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Sharing Christ

with ESL

Students By Barbara Kinney Black

Florida ESL Conference

September 2019

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1 – I prayed and received Jesus Christ into my

heart and life this evening.

2 – I would like to have more information about

how to have a personal relationship with Jesus

Christ.

3 – I would be interested in information on Bible

studies for new Christians.

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prayed!

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Ten Basic Steps Toward

Christian Maturity: The

Uniqueness of JesusBy Bill Bright, Campus Crusade for Christ

• The Earthly Life of

Jesus

• The Death of Jesus

• The Resurrection

of Jesus

• Jesus Living in the

Christian

• The Uniqueness of

Jesus

• The Prophecies

about Jesus

https://www.cru.org/us/en/train-and-grow/10-basic-steps/intro-the-uniqueness-of-jesus.html ___________________________________

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Slide 5 The Foundation of the

Christian Faith:

Firm or Faulty?By W. Allen Morris, Allen Morris Foundation

Can I Really Trust the Bible?

Lesson on the archaeological,

scientific, and historical proofs of

the authenticity of the Bible

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Slide 6 We used

the Lipson

method of

pictures

with

simple

sentences

to teach

the

material.

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Can I Trust the Bible?

1. Introduction

2. Present Content

3. Vocabulary

4. Investigation

5. Interaction

6. Prayer

7. Praise

Outline

for each

Bible

Study

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Slide 9 * “Lord, for any student who does not

know you, please bring additional

persons into their lives who will share

with them. Draw them to yourself.”

* “Lord, for any student who does

know you, please draw them closer to

you and give them a hunger to know

you more and more.”

* “Lord, for any student who has

needs in their lives, do something

to cause them to recognize your

hand working in their lives.”

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Prepare Your

Two-Minute Testimony

1.What I was like before

receiving Christ.

2.How I came to know I

needed Christ.

3.How Christ came into my life.

4.How Christ changed my life.

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Slide 11 Be Ready to Share

1 Peter 3:5 - Always be

prepared to give an

answer to everyone

who asks you to

give the reason for the

hope that you have.

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Slide 12 Ways to Share Christ

with Students

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First

Baptist

Church

Sebring

Florida

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Slide 14 Two Ways to Use Openings

in Conversation to Share

Christ with Students

1. Passive – Waiting for the

conversation to open

2. Proactive – Probing with

leading questions to open a

gospel conversation

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Tent

Rocks

New

Mexico

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Kristy - the

divine

appointment

our travel

was

redirected

in order to

meet

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So shall my word be that goes out from

my mouth; it shall not return to me empty, but it shall

accomplish that which I purpose.

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Slide 18 Passive Exposure • bookmarks

• magnets

• coffee mugs

• key chains

• New Testaments

in students’ first

language

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The Gospel Beads Key Chain

Each color

represents

one part

of the

gospel

story

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Active Exposure1.Biblical Principles shared

as part of the lesson plan.

2.Pray with and for your

students.

3.Teach holidays with a

Christian heritage.

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Slide 21 Incorporate

biblical

principles

into lesson

plans. Use

activities

relative to

lesson’s

content

which

practice

language.

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Pastors completing a biblical principle

activity putting a Scripture into correct

order during ESL Awareness Conference

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Praying in

class for

students’

requests

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Lipson

Lessons

on

Christian

Themed

Holidays

Thanksgiving

Christmas

Valentine’s Day

St. Patrick’s

Day

Easter

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Black

Red

White

Green

blue

yellow

I have sinned. I can ask Jesus to forgive my sins.

Jesus’ blood will cleanse me from my sins.

Because of Jesus, I can be clean before God.

I receive eternal life.

I will go to Heaven when I die.

I will receive a crown of life.

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Presented by

ESL Students of First

Baptist Church

Hotel

Heaven

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Pilar and Martina with their husbands – my

first two ESL students - they both came to

Christ after the Hotel Heaven play.

