I’m not sure why I still get surprised when I’m witnessing with someone and they say they hope their going to Heaven or they think their going to Heaven. It’s so easy to know weather or not you’re saved that it stupefies me that others have not shared the simple, saving grace of Christ Jesus. All one needs to know whether they are saved or not is know three simple verses.
The first verse is one that most every person has heard, John 3:16. “For God loved the world so much that he gave his one and only Son, so that everyone who believes in him will not perish but have eternal life. ”The second & third verses are Romans 10:9 & 10. ”If you confess with your mouth that Jesus is Lord and believe in your heart that God raised him from the dead, you will be saved. 10 For it is by believing in your heart that you are made right with God, and it is by confessing with your mouth that you are saved.”
I’ve found that if I don’t have very long to witness with someone that if I stick with these three verses I can make inroads really fast with the person I’m witnessing with. Don’t get me wrong, I still prefer the “Way of the Master” way where you show them the Ten Commandments and lead them to repentance that way, but like I said, if times short, I can cut right to the chase this way! I look at it this way, it’s better to share Grace then to not share at all!
I hope this helps and encourages you in your sharing too!
Be Blessed!!!
Scott Kliewer
Monday, May 31, 2010
Friday, March 19, 2010
Keeping The Faith
I was praying the other day about my street ministry and the fruit that it has been yielding. I guess the enemy was on me trying to convince me that I should be yielding more fruit and more salvations then what I’ve been seeing. As I was reading in the Bible I felt the Holy Spirit showed me what the Apostle Paul had to say in 1 Corinthians 3:6-9 “I planted the seed in your hearts, and Apollos watered it, but it was God who made it grow. It’s not important who does the planting, or who does the watering. What’s important is that God makes the seed grow. The one who plants and the one who waters work together with the same purpose. And both will be rewarded for their own hard work. For we are both God’s workers. And you are God’s field. You are God’s building.”
That was good news to me as we’ve been doing a ton of seed planting. With the million dollar bill gospel tracts that we’ve been passing out literally by the thousands we don’t get to do one on one ministry with every tract that we pass out. In fact we only get to do one on one ministry with about somewhere between one in thirty to one in fifty depending on where and when we’re passing out the million dollar bill gospel tracts. If we’re at a store or a mall the one on one number may be as low as one in ten and at big outdoor events such as concerts and Riverfest it could be as high as one in one hundred.
One thing that we do know is that people are taking the million dollar bill gospel tracts and not only keeping them but reading them. After someone takes one it’s not unusual for someone to walk away reading the tract and then put the tract in their wallet or pocket. We’re also starting to get reports of people taking the tracts and putting them on their refrigerator and some are even taking them to work with them and putting them up there! One other way we know that people are keeping the million dollar bill tract is that when we pass them out we keep an eye out for people throwing them on the ground on in a trash can. We very, very seldom see either one of those things happening, Praise God!
I should add another thing that we’ve started doing is going to the truck staging lot at 13th & Mosely here in Wichita during the mid day time and passing out Gospels of John with a million dollar bill stuck in them. These have been a huge hit with the drivers there! I found out quite a while back that many of the drivers there had one hour plus waits there so via the leading of the Holy Spirit I decided to give them something to do. I walk around to all of the trucks when I have Gospels in stock and hand them one and tell them “Here’s something for you to read while you’re waiting.” My problem is that my sponsor on those Gospels can only do 30 Gospels per month. I’m praying for more sponsorship to come in so I can reach more truckers on a one to one basis!
So I guess we’ll keep doing what we’re doing and pumping out the Gospel for Jesus! I’ll keep planting the seeds here in the end times. If you get a chance please keep me and my ministry in prayer so we have both the resources and the favor to keep planting seeds and serving the Lord!
Be Blessed!
Scott
That was good news to me as we’ve been doing a ton of seed planting. With the million dollar bill gospel tracts that we’ve been passing out literally by the thousands we don’t get to do one on one ministry with every tract that we pass out. In fact we only get to do one on one ministry with about somewhere between one in thirty to one in fifty depending on where and when we’re passing out the million dollar bill gospel tracts. If we’re at a store or a mall the one on one number may be as low as one in ten and at big outdoor events such as concerts and Riverfest it could be as high as one in one hundred.
