出外访问人是为着神的国广传福音最有效的路。事实上叩门访问人并不是一条新路，乃是一条古老的路。这条路开始于创世记三章的园子。每一个基督徒都应当叩门，把福音传给人。叩门就是访问人。叩门访问人实际上是神所命定，基督徒传福音的路，却被摩门教和耶和华见证人会采用，去传他们的异端教训。基督徒这班正确的人，几乎已经放弃了神所命定广传福音的路，这是十分可惜的。但现在主正引导我们回到这条路上。
我们必须借着学习并借着训练，实行这条出外访问人的路。最拦阻我们接受训练出外访问人的，就是我们的观念。我们可能抓住过去传福音的作法不放。我们过去的作法也许是好的，但绝不会像我们现在出去访问人这样的作法有效。我们要受训练走新路，第一个要求就是放下我们的观念。我们必须放下我们的观念，接受训练的指示。我们若固守我们老旧的作法，就不能被主训练。我们若肯忘记老路，实行主的新路，我们就会看见积极的结果。
在主的新路上我们必须相信、有把握、放胆、积极。我们是被升天的基督所差遣去访问人，并且当我们与人讲说时，我们是联于基督的。我们有升天基督的地位和权柄，引导人相信并受浸。因为升天基督的权柄已经托付给我们，叫我们去传福音，我们就不该向人发问。我们不该问说，‘你愿意相信么？’我们需要引导他们相信。我们不该问他们是否要受浸，却需要引导他们受浸。我们必须像施浸者约翰一样，他对人说，‘你们要悔改，因为诸天的国已经临近了’（太三2）。施浸者约翰传福音，是用命令的语气，而不是向人发问。
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Going Out to Visit People: The Most Effective Way to Spread the Gospel (1) – Matt. 3:2
Going out to visit people is the most effective way to spread the gospel for God’s kingdom. In fact, door-knocking to visit people is not a new way but an ancient one. This way began in the garden of Genesis 3. Every Christian should knock on doors to share the gospel with others. Knocking on doors means visiting people. This practice is actually a God-ordained way for Christians to spread the gospel. Unfortunately, it has been adopted by groups like the Mormons and Jehovah’s Witnesses to propagate their heresies, while the true Christians have almost abandoned this God-ordained way to spread the gospel. This is a great pity, but now the Lord is leading us back to this way.
We must learn and train ourselves to practice this way of going out to visit people. The biggest hindrance to our receiving training and going out to visit others is our own concepts. We may cling to the ways we used in the past to preach the gospel. While those methods may have been good, they cannot be as effective as the way of going out to visit people. To be trained in this new way, the first requirement is to lay aside our old concepts. We have to let go of our preconceived ideas and receive the instructions in training. If we stubbornly hold on to our old ways, we cannot be trained by the Lord. But if we are willing to forget the old ways and practice the Lord’s new way, we will see positive results.
In Lord’s new way, we have to have trust, confidence, boldness and be proactive. We are sent by the ascended Christ to visit people, and when we speak to others, we are joined to Christ. We have the position and authority of the ascended Christ to lead people to believe and be baptized. Since the authority of the ascended Christ has been entrusted to us to preach the gospel, we should not ask people questions like, “Are you willing to believe?” Instead, we should lead them to believe. Nor should we ask them if they want to be baptized; we should lead them to baptism. We must be like John the Baptist, who said to people, “Repent, for the kingdom of heaven is near” (Matt 3:2). John the Baptist preached the gospel with a commanding tone, not by asking questions.