1. Attain, first, a clear indication and confession from the person about how and when they first received Jesus into their hearts as Savior and Lord.

2. Second, to give the person assurance of Salvation by going over page 13 of What Is Eternal Life?

3. Third, to explain to the person how to release their faith in Jesus’ forgiveness for sins confessed and repented of.

4. Fourth, to explain to the person how to resurrender the Lordship of their lives to Jesus and be refilled and stay filled with the Holy Spirit.

5. And then finally, fifth, to show them how to draw upon Jesus’ grace, strength & power to overcome the problems in their lives that led them to backslide in the first place and stay strong in Jesus to live an ongoing victorious Christian life.

After a person states that they are somewhere in the middle of the two people on page 11 of the Salvation Tract What Is Eternal Life? do the following to lead them into the Forgiveness Tract: Jesus Is The Answer To Your Needs and accomplish the above five objectives:

Layman Evangelist (LE): John, which of these two people best represents Your life?

John: Oh! I am some where in the middle.

LE: Have you ever prayed and received Jesus into Your life before?

John: Yes.

LE: How did you first come to receive Jesus as Your Savior and Lord?

John: When I was in high school, a friend on campus shared with me about Jesus and one day with him I prayed and received Jesus into my life as Savior and Lord.

LE: John, if you did receive Jesus into Your life in the past, He is still in Your life though He may not be perfectly Lord of Your life. We know this is true because of His promise given to us in Hebrews 13:5. Jesus said in this passage (pointing to it on p. 13 of the Salvation Tract), "I will never ever desert you, nor will I ever, ever, ever forsake you." (Heb 13:5). This is a literal translation from the Greek text which has a double and a triple negative stated: "never ever" and "never, never, never." Jesus wants us to know emphatically that He will not! leave or forsake us. The significance of this truth is stated in this passage above in 1 John 5:11-12. John tells us that God the Father has given you and I a testimony about what determines whether or not we have eternal life and will go to heaven. John tells us in this passage:

"And the witness is this, that God has given us eternal life, and this life is in His Son. He who has the Son has the life; he who does not have the Son of God does not have the life."

John, God the Father tells you and I that what determines whether or not we have eternal life is not whether we belong to the perfect Church or whether we have lived the perfect Christian life, but by whether or not we have His Son Jesus Christ living in us. Since Jesus said that once we invite Him into our lives that He will not leave or forsake us and since the Father says to have the Son is to have eternal life, even though you may not be in right standing with the Lord in Your life, based on these promises of Jesus, you can know that you do have eternal life and that you will go to heaven because Jesus lives in You.

LE: John I have another Tract here that I think would better minister to Your need. It is called Jesus Is The Answer To Your Needs. The book explains how to experience Jesus’ forgiveness on a moment by moment basis.

Page 1 of the Forgiveness Tract, Text Only

"But a man who is motivated-and-controlled-through-his-soul does not accept the things of the Spirit of God; for they are foolishness to him, and he cannot understand them, because they are discerned through the spirit." (1 Cor 2:14)

Page 2 of the Forgiveness Tract, Text Only

"But he who is motivated-and-controlled-through-his-spirit discerns all things, yet he himself is discerned by no man. For who has known the mind of the Lord, that he should instruct Him? But we have the mind of Christ." (1 Cor 2:15-16)

"And I, brethren, could not speak to you as to men motivated-and-controlled-through-your-spirit, but as to men motivated-and-controlled-through-your-flesh, as to babes in Christ. I gave you milk to drink, not solid food; for you were not yet able to receive it. Indeed, even now you are not yet able, for you are still motivated-and-controlled-through-your-flesh. For since there is jealousy and strife among you, are you not motivated-and-controlled-through-your-flesh, and are you not walking like mere men?" (1 Cor 3:1-3)

John: I am not sure I understand what you mean by being motivated through the spirit? What is the difference between the spirit, soul and body?

LE: John, I am glad you asked that question. When God created Adam and Even, He created man with a spirit, soul and body.

Man’s spirit is the means by which man has God-consciousness and the means by which he communicates with and has a relationship with God.

Man’s soul is the means by which he has self-consciousness and relationship with self.

Man’s body is the means by which he has world-consciousness and the means by which he communicates with and has a relationship with the physical world

When God created Adam and Eve, His intent and plan for man was that he was to be led, motivated and controlled, by the Holy Spirit through his human spirit; not through his soul: his intellect and feelings, or through his flesh, his body: his appetite and desires. When Adam and Eve sinned, their sin was choosing to act out of the initiative of their soul and their flesh. When they did this, their human spirit died. This does not mean it ceased to exist, it means that its ability to communicate with and have relationship with God ceased to function which is the Bible’s definition of spiritual death (2 Thess 1:9). Because Adam and Eve were no longer able to communicate with God through their human spirit they were left with only their soul: their intellect and feelings and their flesh: their appetite and desires to lead and guide them through life.