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Over the next several weeks we will be walking through the following Spiritual Disciplines:
Bible Intake
Prayer
Worship
Evangelism
Serving
Stewardship
Fasting
Silence and Solitude
Journaling
Learning
Perseverance in the Disciplines
Donald S. Whitney, Spiritual Disciplines for the Christian Life, Revised and Updated. (Colorado Springs, CO: NavPress; Tyndale House Publishers, Inc., 2024)
The book that will guide our study: GET IT AND READ IT!!!!! We have a few available at church.
Spiritual Disciplines for the Christian Life – Amazon Link
Evangelism
A Definition
Presenting Jesus Christ in the power of the Holy Spirit to sinful people, in order that they may come to put their trust in God through Him, to receive Him as their Savior, and to serve Him as their King in the fellowship of His church.[1]
The joyful and intentional proclamation of the Gospel of the Lord Jesus Christ. (Pastor Jon)
God’s Holiness
Mans Sinfulness
Christ’s redemption
Mans response
The Goal
Fulfilling the Great Commission. Making Disciples. (Conversion)
Saved
Growing
Worship
Serving
Our Responsibility
Some are called to be an evangelist. Ephesians 4:11-12
All are called to fulfill the Great Commission. 1 Peter 2:9
Proclamation – We must proclaim the Gospel. The biblical message of Jesus Christ and the need for salvation.
Persuasion – We must persuade people to respond to the message. God’s sovereignty in salvation process should never prevent us from encouraging people to come to Christ in repentance and faith.
Not all are gifted the same way, but all gifted to point people to Christ.
We can all be guilty of wanting others to have to same passion to do what we are doing.
Matthew 28:19–20 Go therefore and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, teaching them to observe all that I have commanded you. And behold, I am with you always, to the end of the age.
Mark 16:15 He said to them, ‘Go into all the world and proclaim the gospel to the whole creation.
Luke 24:46–47 He said to them, ‘… that repentance and forgiveness of sins should be proclaimed in his name to all nations, beginning from Jerusalem.
John 20:21 Jesus said to them again, ‘Peace be with you. As the Father has sent me, even so I am sending you.
Acts 1:8 You will receive power when the Holy Spirit has come upon you, and you will be my witnesses in Jerusalem and in all Judea and Samaria, and to the end of the earth.
The Motivation
God’s Glory
Our obedience and faithfulness (Living a life pleasing to the Father)
1 Thessalonians 2:4 (vv. 1-8)
2 Corinthians 5:9 (vv. 6-10)
[1] Donald S. Whitney, Spiritual Disciplines for the Christian Life, Revised and Updated. (Colorado Springs, CO: NavPress; Tyndale House Publishers, Inc., 2014), 120.
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