A What is your greatest hindrance to witnessing

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A What is your greatest hindrance to witnessing?

• Nine percent said they were too busy to remember
  to do it.
• Twenty-eight percent felt the lack of real
  information to share.
• None said they didnt really care.
• Twelve percent said their own lives were not
  speaking as they should.
• Fifty-one percent said their biggest problem was
  the fear of how the other person would react!

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What makes people hesitate to share their faith?

• I am afraid I might do more harm than good.
• I dont know what to say.
• I may not be able to give snappy answers to
  tricky questions.
• I may seem bigoted.
• I may invade someones privacy.
• I am afraid I might fail.
• I am afraid I might be a hypocrite.
• Im afraid of being rejected.

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Acts 241 (NASB)

• So then, those who had received his word were
  baptized and that day there were added about
  three thousand souls.

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Acts247b (NASB)

• And the Lord was adding to their number day by
  day those who were being saved.

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Acts 44 (NASB)

• But many of those who had heard the message
  believed and the number of the men came to be
  about five thousand.

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When God is at work some people are attracted to
Him and some are not.
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Jealousy

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zeleuo
To boil, to have warmth of feeling for or
against, to be zealous or jealous intensely
earnest concern (envy or resentment)
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What are some barriers people to hearing the
gospel?
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Evangelism is helping a person move one step
closer in the process of coming to Christ.
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Acts 418 (NASB)

• And when they had summoned them, they commanded
  them not to speak or teach at all in the name of
  Jesus.

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Matthew 2724 -25 (NASB)

• When Pilate saw that he was accomplishing
  nothing, but rather that a riot was starting, he
  took water and washed his hands in front of the
  crowd, saying, I am innocent of this Man's
  blood see to that yourselves. And all the
  people said, His blood shall be on us and on our
  children!

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Acts 419 (NASB)

• But Peter and John answered and said to them,
  Whether it is right in the sight of God to give
  heed to you rather than to God, you be the
  judge

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Deuteronomy 2122-23 (NASB)

• If a man has committed a sin worthy of death and
  he is put to death, and you hang him on a tree,
  his corpse shall not hang all night on the tree,
  but you shall surely bury him on the same day
  (for he who is hanged is accursed of God), so
  that you do not defile your land which the LORD
  your God gives you as an inheritance.

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Romans 89 (NASB)

• However, you are not in the flesh but in the
  Spirit, if indeed the Spirit of God dwells in you
  but if anyone does not have the Spirit of Christ,
  he does not belong to Him.

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Cut to the quick/furious

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dieprionto
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Cut to the quick/furious

• d?ep????t?

dieprionto
Two
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Cut to the quick/furious

• d?ep????t?

dieprionto
Two
to cut, saw
To saw in two, to cut in two (their hearts). Here
it is rage that cuts into their hearts. A strong
figure for exasperation.
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Acts 223 (NASB)

• I am a Jew, born in Tarsus of Cilicia, but
  brought up in this city, educated under Gamaliel,
  strictly according to the law of our fathers,
  being zealous for God just as you all are today.

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Flogged

• derw

dero
From the root skin meaning to flay skin, to
beat, implies a severe beating.
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What would you have done after being released,
how would you have felt?
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Considered/counted worthy

• axiws

axios
To think or count worthy
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Shame/disgrace

• ?t?µ???

atimazo
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Shame/disgrace

• ?t?µ???

atimazo
negative particle
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Shame/disgrace

• ?t?µ???

atimazo
negative particle
to honor
To not honor, to dishonor, disgrace, insult with
word or deed, to treat shamefully, to suffer
shame
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1 Peter 220 (NASB)

• For what credit is there if, when you sin and
  are harshly treated, you endure it with patience?
  But if when you do what is right and suffer for
  it you patiently endure it, this finds favor with
  God.

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I Peter 314-17 (NASB)

• But even if you should suffer for the sake of
  righteousness, you are blessed AND DO NOT FEAR
  THEIR INTIMIDATION, AND DO NOT BE TROUBLED, but
  sanctify Christ as Lord in your hearts, always
  being ready to make a defense to everyone who
  asks you to give an account for the hope that is
  in you, yet with gentleness and reverence and
  keep a

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I Peter 314-17 (cont.)

• good conscience so that in the thing in which you
  are slandered, those who revile your good
  behavior in Christ will be put to shame. For it
  is better, if God should will it so, that you
  suffer for doing what is right rather than for
  doing what is wrong.

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I Peter 413- 16 (NASB)

• but to the degree that you share the sufferings
  of Christ, keep on rejoicing, so that also at the
  revelation of His glory you may rejoice with
  exultation. If you are reviled for the name of
  Christ, you are blessed, because the Spirit of
  glory and of God rests on you. Make sure that
  none of you suffers as a murderer, or thief, or
  evildoer, or a troublesome meddler but if

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I Peter 413- 16 (NASB)

• but if anyone suffers as a Christian, he is not
  to be ashamed, but is to glorify God in this
  name.

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Why did the early church have to meet house to
house?
What was the value?
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When you join God in what He is doing you join a
team.
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What is the only duty of the church that cant be
better done in heaven?
Evangelism.