Bill Morgan Witnessing Tools and Tips

Witnessing as a Learned Skill, Not a Performance

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Okay, great. Well, a quick introduction. First, I'm honored to be here and speaking with you guys. My name is Bill Morgan. I'm an engineer. I've been one for 37 years. And I was an atheist for many years.

And I think my passion for creation is because I felt I was lied to about something the most important thing in life. And so I have a passion to share creation. And tonight's lesson, you probably won't learn too much new science wise.

But tips on sharing your faith with people because you can have all the knowledge in the world, but if you're not sharing it, it's not getting out there. So that's my goal. I do lots of street witnessing and evangelism.

And I can say with 100 certainty, millions and millions and millions of people are eager for the gospel and the message of Christ. And so hopefully this lesson will encourage you. And it'll be interactive, I'll be asking questions.

So the goals of this lesson, to give a strategy, you can have all the knowledge in the world. But if you don't have a strategy, you might be scared to share it. Hopefully, this will give you guys some tips and sharing your faith with other people.

Now, suppose you were assigned an engineering project, I was an engineer for many, many years, I still do consulting work. And your boss said, Hey, we need you to bore underneath some railroad tracks.

I'll just quiz you. I'll just quiz Carolyn. Carolyn, what would be a great way to start this project very first thing you could do?

She's muted. Okay. I'm here. Well, first, I have to understand what the assignment is. Because frankly, I'm not an engineer. And I don't understand what it means to bore under railroad tracks.

Well, I've gotten many, many projects where I didn't have the slightest idea how to do it. But if my boss did tell me once I had to bore underneath some railroad tracks. So I looked up people who've been doing it for many, many years.

And I said, Hey, how do I bore underneath railroad tracks? Instead of starting at zero with something I like to talk to someone who's done it for a long, long time, and learn from them. So suppose you wanted to become a better witness, or what could you do?

Learn from someone who has done it successfully. Why start at zero, learn from other people's mistakes when possible. Amen. So it's good to learn from mistakes, but learn from other people. Now, who would be a great example for witnessing?

Jesus, right? Jesus shares many, many great witnessing tips for us that we can use. And hopefully you guys will use them as well. Now, I'll quiz you. What do you think is the number one witnessing tip?

Love, Questions, and Knowing Your Audience

Besides being filled with the Holy Spirit? What's a great witness? What is a great witness?

Jeff, Jeff, can you mute and take off your video? Turn off video? Yeah, and mute.

Unmute. Okay, a great witnessing tip is you got to be kind, loving and respectful. Suppose you've got all the knowledge in the world and you're saying to someone, you dummy, you moron, how could you be so, they're not going to say, I love this conversation.

They'll say, get away from me. It might be hard at times, but we have to be kind, respectful and loving to witness the people. 1 Corinthians 13, 1, if you speak with the tongues of men, of an angels, and do not have what?

Love, you're a noisy gong or a clanging cymbal. So it was me.

Well, I said, that's me.

Okay. Well, you got to work on that, because we want to lead these people to Christ. We don't want to win a science argument. Amen.

Amen.

And I believe creation is a fantastic foundation for saving relationship. Okay. Now, I love this question. I asked people this, did Jesus ever yell and scream at people? Anybody?

Yes.

Yes. When I go witnessing, a lot of people might say, well, not a lot, but they say, well, I'm not religious. I'm not into religion. There's a lot of hypocrites and religion and all that. I'll say, I got a Bible question.

Did Jesus ever yell at people? And they'll say, oh, no, because they have this image of little Jesus in the manger. I said, Jesus yelled and screamed at religious hypocrites. People that were misusing the goodness of God for their prophet, he didn't like.

So I'll tell people, hey, you're just like Jesus. Neither one of you like religious hypocrites. So anyway, it's not about religion. It's about truth. Amen. You're not joining a religion, you're joining the truth of God and the gospel.

So witnessing tip number two. I love this tip. Ask questions. Do not give a 30 minute speech to somebody, they're going to be begging to get out of there. Amen. And I've seen, well, meaning people do this when they witness, they talk and they talk and they talk.

