Included in this set are all three volumes of Torrey's series on How to Work For Christ, and includes the books Personal Work, Methods of Christian Work, and Preaching and Teaching the Word of God. This is a hugely useful set for anyone wanting to do work for the Kingdom of God.
This edition includes a fully-functional Active Table of Contents to get you where you want to be quickly and easily, as these books are likely to be reviewed by the reader again and again.
Author's Preface: This book is written for both ministers and laymen. It will be of help to the minister in suggesting to him how to make full proof of his own ministry and how to get his people to work. It will be of help to laymen in leading them into many fields of fruitful labor for Christ.
The Church of Christ is full of people who wish to work for their Master but do not know how. This book is intended to tell them how. It contains no untried theories, but describes many methods of work that have been put to the test of actual experiment and have succeeded. So far as I know, there is no other book that covers the same field. For years it has been upon my heart to write this book, and I have been asked again and again to do so. But I have never found time for it until now. May it be used of God to the conversion of thousands to Christ.
Contents:
Book One -- Personal Work
Chapter 1: The Importance and Advantages of Personal Work
Chapter 2: The Conditions of Success
Chapter 3: Where to do Personal Work
Chapter 4: How to Begin
Chapter 5: How to Deal with those who Realize their Need of a Savior and Really Desire to be Saved
Chapter 6: How to Deal with those who have Little or no Concern about their Souls
Chapter 7: How to Deal with those who have Difficulties
Chapter 8: How to Deal with those who Entertain False Hopes
Chapter 9: How to Deal with those who Lack Assurance
Chapter 10: How to Deal with Backsliders
Chapter 11: How to Deal with Professed Skeptics and Infidels
Chapter 12: How to Deal with those who Wish to put off a Decision until Some Other Time
Chapter 13: How to Deal with the Deluded
Chapter 14: How to Deal with Christians who Need Counsel, Rebuke, Encouragement or Comfort
Chapter 15: Some Hints and Suggestions for Personal Work
Book Two -- Methods Of Christian Work
Chapter 1: House to House Visitation
Chapter 2: Cottage Meetings
Chapter 3: Parlor Meetings
Chapter 4: The Church Prayer Meeting
Chapter 5: The Use of Tracts
Chapter 6: Open-Air Meetings
Chapter 7: Tent Work
Chapter 8: The Use of Autos, Trailers, etc.
Chapter 9: Colportage Work
Chapter 10: Services in Theaters, Circuses, etc.
Chapter 11: Organizing and Conducting a Gospel Mission
Chapter 12: Meetings in Jails, Hospitals, Poorhouses, etc.
Chapter 13: Revival Meetings
Chapter 14: The After Meeting
Chapter 15: Children's Meetings
Chapter 16: Advertising the Meetings
Chapter 17: Conduct of Funerals
Book Three -- Preaching And Teaching The Word Of God
Chapter 1: How to Prepare a Sermon
Chapter 2: Preparation and Delivery of Bible Readings
Chapter 3: Illustrations and Their Use
Chapter 4: Teaching the Bible
Chapter 5: Textual Sermons in Outline
Chapter 6: Topical Sermons in Outline
Chapter 7: Expository Sermons and Bible Readings in Outline
R.A. Torrey (1856 - 1928)
An American evangelist, pastor, educator, and writer. Called by D. L. Moody to head Bible institute in Chicago (now Moody Bible Institute). Dean of Bible Institute of Los Angeles. Pastorates included Chicago Avenue Church (now Moody Memorial) and Church of the Open Door, Los Angeles. Worldwide evangelistic meetings with Charlie Alexander. Founded Montrose Bible Conference, PA. Wrote more than forty books.Torrey held his last evangelistic meeting in Florida in 1927, additional meetings being canceled because of his failing health. He died at home in Asheville, North Carolina, on October 26, 1928, having preached throughout the world and written more than 40 books. Torrey-Gray Auditorium, the main auditorium at Moody, was named for Torrey and his successor, James M. Gray. At Biola, the Torrey Honors Institute honors him, as does the university's annual Bible conference.
Reuben Archer Torrey was an American evangelist, pastor, educator, and writer. Held evangelistic meetings around the world with song leader Charlie Alexander. Called by D.L. Moody to head the Bible Institute of the Chicago Evangelization Society (now Moody Bible Institute); Dean of Bible Institute of Los Angeles; pastorates included Chicago Avenue Church (now Moody Memorial Church) and Church of the Open Door, Los Angeles.
Besides his obvious gifts in all these areas, he was also a man of prayer, a student of the Bible, and an outstanding personal soul-winner. It is said that he daily read the Bible in four languages, having a good working knowledge of Greek and Hebrew. Some students of church history feel he did more to promote personal evangelism than any other one man since the days of the apostles. His prayer life has seldom been equaled in the annals of Christendom.
Reuben A. Torrey wrote some forty books and his practical writings on the Holy Spirit, prayer, salvation, soul-winning, and evangelism are still favorites of many Christians.
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