Bryan's 5-Step Approach to Missionary Work: Entering in at the Gate

How to invite people to join the LDS Church

This method assumes that your friend already believes in God. (See Alma 32:26-28)

If your friend fosters a belief in God, regardless of the name by which He is called, the process of conversion is the same for all believers. (We believe that there is only one God, though He might be known by different names.)

1. Does your friend pray to God?

2. Has your friend ever received an answer to prayer? Have him/her expound. (Spiritual memories soften the heart.)

* If your friend believes that God, indeed, speaks to man, they are already halfway converted.

3. Ask your friend to earnestly read from the Book of Mormon and then petition God to know if the book is truly from Him. (See Moroni 10:4-5)

4. Have your friend return and report. Help resolve concerns, turning them back to the Lord for confirmation of truths being taught.

*If your friend has been truthful, and sincerely petitioned God if the Book of Mormon is true, he/she will have received a spiritual witness in the affirmative. Logically, God would only have one strait and narrow path for man to walk in this life. Therefore, if the Book of Mormon is true, then the Prophet Joseph Smith was God's chosen and authorized servant charged, to restore the Church of Christ, which fell into apostasy nearly two millenia ago, in these final days.

5. Teach and baptize.

*Maybe one day, I'll make a more comprehensive flow chart. But for now, a simple list will have to do.

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