Let the other person be the focus of the conversation. And you do that by asking questions. Now, did Jesus have questions? Yes. Discussion. I'll take one answer. Why is asking questions a great way to witness?

Because it engages the other person.

Right. It makes them the focus. And that's so important. And you get to know who you're talking to as well. Amen. Trivia question. How many different questions did Jesus ask in the New Testament? I'll take one guess.

Okay, I'll guess 40. Oh, I'm not gonna guess. Just kidding.

This is also a fun Bible study. 135 different questions. In different gospels, he would ask the same question, but the MondayMorningReview .wordpress counted 135 different questions. Did he ever ask a question to learn?

No.

He never. Why would he ask questions then?

So that the other people can learn.

Amen. It's a great teaching tool. So quick review. What was witnessing tip number one?

Be kind.

Be kind. And witnessing. Tip number two?

Ask questions.

Very good. Good. And witnessing is so easy if you do that. You're not arguing with the person, you're trying to get to know who they are and where they're at. Very important. After you ask a question, become a great listener.

Right? Really pay attention to the person. And they're going to enjoy being witnessed to. Witnessing tip number three. There's something that's very important for comedians. That's also important for witnessing.

I'll take one answer. Who wants to shout out an answer? What do comedians really have to know?

Their audience. Oh, Terry, right on.

Their audience. You got to know your audience. You don't know who you're witnessing to. They might need a creation witness. They might not need a creation witness. Amen. They might need a hope, a love, a peace type of witness.

And so if you just go out there and you start talking about biochemistry and genetics, they might not even know what you're talking about. And that might not be what they need. Amen.

Yeah.

For me, I needed a science witness because I truly thought Christians were anti-science and didn't know anything about it. So that's the witness I needed. And the way to know your audience is how?

Ask questions.

Amen. But doesn't that make sense? We can't use the same witness to everybody.

Yes.

Because everybody might have a different spiritual need. I have become all things to all men so that I might, by all means, save some. So I'd love that. Paul would talk to different people depending on who they are.

So you guys like that?

Yes.

And again, not every person out there needs a creation witness. But many do. And it's a great foundation for belief in God. Okay. Just like playing a sport. How do you get better?

Practice, Growth, and Not Waiting to Be Perfect

Practice.

Practice.

Practice. If you want to be a better witnesser, what do you have to do?

Witness.

Practice.

Okay, I want one volunteer. Who would like, who, who here has played a sport? I'll ask you some simple questions. I'll take the first volunteer.

Not me.

Not me either.

Any of you?

Coached a sport.

Close enough.

What sport was that?

Soccer for little kids.

Okay, that's good. The first time those little kids played, were they great?

No.

Did they quit? Or did they come back again?

Um, most of them came back, but some of them quit.

Oh, okay. And those who didn't quit? Were they great the second.

Time?

No.

But I'll bet they were a little bit better, right?

They got better. Most of them got better.

Will they ever be perfect soccer players?

No.

No, but the more they come back and practice, the what?

The better they'll get.

I think a lot of Christians want to wait until they'll be perfect before they go out there and witness. And if they're waiting for that, they'll never go, right? I had a guy once tell me, oh, I went witnessing once it went terrible.

Well, that's life. You go out there and you learn from your mistakes. Amen.

Yeah, amen.

But there are, Bill, there were also players who didn't care to learn from their mistakes and kept coming but never improved.

That's just like all humankind, right?

Yeah, I bet there's a parallel there, too.

Oh, yeah, there are parallels in many ways. Have any of you ever heard somebody say, or have you guys ever said this? You know, if you talk to someone, then you go your separate ways. And you say, oh, I should have said this.

Ever happened?

Yes, all the time.

All the time. Next time, you might be ready to share that. But that comes from practice. So to encourage you guys, don't be discouraged. You're never going to be perfect. But even if you just show that you care about the person, is that a witness?

Yes.

So it's so important to show your faith. You guys recognize that man? Ray Comfort. I love him. I love his witnessing. He's got great videos. If you ever want to see good videos on YouTube, Ray Comfort.

