"Your knees swole up?"

I recently watched a master evangelist use the title of this blog to begin a conversation with a man he had never met. Seriously.

He rolled down his window, looked at the older gentleman, and asked him, "Are your knees swole up?" The old man looked back and replied, "Well... yes they are actually."

He then went on to get the man's name and tell him he would be praying for him. The response the man gave convinced me that if the master evangelist would have had more time, and was not driving me and several other people back to our families that we had been away from for three days, that he could have eventually shared the gospel with the older gentleman.

As funny as the conversation was to me and as hard as I was trying not to laugh out loud, the evangelist had connected with the man.

What a great lesson.

You don't have to through F.A.I.T.H, Evangelism Explosion, Romans Road, or any other evangelism method to turn a conversation to a point where you can have an inroad to the gospel.

Be yourself. Use the gifts and personality God has given you to relate to those around you. Be constantly aware of those around you and how you can show that you are genuinely interested in them and their lives.

Just know that if I am around and you begin a conversation with a complete stranger by asking, "Are your knees swole up?" I am going to have a hard time not laughing.

But that's just me.