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REACHING PEOPLE THROUGH THE SUNDAY SCHOOL
John 1:35-42
Bobby Earls, Alexander Baptist Association Annual Session,
October 4, 2001
JOKE: Either when in Rome do as the Romans do or Sinner, sinner down below.
I LOVE THE SUNDAY SCHOOL.
I am a Sunday School Pastor.
All the churches I have served have been Sunday School Churches.
And because of that focus, all the churches I have served have been growing churches.
Having said that, I do not come as an expert.
(An expert is someone who knows what he’s talking about when he’s away from home) But I can tell you about someone who is an expert.
His name is Jesus.
Look in your Bibles at John 1:35
"Again the next day, John was standing with two of his disciples and he looked upon Jesus as he walked and said, "Behold, the Lamb of God."
And the two disciples heard him speak and they followed Jesus.
Jesus turned and beheld them following and said to them, "What do you seek?"
And they said to him, "Rabbi (when translated means teacher), where are you staying?"
He said to them, "Come and see."
They came therefore and saw where he was staying and they stayed with him that day, for it was about the tenth hour.
One of the two who heard John speak and followed him was Andrew, Simon Peter's brother.
He found first his brother, Simon, and said to him, "We have found the Messiah (when translated means Christ)."
He brought him to Jesus.
For twenty years as a pastor, I have trained church members to share their faith using memorized presentations of the Gospel.
I used everything from the Roman Road, to CWT, E.E., to FAITH.
Almost without fail, I hear the same complaints from many of my members.
“I can’t memorize.”
“I can’t remember all of that.”
I can’t learn all those scriptures.”
I like to ask those same people, “Can you tell me your name, SS #, address, and telephone number?”
When they give it to me, I always say, “I thought you said you can’t memorize?!”
Tonight I want to teach everyone of you a memorized presentation that you can use to effectively reach and win your friends, family and associates to faith in Christ.
It consists of three words and we’re all going to work on it and learn it together.
Are you ready?
Here it is: “Come and see.”
Say it with me.
Come and see.
Say it slow for those who are having a hard time.
Come and see.
I think you’ve got it!
Now go and share it with somebody that needs Jesus.
It works!
It is obvious to me as I read the Bible about the beginning of Jesus' ministry that he is collecting people.
He is bringing people to himself and to each other.
We sing "people need the Lord ..." and that is true, but people also need people.
Adam was the best of God's creation but he wasn't complete.
He wasn't total.
He needed someone else in his life.
God gave us family because we need someone else.
He gave us the church family because we need others.
Sometimes people say, "If I have God, that's all I need".
Not so, Adam had God.
Adam had not sinned yet.
He was in total fellowship with God but he was lonely.
He was alone.
He needed someone.
Jesus was bringing people to Himself and to each other.
He is still doing that.
He is doing that in Christian marriages.
He is doing that in churches.
Look in verse 39.
He turned and saw them following Him and asked: "What are you seeking?
What do you want?"
We don't know what Jesus and the first disciples talked about but we do know that at the end of the time with Him Andrew was convinced.
He immediately sought out his brother, Simon, the son of John.
They were the Johnson boys and he said, "We have found the Saviour, the Messiah."
And he brought him to Jesus.
Now his brother, Simon, he would be called Peter later, would become one of history's greatest men and leaders of the early Christians.
What if Andrew hadn't brought his brother to meet Jesus?
Many of you have heard of D. L. Moody, the great preacher, founder of Chicago's Moody Bible Institution and much more.
Do you know the name Edward Kimble?
He is the Sunday School teacher who invited Moody to visit his class and brought him to Jesus.
We all know the name Billy Graham.
How we thank God for Billy Graham.
Do you know the name Mortachi Hamm?
He is the one used to bring Billy Graham to Christ.
You don't have to be a Methodist to know the name John Wesley.
John Wesley was saved because he was invited and taken to a prayer meeting by someone whose name is not known.
You can be assured God knows it.
Garrison Keeler, the great story teller grew up in church.
As a boy he was taken to every meeting.
When he went to college he dropped out.
He had a lot of good reasons, he thought, for not going to church.
Every time someone would ask, "Do you go to church?" he would say, "No."
And they would say, "Well, why don't you go to church?"
And he would tell them why and they would leave him alone .
One day someone said, "Do you go to church?" "No," he said.
"Why?"
And he told them.
And then the person asked, "Would you go to church with me?"
And he said, "Yes, I will."
And Garrison Keeler has been in church ever since.
I’ll never forget the day, May the 14th, 1973 when a young lady in my high school invited me to come and see.
She simply gave me an invitation to join her at the local Crusade that was going on that evening.
The tent was up on the football practice field.
Everyone could see it.
So that night I went, and that night I got saved.
Oh the greatest decision of my life was that night twenty-eight years ago.
And all because a young girl, a high school student invited me to come and see.
Eighty percent of the people who come to church come because they were invited, not because of buildings or sermons or songs or ice cream socials.
They come because they were invited by someone.
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