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Just Walk Across the Room: Simple Steps Pointing People to Faith (utgåvan 2012)

av Bill Hybels (Författare)

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What if you knew that by simply crossing the room and saying hello to someone, you could change that person's forever? Just a few steps to make an eternal difference. It has nothing to do with methods and everything to do with taking a genuine interest in another human being. All you need is a heart that's in tune with the Holy Spirit and a willingness to venture out of your "Circle of Comfort" and into another person's life. Just Walk Across the Room brings personal evangelism into the twenty-first century. Building on the solid foundation laid in Becoming a Contagious Christian, Bill Hybels shows how you can participate in the model first set by Jesus, who stepped down from heaven 2,000 years ago to bring hope and redemption to broken people living in a fallen world. Now it's your turn. Your journey may not be as dramatic, but it can have a life-changing impact for someone standing a few steps away from you--and for you as well, as you learn the power of extending care, compassion, and inclusiveness under the guidance of the Holy Spirit. The highest value in personal evangelism is cooperating with the Spirit, says Hybels. This means playing only the role you're meant to play--walking when the Spirit says to walk, talking when he says to talk, and falling silent when he suggests that you've said enough. Hybels encourages you to "live in 3D" ... Developing friendships Discovering stories Discerning appropriate next steps ... as a means of learning to understand the Holy Spirit's promptings. With fresh perspectives from his own reflections and experiences collected during his most recent decade of ministry, Bill Hybels shows with convincing and inspiring clarity the power of this personal, richly relational approach to evangelism. The stakes are high. The implications are eternal. And you may be only a conversation away from having an eternal impact on someone's life--if you will just walk across the room.… (mer)
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Titel:Just Walk Across the Room: Simple Steps Pointing People to Faith
Författare:Bill Hybels (Författare)
Info:Zondervan (2012), 221 pages
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An excellent book. If more Christians read and practiced what Hybels suggests, fewer non-Christians would dislike Christians. ( )
  dlinnen | Feb 3, 2024 |
I have a lot of mixed feelings about this book - primarily, I think, because Hybels seems to have mixed messages in it.

The chapter about discovering others' stories was my favorite; it had some good nuggets. Hybels emphasizes in some chapters that God created us the way He did for a purpose, and encourages us to "stay true to ourselves" when we are interacting with non-believers. We're not supposed to take on the persona of a forceful evangelist/super missionary and toss aside the gifts that God has given to us. We can serve Him with the personality that He has gifted to us as individuals. I really liked this bit, as it's something I see forgotten frequently!

"God made you exactly as you are. He wired you and gave you the temptation and the experience and the background that you have because he wanted someone just like you in this world right now." p.84

However, Hybels seems to change his tune a little later in the book. Hybels claims to be "mildly extroverted", though I have a hard time buying the "mild" part. The large bulk of his stories of people being faithful to make friendships with non-believers that eventually led them to know Christ are stories about him doing the work, although he also includes a couple of stories from his church members.

He sounds very, very busy, and I don't mean that in a good way. He has regular date nights with his wife, plus weekly "seeker" dinners, plus he pastors a large church, plus he has a sailing group, plus he goes out of his way to always be with people in crowded places, plus, plus, plus. As an introvert, I became exhausted just reading about everything he does on a regular basis! And while I can appreciate that he's serving God in a way that befits his personality, I got the distinct impression that he didn't actually mean his earlier claim about serving God the way we are. There were no stories of introverts included in the book that I can remember. Not one.

At one point, he mentions a man who wrote jingles for a living and who became a Christian (who, of course, also attends his church, because why would anyone possibly want to attend any other church?); he states he encouraged this man to stop writing jingles and to do something for Christ instead. "Write songs that help people go to heaven." p.181

Hold up there, Hybels. Since when does a person have to be doing "Christian" work to serve God? He says in the beginning of his book that people assume he has constant interaction with non-believers because he's a pastor and he actually has much more contact with Christians, and is jealous of laypersons who work in a secular environment. And yet he seems to only believe that "Christian" work is the way to truly serve God. How does he know that God didn't have plans for the man at the advertising agency where he worked? Undoubtedly, there were other non-believers there that he already had relationships with and who needed to know Christ.

Also, one chapter is all about learning to tell your story in a concise, effective way to those who inquire. Hybels believes a person should focus on their before/after conversion experience. Throughout the entire book, he talks to Christians as if all Christians became believers as adults (which, not surprisingly, is when Hybels came to know Christ). Never is it even considered an option that someone might believe as a child, so I couldn't relate much at all. I became a Christian when I was 5 years old and so I, quite frankly, don't have a dramatic before and after story with which to wow everyone.

There were a few other tidbits here and there that rubbed me the wrong way (Hybels talks of threatening his babysitters, for one... why that would be necessary is completely beyond me!), but I won't list anything more as this review is already too long.

The good: I like that Hybels is encouraging Christians to get outside their Christian bubbles, the way Jesus did, and yet not compromise their own beliefs or message. It is possible to love and value people without justifying or "accepting" their sin.

"….even the most "Christlike" Christians on the planet will be totally ineffective unless they get near people who are living far from God." p.82

"[Jesus] didn't expect people who had lived their entire lives far from God to be holy when he encountered them. What was of utmost importance to Jesus was that irreligious people were willing for him to make them holy." p.88

However, as an introvert, I cannot recommend this book as it seems to disregard the fact that not everyone has the exact same personality, or has had all the exact same experiences, as Bill Hybels. ( )
  RachelRachelRachel | Nov 21, 2023 |
Very easy book to read; conversational, warm, encouraging in style. Evangelism isn't rocket science, but we like to make it rocket science. I liked the section on faith stories and he also had some helpful tips and suggestions. And it was helpful to have him point out that our role may be just to help someone a little, not get them all the way to being an elder in the church. This book should make evangelism less scary for most people. ( )
  Luke_Brown | Sep 10, 2016 |
Wonderful.
  jaburwell | Jul 27, 2008 |
Excellent treatise on effective witnessing. ( )
  wktarin | Apr 5, 2008 |
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What if you knew that by simply crossing the room and saying hello to someone, you could change that person's forever? Just a few steps to make an eternal difference. It has nothing to do with methods and everything to do with taking a genuine interest in another human being. All you need is a heart that's in tune with the Holy Spirit and a willingness to venture out of your "Circle of Comfort" and into another person's life. Just Walk Across the Room brings personal evangelism into the twenty-first century. Building on the solid foundation laid in Becoming a Contagious Christian, Bill Hybels shows how you can participate in the model first set by Jesus, who stepped down from heaven 2,000 years ago to bring hope and redemption to broken people living in a fallen world. Now it's your turn. Your journey may not be as dramatic, but it can have a life-changing impact for someone standing a few steps away from you--and for you as well, as you learn the power of extending care, compassion, and inclusiveness under the guidance of the Holy Spirit. The highest value in personal evangelism is cooperating with the Spirit, says Hybels. This means playing only the role you're meant to play--walking when the Spirit says to walk, talking when he says to talk, and falling silent when he suggests that you've said enough. Hybels encourages you to "live in 3D" ... Developing friendships Discovering stories Discerning appropriate next steps ... as a means of learning to understand the Holy Spirit's promptings. With fresh perspectives from his own reflections and experiences collected during his most recent decade of ministry, Bill Hybels shows with convincing and inspiring clarity the power of this personal, richly relational approach to evangelism. The stakes are high. The implications are eternal. And you may be only a conversation away from having an eternal impact on someone's life--if you will just walk across the room.

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