Forty Days of Purpose
Lesson 6
Evangelism: You
Were Made For a Mission
May 22, 2005
Read Luke 5:17-26
Read - fill in the blanks
Acts 13:36-42 -
"David served his generation"
Pass It On - Go Tell it on
a Mountain
Matt. 12:20
John 4:34-38
A mission in the world in
which we share with
unbelievers the
"unsearchable riches of Christ"
It means more than just going
to church - a ministry
that is not just for
pastors and missionaries - every
Christian is called to
serve and minister to others.
We have studied four
purposes that God has for your
life - worship,
fellowship, discipleship, ministry and
today evangelism. God wants you to share the good
news with others - the
same mission that Christ had -
He now gives to us - to
pass on to others the same
Good News about God's love
that someone told YOU!
Deut. 6:4-9 Matt. 28:18-20
infiltrate - not isolate -
insulate - not contamination
Acts 15:18 Acts 28:23-31
Col. 1:25-29 Rom. 11:25,29-32
Luke 21:24
Rick Warren's father -
"reach one more for Jesus"
Jews - Gentiles - Muslims
????
John 17:18,15,20-21
A mission - GOOD NEWS
I Cor. 3:9-17
Four Keys to Fulfilling
God's Mission in the World
(1) They became CONCERNED
(burdened) - the principle
of compassion -the four men cared enough
about their
helpless friend to do something about his
pain -
compassion is love in action. You must love people and
look out for their needs - spend time
with non-Christians -
Prayer is essential to fulfilling that
mission - Col. 4:3-5
a. ask God to
soften your heart & give you a real
love for unbelievers with whom you come
into
contact.
b.
ask God to soften their hearts - God usually
does this through problems and
pain - look
around - see who is hurting.
(2) They believed that Jesus WOULD SAVE their
friend.
a. they brought
their friend to JESUS
b. the sick man was paralyzed - people can be
suffering from
paralysis of fear, guilt, loneliness,
or
circumstances & problems in
life. They can't
get to Jesus
on their own - they need us to bring
them to Jesus!
Heb. 7:25
No one is beyond the reach of God's love - He
specializes in doing the impossible. Don't give up
on anyone. Someone
had to bring you.
(3) They didn't just pray for their friend; they
BROUGHT
HIM
to JESUS!
a.
if you are paralyzed you cannot come on your own.
Col. 4:5-6 Luke
14:23
We are to be aggressive -
not to sit back and wait
for people to come to church.
(4) They didn't let difficulties DISCOURAGE them.
a. there was too big of a crowd - the door was
blocked - they
took their paralyzed friend up on
the roof and
started pulling away the roof tiles -
they created a
disturbance - they let the man down
on a mat
through the hole in the roof right before
Jesus. Bold, costly, but it was WORTH IT!
II Peter 3:9
"And let us not be
weary in well doing; for in due season we shall
reap, if we faint
not" - Gal. 6:9
DON'T GET DISCOURAGED AND DON'T
GIVE UP! Pointing
someone to heaven is the
greatest thing that you can do for him.
Fulfilling God's five
purposes in this study:
Bringing pleasure to God through worship.
Experiencing life together through
fellowship.
Growing spiritually to be more like Christ
through discipleship.
Serving the needs of others through
ministry.
Sharing the Good News through
evangelism.
Acts 13:36 - tells of
David serving his generation - our prayer
should be that we serve God's purpose in our
generation.
Psalm 78:1-11 I Cor. 12:1,4-27 Eph. 4:11-16