MAY 2005
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Volume 4, Issue 11
Ray Comfort
Ray Comfort

An Obvious Miracle
"I thought that perhaps this was God's way of letting me know that He was leading me. It was encouraging..."
Get your church involved in evangelism...
Would you like to get the people in your church interested in joining your Fishing Team? Just pull up this free Fishing Team flyer, fill in your own information, print it off and enclose copies in your Sunday bulletins. Maybe you'll find a new fisher or two this week!
New Children's Book

The Way of the Master for KidsWe are delighted with our new children's book, The Way of the Master for Kids (thanks to our editor, Lynn Copeland). With two books in one (for ages 3-5 and 6-10), this four-color, hardback publication helps kids learn how to refute the theory of evolution, prove the existence of God, and see how the Bible is supernatural in origin. In addition, kids will learn to memorize the Ten Commandments for life (in just five minutes), understand why they need Jesus, and know how to reach their friends for Christ. All this is written in a language that kids can understand. Perfect for every parent and children's worker.

How to Bring Your Children to ChristHow to Bring Your Children to Christ

Our new book, How to Bring Your Children to Christ...& Keep Them There, has been going like hot cakes on a cold day in Alaska, so we are getting a second printing. Thank you for telling others about this vital tool. Subtitled "Avoiding the Tragedy of False Conversion," this is an essential message for all children's workers. If you don't have kids but have churchgoing relatives or friends who do, this is a gentle (and inoffensive) way for them to learn about true and false conversion and come under the sound of the Law. The teaching is also available on CD.

 

Preaching in a Mall

At the recent Worldview Weekend conference in Branson, Missouri, Kirk and Ray did "open-air" preaching inside a mall. It was an amazing opportunity to speak to so many unsaved people. Several hundred people packed around a stage near a Wal-Mart entrance and heard a clear gospel message.

New Pope Tract

You may have noticed last month that the previous pope died and a new one has been selected. I have found that the best way to expose error is to preach the truth. The Pope Collectible tract goes straight into the Commandments strongly emphasizing salvation by grace rather than works, the absolute necessity of the new birth, that there's only one Mediator, and that Jesus is the only foundation of the Church. This is a "Collectible" tract, so no good Catholic will throw this one down. It’s available in both Spanish and English.

 The Pope Collectible

Kirk Cameron's Nephew

The following is an update on Kirk's 5 year-old nephew, Lev, who recently had his second operation for "cholesteatoma." We asked you to pray that the surgery would be successful...

Candace and Lev at the Zoo - photo from www.candacecameronbure.net "Thank you!!!! God has heard our prayers! Lev is out of surgery and everything couldn't have gone more perfectly. There was no regrowth of the tumor and they didn't have to open up his ear from the back like they did last time. They went through the canal and found it to be clean. They went ahead and put in the 3 bone prosthesis which will now help him to be able to hear. He should be able to regain about 80% of his hearing. Praise be to God as His hand has been on little Lev right from the beginning. Miracle after miracle we have witnessed!"
(Lev is pictured above with his mom Candace Cameron-Brue.)

The Evidence BibleGraduating Seniors

For any graduating seniors in your life, you may want to consider giving a gift of The Evidence Bible. With its excellent apologetics, tools and evangelistic insights, it will help equip them to make an eternal difference this summer.

A glimpse of what's on the horizon...

Classic Comfort
By the end of next week we hope to have our newest audio, "Classic Comfort," available. It contains more than 60 messages by Ray Comfort in mp3 format on one convenient CD. These mp3 files can be played on an mp3 player as well as on your computer. They are all non-copyrighted.

"I listened to a [message] per day, five days per week for two years solid. I'd like to thank you for this wonderful encouragement and stirring up of this soldier of the Lord Jesus Christ." --Björn S.

Encouraging Mail

"This is by far the best form of evangelism I have ever seen. In some ways I feel a bit foolish in that it has taken me so long to get it. I graduated magna cum laude from Liberty Baptist Seminary in Apologetics. I had the best professors around (Norm Geisler, Gary Habermas, J. P. Moreland), and I have been gifted to debate with the cultist, religionist, atheist--but now I see what was missing in my evangelism. All these years I was communicating primarily to the intellect and not the conscience!"
--Pastor James P., NY

"Since learning the use of the Ten Commandments in evangelism to reveal one's guilt, we have seen a remarkable change . . . Never before have I seen men, women, teens come under conviction in just minutes. As a general rule, we do not ask people to pray right then but leave them to go with encouragement to repent and turn to God. It would be a safe estimate that four, perhaps eight, others have cried for mercy from God to save their soul. I have never found people in England to fall under so much conviction on a first-time discussion with a complete stranger. This has been amazing, and to think that the 'key' has been in our Bibles all this time!"
--Tom W., Missionary, England

Click here for more upcoming events
Ray will be speaking at Christ Community church on June 12 in St. Charles, IL
Ray will be speaking at Revival Christian Fellowship on June 25-26 in Menifee, CA
Ray will be speaking at Sugar Creek Baptist Church on July 10 in Sugarland, TX (near Houston)
Ray will be speaking at Inspiring Excellence Conference on July 21-22 in Tinley Park, IL
Ray will be speaking at Hope Chapel on July 31 in Hermosa Beach, CA
Check out our online schedule for more information.
We would appreciate your prayers for these events.
If you know someone in these areas, please encourage them to attend.


Grab a cup of coffee and dig in. We offer these stories to encourage you that ANYONE can share their faith. These are real people, just like you... if they can do it -- you can do it!
Life is quick -- stay focused.

..:: If you teach it, they will come ::..
Foundation CourseSent in by Todd S. (Canada)

Our Pastor had agreed to allow us to teach the principals of Way of the Master. He said that if we could get 20-25 people to sign up for the Foundation Course, that he would consider it to have been a huge success. Well, we didn't have 25 people, we had 65!

For eight weeks we taught every Wednesday night from 7 - 9, going through each DVD of the Foundation course. My brother, Brad, and I started each session with a worship song, then prayer, then the last week's study guide assignment in a group session discussion. We ordered everyone in the class their own study guide, as well as over $300 in tracts, and coins, and pennies, etc to give to each of them as they stepped out for Him.

The evaluations were incredible at the end of the program! People were led to Him throughout the course, and 65 more soldiers are equipped. But best of all we have a waiting list to run the Foundation Course again!

Good News and Bad News..:: Sowing Made Easy ::..
Sent in by Chris A. (Aurora, CO)

I came up with an idea to use the flat one-page tracts (like "Good News and Bad News") by putting them inside books in the library. I hit all the books on Mormonism, Atheism, Hinduism, New Age, Astrology, etc. Also, when I use the library computer I leave the screen on the www.WayoftheMaster.com page with Kirk asking "Are You A Christian?" And in good weather I leave a "Million Dollar Bill" under my windshield wiper on my car.

I, like Ray, always try to carry tracts with me. You never know where you'll be when you think of another place to put one, or when you'll get into a conversation with a "future Christian" and want to be able to leave them something to think about.

I also like to hand out copies of Soundly Saved and True & False Conversion to people at church with the question, "Would you like two free cds?"

God bless all of you and Keep SOWING!
Do you want to contribute your witnessing experiences, tract stories, and creative evangelism ideas to the "Coffee Break" column? Send them to: share@livingwaters.com, and maybe we'll use yours!
(Please include your first name, last initial, and location, in case we use your story!)

God bless,
Ray Comfort and the Staff of Living Waters

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