Youth EE - New Ministries

XEE

If you are already familiar with Evangelism Explosion's training, the following information will be helpful to you in understanding XEE.

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While EE’s standard “Diagnostic Questions” are still present, we have added another, very effective dialogue question which helps students get into the Gospel more effectively.

Historically, EE’s thread of logic has been thus:

Finding out what a person is basing their hope on, to be “right’ with God, or to have eternal life. Once that is determined, and assuming it is some kind of “works” hope, the EE Gospel presentation tactfully points out the hopelessness of trying to be good enough to satisfy God’s requirements, then moves on to explain God’s real provision through the substitutionary work of Christ on the cross.

A new approach:

We have discovered that for many (though not all, which is why we keep the standard diagnostic question available) the idea of trying to obtain righteousness with God is not a key question that is perceived as relevant to a secular, post-modern, thinker. If not that issue, then what is a more burning question in the mind of many non-Christians? We have found that many people are saying, “I don’t’ know anything about eternal life or trying to get there. My problem is that life doesn’t make any sense now. Instead of telling me about eternal life, tell me how my life can make sense of this mess NOW”.

Therefore the thread of logic begins in a different way:

We first ask a person, “On a scale of 1 to 10, how would you rate your life right now?” Then…”what would make your life a 9 or a 10?” These are much less aggressive questions than the EE diagnostic questions. Indeed, they do not even mention heaven or eternal live. However, the next question begins to move into a more spiritual context, which is: “Do you think knowing about God would move you one way or another on that scale?”

If the person responds in some way that knowing about God might help them, we then proceed to share the concept that God wants us to experience abundant life both now and forever. This emphasizes the “now” element of knowing God, i.e. that knowing more about God can, in fact, have a positive impact on a person’s life today. We have found that many people who do not perceive their greatest need is to know if they have eternal life, do see their greatest need is to know what can help their life in the here and now. Of course, we know that a relationship with God, through Jesus, will meet these needs. The Gospel remains the same, but the initial approach is more fitted to many non-Christians’ immediate felt needs.

From this point, the Gospel presentation is very similar to what we have used for years. We proceed to explain the nature of sin, beginning with, “Life doesn’t’ work because we are cut off from the One who designed life in the first place.” We can further explain the nature and consequences of sin. From this point, once again, we can share about God’s provision, not only for life making sense, but because of Christ’s substitutionary death on the cross, received through faith.

Please follow this link to our all new and very exciting training ministry, called XEE.

http://www.xeelife.com