He says he drags his heel every time he goes witnessing, that he's nervous and doesn't really want to go. But every time he's dancing on his toes afterwards. So before, some of you might relate to this.

It's like, oh, I don't really want to go witnessing today. But afterwards, it's like, wow, I should do that every day. Can anybody relate to that?

No.

But it's normal to not want to go necessarily and talk yourself out of it. But if you do go, most of the time, you'll be incredibly blessed. So don't be nervous. Go out there and show your faith. Okay, quiz time.

Creation, Evolution, and the Evidence of Design

What is the theory of evolution?

Oh, boy.

Nonsense.

Life started from non-life and somehow it mysteriously became all of the complexity that we have now.

And that chance was involved. It's a chance combinations.

Yes. Over an incredible amount of time that we can't even imagine.

Yes, it's not billions of years. So starting at really basic, what is the theory of evolution? To me, it is the opinion that you have bacteria ancestors. You have ape ancestors. Okay? The word evolution means change.

And that could mean different things to different people. You might be talking to someone and they think evolution means, hey, you can breed dogs. Is it true that dogs can be bred?

Yes.

Absolutely. And so they might be thinking, wow, this crazy creation person doesn't believe you can breed dogs. So it's important to get the definition out. So Robin, I'm going to ask you to volunteer and ask me, what do I think?

And I'm going to give what I think is the best answer. So you got to pay attention. Then I'm going to quiz three of you randomly with evolution. And I encourage you to try my answer. Okay? So I'll start with my answer.

And then I'll randomly quiz three people in this chat. Robin, could you ask me, Bill, what do you think about the theory of evolution?

Okay. So Bill, what do you think of the theory of evolution?

No comment. No, just kidding. Okay. Thank you very much. I believe and this is how I share my faith. And when I witness this is what I think. I believe apes make apes. People make people and ladybugs make what?

Ladybugs. And that's not religious. That's genetic. Okay. So, apes make apes, people make people, ladybugs make ladybugs. That's not religious. That's what?

Genetics. Science.

Well, even more specifically, that's genetics. So everybody say genetics. Okay. Many people who don't believe in God think all we're going on is the Bible and religious type teaching, but we can easily destroy them lovingly with science argument.

So I'm going to randomly call on three people. I'm going to ask you about the theory of evolution. And I hope you say apes make apes, people make people. But then you got to come up with the third animal.

And I'm going to accuse you of being religious. And then you have to answer that. No, it's genetic. Okay. So let's see. Joyce, are you there, Joyce? Yeah. Suppose someone came up to you tomorrow, Joyce, and said, Are you a Christian?

What would you say? Yes. And they're very polite and kind and they say, Oh, that's interesting. Well, Joyce, what about evolution? How do you handle that? What could you say?

Apes make apes, people make people and dragonflies make.

Dragonflies. Wow, very good. Well, that's religious, isn't it, Joyce? Nope. No, it's genetic. It's not religious. It's what, Joyce? Genetics. Amen. All right. Good round of applause for Joyce. Biochemistry, everything else.

Very, very good. Let's see. Robin. Are you there, Robin? I guess I am. Okay, Robin. Suppose someone tomorrow asked you, Are.

You a Christian? What would you say? I am a follower of Christ.

Amen. But what about evolution? I bet that's a big problem for.

You, isn't it? No, no, actually. Creation aligns with the Bible and the Bible aligns with creation and it works out. Okay.

Do you want to try my little answer? Apes make? Oh, well,.

Joyce had an easier question. It was the same one. It didn't seem like the same one. The answer is supposed to be the same. Oh, yes. Okay. So apes make apes and hold on. People people make people and dogs make dogs.

Isn't that religious, though? No, no, actually, that's genetic. You got it. Very good.

And you can build your defense of the gospel. Just yesterday, I did a zoom with fourth and fifth graders. Same thing, same lesson. Very good. Okay, Terry, are you there, Terry? I am here,.

But the crows are being really loud and my dog's barking at.

Them. So if it's too much, you can use crows as your example. Okay. So Terry, suppose someone asked you, Are you a Christian? What would you say? I am. What about evolution? That must be a.

