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Just Walk Across the Green Intro and Table of Contents

11/7/2016

"JUST WALK ACROSS THE GREEN"
by Wally Armstrong (click!)

“If you could just walk across a green and connect someone to Jesus, IT just might change the way you play golf”

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Contents

Welcome
Why The Just Walk Across the Green book?
Before We Get Started
Readying for the Fairway
The Clubs You’ll Use
Developing the Swing of Your Story
Developing the Swing of Your Story - 2 - Starting Your Story
Conversation on the Course
Tools and Resources

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Just Walk Across the Green - Welcome

3/3/2014

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Welcome!

Welcome to The Just Walk playbook! Thank you for your interest and commitment to reaching your fellow golfers for Christ. Whether on the fairways of life or on the golf course, we trust this tool will empower and inspire you to naturally share your own story of receiving the “Ultimate Mulligan” with friends and new acquaintances.

Based on our book The Mulligan, this playbook prepares you to confidently share the gift of God’s second chance with anyone you meet — particularly golfers, as much of the language used in this playbook is language other golfers will appreciate, but ultimately with anyone in your life who is needing to trust their life into Christ’s hands. The greatest gift you can give someone is to extend the love of Christ through a friendship. This is the very essence of the way in which Jesus reached the world with his love, one friend at a time. He is our greatest model. People all over the world are looking to fill the void that only Christ can satisfy. What an honor to come alongside a new friend and, through a genuine relationship, connect them to Jesus and His direction for their lives. Golf provides such a wonderful median to share the gospel with others by building a friendship and reaching out to others with God's love Just the Way, Jesus did. When you're out on the golf course for 4 or 5 hours you have a lot of time to build a lasting friendship by asking good questions. So just walk across the green and make some new friends and trust Jesus to do the rest.

Therefore this playbook is designed to help you share your faith with anyone you meet. As such, the first half of the book includes general principles, couched in golfing language and analogies, that can be applied to any life situation, conversation, or relationship. A section is also included to help you develop your personal mulligan story ( the most important club in your bag) so you’re prepared to share it with others. Then later in the playbook, we offer specific suggestions for demonstrating the love of Christ on the actual golf course. On the whole, this playbook should equip you to be ready in season and out of the season—on the golf course or the course of daily life—to share the hope of the Gospel message with others.

To begin, know that The Mulligan book, written by Wally Armstrong and Ken Blanchard, can be a pivotal first step to introducing faith in Christ to others. By giving the book to a new golfing friend, you will find a number of opportunities to naturally begin discussing issues of faith. In fact, prior to using this playbook, we encourage you to read The Mulligan because its principles form the foundation of what we teach in the following pages. Plus, it’s important to know the story so you’re prepared to talk about it with your friends when they finish reading it! Copies of The Mulligan book can be ordered through oldprobooks.com or by clicking here.

There are many additional resources to support you beyond the pages of this playbook, as well. Check out the “Tools and Resources” section of this playbook to learn about other materials that can help you share the hope of experiencing the greatest second chance of all time.

This playbook was derived in part from principles developed by Will McRaney of the Southern Baptist Convention. We are grateful to him for his wisdom and heartfelt insight into this particular facet of friendship evangelism. Thanks also goes to CRU. Its Living and Telling seminar has provided the prototype for our approach in this playbook.

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Developing the Swing of Your Story

3/2/2014

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Your story is one of the most powerful clubs at your disposal for sharing the Gospel with others.

And just like practicing your golf game, practicing your story improves each time you tell it.

The goal of good practice is muscle memory. It’s getting the feel of the swing so ingrained into your memory bank that the swing becomes natural, like second nature. It’s not forced or under tension, but it’s relaxed and powerful. In life, the goal becomes developing and practicing your story so that it, too, becomes like a second-nature swing in the course of conversation.

Why Tell Your Story?

Everyone loves a story, and people can relate to others’ experiences. It makes the ethereal concrete. It’s credible because it’s your own. The ultimate reason is to share the gift of a risen Savior. His impact on your life cannot be doubted because it is real and so are you.

Why Prepare?

As with your golf swing, it is a matter of preparation meeting opportunity. It is at the meeting point where you see results; the more simple the swing, the better the results. If your story is prepared, it will be succinct and clear.

Facing a tough shot, solid preparation gives you the confidence required to make the swing needed. And so, with your story, preparation provides the confidence to step out and swing. Remember how the Old Pro’s interactions with Paul were not forced or uncomfortable? He was completely natural, comfortable, and warm. That’s because he had equipped himself in advance to be thoroughly prepared to meet and mentor Paul when the opportunity came his way. So, too, will you be prepared by taking the time to develop your story below and then beginning to practice sharing it in opportunities presented to you.