One thing that we do know is that people are taking the million dollar bill gospel tracts and not only keeping them but reading them. After someone takes one it’s not unusual for someone to walk away reading the tract and then put the tract in their wallet or pocket. We’re also starting to get reports of people taking the tracts and putting them on their refrigerator and some are even taking them to work with them and putting them up there! One other way we know that people are keeping the million dollar bill tract is that when we pass them out we keep an eye out for people throwing them on the ground on in a trash can. We very, very seldom see either one of those things happening, Praise God!
I should add another thing that we’ve started doing is going to the truck staging lot at 13th & Mosely here in Wichita during the mid day time and passing out Gospels of John with a million dollar bill stuck in them. These have been a huge hit with the drivers there! I found out quite a while back that many of the drivers there had one hour plus waits there so via the leading of the Holy Spirit I decided to give them something to do. I walk around to all of the trucks when I have Gospels in stock and hand them one and tell them “Here’s something for you to read while you’re waiting.” My problem is that my sponsor on those Gospels can only do 30 Gospels per month. I’m praying for more sponsorship to come in so I can reach more truckers on a one to one basis!
So I guess we’ll keep doing what we’re doing and pumping out the Gospel for Jesus! I’ll keep planting the seeds here in the end times. If you get a chance please keep me and my ministry in prayer so we have both the resources and the favor to keep planting seeds and serving the Lord!
Be Blessed!
Scott
Sunday, February 14, 2010
Getting Excited!!!
Wow! It’s been quite a while since I’ve been as excited about my ministry as I am right now! The Lord is opening doors and the opportunities I have to witness and minister here in the community are growing every day it seems.
First of all I’m excited to announce that I’ll be teaching a class on how to share your faith & do street witnessing. This will take place at Word of Life School on Monday evenings. This class is being promoted both between Ground Zero Youth Church and our church, Word of Life. It is however open to anyone wanting to attend and there is no charge! We will be going over primarily Way of the Master teachings to start with and then we will be progressing to Mark Cahill’s book & study guide “One Thing You Can’t Do In Heaven.” I’m expecting a great turnout for this class since we’re combining both churches for this class. Please keep this class in your prayers if you would as one of our goals is to have a complete street witnessing team together by the time Riverfest gets here to Wichita in May.
Next, I’m excited about the reception that we’ve been getting in front of the County Courthouse here in Wichita over the lunch hours. People have been really open to taking our million dollar bill tracts and we’ve also had the opportunity to do some ministry there too. I hoping and praying that the weather will hold this week and we will get to witness at the courthouse at least two times this coming week.
Another place where my street ministry has been getting a very warm reception is the semi-truck staging lot at the corner of 13th & Mosley here in Wichita. The staging lot is a place where semi trucks hauling grain come to wait there turn to unload at one of the local grain dumps. Sometimes when we go there only three or four trucks may be there on there may be twenty to thirty trucks there, you just never know. What I do there is I walk around to all of the different trucks and give the drivers a Gospel of John with my contact info in it so they can get a hold of me if they ever need prayer of ministry and I also put a million dollar bill on the inside so they can read and know the only way to Heaven, Jesus Christ! As I walk along to all of the different trucks I just simply say “Here’s something for you to read while you’re waiting.” Most drivers are very happy to get a Gospel and to know that someone actually cares!
Finally, I’m really getting stoked about the Intrust Bank Arena now being open here in downtown Wichita! What an opportunity this is going to be to witness! The arena holds I believe as many as 15,000 people and we shouldn’t have any problems standing outside this venue and witnessing. As soon as the weather breaks just a little and it’s not blistering cold out we’ll be down there, especially on Friday and Saturday evenings.
Yes, things are looking up for my street ministry! I’m excited about what the Lord is doing here in these final days! Please keep me and my team in your prayers as we really need your support!
Thanks & God Bless!!!
Scott Kliewer
First of all I’m excited to announce that I’ll be teaching a class on how to share your faith & do street witnessing. This will take place at Word of Life School on Monday evenings. This class is being promoted both between Ground Zero Youth Church and our church, Word of Life. It is however open to anyone wanting to attend and there is no charge! We will be going over primarily Way of the Master teachings to start with and then we will be progressing to Mark Cahill’s book & study guide “One Thing You Can’t Do In Heaven.” I’m expecting a great turnout for this class since we’re combining both churches for this class. Please keep this class in your prayers if you would as one of our goals is to have a complete street witnessing team together by the time Riverfest gets here to Wichita in May.
