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Qualifi cations o f a Soul W inn er
By BENJAMIN WEISS
M ay I ask you a personal question? What is the job or business by which you earn your livelihood? Regard less of the occupation, certain qualifica tions are necessary. Your success in that particular field is dependent upon the I skills that you possess. In the greatest business in the world, that of soul winning, certain skills and qualifications are just as essential and are in a very real way pre-requisite to success. Being an ambassador for the Lord Jesus Christ and winning souls for Him is worthy of the highest type of qualifica tions and the greatest of skills. Fundamental to all other qualifications is your own personal salvation. You your self must have a clear and definite assur ance of having accepted the Lord Jesus Christ as your own personal Saviour. Only as you know Him as Saviour and Lord can you present Him to others. This can rightly be considered qualification num ber one. Very closely allied to your own personal salvation is a real and vital love for the unsaved with its deep realization that unless they come to a saving knowledge of Jesus Christ as their personal Saviour they are eternally lost. The third vital qualification for the life of a soul winner is your own personal purity and victory over sin. As you realize that only a clean vessel can be used of the Lord, this third qualification becomes an obvious requirement. Your spoken witness will be valueless, unless your words are backed by a transparently pure life. Faith in the Bible as the Word of God and the confidence that it is the power of God unto salvation are the fourth and fifth qualifications necessary for the win ning of men and women to the Lord. Knowledge of the Word of God and the ability to use it as a two-edged sword are essential skills in your conflict with a most skillful enemy. In the sixth place, prayer and depen dence upon the Holy Spirit must be the sources of your strength. In this conflict for the souls of men your own strength will prove inadequate many times. Your only hope of success will be a quiet reli ance upon the Holy Spirit to guide you. Crowning all other qualifications will be a burning desire to become more ef fective and to be more fruitful for your Lord in this greatest of all occupations. No calling or assignment for service is more important than that of winning souls. The ministry of reconciliation is God’s specific call to you as a Christian.
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