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A D R I A N R O G E R S

Pastor, teacher, and author Adrian Rogers


has introduced people all over the world to
the love of Jesus Christ, and has impacted
untold numbers of lives by presenting
profound biblical truth with such simplicity
that a 5-year-old can understand it, yet it
still speaks to the heart of the 50-year-old.

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only reach non-Christians with the hope
of Jesus, but strengthen and encourage
everyday Christians in their faith as well.
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Introduction
BY DR. CHUCK KELLEY

Through the years Southern Baptists developed


a process to help every church be an evangelistic
church, regularly reaching, baptizing, and discipling
the people in their communities. The foundation of
that process, the necessary component that made
all the other parts of the process work effectively
was decisional preaching: the use of the public
invitation in all worship services. For churches
of any kind to be evangelistic, there must be an
evangelistic climate within that church affirming
the importance and priority of evangelism for the
congregation. Decisional preaching, the use of
the public invitation is important for those who
give their lives to Christ in a worship service,
but it is also important for reminding the whole
congregation why evangelism is such an important
priority for the church.
Each time a pastor concludes his message by
giving those present an opportunity to respond to
the gospel, he is saying to all who have gathered,
you are not right with God because you are in
church. You are not right with God because you
have Christians in your family. You can only be
right with God when you yourself repent of your
sins and turn to Christ in faith, becoming a child of
God by being born again. The pastor is also saying
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to the Christians and church members who are
present, the people you love and hold dear are not
right with God because of their connection with
you or their participation in the activities of the
church. Those you know and hold dear, and all
others in the community and the wide world are
facing the wrath of God, living without salvation
until they make a personal commitment to Christ
and receive His gift of new life. The consistent use
of the invitation keeps the importance and priority
of evangelism constantly before the church. It
gives those present an opportunity to be saved,
and it reminds those present why evangelism must
be the priority of the church.
This invitation handbook for preachers comes
from an outstanding practitioner of the public
invitation. Adrian Rogers was as effective in his use
of the invitation as any pastor or evangelist I have
ever known. Every church he served experienced
significant evangelistic growth under his leadership.
His use of the invitation was a major factor in that
growth. Whenever I taught a class on preaching
at New Orleans Baptist Theological Seminary,
I always used a video of Dr. Rogers extending an
invitation in his church. I was careful to pick a
typical Sunday morning service, not a special event
or an evangelistic meeting. Week after week his
invitations were always simple, clear, relevant, and
powerful. He was a master expositor of God’s Word,
and he demonstrated consistently how systematic
biblical exposition and the evangelistic invitation
go hand in hand. His inclusion of a public invitation
meant every sermon, whatever its primary text, had
to include the Gospel. For Dr. Rogers, the invitation
is not tacked on to a sermon. It completes it. I can
think of no better model for how to incorporate the
invitation into normal worship services of a church
than that of Adrian Rogers.
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Preaching for a Verdict

I’ve heard some preachers who are great preachers;


they preach the birds out of the trees. But then
they flop at invitation time.
I’ll hear them preach, there will be conviction,
there will be tears, there will be motivation, and
then they will say something like: “Alright, we’re
going to stand and sing hymn number 162. Won’t
you come?”
That’s it.
And I put myself in the place of an unsaved
man and say, “Come? Where are you going? What’s
all this about?”
He doesn’t explain, he doesn’t give the
invitation. Matthew 10:32-33, “Whosoever
therefore shall confess me before men, him will I
confess also before my Father, which is in Heaven.
But whosoever shall deny me before men, him will
I also deny before my Father, which is in Heaven.”
I want to teach you how to give an invitation
that will be both Biblical and fruitful.

THE BIBLE IS FULL OF EXAMPLES


OF PUBLIC INVITATIONS
On the day of Pentecost, Peter preached a great
sermon… and then he gave an invitation. The
Bible says, “And with many other words, he did
testify and exhort saying, ‘Save yourself from this
untoward generation.’” That means the sermon
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was over. But “with many other words,” now he’s
testifying, “This is what Jesus has done for me.”
He’s exhorting, “Let it be done to you” with many
other words. That’s an invitation that he gave.
The Bible starts with an invitation. In the
Garden of Eden, God came walking in the garden.
He said, “Adam, where are you?” Now God knew
where he was. This was not the voice of a detective.
It was a voice of a broken-hearted God, inviting
Adam to come to him.
Joshua said, in Joshua 24:15, “And if it seem evil
unto you to serve the Lord, choose you this day
whom ye will serve; whether the gods which your
fathers served which were on the other side of
the flood, or the gods of the Amorites in whose
land ye dwell: but as for me and my house, we will
serve the Lord.”
That was an invitation. He’s saying, “Choose!”
Elijah on Mount Carmel gave an invitation. He
said, “Listen folks, make up your mind. Don’t halt
between two opinions. If God be God, serve Him.
If Baal be God, then serve him.” And he gave an
invitation.
A public invitation.