What to Prepare

Have you ever heard some awfully ridiculous advice on the golf course? Perhaps a particularly poor cliché that has been offered to falsely promise great results? So it is with some folks’ impressions of the Lord’s message. There are many caricatures and a lot of misinformation about who we are and what we believe.

The following questions have been designed to help overcome that misinformation by applying your story to them. Take some time to briefly answer these questions mentally to begin creating your story.

What was my attitude before I took Jesus seriously?
Why did I say “yes” to Jesus?
How did I say “yes” to Jesus?
What difference does being a believer make in my day-to-day life?
What is a true believer anyway?

It would be helpful to develop two or three different ways you could answer the individual questions. Edit each to a couple of short sentences. Then you will have several different options as varying opportunities present themselves — just like pulling out the right club for a specific lie and distance, you’ll have multiple answers for different situations.

Here is some help in considering how to approach each question.

Ask God to lead your thinking and give you wisdom (James 1:5).
Reduce your answers to sound bites. You may only have a few seconds to share.
Prepare answers to stand alone. You probably won’t give your story all at once, since that would be like throwing your entire bag of clubs at someone — look out!
Write some single-word thoughts to capture your thoughts, hopes, fears, ambitions, emotions, etc.
Be specific, be honest, and avoid “churchy” jargon.

Begin Writing Your Mulligan Story....
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Next - Starting Your Story....

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Developing the Swing of Your Story - 2 - Starting Your Story

3/1/2014

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Starting Your Story

Here are some examples that we hope will help you in writing out your own story on the worksheets below. We have included some examples that the corporate man, Paul McAllister, could have used when preparing his personal story.

1. What was my attitude before I met Jesus? Most people you encounter will identify more with your attitudes than with your activities. Some answers might entail specifics like:

a. I was a pleasure seeker.

b. I wore different masks.

c. I got to the age of 21 (or a level of success) and thought, “Is this it?”

d. I considered myself as having high moral standards.

Paul: I placed money, power, and success above every relationship in my life.

2. Why did I say “yes” to Christ?

This will summarize your thought process and any challenges, crises, or experiences that led you to Christ. You might explain how you overcame barriers, how you found answers that satisfied you, or what motivated you to follow Christ:

a. I wanted to find the real me.

b. I found Christianity is about friendships and relationships, not rules and regulations.

c. My dad’s death made stop and think.

d. Suddenly the things I found confusing made sense.

Paul: I began to see that life was all about relationships with God and others.

3. How did I say “yes” to Christ?

It’s important to make clear here how you made that decision and acted upon it to put Jesus at the center of your life. This involves a process culminating in your decision to follow Christ. If you can’t recall a single point or specific decision, relate one or two specific examples where you noticed this process taking place. Consider:

a. I confessed that Jesus is God and that He died to restore my broken relationship with Him.

b. I admitted to God that I had been following my own way, not His.

c. I asked God to become number one in my life, above everything else.

d. I realized God forgave me, even if I couldn’t forgive myself.

Paul: I bowed my head and turned over my life to God and received the gift of the ultimate mulligan, Jesus as my Savior and Lord.

4. What difference does Christ make in my day-to-day life?

If you’ve been a believer for a while and have not thought much about this question lately, ask yourself, “How has Christ had an increasingly dominant influence in my life?” Think about sharing your recognition that you cannot possibly “do” life on your own. When Paul was given the freedom to set his own more realistic par, he played more freely. Perfection is not our goal, nor is it God’s, and recognizing we can’t even “do” imperfection here on earth without God’s help can be one of those differences. Other examples include:

a. The Bible now makes sense to me; I can apply its teachings to how I live.

b. I’m not as judgmental as I used to be. I know Jesus is coming back and it’s His job.

c. I’m more interested in worthwhile and lasting relationships and less concerned with making money.

d. I worry less because I know God is in control and that He’ll guide and protect me.

Paul: I experienced a transformation in my life through relationships that were established with God, my son, and others and in my business life.

5. What is a true believer anyway?

It’s important to keep this simple and direct:

a. Someone who realizes that trying to live life on his or her own doesn’t work well; it actually insults God.
Without Him, people miss out on the relationship and help He provides.

b. A person who has discovered a friendship with God by admitting that they need His forgiveness; those who ask Him to be first in his/her life.

Paul: A person who realizes he is sinful and separated from God and has accepted God's offer of the ultimate mulligan. He has received eternal life by embracing Jesus Christ as his Savior and Lord by accepting His scorecard, the perfect life lived for Him. This new person finds significance in God’s love and forgiveness, not in performance. He lives life in a personal friendship with Jesus and the Father.

Start Writing Your Mulligan Story...

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