Big problem for you. Well, I'm pretty sure. I know for sure that apes make apes and people make people and crows make.

Crows. That's religious nonsense. How can you believe something like that, Terry? Not religious. That's just genetics. You got it. Very, very good. And a little fun trivia years ago, my daughter was about seven witnessing with me.

And that's what she said. Crows make crows to a high school student. But very good. You can use these arguments with a three year old for a PhD. Amen. Because that's what we observe. Okay, I'll tear through some slides here.

Evolutionists believe that all life is related to each other. There we are up at the top. Humans. Looks like Darwin. If you're an evolutionist, you believe that you are related to apes. If you're an evolutionist, you believe you are related to pine trees, because all life is related.

If you're related to pine trees, what did you do after Christmas this year? You threw out a relative, right? And if you're an evolutionist, you believe you are related to bacteria. So if you wash your hands with antibacterial soap, what are you doing?

Killing your relative. And I say with all humility and kindness, to believe you're related to bacteria is one of the dumbest, stupidest anti-scientific beliefs you could possibly have. So why do people believe it?

Because the people who initiated this hated God, and had to come up with an alternative explanation of how we got here. And what's sad is a lot of Christians are buying in to a theory that is based on God hating, but you are not related to bacteria.

Any comments on this? Okay, I will press on. That's an electron microscope image of bacteria on the head of a pin. If you're an evolutionist, that should be in your family album. Those are all your relatives hanging out on a pin.

It's funny, but it's sad that people buy into this just to get around the existence of God. So very, very important. Don't forget the theory of evolution teaches you have bacterium ancestors. Creation teaches you only have what?

Human.

Human. And this is something you can easily share as you share your faith with anybody. Your parents were human, your grandparents were human, your great grandparents, etc, etc. And everything in science teaches humans can only make human.

So quick review. June, what about evolution?

What about evolution?

Well, you're a Christian, so you must struggle with it, right? What's your belief, June?

I believe that apes make apes and people make people and spiders make spiders.

Oh, you're one of those religious fanatics, aren't you?

No, that's genetics.

You got it. Very, very good. And share these simple facts with people. Okay. When I was 14, my biology teacher put this on the wall and said we're related to ape men. I believe that because I love science.

I believe my teacher and I went from Christian to atheist because my teacher taught me this. And I knew the Bible said that humans were created instantly. For 12 years, I was an atheist. And the main thing that got me out of being an atheist was realizing that.

What are you guys looking at when you look at that?

A drawing.

No, that's not evolution. Those are cartoon drawings. This is huge. Very important. The theory of evolution has two things. Drawings and stories. They don't have evidence. They got a lot of drawings and a lot of stories.

Well, Bill, isn't that, that's meant by some people to be evolution, but we know it as a cartoon.

Right, right. But I thought I was looking at evolution when I saw that. I go, I see it. But those are drawings. And that's how they should teach it. They should teach the facts to the students. Now, the schools teach this.

But they don't teach this. They don't tell you the details on the fossil. And if they did, nobody would believe in it. Lucy was an ape that could walk upright just like Bonobo. I'm old. They taught me Neanderthal man was evident.

He has human DNA. They found fossils of Neanderthal as human as anybody in this chat. They taught that to the students. The open minded students would never believe in the theory of evolution. Here's a fun question.

I'll quiz Jeff. This is your question, Jeff. Why do the textbooks only have drawings as evidence for evolution? Instead of photographs?

He doesn't want to answer.

Okay, whoever said that who wants to answer? I'll take the first answer. Go.

What was the question?

Why do the textbooks only have drawings as evidence for evolution? Instead of photographs, because they don't have nothing to photograph. There's no observational.

Evidence, no observational evidence. And isn't that.

Pitiful that they're teaching it as if it's science? What would you expect to see if the theory of evolution were true? Living.

Fossils, evidence,.

Missing links.

Suppose I said to you, there's an animal that's purple with yellow polka dots, and it's got 600 legs and 95 eyes. What would you ask for? Yeah, I don't have any evidence for it. But I could show you a drawing.