THE BIBLE ENDS WITH A


PUBLIC INVITATION
The way the Bible ends is this, Revelation 22:17,
“And the Spirit and the bride say, Come. And let
him that heareth say, Come. And let him that is of
thirst come. And whosoever will, let him take of
the water of life freely.”
And by the way, I believe in a whosoever
gospel. “And whosoever will,” let him come. Now,
I know a lot of people who believe that you can
give an invitation personally and privately, that is
in soul-winning. But for some strange reason, and
I’ve never been able to discern it, they don’t believe
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you ought to give an invitation publicly. But in the
scripture that I read to you from Matthew, Jesus
is talking about confessing before men. All good
preaching, all of it, every bit of it, all good sermons
have an invitation. I don’t care whether it’s about
tithing; I don’t care whether you’re dealing with
war, or whatever. You give an invitation.

You are preaching for a


verdict. There is something
you want your people to
know, do, and believe.

Now that does not necessarily mean a “come


forward” invitation. But it means you are preaching
for a verdict. You have a proposition. There is
something you want your people to know, do, and
believe; and you are asking them to do it. You’re
asking for the order. That’s the invitation.
Let me tell you, and most of the time in our
churches, in our tradition, it is, “If you’re ready to
receive Christ, won’t you leave your seat and come
forward to trust Christ.” And I’ll talk a little bit more
about that in a moment, but let me tell you some
ways to give the invitation.

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Ten Marks of an Effective
Gospel Invitation

1. THE INVITATION SHOULD BE


GIVEN COURAGEOUSLY

Be courageous when you give an invitation. You


know why some men will not give an invitation?
Because they are afraid that there will be no
response. And because they’re afraid there will be
no response, they won’t give an invitation. They’re
so anxious to keep people from saying no, they
won’t give them a chance to say yes. You have to be
courageous to give an invitation because it costs,
it hurts.
I preach in Bible conferences where we don’t
give a public “come forward” invitation. That’s
so easy. Man, just preach and tell the truth, get
up and leave. But oh, when you’re preaching for
souls, when you’re preaching evangelistically, or
preaching as a pastor to his church, you give an
invitation. You get up and die a little, every time
you give an invitation.
Do it courageously. There are people who will
criticize you for giving an invitation. They don’t
like it. Friend, let me tell you what to do. Don’t
apologize for giving an invitation. Just go ahead
and do it. You say “Well, they will leave.” Let them
go. For every one you lose, you’ll gain ten. And the
ones you gain will be a whole lot better than the

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ones you lose. Be courageous. Give an invitation.
Give it courageously.

2. THE INVITATION SHOULD


BE GIVEN CLEARLY

Don’t just stand up and say, “Now we’re going to


stand and sing, so won’t you come?” Tell them
exactly what you want to do. Be aware of clichés
like, “Are you willing to make a profession of faith?”
Or one of the worst is, “Would you like to move
your letter?” That means absolutely nothing to
90% of this generation. They have no idea what
moving their letter means. Just make certain when
you give the invitation, you give it clearly.
You know there are a lot of preachers who think
they preach the gospel; and they haven’t preached
the gospel. They may preach a Bible message. It
may be pertinent. It may be applicable but, it’s not
a gospel message.
What is the gospel? In 1 Corinthians 15, we
learn:

■■ Christ died for our sins.


■■ He was buried.
■■ He was raised again the third day.

That’s the gospel.


Always get the gospel into a sermon somehow,
somewhere. It doesn’t matter what you’re preaching
on. Preaching on tithing? You say, “Listen, God
doesn’t want what you have, He wants you! Jesus
came to this earth to save you. He suffered, bled
and died on the cross, and was buried, and He rose
again. And the Bible says if you trust Him, He will
save you.”

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Christ died for our sins. He was
buried. He was raised again the
third day. That’s the Gospel.

