 BIBLE ILLUSTRATIONS OF

SOULWINNING
...................................1 ISSUE 36 Sept. 23 2007

 IMPORTANT
ANNOUNCEMENTS
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Filipino
 CALENDAR DATES

 RICK MARTIN
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Ministry
Welcome to the Filipino Sunday School class. We trust that our
time together will be blessed by God. Our class meets every
Sunday at 10:00 A.M. – Tom Apusen, Filipino Ministry Pastor

Soul Winning The Heart of God

Bible Illustrations of Soul Winning
Bible illustrations of soul them from the dead. “And
winning from JOHN 11: many of the Jews came to
Martha and Mary, to comfort
John 11 gives the them concerning their
wonderful story of the brother.” (John 11:19)
raising of Lazarus from the
dead. “Then said Jesus unto Jesus had faith that
them plainly, Lazarus is dead.”Lazarus would resurrect.
(John 11:14). Yes, Lazarus “Jesus saith unto her, Thy
pictures a sinner dead in brother shall rise again.” (John
sin. 11:23) A soulwinner must
go expecting. One of
Soulwinners must go if Charles Spurgeon’s Anniversaries
they are to win souls. Jesus ministerial students told
came to Lazarus. He didn’thim that he had no
Victor & Josefina Calayag
tell Lazarus to come to conversions asked, “Did September 25
Him. “Then when Jesus came,you expect any?” “No.”
he found that he had lain in was the reply. He said, Birthdays
the grave four days already.” “That’s why you didn’t Rick Baltazar September 23
(John 11:17) have any!”
Flora Nacion September 24
The lost world can only A soulwinner must be Myra Legaspi September 25
comfort each other in theirstirred with compassion Irene Mayor September 26
sin and misery. Only the before his soulwinning will
power of God can raise stir anyone else. “When
ANNOUNCEMENTS
♦ This Saturday we begin our 100,000 Door
Campaign. We will need everyone’s help in passing
out the thousands of flyers assigned to our Sunday
School Class. Please come out this Saturday to join
us! We meet at 9:30 AM at Clyde Ave.
♦ Begin planning now - Sunday, November 11 we will have a FILIPINO BIG DAY
with a special service and lunch. Start thinking about those you will be inviting to this
special service and begin inviting them now.
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 Rick Martin
“The Soul Winner”
As a young, beginner
missionary, Rick thought, “I
have much to teach the
Filipino people.” After twenty
years plus years of teaching
them, he concludes, “They
have taught me more that I
have taught them.” Perhaps,
the four most important
things the Filipinos have
taught Rick are:
September Events
(He tells the stories that
September 28 became lessons.)
NVBS Carnival
I. How to give!
I thought that I needed to
September 30 teach our people how to give.
100,000 Door Campaign We American Christians knew
how, but I thought the
October Events Filipinos didn’t. When we were
in the planning stage for our
first building, I suggested that
October 1-6 everyone give a week’s salary
100,000 Door Campaign to the building fund. A public
school teacher came to me all
October 7 upset about giving to the
Ministry Expo building program. She said,
Open House Sunday “God has been so good to me
since I was saved. I feel one
October 17 week’s salary is not enough. I
want to give two weeks
Lord’s Supper
salary.” Being a preacher, I
said that would be fine but I
October 21-24 knew that she only made $50
Annual Missions Conference (US) per month. She was
giving more money than I was
Coming in 2007… giving. She taught me how to
give!
November 11 II. How to live by faith!
I thought that I needed to
FILIPINO preach one of my great
sermons on faith. One
particular sermon was based
BIG on Romans. I thought this
would be good for our Bible
DAY college students and it was.
However, their example
taught me a deeper lesson on
living by simple faith. One of
the students, Elie, was on a
work scholarship. The
scholarship only covered his
very basic essentials. Elie
went back to his home on
another island and found two
of his friends who had
recently been saved and
called into the ministry. They
came at his invitation and
enrolled in the college. “How
are we going to be able to
live?” they asked. Elie said,
THE FIRST MAN
III. How to forgive the THE FIRST
others! WOMAN
One of the laymen in our
church and I were out in the
community witnessing. We
A little boy was
noticed a man sitting on the asked to name
railroad tracks so we began the first man. He
telling him about Christ. He promptly
became violent and began
answered,
cursing at us and threatening
us. We realized that he had "Adam." Then,
been drinking so we quickly he was asked to
left. Several weeks later, the name the first
layman said, “Pastor, do you woman. He
remember the man who was
so drunk and angry down at
pondered long
the tracks?” Of course I and hard and
remembered. He continued by finally suggested,
saying, “He has lost his job "Madam?"
and his family of six children
are in need. Could we hire him
at the church?” I answered,
“Why should we help him WEDDING
when he was so unkind to STORY
us?” The good layman said,
“If we forgive him, he will see
Christ in us.” We hired him
A little boy was in
and he saw Christ in us and a relative's
was gloriously saved. I felt so wedding. As he
ashamed because a young was coming down
Filipino Christian taught me the aisle, he
how to forgive.
would take two
IV. How to put others first! steps, stop, and
Ever since, we started the then turn to the
church, I had been preaching crowd. While
that Christmas is for others. I
facing the crowd,
admonished the people not to
observe a selfish Christmas. he would put his
Several of our Bible College hands up like
students came to me after I claws and roar.
had preached this basic truth So it went, step,
and they said, “We want to do
this. We want to spend our step, ROAR...
Christmas vacation by helping step, step, ROAR,
the poor, the crippled, the
lepers and the blind.” This is
all the way down
the aisle. As you
what a great portion of the
students did. Antario was one
of these unselfish
can imagine, the
crowd was near
compassionate students. After tears from
spending the day helping laughing so hard
others, he was returning back by the time he
to the dormitory when a bus
hit him. He was taken to the
reached the
government hospital. When I pulpit. When
learned of the accident, I asked what he
rushed to the hospital. was doing, the
Doctors reported that his child sniffed and
chances were very slim.
Perhaps an extremely said, "I was being
dangerous brain operation the Ring Bear."
might save his life. We had
him transferred to a better