Okay, let's see the drawing.

That's exactly what the theory of evolution presents. Drawing, it never presents evidence. Amen?

Amen.

So, this is real simple, but I'm a simple guy. I'm not a genius. But if this is what the living evidence shows us, there's 8 billion people on Earth. 1 million apes. How many living ape men?

Zero. Zero.

Big problem for the apes. I mean, for the human. Okay.

That depends how you place the Sasquatch in the... You place them in between? I don't know.

Did you know he got the gold medal for hide and go seek?

Oh, no. Tell me the rest.

Bigfoot is the world champion. Hide and go seek player. Very good. Thank you very much.

There's no...

Nobody's found him.

Exactly. Nobody found him. Now, here's a quote from evolutionists. Scientists have been on the trail of the last common ancestor for decades. And they still have not found it. They haven't found common ancestors for anything.

The key to science is observation. Evolutionists admit there's no observed ape men. It's anti-science. But sadly, they're being... they're lying to the kids and a lot of open minded kids are buying into it.

So you can ask people, if you're witnessing, have you ever seen evidence for evolution? What would you reply if they said yes? What would your question be?

What kind of evolution?

Exactly. What have you seen? Micro... micro revolution is you breed dogs. It's true. Macro is believing dogs have bacteria ancestors. So it's easy to talk to them. Yes. Anybody have a comment or question?

I do. It seems that when I speak to colleagues at work, we're all engineers about evolution. They always use the finch beak. I mean, unfailingly, every time they use the beak adaptation argument. And so I don't know, are people just learning about the finch beaks, and then they're just assuming the rest because they never come out and say anything else other than the finch beaks.

So that's my comment.

But Darwin was the first to talk about the finch, the beaks on the finches of the Galapagos Island.

Yes.

A great witnessing tip is to ask more questions. Oh, could you please explain to me what you know about these beaks? Instead of refuting their arguments, have them elaborate their arguments. And if they know what they're talking about, they'll say, well, there are all these different birds.

And if you had the right type of beak for crushing hard nuts, perhaps, and that's all they had, you would survive and pass on. Or if you needed a long beak, you would survive. So what could you easily say?

Oh, yeah, I've asked them too. And they're like, but that's evolution. I think I need to work on my witness.

No, it's micro evolution. It's change. Remember, the word evolution means change. There could be a change in the population of the types of beak. But there's still what?

Birds.

There's still birds. Right? Micro evolution is part of God's greatness and wisdom, that the bird population will have enough change that the population can keep living. One bad event is not going to wipe them all out.

See what I mean? So micro evolution is nothing but variation among the finches. So that a large percentage of them can survive no matter what the climate is. But they're still only going to make what when they get married and have a baby.

Birds.

Exactly. So they have to show birds coming from non birds, not the types of beaks changing. But Robin, the more you witness, the better you get, right? It's practice, like we talked about. So be humble, you'll never be perfect, but you'll learn the more you share.

Okay. And, and you can go on the internet and type in finches, evolution finches and look at creation arguments. Okay, so there's still birds and micro evolution is part of God's greatness for variation.

Okay, God is great. He knows what he's doing. So the evolutionists might say, hey, the missing links are in the fossil. Let's look at the fossils. Don't be scared of fossils. They glorify God. There's trillions of fossils.

According to evolutionists, bats will first show up suddenly in the fossil record 100 fat. And yet they haven't changed by evolution terms in 52 million years. And show up suddenly in the fossil record.

100 and no transition. Yet they're unchanged for 99 million years. Snakes show up suddenly in the fossil record. According to evolution timeline, gee whiz, they haven't changed in 150 million years.

Now this is my favorite. I have much more many more examples than these. Cyanobacteria shows up suddenly in the fossil record. It hasn't changed in three and a half billion years. If you go to my debates, I have about 10 more examples of these almost any animal you can think of showed up long, long time ago, or according to them and haven't changed.

The point is, is there any evolution evidence for cyanobacteria? No, no transitional forms.

Changed and evolution means change.