Next, I’m excited about the reception that we’ve been getting in front of the County Courthouse here in Wichita over the lunch hours. People have been really open to taking our million dollar bill tracts and we’ve also had the opportunity to do some ministry there too. I hoping and praying that the weather will hold this week and we will get to witness at the courthouse at least two times this coming week.
Another place where my street ministry has been getting a very warm reception is the semi-truck staging lot at the corner of 13th & Mosley here in Wichita. The staging lot is a place where semi trucks hauling grain come to wait there turn to unload at one of the local grain dumps. Sometimes when we go there only three or four trucks may be there on there may be twenty to thirty trucks there, you just never know. What I do there is I walk around to all of the different trucks and give the drivers a Gospel of John with my contact info in it so they can get a hold of me if they ever need prayer of ministry and I also put a million dollar bill on the inside so they can read and know the only way to Heaven, Jesus Christ! As I walk along to all of the different trucks I just simply say “Here’s something for you to read while you’re waiting.” Most drivers are very happy to get a Gospel and to know that someone actually cares!
Finally, I’m really getting stoked about the Intrust Bank Arena now being open here in downtown Wichita! What an opportunity this is going to be to witness! The arena holds I believe as many as 15,000 people and we shouldn’t have any problems standing outside this venue and witnessing. As soon as the weather breaks just a little and it’s not blistering cold out we’ll be down there, especially on Friday and Saturday evenings.
Yes, things are looking up for my street ministry! I’m excited about what the Lord is doing here in these final days! Please keep me and my team in your prayers as we really need your support!
Thanks & God Bless!!!
Scott Kliewer
Sunday, January 31, 2010
How To Share Your Faith Videos
I’ve been having quite a few people ask me how to witness or people have been wanting to more about witnessing. I said in a few blogs back that I would post here how to share your faith. So here it is in video form, witnessing made easy! All of these videos are from Way of the Master which is Kirk Cameron of “Growing Pains” fame and Christian author & evangelist Ray Comfort.
The first video is titled “Hell’s Best Kept Secret.” I would just simply call it “Witnessing 101!” This video really breaks down witnessing and tells you how Jesus would witness.
Next, here is Todd Friel from Wretched showing in two parts how to witness. This is so simple it will blow you away!
Part 1
Part 2
After you’ve viewed all of the above Check out this video series with Paul Washer with Todd Friel at the Deeper Conference. This is more motivational then anything. It’s also an awesome job of street preaching!
Part 1
Part 2
Part 3
When you get done with the above I'd recommend going to Way of the Master's Channel on YouTube & just start watching all of the videos as you have time. Be forewarned these videos will draw you in and help drive you to share your faith!!!
Be Blessed
Big Scott
The first video is titled “Hell’s Best Kept Secret.” I would just simply call it “Witnessing 101!” This video really breaks down witnessing and tells you how Jesus would witness.
Next, here is Todd Friel from Wretched showing in two parts how to witness. This is so simple it will blow you away!
Part 1
Part 2
After you’ve viewed all of the above Check out this video series with Paul Washer with Todd Friel at the Deeper Conference. This is more motivational then anything. It’s also an awesome job of street preaching!
Part 1
Part 2
Part 3
When you get done with the above I'd recommend going to Way of the Master's Channel on YouTube & just start watching all of the videos as you have time. Be forewarned these videos will draw you in and help drive you to share your faith!!!
Be Blessed
Big Scott
Saturday, January 23, 2010
End Of Times
The other day as I was praying about the Haiti earthquake the Lord took me back to Matthew 24:3-14. Here’s what the Lord showed me.
3 Later, Jesus sat on the Mount of Olives. His disciples came to him privately and said, “Tell us, when will all this happen? What sign will signal your return and the end of the world?”
4 Jesus told them, “Don’t let anyone mislead you, 5 for many will come in my name, claiming, ‘I am the Messiah.’ They will deceive many. In the past 30 years how many false prophets have we heard off? Too many to count if you count them all!
6 And you will hear of wars and threats of wars, but don’t panic. Yes, these things must take place, but the end won’t follow immediately. The world has been at war for most all of the 20th century and this century is starting out even worse.
