Hell's Best Kept Secret and Soul Winning

Below is one of the most important sermons I have ever heard. It changed the way I look at evangelism. It is simple! Evangelist, author, and preacher Ray Comfort teaches what method our Savior used to bypass man’s intellect and reach his heart. See a short video on how easy it is to demonstrate the gospel in just a few minutes. Below is the audio used, with permission from Home | Living Waters, and a short witnessing video clip. You can obtain all materials to use to win souls NOW! Listen to Hell’s Best Kept Secret now and take our good person test. Link at top of page.

Written By Ray Comfort

In the late seventies, God very graciously opened an itinerant ministry to me. As I began to travel, I found access to church growth records and, to my horror, discovered that about 80 to 90% of those making a decision for Christ were falling away from the faith. That is, modern evangelism, with its methods, is creating something like 80 to 90 backsliders for every hundred decisions for Christ.

Let me make it more real. In 1991, in the first year of the decade of harvest, a major denomination in the U.S. obtained 294,000 decisions for Christ. That is, in one year, this major denomination of 11,500 churches obtained 294,000 decisions for Christ. Unfortunately, they could find only 14,000 in fellowship, which means they couldn’t account for 280,000 of their decisions; this is normal, modern evangelical results, and something I discovered way back in the late seventies, and it greatly concerned me. I began to study the book of Romans intently and, specifically, the gospel proclamation of men like Spurgeon, Wesley, Moody, Finney, Whitfield, Luther, and others whom God used down through the ages, and I found they used a principle that modern evangelical methods have almost entirely neglected.

I began teaching that principle; I was eventually invited to base our ministry in southern California, the city of Bellflower, specifically to bring this teaching to the church of the U.S. Things were quiet for the first three years, until I received a call from Bill Gothard, who had seen the teaching on video. He flew me to San Jose in northern California; I shared it with a thousand pastors. Then in 1992 he screened that video to 30,000 pastors. The same year, David Wilkerson called from New York. He called from his car. (He had been listening to the teaching in his car and called me on his car phone.) Immediately, he flew me 3,000 miles from L.A. to New York to share the one-hour teaching with his church; he considered it to be that important. And recently I heard of a pastor who had listened to the audio tape 250 times. I’d be happy if you’d listen to this teaching just once; it’s called “Hell’s Best Kept Secret.”