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Title: Sharing the Gospel
What this is all about: Evangelism
What I want you to know: How you live your life reveals what you believe about God.
What I want you to do: Turn everyday conversations into gospel conversations
How I want you to do this: Prioritize God first with prayer and personal Bible study.
Series: Acts of Harvest
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Date: 2-18-2018
Pastor Mike Ellis
Introduction:
Today we will continue in our journey through the book of Acts, through the lens of harvesting.
The theme comes from which says;
This is also where we find the title of our preaching series “The Acts of Harvest”
To this point in Acts we have read about some amazing and wonderful things happen.
People being saved by the thousands, some selling off their property to support the poor, all of them being devoted in prayer and breaking bread with one another.
Responding to the call of serving one another, and fulfilling the great commission, with making disciples.
Last week we looked very closely to responding to our call and we saw through a parable that Jesus gave that we are responsible for the gifts and resources that God has given us.
This entire look at the book of Acts has undeniably shown the importance of the Holy Spirit in all aspects of the early church as well as today, and so we continue.
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1. Valentines Shooting
2. What is important
Lexi and praying for things to get better.
3. How We Spend Our Time
The way you live your life reveals many things about who you are.
Today we live our lives as if we are busy.
And if we are not busy, we will find something to make ourselves so.
Today it is easy to see that people are always thinking in the back of their mind that someone else will take of …, or that they don’t have time for …
What is it that you don’t have time for?
I find this interesting.
We find to time to sleep in.
We find time fishing, hunting, camping, etc.
We find time for the many activities that we put our children in.
We find time for vacations.
We find time for Television, Facebook, Youtube…etc.
We find time for work, and career.
Let’s work through this.
How many hours of sleep do you get?
How much time do you spend at your job?
How much travel time do you have?
You have likely already used well over 2/3 of your day.
Somewhere between 16 to 20 hours perhaps.
What do you do with the rest of your time?
Statistics say that most people spend the rest of their time with the following
TV watching takes up about 4 hours
Social Media takes up about 2 and half hours
How do you spend the rest of your time?
Be honest with yourself here for just a minute.
Look back on what was just said.
What do you spend most of your time doing?
What do you spend most of your time thinking about?
When you get up in the morning, what drives you to move forward through the day?
Does your life look any different than that of the rest of the world?
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And just what is it that you do not have time for?
What is it that you are leaving out of your life?
The two most important activities of all,
Prayer
Personal Bible Study
So why does this matter?
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The way you live your life reveals what you believe about God.
Do you believe His words?
Do you take His commands seriously?
Who are you discipling right now?
Who has God put in the folds of your life?
Anyone?
Do you want this to change?
Change your priorities.
Prayer and time spent in His Word needs to be first.
Specific prayer, targeted prayer.
6. Turn everyday conversations into gospel conversations.
You will speak about what is important in your life.
7. 3 Circles
God’s Design—Brokenness—Gospel
God’s Design
God has a design for every area of our lives—our families, marriages, money, sex life, work life and just plain life.
God designed us to be in relationship with Him, but we have all departed from that design.
The Bible calls this sin.
We’re born with a sinful nature, so sin comes naturally to us.
There is no one who gets it right all of the time.
We all sin and fall short of God’s perfect design ().
This sin leaves us in brokenness.
Brokenness is easy for most of us to understand.
It feels like broken relationships, addiction, depression, discouragement, guilt and shame.
We all want out of brokenness, so we try to fix it (squiggly lines out of brokenness).
We medicate it with drugs or numb it with alcohol.
We strive to be better people, hoping that somehow, someway, our good will outweigh our bad.
We look for ways to alleviate our pain.
When we do that, we just get more and more broken.
This feels like a bad thing, but in many ways, brokenness is a good thing because it’s the way God gets our attention.
When we feel broken on the inside and everything is all messed up, we know something needs to change.
The Bible word for change is repent.
Brokenness is what gets us ready to try God’s solution, which is to repent and believe the gospel.
The change we really need comes from Jesus.
God sent Jesus to live a perfect life, die the death we deserve, and be raised to life again, proving He is who He says He is and can do what He says He can do.
Jesus came to forgive our sins.
When we repent and believe in Him, He gives us His Spirit who helps us recover and pursue God’s design.
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Then Jesus sends us right back out into a broken world to tell others how to find their way out of brokenness.
Conclusion:
There you have it.
Evangelism 101
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