7 Nation will go to war against nation, and kingdom against kingdom. There will be famines and earthquakes in many parts of the world. Like I said, war all over the world. As far as famines and earthquakes in the African continent people have been starving to death there for years. Now it’s starting to spread to other parts of the world. We even have starving here in the United States!
8 But all this is only the first of the birth pains, with more to come. Not much fun to hear but we know that this brings us closer every day to the Lord’s return!
9 “Then you will be arrested, persecuted, and killed. You will be hated all over the world because you are my followers. According to “Voice of the Martyrs” there have been more people put to death in the 20th century then in all of history for being a Christian and this century is starting out even more brutal with the rampant spread of Islam.
10 And many will turn away from me and betray and hate each other. I see this even in people I know! I sometimes really see it when I’m on the streets witnessing! You would be amazed at the extent some people will go even right here in our own country to vilify Christianity!
11 And many false prophets will appear and will deceive many people. Just like I said about verses 4 & 5, you can hardly go a week without hearing about false prophets trying to lead people away. It’s even happening here in our churches. When you have Unitarian churches and other churches teaching that Jesus is not the only way to Heaven rather a way to Heaven many will most definitely be deceived!
12 Sin will be rampant everywhere, and the love of many will grow cold. Sin is sin and our country is leading purveyor of it! Just look at the rise of homosexuality in our country. Just look at the pornography business in this country. We lead the world in exportation of both homosexuality and pornography but yet many churches turn a blind eye to it.
13 But the one who endures to the end will be saved. Praise God for that!
14 And the Good News about the Kingdom will be preached throughout the whole world, so that all nations will hear it; and then the end will come. You had better get ready for the end to come at any time now! For the first time in the history of the world the Good News of Jesus Christ is being preached to every tribe, tongue, & nation in this world. Up until just a few short years ago this was not possible. Right now the Bible is either being or has been translated into every known language in the world. The Good News is also being spread by both the internet and satellite television which is now also going into every nation in the world!
After reading the above verses and going over what the Lord showed me I’m both scared and apprehensive. I’m scared because I know I’ve missed sharing the Gospel with people that the Lord sent my way and I know I should have done a far better job sharing with them. On the other hand, I’m more then a little apprehensive, or even excited if you will know now that the Lord’s return is imminent and it won’t be long and I’ll be out of here!!!
Be Blessed!!!
Big Scott
3 Later, Jesus sat on the Mount of Olives. His disciples came to him privately and said, “Tell us, when will all this happen? What sign will signal your return and the end of the world?”
4 Jesus told them, “Don’t let anyone mislead you, 5 for many will come in my name, claiming, ‘I am the Messiah.’ They will deceive many. In the past 30 years how many false prophets have we heard off? Too many to count if you count them all!
6 And you will hear of wars and threats of wars, but don’t panic. Yes, these things must take place, but the end won’t follow immediately. The world has been at war for most all of the 20th century and this century is starting out even worse.
7 Nation will go to war against nation, and kingdom against kingdom. There will be famines and earthquakes in many parts of the world. Like I said, war all over the world. As far as famines and earthquakes in the African continent people have been starving to death there for years. Now it’s starting to spread to other parts of the world. We even have starving here in the United States!
8 But all this is only the first of the birth pains, with more to come. Not much fun to hear but we know that this brings us closer every day to the Lord’s return!
9 “Then you will be arrested, persecuted, and killed. You will be hated all over the world because you are my followers. According to “Voice of the Martyrs” there have been more people put to death in the 20th century then in all of history for being a Christian and this century is starting out even more brutal with the rampant spread of Islam.
10 And many will turn away from me and betray and hate each other. I see this even in people I know! I sometimes really see it when I’m on the streets witnessing! You would be amazed at the extent some people will go even right here in our own country to vilify Christianity!
11 And many false prophets will appear and will deceive many people. Just like I said about verses 4 & 5, you can hardly go a week without hearing about false prophets trying to lead people away. It’s even happening here in our churches. When you have Unitarian churches and other churches teaching that Jesus is not the only way to Heaven rather a way to Heaven many will most definitely be deceived!
12 Sin will be rampant everywhere, and the love of many will grow cold. Sin is sin and our country is leading purveyor of it! Just look at the rise of homosexuality in our country. Just look at the pornography business in this country. We lead the world in exportation of both homosexuality and pornography but yet many churches turn a blind eye to it.
