| Title | : | Taking Men Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Author | : | Charles G. Trumbull |
| Release | : | 2014-02-19 |
| Kind | : | ebook |
| Genre | : | Christianity, Books, Religion & Spirituality |
| Size | : | 262902 |
| Charles G. Trumbull was a Civil War army chaplain, Sunday School teacher, editor, and writer. In this classic work on one-on-one evangelism, he writes, “General preaching has its place; but it is a preliminary only in this work; the harvest must be handpicked. A stationary fog-horn has its value on a reef, or a rocky shore, as a warning to those who approach the point of danger. We must not say that this mode of sounding an alarm has no value, but we cannot suppose that a fog-horn, however clear its sound or well worked its mechanism, can fill the place of a coast guard of trained life-savers, who are on the watch to put out with their well-manned life-boat to save endangered single souls.” This book contains the following chapters: Introduction I. The Work We Are Facing Individual Work the Greatest Work Individual Work Christ’s Preferred Method Its Effectiveness in Sunday-School Work Its Effectiveness in College Its Effectiveness in Politics Its Effectiveness in Every Field Individual Work the Hardest Work Will It Grow Easy? II. The Worker and His Equipment Whit Mistakes Shall We Fear? Our Feelings and Our Defects III. Need of a Life-Resolve IV. Winning at the Start The Other Man’s Interests as Bait The Bait of Honest Commendation Commending a Whiskey-Drinker Praising a Profane Sea-Captain V. Seeking Common Interests Making Salvation of Present Interest Ignoring Differences of Creed Going Where the Other Man Is VI. The Place of the Bible in This Work H. Clay Trumbull’s Habit When the Bible is Common Meeting-Ground The Principle Restated VII. Conviction Better Than Discussion Or Argument Resolute Refusal to Argue VIII. Encouragements and Incentives Rebuffs Almost Unknown What of the Mentally Deficient? Is Any Opportunity Too Slight? Individual Work Always Needed Pressing for an Immediate Decision Vital Importance of Follow-Up Work IX. How Our Lord Worked The Individual in First Place A Mission of Winning, Not of Opposing Beginning With Men’s Present Interests Other Principles of Our Lord’s Work The Principles Reviewed |
