb, and be born?” Jesus told him (my paraphrase) “I’m not talking about your flesh, I’m talking about your spirit.”

There’s an epidemic going on in America; everyone is “born again” - every one is a “Christian” but very few are bearing fruit. When you share your faith with someone and they tell you that they are a Christian, for their sake, don’t take their word for it. Ask them “What do you base this on?”, Why do you believe that you will go to Heaven?” Most people will give you a pretty lame answer. Some will say all the right words but you know there’s something wrong. We have to learn to push through the “Christian facade” that so many people are hiding behind.

With every person we share our faith with (and with every Christian we go to Church with) we need to ask a similar question to the one the little old lady asked at the Wendy’s counter… WHERE’S THE FRUIT!!!???

Hello everyone! Here’s another update from the streets. I hope you enjoy it but even more I hope it convicts us all to do more to reach out to those who are destined to an eternity without God if we don’t Do Something!

My friend Bob and I we’re in downtown Warren earlier this summer street witnessing and we were feeling like we needed to “take things up a notch.” As we were discussing how to do this I remembered that years ago we used to carry a large wooden cross around downtown Warren. Carrying the cross resulted in some pretty cool “feedback.” One night Bob and I and another friend Steve were outside a bar and a few guys came out of the bar who were pretty drunk. They were also very large and muscular. As we talked to them about salvation, judgment and hell one guy got very angry with Steve and Bob and started to come at them and all of a sudden without thinking (and I stress the words “without thinking”) I was standing in between my friends and this large violent man with the cross. He didn’t seem to know what to do and at that point another guy stepped in and told him to leave us alone. This guy seemed to be very open to the Gospel.

We had many other positive as well as negative responses back then and I knew that this was the tool that we needed to stir things up a little. Everyone who is an evangelist at heart knows that it’s ALWAYS good to stir things up.

So Bob built a cross and we had our first run with it Saturday, November 17. We walked two and a half miles down Parkman Road in Warren. One of the things we were counting on was that people would come to us instead of us having to chase people down to witness to them and that’s exactly what happened! We had a few people pull over and we got to give them Gospel tracts. We walked through the parking lot of McDonald’s and some employees yelled across the parking lot to us and asked if we were starting a Church. Bob ran over and gave them some tracts. At one point we connected with a guy by the name of Tom who is 70+ years old and is really on fire for God. It was about 40 degrees and it was raining and without hesitation he came out of his warm house with us and carried the cross for a while.

I’m excited about the potential for this means of evangelism. I want to do anything I can to attract attention to Jesus and the Cross of His suffering because in the cross is the truest message of love. The message of God’s love for humanity IS the cross. If we “water-down” this message to make it easier to swallow then we are ineffective in our witness and we will see many make decisions for Christ but most will not bear any real fruit. I’m not saying we won’t see any results but do we want decisions for Christ or do we want conversions for Christ? To say that “Jesus loves you” to a non-believer makes no sense to them. They think “Well of course He loves me. I’m a good person.” Nine times out of ten when I ask someone if they think they are a good person they answer “yes.” But Jesus said “there is none good but one, that is, God” Mark 10:18. A person who thinks they are good enough to go to Heaven is prideful and needs to have his pride stripped away so that they can come to a place of true repentance. Without repentance there can be no salvation (Matthew 4:17, Mark 6:12, Acts 3:19). But if you communicate to them their specific sin, that they have lied, stolen, lusted and therefore committed adultery from the heart, hated and therefore committed murder from the heart. They have loved other “gods” more than the God who created them and gave them life. And because of these specific sins Jesus had to suffer and die the most horrific death that any man has ever suffered before or since. Because of our sin Jesus bore the wrath and anger of a holy God until justice was completely satisfied. God inflicted our sin upon Jesus and imputed His righteousness into our account. 1 John 4:10 says “In this is love, not that we loved God, but that He loved us and sent His Son to be the propitiation (atoning sacrifice) for our sins. The Apostle Paul said himself that “I had not known sin, but by the law: for I had not known lust, except the law had said, Thou shalt not covet.” Romans 7:7

So when we reveal through the Law a persons specific crimes committed against God’s glorious standard and their hopeless inability to pay the fine of eternal justice the Law then can become the schoolmaster that points them to their only hope, the cross of Calvary and the knowledge that Christ has already paid their debt, taken upon Himself their punishment and they are completely acquitted of all their crimes. Then we will see people come to true repentance and bear MUCH fruit for God out of their gratefulness to God for paying such a tremendous price for their redemption.

Check my friend Bob’s article on our cross-carrying debut.