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Show The Jesus Film in

Students’ First Languages

Visit: www.jesusfilm.org

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Teach an

ESL

Sunday

School

class

using

the Bible

as the

textbook

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Slide 30 Tried and True Everyday

English from Genesis for

High Beginner through

Intermediate Levels

Available from www.TriedandTrueESLResources.com ___________________________________

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EvangeCube a 7-panel cube that

unfolds the gospel story of salvation

e3resources.org

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Slide 32 Can you take a single sheet of

paper, make just one straight

cut, and end up with a cross?

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Slide 33 Every scrap

from the

single cut is

assembled to

tell the

prophecies

and

historical

account of

Jesus on the

cross

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If you take

the cross

out of the

picture

. . . . . . . . .

the

remaining

bits leave

you with

HELL

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With the cross, HELL is conquered!

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Slide 36 Pastor Herb

Never Retire

And how can

anyone preach

unless they are

sent? As it is

written: “How

beautiful are

the feet of

those who bring

good news!”

Paul in Romans

10:15 quoting

Isaiah 52:7

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Mark a

pocket sized

New

Testament

with the plan

of salvation

Scriptures.

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M

On the inside fly leaf

of the New

Testament write:

1. Conversation

Opening Probing

Questions

2. Your Personal

Testimony

3. Five Scriptures of

Gospel Presentation

and page numbers

Opening Probing Question Examples: You seem to have a wonderful life here. Have you ever thought about the next life? If you were to unfortunately die today and stand before God and He were to ask you, ‘Why should I let you in to my Heaven?’, what would you say?

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Slide 39 1. Circle the first

Scripture in the

gospel

presentation:

Romans 3:23.

2. At the bottom of

the page, write the

second Scriptural

reference and

page number:

Romans 6:23.

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Continue circling Scriptures

and writing the page number

of the next Scripture at the

bottom of each page.

2.Romans 6:23

3.John 1:12

4.Romans 10:13

5.Revelation 3:20

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Slide 41 Sample Conclusion

Statement:

“Are you willing to

accept God’s free

offer of eternal life

and forgiveness of

your sins?”

YES – lead in

sinner’s prayer

NO – “Perhaps

we’ll have another

opportunity to

speak on this

topic.”

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Lead person

in a sinner’s

prayer

having them

repeat after

you like

repeating

wedding

vows.

Inside back fly leaf

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Have available tracts in

students’ first languages

and English.

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https://www.nambstore.com/shopping_product_list.asp

Multiple languages available at

website below

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Slide 45 Bi-lingual tracts

are easy to use

when language

is a barrier.

_ http://www.4laws.com/laws/englishkgp/default.htm __________________________________

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The

Presbyterian

Church in

America’s

website

Mission to

North America

ESL has lots of

ESL materials

for classroom

use.

_ https://pcamna.org/esl-ministries/ __________________________________

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Slide 47 Here’s one

example from

the PCA

website in use

at First Baptist

Church

Orlando.

Free PDA

download.

https://pcamna.org/wp-content/uploads/2013/05/ScriptureDevotionsFo-BeginningEnglishLanguageLearners.pdf Example of first lesson

LIGHT VERSE #1 1 John 1:5 God is light.

There is no darkness in Him at all. New

International Reader’s Version Objective

God is light. Materials A candle or

flashlight. Copies of the verse in the

native languages of your students.

Devotional Write the verse on the board

and read it aloud. Point out and recite the

word darkness. Turn off the lights in your

classroom to communicate the meaning of

darkness. Turn on the flashlight or light

the candle to communicate the meaning of

light Recite the word light.

Gesture/mime to communicate that God is

light—that He is the Light in our darkness.

Have students recite the verse with you.

Distribute copies of the verses in the

students’ languages. Pray.

• Purpose to Share Christ with

Students

• Pray for Opportunities to Share


• Prepare Resources for Sharing


• Plant Seeds through Passive

Learning

• Proactively Probe for Openings in

Conversations

• Praise God when Students Come to

Christ

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Slide 49 Thanks for your attention today.

Please stop by the Tried and True

ESL Resources table for further

information and to review

available resources.

TGBTG!

Barbara Kinney Black

TriedandTrueESLResources.com

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