There are some books that just keep popping up around the place. Soul-Winning Made Easy by C S Lovett, published in 1959, is one of them. Every few months I see another reference to it, someone selling it (eBay has multiple copies currently listed), or someone describing it in words like these “This book represents everything that was wrong with much of the evangelism training of years gone by”!
Tim Challies, over at Challies Dot Com, has posted some amusing illustrations, two of which are linked at right.
Here’s a section from page 78.
You have just said to your prospect . . . “Jesus is waiting to come into your heart. Will you open the door? Will you let Him come in?” He makes no reply. Great forces are at work inside him. His soul is a battlefield. The Holy Spirit and Satan want his decision. You wish you could jump into his heart and help him, but you can’t. So you do the one thing you can do . . . press him to make a decision . . . one way or the other.