If you only had one hour with someone …

Doug

Francis Schaeffer used to say that if he had only one hour with someone, he would spend fifty-five minutes asking questions and five minutes trying to say something that would speak to his or her situation, once he understood a little more about what was going in in his or her heart and mind.

(Quote taken from The Heart of Evangelism, by Jerram Barrs)

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  • jdodson Says:
    January 18th, 2008 at 11:13 pm

    I try to develop this a little in the following piece. I’d be interested in some of your interaction with this blog <post too, inquiring whether or not to start with sin in evangelism.

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