Get the gospel into whatever you’re doing. It’s


so very important that you are very clear. If you
had a child that was lost, and that child calls you
on a cell phone, the child doesn’t know how to get
home, wouldn’t you make it clear? You wouldn’t
use a lot of obtuse terms.
You’d say, “Now sweetheart where are you
now? Look up, see the street sign? Do you see it?
Okay, now look down the street, do you see the
department store down there?”
“Uh, yes.”
“Alright, right across the street, you see the
drug store?”
“Yes.”
“Alright now darling, go down to where that is
and then look to your left. Do you see a house with
a white fence?”
“Yes.”
“Now you go down there, okay, and when you
get there, then I want you to look to your right.
You’ll look to your right and you’ll see this street
with a lot of tall trees. Go down that street about a
block and look up, and you’ll see our house.”
You want her to come home. Do you want
your people, the people that listen to you, to be
saved? Make it clear, make it plain. When I give an
invitation, and I give different kinds, there’s always
a part like this. I say, “Now look, when I’m finished,
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I want you to bow your heads with me for a moment
of prayer? You know, God loves you so much, and
He wants to save you.”
By the way, it’s always best to start with the
fact that God loves you and that you’re a sinner.
That’s the way the Bible starts, with the love of God
and then man fell into sin.
“Friend, salvation is a gift of God. Jesus bought
it for you when He died upon that cross and
shed His blood for you. If you would like to know
the Lord Jesus Christ and know that every sin is
forgiven, and know that God is in your heart to live
in you, and you want to know that when you die
you’re going to Heaven, I want to invite you to pray
a prayer like this with me:

“Dear God.” That’s right, just go ahead and


say it. “Dear God, I know that I’m a sinner.”
Pray it, pray it and mean it. “I know that I’m
a sinner, my sin deserves judgment, but I
want mercy. Jesus, You died to save me and
You promised to save me if I would only trust
You. I do trust You. I believe You’re the Son
of God. I believe You paid my sin debt with
Your blood on the cross. I believe that God
raised You from the dead. I believe You will
save me if I will trust You, and I do trust You.
Right now, this moment, with all of my heart
like a little child, I trust You. Come into my
life Lord Jesus, forgive my sin. Cleanse me.
Save me Jesus.”
Friend, pray that. Did you ask Him? Pray
it from your heart, “Save me Lord Jesus.” Did
you ask Him to do it? Wonderful. Now by
faith I want you to pray this way:
“Lord, thank You for doing it. I don’t
deserve it. I receive it as a gift of Your love.
I don’t ask for feeling, I don’t look for a sign.
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I just stand on Your word. Thank You Jesus
for saving me. And now begin, Lord Jesus,
to make me the person You want me to be.
And Lord Jesus, help me never to be ashamed
of You, because You died for me. Lord Jesus,
give me the courage this morning to make
this public. Thank You for doing it. I will
obey You in Your Holy name, Amen.”

That’s the way I would give an invitation as a


pastor. But I wouldn’t just say, “Alright, we’re going
to stand and sing.” I would say, “Folks in a moment,
we’re going to stand and sing a hymn that we call
an invitational hymn, standing at head of each of
these aisles all the way across the front will be a
man of God to welcome you. A minister of this
church.”
I don’t say a “counselor.” If I didn’t have a
minister; I would say a “friend” or “a man of God to
welcome you.” Some people think if you’re coming
to a counselor you’ve got to spill your guts and tell
your life story, and that’s not what it’s about. There
is a place for counseling, but this is not the time.
Say, “There will be a friend to welcome you. And
I want you just to step out and come.”
Some in the congregation may be thinking,
“Pastor, I’ve never done that before. What would
I say when I go down there?”
“Well, you prayed and asked Christ to come
into your heart, didn’t you? Just tell that man I’m
trusting Jesus.”
I give them something to say, because they
may not know what to say.
They may think, “Pastor, what will happen?”
“Number one, we’ll rejoice. Number two, we
will give you some scripture to stand on. Number
three, we’ll answer any questions you might have.
And number four, we’ll seal it with you in prayer. It
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will take just a few moments. It will shame the devil,
it will give you joy. It will give God glory. Don’t look
around to see what anyone else is going to do. As
soon as we begin to sing, you step out. This church
is praying for you, we love you. This can be the
greatest thing you’ve ever done to acknowledge
Christ as your personal savior.
“I want you to know walking this aisle doesn’t
save you. Shaking a man’s hand can’t save you.
But what it indicates saves you, that you’re not
ashamed of Jesus. Jesus said, ‘If you’re ashamed of
Me, I’ll be ashamed of you.’”
“Pastor, how do I know if I really trusted Him?”
“Are you willing to confess Him? Now that
shows that you really mean business. Let’s stand
and sing, and you be the first one down the aisle to
say yes to Christ.”
Now that took about 5 minutes to do that. That
means that you’ve got to back up in your sermon
and plan the invitation as a part. Don’t just tack
it on. If you wait until 12 noon and people’s blood
sugar is low and they’re getting antsy, they’re
looking at their watch.
You may say, “My people wouldn’t do that.”
I’m not talking about your people, I’m talking
about that lost man. I’m talking about the man
that you are pleading for. He’s not wanting to stay
around because of a compassion for souls.
So, what I’m trying to say is you give the
invitation clearly. You may not give an invitation
just like I do, and I don’t give the invitation the
same way every time, but almost always there will
be some of those components. I may put them
together in different ways, but give the invitation
clearly.

