If we are going to lead souls to Christ, there are a few qualification that we need.
1st. A DEFINITE EXPERIENCE is needed. We must be able to say with Paul.
I KNOW whom I have believed, and am persuaded that he is able to keep that which I have committed unto him against that day.
II Timothy 1:12.
Or to exclaim with the blind man.
WHETHER he be a sinner or no, I know not: one thing I know, that, whereas I was blind, now I see.
John 9:25
One who would have real success must he himself, or herself thoroughly converted, and live a holy life. Just as the telegraph wire must be insulated, before it can carry the electric message, so the Christian must be insulated from his old life of sin, before he can carry the gospel message to lost souls.
2nd. A LOVE FOR SOULS needed.
Paul’s heart yearned for his brethren.
I HAVE great heaviness and continued sorrow in my heart. For I could wish that myself were accursed from Christ for my brethren.
Romans 9:2-3.
3rd. A realization that SOULS ARE LOST, AND WE MAY be held RESPONSIBLE FOR THEM.
FOR what shall it profit a man, if he shall gain the whole world, and lose his own soul?
Mark 8:36.
WHEN I say unto the wicked, O wicked man, thou shalt surely die; if thou dost not speak to warn the wicked from his way, that wicked man shall die in his iniquity; but his blood will I require at thine hand.
Nevertheless, if thou warn the wicked of his way to turn from it; if he do not turn from his way, he shall die in his iniquity; but thou hast delivered thy soul.
Ezekiel 33:8-9.
4th. A WORKING KNOWLEDGE of the Bible is needed.
It is God’s word that is used by the Spirit in the saving of a soul, and not man’s word.
AND take the helmet of salvation, and the sword of the Spirit, which is the word of God.
Ephesians 6:17.
STUDY to show thyself approved unto God, a workman that needeth not to be ashamed, rightly dividing the word of truth.
II Timothy 2:15.
SO shall my word be that goeth forth out of my mouth: it shall not return unto me void, but it shall accomplish that which I please, and it shall prosper in the thing whereto I sent it.
Isaiah 55:11.
Through the use of the word of God, you are to seek to accomplish the following things.
1st. To show men their need of a Savior.
2nd. To show them Jesus as the Savior they need.
3rd. To show them how to make this Savior their own.
4th. To meet the difficulties in the way of their accepting Christ.
5th. The one who would have real success must live a life of prayer, and be baptized with the Holy Ghost.
Notice what the Lord is saying to us, to encourage us in our efforts to save souls.
HE that winneth souls is wise.
Proverbs 11:30.
AND they that be wise shall shine as the brightness of the firmament; and they that turn many to righteousness as the stars for ever and ever.
Daniel 12:3.
LET him know, that he which converteth the sinner from the error of his way shall save a soul from death, and shall hide a multitude of sins.
James 5:20.
God help us to be faithful to our trust!