在罪人身上创造需要的感觉
人心比万物都诡诈，是完全黑暗的，也是完全不要神的；堕落的人丝毫没有要神的心。这乃是圣经从起头所见证的。一个堕落的罪人，乃是完全属这世界的人，也是完全属乎罪恶的，所以他对神的话没有一点好感。因此，我们传福音给罪人，首要的目的，不是让他听明白福音。我们传福音的头一个目的，乃是要让人把握住神一、两句的话，而在人身上创造需要的感觉。我们并不是单单把救恩的故事、真理、或消息讲给人听。我们传福音的目的，乃是为着使罪人产生需要福音的感觉；而不是光让他明白福音，不是让他把道理研究清楚。因为人即使在思想上认识福音、明白福音，仍可以觉得不需要神的自己。
罪人得救必有的两个感觉
一个罪人要得救，必有两个感觉，一个是需要的感觉，一个是罪的感觉。所以传福音的人根本的作工之法，必须引起人需要的感觉，并且也要叫人有罪的感觉。主传福音给撒玛利亚的妇人时，祂不是让她起头就看见福音，也不是让她先看见罪，乃是先让她有需要的感觉。她来打水是因为口渴，主耶稣就从这个外面的渴，说到那个里面的渴。主一直让妇人有需要的感觉，以致她向主说，‘请把这水赐给我，叫我不渴’（约四15）。但主没有马上给她水喝，乃是先向她要丈夫。这接下去的一步，就给她有罪恶的感觉。主耶稣很有智慧，先从水叫她产生有需要的感觉，然后从丈夫叫她产生有罪的感觉，这样她便得救了。每个传福音的人，最少要有一次，把新约里关于传福音的话，详细的研读过一遍，从其中寻出传福音的原则来。
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Creating a Sense of Need in Sinners – 2 Cor. 4:4
The human heart is more deceitful than anything else; it is completely dark and utterly unwilling to seek God. Fallen man has absolutely no heart for God. This is what the Bible testifies from the very beginning. A fallen sinner is entirely of this world and completely of sin; therefore, he has no affection for God’s word. Thus, when we preach the gospel to sinners, our primary purpose is not to have them understand the gospel. Our first purpose in preaching the gospel is to have people grasp one or two words from God and thereby create in them a sense of need. We are not merely telling people the story, truth or message of salvation. The purpose of preaching the gospel is to cause sinners to develop a feeling of needing the gospel; not merely to have them understand it or to study the doctrine thoroughly. Because even if a person intellectually knows and understands the gospel, he may still feel no need for God Himself.
Two Senses Necessary for a Sinner to Be Saved
For a sinner to be saved, two senses are essential: a sense of need and a sense of sin. Therefore, the fundamental method of those who preach the gospel must be to arouse in people a sense of need and also to cause them to feel their sinfulness. When the Lord preached the gospel to the Samaritan woman, He did not first cause her to see the gospel, nor did He first cause her to see her sin; rather, He first caused her to feel her need. She came to draw water because she was thirsty, and the Lord Jesus used this outward thirst to speak of an inward thirst. The Lord continually impressed upon the woman her sense of need, so much so that she said to Him, “Sir, give me this water, so that I will not be thirsty” (John 4:15). But the Lord did not immediately give her the living water; instead, He first asked her to call her husband. This next step brought her to a sense of sin. The Lord Jesus, with great wisdom, first used water to generate in her a sense of need, and then used her husband to generate in her a sense of sin, thus leading her to salvation. Every gospel preacher needs to at least once carefully study all the words about gospel preaching in the New Testament to find out the principles of preaching the gospel.