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3. THE INVITATION SHOULD
BE GIVEN CONCISELY

Save enough time for the invitation. Don’t go on


and on in an invitation. I just said that what I did
took about five minutes, but I’m not going to re-
preach the sermon to them.
I also need actually to start giving the invitation
before I preach. Not after I preach, but before
I preach.
I would say to our guests, “We want to welcome
you today to our services. We’re so glad that you’re
here, and if you have already made the wonderful
discovery of knowing Jesus Christ as your personal
Lord and Savior, we rejoice in that. If you have not
yet come to the place where you can clearly say, ‘I
know that I know that I have a personal relationship
with God through Christ’, it’s our prayer before this
service ends, you’ll be able to say that.”
What you’ve done right there is a start for the
invitation.
If you ever listen to Billy Graham preach,
he’s giving the invitation all the way through the
message. You may not realize it, but he is.
So, you need to give an invitation concisely. It
may take three or four minutes, but don’t chase
rabbits. Don’t introduce new factors into the
invitation.

4. THE INVITATION SHOULD


BE GIVEN CONVINCINGLY

Remember what Peter did on the day of Pentecost?


“And with many other words, he did testify and
exhort saying, ‘Save yourself from this untoward
generation.’”

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Can’t you just see Peter with the tears streaming
down his cheeks? Can’t you see him with his arms
stretched out? He doesn’t have a take it or leave
it attitude. He wants to convince them that they
need to be saved.
The Bible says, “Go out on the highways and
hedges and compel them to come in.”
The apostle Paul said “Knowing the terror of
the Lord, we persuade men.”
I hear some people talking against an invitation.
Here’s the way they say it, “Now look, you don’t
need to give an invitation. That’s the work of the
Holy Spirit.” If you haven’t heard that, you haven’t
been around long. And they may say, “That’s the
work of the Holy Spirit, you just preach.”

You need to have a sense of


urgency when you preach.

My reply is, “Preaching is the work of the Holy


Spirit, too. Do you think, up to this point, you’ve
been doing the work and now He’s going to start
working?” Preaching is the work of the Holy Spirit.
Oh friend! Friend, you need to have a sense of
urgency when you preach! And always the word
is “Now!” And you need to be positive when you
stand up and say, “Now let us stand and sing. God
bless you as you come.”
We don’t want to be like the boy who wanted
a job, went up to a man and said, “You don’t know
nobody, do you, that don’t want nobody to do
nothing?” Be positive. Expect people to come.

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5. THE INVITATION SHOULD BE
GIVEN COOPERATIVELY

Let the entire church participate in the invitation.


In a big auditorium, it’s better to stand at the front
and let the church members work together. Teach
your members how to pray during the invitation.
Satan never gives up anything or anybody without
a fight. And there are strongholds that have to be
broken, strongholds of procrastination and pride
and fear.
Teach your people to pray during the invitation
so that power comes down. As the song says, “All
is vain unless the Spirit of the Holy One comes
down.” And commend your congregation after the
invitation. Thank them. Many times I’ll say, “Oh
people, let me thank you for you faithfulness and
your prayerfulness during this invitation time.
I love you so much.”

I never worship more than


when souls are getting saved.

