Spiritual Transitions with Carl Kerby Jr

Turning Any Conversation from the Natural to the Spiritual

Thing is getting it from the natural to the spiritual. Well, that's what we're gonna teach you right now in a couple of minutes. This is what we call the spiritual transition game. It is a game that we encourage you to take back to your churches.

Play with your youth group play with your adults and I'm gonna explain how you play it and then we're going to Actually play the way this works is that? Somebody will in a group will call out a name. Michael is gonna call me and he's gonna call Carl.

And he's gonna give us a choice of two things. You can either choose to do a spiritual conversation, which is just anything generally spiritual. To get into any kind of spiritual type of conversation.

But the more difficult one is if you really want to make it hard for someone is they have to make it an evangelistic conversation. So you call a name Andrew? I want a spiritual conversation on and. And then you name something it could be a goatee.

I think I'm giving you real ones that I've had to do. Okay, someone's goatee the little plastic. Start an evangelism conversation on the little plastic piece that's on the end of your shoelace. Do you think you could do that?

Now some of you are going there's no way I could do that. Yes, you can if you practice. That's the point of this game. The more you do this the more you practice this the easier transition gets now. I learned this from my pastor who Literally was so good at this.

We used to rent a seven-day Adventist building. They didn't need it on Sunday and Thank you. Some of you got that. So what ended up happening was they had a fruit bat problem. The pastor was preaching a sermon and a fruit bat suddenly flew in the auditorium.

Now, what did everybody do? They're watching the fruit bat. He immediately transitioned the fruit bat into the point of his sermon. Three people after that message asked me Did you release that fruit bag?

Because they didn't quit they figured it must have been planned. No, he just transitioned it so quick. That people assumed it now. How do you how do you end up using this on the street? I'll give you one that you can always use especially if you're in New York where I usually evangelize right an ambulance goes by a Fire truck a police car.

What does everyone do and you've just lost their attention. I Immediately I do this one so often that just becomes a media. I say, you know what you hear that that siren. That's what I'm trying to be in your life.

I'm trying to be a siren offering a warning to you to listen to this message I'm sharing now. What did I just do? I pulled them right back into the conversation using what has their attention. Okay, this is what we want to teach you to do so we're gonna we're gonna demo how to play the game and We're gonna encourage you to go home and start playing with one another the more you play this The better you get the you're no longer going to be praying Lord.

Please make an opportunity make something where someone will come and share the gospel where I can share the gospel with them. Provide an opportunity, you know, you're not gonna pray that way because you're now gonna make any conversation into an opportunity.

You're gonna learn how to turn any conversation any time and so you can get to the gospel any time you want to. So I'm at a party. So we're having a party at Michael Coughlin's house. Pizzas and pizzas included.

Wait, if we're good Baptist and we have to be late for the party. We sit in the back. That's that's the one with the dogs with the hats. Okay all right, so I'll do. I'll do it two different ways because in honor of Living waters being here if it was it if it was Ray Comfort doing it.

He'd say and I can't get the x-ray. You see the painting. It must have had a painter. I Can't do the accent, right? That Would be what he would say. But if I were to look at that painting, I see some dogs and they're playing cards of poker.

I want to get a spiritual conversation. I'd say, you know, it's interesting. Look at what we do as human beings with animals. We take these animals and we try to give them Something that we know they can't do we give them human characteristics because to play a game of poker.

We're assuming that they're they understand the game which means they have the Kindness sense of a human being to be able to have logic and knowledge and truth to be able to play a game like that. Why why is it that we can look at that?

We know that that picture is wrong don't we know that's wrong because Dogs can't play poker. That's the whole art of that and we know they can't play poker because they're animals and we are not. And even though our culture teaches us that we actually are just evolved animals.

We know even by looking at this picture that we are not just animals. That we are made separate from the animals and we know that because God who created both the animals and us has made us different.

God has created us in image his image unlike the animals and Created in his image He created us, but we violated his law but being created in his image He himself became a man and died on a cross to pay the sins of men not dogs.

I just have to say that that was not pre-planned. That was amazing. That was awesome. Cuz I if I was you I would think that was staged right now. That was so good brother. All right. There may be some of you that have thought of some other way and that's the whole thing with the game.

Go around afterwards and find out everyone had a different idea and that's we go. Oh, that's neat. I would have used that I would have used that God will use your unique personality and giftings He's given you to get his message to the people He wants to get it to in the way that he gifted you to do it Carl.

Let's do it. I'm outside and we're walking down the street and I look up and I see a cloud and I say that's that's shaped like paratrooper.

Paratrooper. Oh Super Mario going down my alley. All right, give me a.

Using Creation and Common Objects to Start a Spiritual Conversation

Just a spiritual conversation. You don't have to get to the gospel. Just get it to a spiritual conversation with me.

Wow, that is a I am NOT good at this game, but I Have to follow mr. Appaport in this but I would say man that is yeah, I see that too. Isn't it amazing how how we can see just God's creation is just beautiful.

It's artwork, isn't it? Trooping the clouds. I mean, I see beautiful paintings out in nature everywhere. Look what that tree looks like. I mean I'll go right back into nature and just talk about how amazing is God's creation that we could just look out there and see artwork.

Wherever we're at even just looking at a cloud outside. Sometimes we don't take the time to recognize that.

Teaching Children to Begin with a Random Starting Point

You're you're better at this than you thought you were brother. Thank you. The first time you do this it takes several minutes sometimes and give patience. Let people have the silence to let them think about it.

But over time you get good. How many of you teach like Children's Sunday School? Okay, let me tell you son and and this will be a challenge to you. I used to open every single week when I would teach Children's Sunday School the kids loved this.

But I would let them start the message. Anything I was preaching on the Word of God to the kids and they started one of the kids said a can of tuna fish. Do you think you could preach about teach about the Word of God?

Starting from a can of tuna fish because I'll tell you that gets them going like oh, I'm gonna try to but it gets you. It's teaching you as well. So if you're teaching Sunday school, there's the challenge.

All right, hopefully this.