We learn from Jesus how to fish

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We learn from Jesus how to fish

• when we are available when people are open to God.

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John 31-2

• Now there was a man of the Pharisees named
  Nicodemus, a member of the Jesus ruling council.
  He came to Jesus at night.

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We learn from Jesus how to fish

• When we are available when people are open to
  God.
• When we communicate in ways that people will
  understand.

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John 314-15

• Just as Moses lifted up the snake in the desert,
  so the Son of Man must be lifted up, that
  everyone who believes in him may have eternal
  life.

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We learn from Jesus how to fish

• When we are available when people are open to
  God.
• When we communicate in ways that people will
  understand.
• When we love sacrificially.

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John 316

• John 316a, For God so loved the world that he
  gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes
  in him shall not perish but have eternal life.

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We learn from Jesus how to fish

• When we are available when people are open to
  God.
• When we communicate in ways that people will
  understand.
• When we love sacrificially.
• When we offer people hope thru Jesus.

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John 316b

• ...that whoever believes in him shall not perish
  but have eternal life.

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John 173

• Now this is eternal life that they may know
  you, the only true God, and Jesus Christ, whom
  you have sent.

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We learn from Jesus how to fish

• When we are available when people are open to
  God.
• When we communicate in ways that people will
  understand.
• When we love sacrificially.
• When we offer people hope thru Jesus.
• When we do not condemn.

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John 317

• John 317, For God did not send his Son into the
  world to condemn the world, but to save the world
  through him.

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Action Questions

• Have you experienced a life-change through Jesus
  that leads to a relationship with God?
• Are you available to people so you are ready when
  they are ready to find God?
• Have you learned to communicate Jesus message of
  hope in an understandable way?

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Action Questions

• Does Gods love compel you to give sacrificially?
  How so?
• Do you condemn people who you are trying to lead
  to Christ?