How to Use You Last Forever for Evangelism and Discipleship

1. You can learn You Last Forever (YLF) by self-study at youlastforever.com and by using YLF to present the Gospel.

2. Read the YLF card and booklet. Review www.youlastforever.com. Watch the introductory video. You do not need to memorize the YLF presentation. Learn key points on how YLF teaches salvation from sin and death through Jesus Christ alone. Review the YLF material periodically to enable you to share YLF naturally.

3. Carry YLF cards and /or booklets with you all the time and give them to people in your daily life. Matthew 28:19 teaches, “going (or as you go) therefore disciple all the nations…” As you live your life, disciple the nations. You are doing the recipients a favor by giving them the YLF summary of life for the Christian and non-Christian. Pray for God’s blessing on your efforts. As you use the cards, you will have increasing freedom to offer them in different ways and circumstances.

4. When you give the cards to people, ask, “Have you ever seen a card like this?” This appeals to their curiosity. Be quiet while the recipient(s) looks at the card and turns it over trying to figure it out. Do not talk until they look up from the card. If you can, give the cards to several people who are together. When a person first looks at the YLF card, they try to figure it out. Their innate curiosity is at work. When we look at a map, we try to figure out where we are. The card prompts self-reflection; we all are figuratively on the purple circle anticipating eternity. The card appeals to the visual learner.

5. When the person looks up from the card, ask, “What do you think it means, or what do you see?” By their answer, you will get some idea of their understanding of Jesus, salvation, discipleship, and eternal life. 2 Pray for wisdom to know whether to evangelize or disciple the person based on what they just told you. Some may even want to learn YLF to share Christ too.

Ask for their permission for you to quickly explain the card to them. With the card you can explain much of the Bible without requiring that your hearer knows the Bible. While you are explaining YLF, ask checking questions such as, “Does this sound familiar, or make sense to you?” Apply the YLF card to their situation. If you or they do not have time to discuss the card, refer them to www.youlastforever.com and encourage them to watch the video. If you have the YLF booklet with you, give that to them to read and study on their own. The booklet explains the card. If you see them again, try to renew the YLF discussion. When God opens hearts as you use You Last Forever, there is a sinner’s prayer in the booklet. The prayer is appropriate for new believers to pray to receive the Lord. The prayer is also appropriate for Christians to pray in their walk of faith throughout life.

The You Last Forever booklet is a good summary of Biblical truth for life and death.

John 3:6 “That which is begotten/ born of the flesh is flesh and that which is begotten/born of the Spirit is spirit.”

I Corinthians 15:49 “And just was we have borne the image of the earthy (man), we shall also bear the image of the heavenly (man).”

Ecclesiastes 3:11 “He (God) has made everything appropriate in its time. He has also set eternity in their heart, yet so that man will not find out the work which God has done from the beginning even to the end.”

I John 3:2, 3 “Beloved, now we are children of God, and it has not appeared as yet what we shall be. We know that, when He appears, we shall be like Him, because we shall see Him just as He is. And everyone who has this hope fixed on Him purifies himself, just as He is pure.”

II Peter 1: 3, 4 “…. His divine power has granted to us everything pertaining to life and godliness through the true knowledge of Him who called us by His own glory and excellence. For by these He has granted to us His precious and magnificent promises, in order that by them you might become partakers of the divine nature, having escaped the corruption that is in the world by lust.”