Evangelism for the Terrified
Speaker:
Andrew Fountain
Date:
Sun, 2019-01-06 -
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Sermon Outline - Evangelism for the Terrified
- If you want to read a fuller description of the “Engel Scale” then have a look at this page.
- Why do most Christians find it so hard to share the Gospel?
- fearful of being looked down on
- don’t know what to say
- it could create an awkward moment
- This Scripture says to much!
- It is a journey
- It is possible to discern, as Jesus did, where someone is.
- We are going to spend most of our time today in John chapters 3&4
- We’ll start at the end so that we can see where we are going
- and then we’ll go to the beginning and work our way through
- Here’s an example of Paul witnessing to King Agrippa, and identifies precisely where he is on the journey
Steps on the Journey (by James Engel)
☐ God is a myth
☐ Dissatisfaction with lack of meaning
☐ Admit possibility of God
☐ Vague awareness and belief in God
☐ Wondering if God can be known personally
☐ Aware of what Jesus has to offer
☐ Interested in Jesus/Church
☐ Touched by reality of God (e.g. Christian love)
☐ Impacted by the truth of the gospel
☐ God brings awareness of personal need
☐ Count the cost of following Jesus
☐ Feel challenge to respond
☐ Turn from everything else to trust Jesus
John 3: Nicodemus
- Now a certain man, a Pharisee named Nicodemus, who was a member of the Jewish ruling council,
- came to Jesus at night and said to him, “Rabbi, we know that you are a teacher who has come from God. For no one could perform the miraculous signs that you do unless God is with him.”
- Jesus replied, “I tell you the solemn truth, unless a person is born from above, he cannot see the kingdom of God.”
- Nicodemus said to him, “How can a man be born when he is old? He cannot enter his mother’s womb and be born a second time, can he?”
- Jesus answered, …What is born of the flesh is flesh, and what is born of the Spirit is spirit…
- Nicodemus replied, “How can these things be?”
- Jesus answered, “Are you the teacher of Israel and yet you don’t understand these things?
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- For this is the way God loved the world: He gave his one and only Son, so that everyone who believes in him will not perish but have eternal life.
based on NET Bible
John 4: Woman at the Well
- Jacob’s well was there, so Jesus, since he was tired from the journey, sat right down beside the well. It was about noon.
- A Samaritan woman came to draw water. Jesus said to her, “Give me some water to drink.”
- (For his disciples had gone off into the town to buy supplies. )
- So the Samaritan woman said to him, “How can you — a Jew — ask me, a Samaritan woman, for water to drink?” (For Jews use nothing in common with Samaritans.)
- Jesus answered her, “If you had known the gift of God and who it is who said to you, ‘Give me some water to drink,’ you would have asked him, and he would have given you living water.”
- “Sir,” the woman said to him, “you have no bucket and the well is deep; where then do you get this living water?
- Surely you’re not greater than our ancestor Jacob, are you? For he gave us this well and drank from it himself, along with his sons and his livestock.”
- Jesus replied, “Everyone who drinks some of this water will be thirsty again.
- But whoever drinks some of the water that I will give him will never be thirsty again, but the water that I will give him will become in him a fountain of water springing up to eternal life.”
- The woman said to him, “Sir, give me this water, so that I will not be thirsty or have to come here to draw water.”
- He said to her, “Go call your husband and come back here.”
- The woman replied, “I have no husband.” Jesus said to her, “Right you are when you said, ‘I have no husband,’
- for you have had five husbands, and the man you are living with now is not your husband. This you said truthfully!”
- The woman said to him, “Sir, I see that you are a prophet.
- Our fathers worshiped on this mountain, and you people say that the place where people must worship is in Jerusalem.”
- Jesus said to her, “Believe me, woman, a time is coming when you will worship the Father neither on this mountain nor in Jerusalem.
- You people worship what you do not know. We worship what we know, because salvation is from the Jews.
- But a time is coming — and now is here — when the true worshipers will worship the Father in spirit and truth, for the Father seeks such people to be his worshipers.
- God is spirit, and the people who worship him must worship in spirit and truth.”
- The woman said to him, “I know that Messiah is coming” (the one called Christ); “whenever he comes, he will tell us everything.”
- Jesus said to her, “I, the one speaking to you, am he.”
- Now at that very moment his disciples came back. They were shocked because he was speaking with a woman. However, no one said, “What do you want?” or “Why are you speaking with her?”
- Then the woman left her water jar, went off into the town and said to the people,
- “Come, see a man who told me everything I ever did. Surely he can’t be the Messiah, can he?”
- So they left the town and began coming to him.
based on NET Bible
- Put the name (or initials) of someone you are in contact with who is not a Christian
- Check off where they are
- We will pray for them in a moment
Updated on 2019-01-06 by Andrew Fountain
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