01.09. Questions and Answers

9 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS Q. Have you ever had a pastor or church board refuse to let you use this method?

A. Yes, about one in ten. Q. When you were an evangelist, did you ask to use this method in all your meetings?

A. No, not in all, but in most Q. Did you ever make this appeal and no one respond?

A. I do not recall that I ever did.

Q. Did you ever have an undesirable person present himself for membership on this appeal?

A. Yes, a few.

Q. Did you take them into the church or how did you handle it?

A. When they stepped into the line I said to them in an undertone, so only they could hear, "We do not wish to embarrass you and you may stand here, but you are not being taken into the church."

Q. What about the troublemaker who may have been a member and might take advantage of this method to come back?

A. Before making the appeal I always conferred with the pastor. If there were folk of that kind in the audience, I stated in the appeal, "We cannot receive former members of this church in this way; all such will have to confer with the church board."

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