How to bring men to ChristTorrey, R. A. (Reuben Archer)
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How to bring men to Christ
Torrey, R. A. (Reuben Archer)
Evangelistic work; Witness bearing (Christianity)
b. Jno. vii. 17; Ps. xxv. 14; Matt. xi. 25, (see remarks under Serious
Minded Skeptics and Skeptics who are Triflers.) Sometimes the best thing
to do with a man who says the Bible is full of contradictions, is to
hand him your Bible and ask him to show you one. In most cases he will
not attempt to do it; as people who complain about the Bible, as a rule
know nothing about its contents. One day a man was brought to me to deal
with and when I asked him why he was not a Christian he replied, “The
Bible is full of contradictions.” I at once asked him to show me one.
“Oh!” he said, “it’s full of them.” I said, “If it is full of them you
ought to be able to show me one.” He said, “Well, there is one in
Psalms.” I said, “Show it to me.” He commenced looking in the back of
the New Testament for the book of Psalms. I said, “You are not looking
in the right part of the Bible for Psalms. Let me find it for you.” I
found him the book of Psalms and handed it to him. After fumbling around
he said, “I could find it, if I had my own Bible here.” “Well,” I said,
“Will you bring your Bible to–night?” He promised he would and agreed to
meet me at a certain place in the church. The appointed hour came, but
he did not. Some months afterwards in another series of meetings in the
same church one of the workers stopped me and said, “Here’s a man I wish
you would deal with; he is a skeptic.” I looked at him and recognized
him as the same man. “Oh!” I said, “you are the man that lied to me
here;” and with much confusion he admitted that he was, but he was still
playing his old game of saying that the Bible was full of
contradictions. In nine cases out of ten, men who say this, know nothing
about the Bible, and when you ask them to show you a contradiction in
the Bible they are filled with confusion.
3. THOSE WHO COMPLAIN OF GOD’S WAY OF SALVATION.
A great many men will say, “I do not see why God could not save men in
some other way than by the death of His son.” Is. lv. 8, 9, Romans xi.
33 are useful in dealing with such. I have used Romans ix. 20 with
effect with men of this sort. A young student said to me one night, when
I asked why he was not a Christian, that he did not see why it was
necessary for Christ to die for him; why God did not save him in some
other way. I opened my Bible and read to him Romans ix. 20, and put the
question right to him, “Who art thou that repliest against God?” and
then said to him, “Do you realize what you are doing, that you are
condemning God?” The young man very much confused said “I did not mean
to do that.” “Well,” I said; “that is what you are doing.” “If that is
so,” he replied, “I will take it back.” A good way to do with such men
is to show them by the use of passages given under the chapter “Dealing
with the Indifferent” that they are lost sinners. When any one is led to
see this, God’s way of salvation will approve itself as just the thing.
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