- Signs of significance
- Most roads lead here
- God’s new creation in the midst of a hostile world
To see the gospel bear fruit in the Inner West and the World as we commit, grow, engage and send.
Sermons on Sharing (Page 3)
Matthew 28:16-20; John 20:19-29
What does Jesus mean when He tells us to go and make disciples?
- Jesus wants us to go somewhere for Him
- Jesus want us to make something with Him
- How do I ‘make’ a disciple of Jesus?
- I help someone become a disciple of Jesus (symbolised by baptism)
- I help someone to grow as a disciple of Jesus (by teaching them how to live for Him)
- Who am I discipling now?
- Not for elders’ eyes only
- Shepherd God’s people
- Potential trappings
- The unfading crown of glory
- Belief in the Gospel brings cleansing from sin (22a)
- Belief in the Gospel enables us to love in truth (22b)
- Belief in the Gospel brings us new life within (23)
- Belief in the Gospel gives us certain hope for the future (23 and 25)
What happens when we believe the good news? (2:1)
True internal change will find visible outward expression
- Unified in our convictions about the Gospel (1:27)
- United in our efforts to proclaim the Gospel (1:27)
- Confident in the face of opposition to the Gospel (1:28-30)
- Selfless in service of our brethren in the Gospel (2:3-4)
- The Pharisees Question
- Jesus’ Answer
- More than a feeling
- Not less than a feeling
- How / why does it actually work?
- Jesus’ Question
- We can’t be Christians and yet not say anything about it
- Like Paul:
- We know who He is
- We know what He’s done
- We know that He died on the Cross for sinners
- We know He rose again and appeared to 500 at once and on other occasions as well
- We know He ascended to The Father and is seated there right now
- We know He is the King of all creation
- We know the difference He makes in human lives
- We know how He changed us
- We know we have something to say
- Acknowledge our hearers’ religiosity (Acts 17:22)
- Identify a common point of contact (Acts 17:23) (e.g. In Athens it was the altar with the inscription “To An Unknown God”)
- Explain to them how Jesus is the God we know and what he expects (Acts 17:30-31)
- Become familiar with the teachings of our hearers
- Be aware that not everyone will react positively (Acts 17:32-34)
Lord, open our eyes and minds to the ‘fields for harvest’ and give us the courage to ‘get out there’.
Is there anything else that is better worth as along life's way we plod, Than to find some wand'ring soul of earth and bring him home to God. I would rather find a soul that's lost and bring him home again, Than to win all that earth's acres cost or all the wealth of men. How glad I'd be when that day was done in taking my last breath, To know a word of mine had won and saved a soul from death.
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