How to Work For Christ - Volumes 1, 2, and 3 - Complete series

by Reuben A. Torrey

Included in this set are all three volumes of Torrey's series on How to Work For Christ, and includes the books Personal Work, Methods of Christian Work, and Preaching and Teaching the Word of God. This is a hugely useful set for anyone wanting to do work for the Kingdom of God.

This edition includes a fully-functional Active Table of Contents to get you where you want to be quickly and easily, as these books are likely to be reviewed by the reader again and again.

Author's This book is written for both ministers and laymen. It will be of help to the minister in suggesting to him how to make full proof of his own ministry and how to get his people to work. It will be of help to laymen in leading them into many fields of fruitful labor for Christ.

The Church of Christ is full of people who wish to work for their Master but do not know how. This book is intended to tell them how. It contains no untried theories, but describes many methods of work that have been put to the test of actual experiment and have succeeded. So far as I know, there is no other book that covers the same field. For years it has been upon my heart to write this book, and I have been asked again and again to do so. But I have never found time for it until now. May it be used of God to the conversion of thousands to Christ.


Book One -- Personal Work
Chapter 1: The Importance and Advantages of Personal Work
Chapter 2: The Conditions of Success
Chapter 3: Where to do Personal Work
Chapter 4: How to Begin
Chapter 5: How to Deal with those who Realize their Need of a Savior and Really Desire to be Saved
Chapter 6: How to Deal with those who have Little or no Concern about their Souls
Chapter 7: How to Deal with those who have Difficulties
Chapter 8: How to Deal with those who Entertain False Hopes
Chapter 9: How to Deal with those who Lack Assurance
Chapter 10: How to Deal with Backsliders
Chapter 11: How to Deal with Professed Skeptics and Infidels
Chapter 12: How to Deal with those who Wish to put off a Decision until Some Other Time
Chapter 13: How to Deal with the Deluded
Chapter 14: How to Deal with Christians who Need Counsel, Rebuke, Encouragement or Comfort
Chapter 15: Some Hints and Suggestions for Personal Work

Book Two -- Methods Of Christian Work
Chapter 1: House to House Visitation
Chapter 2: Cottage Meetings
Chapter 3: Parlor Meetings
Chapter 4: The Church Prayer Meeting
Chapter 5: The Use of Tracts
Chapter 6: Open-Air Meetings
Chapter 7: Tent Work
Chapter 8: The Use of Autos, Trailers, etc.
Chapter 9: Colportage Work
Chapter 10: Services in Theaters, Circuses, etc.
Chapter 11: Organizing and Conducting a Gospel Mission
Chapter 12: Meetings in Jails, Hospitals, Poorhouses, etc.
Chapter 13: Revival Meetings
Chapter 14: The After Meeting
Chapter 15: Children's Meetings
Chapter 16: Advertising the Meetings
Chapter 17: Conduct of Funerals

Book Three -- Preaching And Teaching The Word Of God
Chapter 1: How to Prepare a Sermon
Chapter 2: Preparation and Delivery of Bible Readings
Chapter 3: Illustrations and Their Use
Chapter 4: Teaching the Bible
Chapter 5: Textual Sermons in Outline
Chapter 6: Topical Sermons in Outline
Chapter 7: Expository Sermons and Bible Readings in Outline

552 pages, Kindle Edition

First published January 1, 1901

About the author

Reuben Archer Torrey studied at Yale and in Germany before taking up a pastorate in the United States. As a gifted intellectual, administrator, and Bible teacher, he went on to pastor Moody Church in Chicago and became D.L. Moody's closest associate. In his later years, he traveled the world as an evangelist speaking to millions in Australia, New Zealand, India, England, Scotland, Ireland, Wales, Japan, China, Hawaii, Germany, the United States, and Canada. Torrey edited the last two volumes of the monumental "The Fundamentals" and was instrumental in the founding of both Moody Bible Institute and BIOLA University.