To me folks, that’s the mark of a great Christian,


that you really care.
Some people say, “I don’t like an evangelistic
service, I like a worship service.” Friend, I never
worship more than when souls are getting saved. To
me that is the zenith of worship. Don’t make some
dichotomy between worship and the invitation.
Jesus called us fishers of men. And what kind of
fishing were the fisherman doing when He called

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them to be fishers of men? They were doing net
fishing. Your church is a net.
You know what a net is? It’s a bunch of nothings
tied together. That’s what we are. A bunch of
nothings, but we’re tied together to bring souls to
the Lord Jesus Christ. So, do it cooperatively. Teach
your people to be a part of the total invitation.

6. THE INVITATION SHOULD


BE GIVEN CONSISTENTLY

Now there are varied ways. You don’t always have


to do like I just did. But somehow, some way, be
consistent. Give an invitation.
When I was in Fort Pierce one Sunday, I got up
to preach and there were about as many people as
there are right now today. I got up to preach, my
heart sank because I had an evangelistic message,
and I thought, “Boy, I’m fishing in a bathtub.”
I thought I knew everybody. I could not find one
prospect, even a suspect. Looking over the crowd,
I did something I’ve never done before. I said,
“Well, that’s the message, stand for prayer.” A man
in the back said, “Wait a minute! Aren’t you going
to give an invitation? I wanted to be saved!” I didn’t
even know he was there. Boy, what a rebuke to
me that was. Of course he could have been saved
without an invitation, that’s not the point. The
point was that I thought I knew everybody there
and I knew the situation. I made up my mind since
then to be consistent. I’m going to give some kind
of an invitation and in worship services like this,
give the invitation consistently. Don’t wait until the
revival meeting in July and August to invite people
to Christ. Do it week by week by week, and daily if
you can, so the Lord is adding to the church daily
such as should be saved.
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7. THE INVITATION SHOULD
BE GIVEN CREATIVELY

Don’t always do it the same way. Sometimes you


might give an invitation like this: “Those of you
who are interested in receiving Christ, would you
just remain here at the front while the others go
out if you want to know more about Jesus? We’ll be
glad to talk to you.” Or you might say, “In your pew
there is a card with some squares or boxes. One of
the boxes might say ‘I have prayed to ask Christ to
come into my heart today.’ Another says ‘I haven’t
gotten quite settled but I’m interested”’ and so on.
Say to the congregation, “Would you just
take a moment now and check that, and, as soon
as the service is over, would you bring that card
down here and let us help you with it.” There’s just
something now that they have in their hands; it’s
just a little different.
You say, “Well Pastor, what about that thing
of confessing me before men? Why do you let
everybody else go out?”
There’s nothing in the Bible about walking an
aisle in a church. The real profession of faith in
the Bible is what? It’s baptism. That’s when you’re
really professing your faith in the Lord Jesus Christ,
when you’re baptized.
But be very creative, there are all kinds of ways
to give an invitation. Just be creative.

8. THE INVITATION SHOULD BE


GIVEN COMPASSIONATELY

Don’t be afraid of tears. There are times when I’m


preaching and the tears will come. There are times
when I get up to give an invitation, and the tears
come unbidden. I never try for crocodile tears. But
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I feel so deeply about what I’m saying that tears will
come because I know we’re dealing with eternal
destiny.
Read the Bible, Jesus wept. Paul wept. May the
things that break the heart of God break our hearts.
Be compassionate for lost people. Don’t scold
them, but testify and exhort them to come to
Jesus. Don’t browbeat people in an invitation, that’s
negative. And yes, weep. I don’t know how to say
this, but even if you weep, weep with a smile on
your face. Weep in such a way that they know that
you’ve got the joy of the Lord. Let them know your
heart is broken and you wish that they had that
same joy. Remember, you’re inviting people to a
feast and to a funeral.
Be compassionate when you give the invitation.

9. THE INVITATION SHOULD BE


GIVEN CONVICTIONALLY

You should be filled with Holy Spirit conviction.


I stated a while back, “You can preach truth, but
only the Spirit can impart truth.”
On the day of Pentecost Peter, with many other
words, did testify and exhort. The Bible says, when
they heard this they were pricked in the hearts, and
said to Peter and the rest of the disciples, “Men and
brethren, what must we do?” They were pricked in
their hearts. That was Holy Spirit conviction.
And that’s what the Lord wants. He’s not
looking for decisions, He wants disciples, people
who will come and who have been convicted by the
Spirit of God.

