Opening Closed Minds
Chapter 8 of I Hate Witnessing
by Dick Innes

I Hate Witnessing
by Dick Innes
ISBN 0-9642525-0-3

It’s not what it sounds! This is not a manual of ‘what to say’ through gritted teeth when ‘out doing witnessing’. Instead, the book initially shows how to get off the ‘Guilt Trip’ of wrong motivation for evangelism. It goes on to show what things actually communicate Christ effectively to others; how to get past closed minds; and examines the methods Jesus used in building bridges—using personalized and appropriate ways to reach individual people through their felt needs. These essential lessons in evangelism are highly relevant to online witness also. This udated edition includes a chapter on web evangelism strategies.

Two sample chapters are available online: "Jesus the Communicator" and "Needs Based Evangelism" ... see links below. These two chapters can be syndicated into any other website with a few lines of easy-to-copy Javascript code. See OTHER BOOKS by Dick: How to Mend a Broken Heart and You Can't Fly With a Broken Wing.

An excellent 70-minute talk by Dick, taking up many of the themes of the book, is available Click HERE:

Needs-based Evangelism
In-depth look at the issues behind effective communication of the Gospel.

For Chapter 8 of I Hate Witnessing: Click HERE for "Needs Based Evangelism"

For Chapter 9 of I Hate Witnessing: Click HERE for "Jesus, the Communicator"