You got this from Campus Crusade for Christ or Navigators?
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I believe that the original came from Campus Crusade, but I learned it from a man named Hank DeWeerd. He is an interesting man with lots of letters after his name that graduated from Moody with a degree in theology and an MBA. Campus Crusade was one of many careers that he had and VP of sales for Coca Cola was another.
One of the things he taught both his “salesmen” and his “adult Sunday school students” was the need for what Hank called an “Elevator Speech”. You need to be able to communicate your message in the time it takes to ride in an elevator. The Campus Crusade mnemonic God-Man-Christ-Decide helps any speaker remember to hit ALL of the critically important parts of sharing the Gospel and avoid any flawed ‘easy believism’ that is more fire-insurance than salvation or a ‘God loves you’ speach that fails to mention the human sin problem at the heart of our need for salvation.
It is an ironic paradox that after decades of reading the Bible and London Confession and WCF and writings of Spurgeon and Wesley and struggling to find the truth, that ultimately, truth is found in messages as simple as:
Jesus loves me! This I know,
For the Bible tells me so;
Little ones to Him belong;
They are weak, but He is strong.
Jesus loves me! He who died
Heaven’s gate to open wide;
He will wash away my sin,
Let His little child come in.
Jesus loves me! He will stay
Close beside me all the way;
Thou hast bled and died for me,
I will henceforth live for Thee.
- Anna B. Warner (1860)