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EVANGELISM
A = COMFORT ZONE
B = PRESENTING GOSPEL
1. Comfort Zone
What keeps you from leaving your comfort zone?
- • A self-absorbed life: Absorbed with my __________, my__________,
my __________, my _________, my __________,….(Lk 9:23,24) - • Playing it safe (Lk 14:26,27)
How can I leave my comfort zone?
- • Jesus left His comfort zone (Phil 2:5-8)
- • Paul's motivation:
Romans 1:14 -
1:15 -
1:16 -
2. Natural Contacts
What can limit our natural contacts?
- • We can focus on our personal tasks and not on people (Matt 9:36)
- • Too holy to mix with non-Christians (Lk 5:29-32)
Where do we find our natural contacts? (Matt 4:19)
3. Build relationships
What hinders us from beginning relationships?
- • Fear (Matt 10:24-33)
- • Unwilling to pay the cost (Lk 9:57-62)
How can we build relationships? Become other-focused (I Cor 9:19-23)
4. Transition to the spiritual
An Example (Jn 4:10-12)
How?
- • Pray for open doors (Col 4:3,4)
- • Be wise as serpents, innocent as doves (Matt 10:16)
- • Make the transition from the material to the spiritual world (Jn 6:32- 35; Acts 17:24-31; Matt 5:3)
5. Develop spiritually-oriented relationships
Be sensitive to their receptivity and respond appropriately (Example: 2 questions)
- • Resistant: Pray for them (I Tim 2:1,3) and be salt (Col 4:5,6)
- • Receptive: Invite them to Christian activities (Jn 1:40-42)
- • Seeker (Matt 5:3; Jn 4:35): Share the reason for your hope (I Pet 3:15)
Give biblical foundations: Because many do not understand the Bible today, Christian training is essential.
6. Present Gospel
Master a Gospel presentation (I Cor 15:1-4; Acts 16:30,31)
"Present the Gospel in the power of the Holy Spirit and leave the results to God."
Bill Bright
FOLLOW-UP
1. What would you want someone to know immediately after they accept Christ?
- • What they did:
- • What Christ did:
- • The result: Forgiveness (I Pet 2:24a; Isa 53:6), Eternal life (I John 5:11-13), Born again (II Cor 5:17), God's child (Jn 1:12)
- • We can't trust our feelings (Fact, Faith, Feeling)
- • How to grow (Acts 2:42,47; I Pet 2:2)
2. How would you follow up a new Christian?
3. What would you set as long-term Discipleship goals?
RESOURCES: HOW TO GIVE AWAY YOUR FAITH by Little; OUT OF THE SALTSHAKER by Pippert; WHAT'S GONE WRONG WITH THE HARVEST by Engel and Norton; books on evangelism by Bill Bright; GENTLE PERSUASION by Aldrich
ASSIGNMENT: Go over each of the six steps and answer the following questions: (1) How motivated are you to reach people with the Gospel message? (2) What are some natural contacts that you have? (3) What relationships are you developing with non-Christians right now? (4) Which non-Christians have you begun to talk with about spiritual matters? (5) Do you know any non-Christians you might invite to a Christian activity or give Christian literature to? (6) How many have you shared the Gospel with this last year?