13 But the one who endures to the end will be saved. Praise God for that!
14 And the Good News about the Kingdom will be preached throughout the whole world, so that all nations will hear it; and then the end will come. You had better get ready for the end to come at any time now! For the first time in the history of the world the Good News of Jesus Christ is being preached to every tribe, tongue, & nation in this world. Up until just a few short years ago this was not possible. Right now the Bible is either being or has been translated into every known language in the world. The Good News is also being spread by both the internet and satellite television which is now also going into every nation in the world!
After reading the above verses and going over what the Lord showed me I’m both scared and apprehensive. I’m scared because I know I’ve missed sharing the Gospel with people that the Lord sent my way and I know I should have done a far better job sharing with them. On the other hand, I’m more then a little apprehensive, or even excited if you will know now that the Lord’s return is imminent and it won’t be long and I’ll be out of here!!!
Be Blessed!!!
Big Scott
Check out our van! It really causes people to look & even more then a few stop and ask for "Free Money!"
This is one reason why I use million dollar bill gospel tracts. The van is a real attention getter! I have people chase me down & stop me to ask for the "free money!" In fact last night I had a guy holler at me in the grocery store paking lot & he said "Hey, your the guy with the free million dollar bills aren't you?" He said he had seen me earlier in the day and he was wanting another free million dollar bill so he could pass one on to one of his friends.
Lately I've been seeing more and more people come back up to me after they've got a million dollar bill of their own want another one or two to give to a freind, their kid, or someone else they think could use one.
I guess as long as I'm having the success with the million dollar bill that I'm having I'll keep using it.
Saturday, December 26, 2009
Romans 3:23 - 27
I was on YouTube this evening surfing around and listening to different Paul Washer sermons. I ran across one that just blew me away. It’s 10 minutes long if you want to watch it here it is: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GuEc-zrs5wA.
In this video Paul Washer says “When most people read the following passage they only remember Romans 3:23.” Paul Washer goes on the say “This is quite possibly the most important passage in the entire Bible.” Paul washer also quotes Dr. Marin Lloyd Jones saying that Romans 3:23 is the acropolis of the Christian faith.
Please use this as a faith builder. Read the following passage and take it to heart.
Romans 3:23 – 27 NLT
23 For everyone has sinned; we all fall short of God’s glorious standard. 24 Yet God, with undeserved kindness, declares that we are righteous. He did this through Christ Jesus when he freed us from the penalty for our sins. 25 For God presented Jesus as the sacrifice for sin. People are made right with God when they believe that Jesus sacrificed his life, shedding his blood. This sacrifice shows that God was being fair when he held back and did not punish those who sinned in times past, 26 for he was looking ahead and including them in what he would do in this present time. God did this to demonstrate his righteousness, for he himself is fair and just, and he declares sinners to be right in his sight when they believe in Jesus.
27 Can we boast, then, that we have done anything to be accepted by God? No, because our acquittal is not based on obeying the law. It is based on faith.
Be Blessed!
BIG SCOTT
In this video Paul Washer says “When most people read the following passage they only remember Romans 3:23.” Paul Washer goes on the say “This is quite possibly the most important passage in the entire Bible.” Paul washer also quotes Dr. Marin Lloyd Jones saying that Romans 3:23 is the acropolis of the Christian faith.
Please use this as a faith builder. Read the following passage and take it to heart.
Romans 3:23 – 27 NLT
23 For everyone has sinned; we all fall short of God’s glorious standard. 24 Yet God, with undeserved kindness, declares that we are righteous. He did this through Christ Jesus when he freed us from the penalty for our sins. 25 For God presented Jesus as the sacrifice for sin. People are made right with God when they believe that Jesus sacrificed his life, shedding his blood. This sacrifice shows that God was being fair when he held back and did not punish those who sinned in times past, 26 for he was looking ahead and including them in what he would do in this present time. God did this to demonstrate his righteousness, for he himself is fair and just, and he declares sinners to be right in his sight when they believe in Jesus.
27 Can we boast, then, that we have done anything to be accepted by God? No, because our acquittal is not based on obeying the law. It is based on faith.
Be Blessed!
BIG SCOTT
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