Evangelism

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Evangelism
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The beginning of the gospel of Jesus Christ,
the Son of God.
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The Three Stories Of Evangelism
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The Big Story
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The particular to the universal

• One place to every place
• One person/people to many
• One time into an ever new future

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The power of the gospel lies in the powerful
announcement that God is God, Jesus is Lord,
that the powers of evil have been defeated, that
Gods new world has begun. Tom Wright
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These people who have been turning the world
upside down have come here also. Acts 17 6
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70 of all Christians have come to faith since
1900.
1940 1/32 world population were Christian

• 1/10 world population
• were Christian

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We live in a culture so saturated with self, in
which humans have placed themselves in the
centre for so long, that our natural tendency
,even as Christians ,is to focus on the human
aspects of evangelism and not the divine. Yet
it is God who takes the initiative to pursue
seekers, it is his Spirit who converts, it is
his gospel that saves. Evangelism is Gods
business from start to finish. Rebecca Manley
Pippert
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It is not the church of God which has a mission
but the God of mission who has a church
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How does the church become the evangelising
centre it was meant to be? Before we think of
programmes or techniques, we need to be
renewed in our vision of who Christ is and what
Gods purposes are for the world.
Rebecca Manley
Pippert.
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Our story
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Prayer
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Purpose
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Proximity
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The Son of Man came eating and drinking and they
say Look at Him! A glutton and a drunkard, a
friend of tax collectors and sinners. Matthew
11 v19.
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Promptings
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Its not the greatest people who change the world
but weak people in the hands of a great God.
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Our story as communities
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My prayer is not for these only but also for
those who will believe in me through their word,
that they may all may be one, just as you,
Father, are in me and I in you, that they also
may be in us so that the world may believe that
you have sent me. The glory that you have given
me, I have given to them, that they may be one
even as we are one. I in them and you in me,
that they become perfectly one so that the
world may know that you sent me and loved them
even as you have loved me. John 1720-23
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The responsive story
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• outsiders become insiders
• forgetters become rememberers

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• gradual
• relational
• communal
• formational
• transforming

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The ship is safest when its in the port. But
thats not what ships were made for.
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