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Terry,
When I used to work in the ICU I liked the soul-winning part of it simply because you didn’t have time to mess around (ie: get to know the person; build a relationship, etc.) and you had to just get right to the point. They were in and out, either dead or alive. Also helpful was the fact that the patients were usually quite aware of their fragile mortality by the time they got there, so they were often motivated to hear anything about getting saved.
I once heard that most folks never accept Christ as Savior because no one has ever asked them to. This is so true! So instead of just asking, “Do you know Jesus as Lord and Savior?” you need to follow up with “Would you like to?” If death is eminent, they will usually say Yes, which never ceased to amaze me.
When my husband’s 82 year old non-believer father was on his deathbed I asked him, “Dad, would you like to spend eternity with (your deceased wife and daughter, who were believers)?” He said yes. “Do you know that the only way you can be in the eternal presence of God is if your sins are completely washed away by the Blood of Jesus Christ?” We explained very briefly what that meant, and he said “Yes I want to do that.” This was remarkable, coming from a man who had been a skeptic all of his life, who had also not been raised to be a believer in his childhood.
So we held hands and prayed together, the sinner’s prayer, with him repeating each sentence after us. It was that simple. For the next couple of days before he passed away we spoke of his looking forward to being with Jesus, and reunited with his wife and daughter. Perhaps he was really saved; perhaps not. We never know. But I can only believe that he was.
I don’t know if this helps answer your question or not; I hope so. If you have ever seen the 4 Spiritual Laws booklet, it is a wonderful aid to just sit down and go thru it together. A similar booklet like that (geared for children) is what I used when my sons were just 3 and 6 years old. They prayed and accepted Christ with tears streaming down their little cheeks right there on our sofa. I took their photo afterwards, and marked the date in their Bibles, and they still mark that as the day they got saved.
Izzy
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