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10. THE INVITATION SHOULD
BE GIVEN CELEBRATIVELY

Rejoice with those who come. Read the story of


the prodigal son, “This, my son, was dead and is
alive again!” Let’s rejoice, be merry. That ought
to be a great celebration when souls come to
the Lord Jesus Christ in our church. When, after
I give an invitation and people come, I say to the
congregation, “Let’s rejoice with these who’ve
come this morning. Praise the Lord, Amen.” And
people begin to rejoice, and sometimes even shout.
The happiest time in our church ought to be when
newborn babes are coming into the family of God.
Celebrate, celebrate, celebrate. Now, plan your
invitation very much like you plan your sermon
and take these ten ways and work them in.

Watch Adrian Rogers give the


kind of invitation described in this
booklet at the link below.

lwf.org/verdict

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Conclusion

I had a doctor come to me, a medical doctor. He


lived about 20 miles away. He said, “Are you going
to be preaching Sunday?”
I said, “Yes.”
He said, “I’m going to be bringing a patient, the
patient needs to be saved.” I said, “Well wonderful,
doctor, I’m so glad.” But I said, “Why don’t you bring
your patient to your own church?”
He said, “They don’t care about souls over
there.”
Let your church be known as a place where
people really want to rescue the perishing, care
for dying and snatch them in pity from sin and the
grave. Weep o’er the erring one, lift up the fallen
one, and tell them of Jesus, the Mighty to save.
You let Congress make the laws, and let
Hollywood have the fame, and let Wall Street run
the finances. You let me be a preacher of the gospel
of Jesus Christ!
Bring people to Christ. Thank God He’s put us
in the ministry.
Amen and amen.

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ADDITIONAL BOOKLETS
BY AD R IAN RO GE RS

K101 Praying With Power


K102 Pardon With Punishment
K104 Countdown in the Holy Land
K105 How to Weather the Storms of Life
K106 Unmasking the New Age
K107 God’s Way to Health, Wealth & Wisdom
K108 The Music of Marriage
K109 Pro-Choice Is No Choice
K110 When Everything Goes Wrong
K111 How to Break Satan’s Strongholds in Your Life
K112 Survival for the Home
K113 The Comfort of His Coming
K114 All Things New
K115 Making Dreams Come True
K116 The Shepherd’s Answer to Stress
K117 Victorious Prayer
K118 First Things First: The Priority of Worship
K120 How to Have a Life That Lasts
K121 Blessed Assurance: A Know-So Salvation
K122 Authentic Christianity
K123 Freedom From Financial Worry
K124 Dealing With Depression
K125 Finding God’s Peace
K126 Freedom of Forgiveness
K127 How to Know the Will of God
K128 The Golden Key of Faith
K129 God’s Plan for the Man
K130 The Secret to a Satisfied Life
K131 Turning Problems Into Possibilities
K132 Evolution: Fact or Fiction
K133 How to Prepare for Persecution
K134 Does Character Count?
K135 Predestined for Hell? Absolutely Not!
K137 The Holy Spirit: Your Best Friend
K138 How to Make Your Bible Come Alive!
K139 Will God Impeach America?
K140 How to Know the Bible Is the Word of God
K141 Why the Cross?
K142 How to Keep Your Spiritual Fire Burning
K143 Unwrapping Your Spiritual Gift GUIDEBOOK
K144 It Takes a Family GUIDEBOOK
K145 Christ of Every Crisis
K146 Psalm 23: The Secret of Satisfaction
K147 How to Fortify Your Faith
K148 How to Have a Meaningful Quiet Time
K149 In the Twinkling of an Eye
K150 How to Put Power in Your Prayer
K151 How to Practice the Presence of God
K152 The Scarlet Thread of Redemption
K153 His Strength in Sickness & Suffering
K154 A Place Called Heaven
K155 Why?
K156 Don’t Be a Disgrace to Grace
K157 How to Share Your Faith
K158 The God of All Comfort
K159 How to Raise Godly Children
K160 Making Numbers Count
K161 Israel: God’s Alarm Clock
K162 4 Keys to Victory
K163 Christian Citizenship
K164 How to Turn a Strength Into a Weakness
K165 Tolerance: The Good, the Bad & the Ugly
K166 Why Do Good Things Happen to Bad People?
K167 The Obedience of Expedience
K168 Live Like a King in Victory
K169 What Is the Good Life?
K170 Why Three Crosses?
K171 The Battle of the Bottle
K172 This World Is Not My Home
K173 Preaching for a Verdict
K174 Five Minutes After Death

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