There's no change in snakes, no change in ants. Fossils show sudden appearance all of a sudden, this animal is in the fossil and stasis. It hasn't changed. And evolutionists admit that themselves. It's a very pitiful non scientific belief.

So where are the transitional forms? You can ask people, where are they? Almost have the attitude. I will believe it if you can what? If you can show me, and you should have that attitude. And they won't be able to show you.

They should have the attitude to change their minds as well. Okay, any comments on evolution? Okay, I'll ask for a volunteer. Suppose a polite atheist asks you, why do you believe in God? What would you.

Say?

Don't everybody answer at one time.

Anybody? Yeah, well,.

Well, I believe in God, because of the evidence that's all around us. I mean, there had to be a creator, there had to be. It's, you know, it's back to the old, if you see a building, you know that there was an architect.

Same thing. If you see this incredible creation, there has to be a creator who created it, it can't possibly have happened by chance.

Very good. Over the years, I, I say the exact same argument. And I start with a one word answer. I'll see if you guys can come up with a one word answer. If someone asked me why I believe in God. Suppose you come home from work one day, and you see 15 stones on your driveway in this pattern.

Would your best explanation be the patterns by design, like somebody carefully placed each stone at that location? Or is that pattern by chance, like somebody just tossed them? What's your best guess?

Chance is a great guess. But you can't be certain because you weren't what? Suppose you come home from work, and you see this on your driveway, six stones in a straight line. What would your best guess be now?

Design or chance?

Design.

Could you be 100 sure though?

No.

Because you weren't what?

There.

So you'd be 99 sure 1 faith. Is it blind faith?

No.

No, it's very logical faith to believe that's a design, but you can't be sure because you weren't there. But the atheist has the inverse. They would have 99 faith 1 sure you follow me? Yeah, the more complex it gets, the less faith we have, the more faith they have.

Suppose you come home from work and you see this on your driveway. You see 150 stones in a circle. What do you think design or chance?

Somebody put it there.

But could you still be 100 sure? Yes. Yes. No, no. Right. Because you weren't there.

99 .9

Logically, there's this wouldn't happen. This is it just doesn't happen.

Absolutely. But you could only be 99 .99999 sure. And about that much faith. You follow me? But the atheist has infinite almost faith and that much. Sure. We have very, very little faith. Here comes my concluding question, which is more complex stones in the circle or the human eye?

The human eye design or chance? What do you guys think?

Design?

Design.

But guess what? You can't be 100 sure because you weren't there. But you can be 99 .999 to Pluto and back. But you still got that much faith because you weren't there. Follow me?

Yes. Except that the Bible says that he formed it.

Yeah.

Right. But not about anti Bible, of course, but we still have faith that we're understanding the Bible, that we're reading it properly. But you see what I'm getting at? We don't have to be ashamed to say I've got a micro billionth of a mile or an inch faith.

They have much, much more faith than us. Amen.

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

But the more complex it gets, the more likely it's designed, and we have less and less faith. So could someone volunteer and ask me why do I believe in God?

Why do you believe in God?

Okay, I'm gonna start with a one word answer. Design. And I'm going to start with five examples. And I'm going to quiz you guys for five examples. Okay. I believe in God because of design. I believe God designed my eyes.

God designed my ears. God designed my hand. God designed my feet. And God designed my heart. And if they're designed, there has to be a what? A designer, right? If I'm outside, I'll say you would never believe that stop sign happened by chance.

It's the result of design. Are your eyes more complex than that stop sign? And 99 of people will say, yeah. Well, that means there has to be a smarter designer. And most people are wide open to that.

I'm going to quiz some of you. I'm going to ask you, why do you believe in God? I recommend you start with a design answer. And then give me three examples. It could be an animal or a part of the human body.

And then you say design requires a designer. Okay, Carolyn, are you there? Yes, I'm here. Carolyn, why do you believe in God? I believe in.

God because of the design that I see in the world. To give me.

Three specific examples. Oh, a flying squirrel is a design.

Example. My digestive tract and a tree. Amen. Very good.

Example. And then wrap it up. If they're designed, there has to be a what? Oh, there has to be a designer. Very, very good. Jim?