Sharing Our Faith with those of other faiths

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Sharing Our Faith with those of other faiths
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Sharing Our Faith with those of other faiths

• Understand exactly what it means to have a
  Personal Relationship with Christ
• Plant the seed of passion to share the gospel
  with a lost and dying world, (different than
  drummed up guilt!)
• Common Mistakes made when sharing the gospel
• Many sharing and presentation models and methods
  available
• Understand unsaved persons point of view better

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Sharing Our Faith with those of other faiths
Other faiths and ideologies to be discussed in
this series will include Cultural
Christianity Agnostics/Humanists Wiccan
Universalism New Age/Hindu Judaism Jehovahs
Witness Mormonism Buddhism Islam
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Sharing Our Faith with those of other faiths
God is Sovereign! He puts people in our path
everyday who need to hear the gospel message
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From one man he made every nation of men, that
they should inhabit the whole earth
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and he determined the times set for them and the
exact places where they should live.
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God did this so that men would seek him and
perhaps reach out for him and find him... Acts
1726-27
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Sharing Our Faith with those of other faiths

• 7 Billion people in the world
• Largest three countries in the world
• China 1.3 billion people (lt19)
• India 1 billion people (lt15)
• United States 300 million people (lt5)
• Worldwide, there are only 10 of the people who
  are true believers of Jesus(700 million people)
• In the United States, less than 15 of the
  population are true believers of Jesus(45
  million people)

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Sharing Our Faith with those of other faiths

• We need to know what we believehow can we share
  what we do not know?
• George Barna says only 8 of Americans are
  Evangelical
• Definition
• Must be born again
• Faith Important in our lives
• Personal responsibility to share faith
• Believe Satan exists

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Sharing Our Faith with those of other faiths

• Definition (continued)
• Eternal salvation is possible only through grace
  not works
• Jesus lived a sinless life and was born of a
  virgin
• The Bible is inerrant from cover to cover
• God is all knowing, all powerful, perfect deity
  who created universe and still rules it today

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Sharing Our Faith with those of other faiths

• Common mistakes
• Harsh
• No love in our presentations, only spiritual
  notches
• We make Christianity unattractive by being
  legalistic with a set of rules(our goal is not
  to make them like us necessarily)
• Blending of other religions due to zeal for
  conversions

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Sharing Our Faith with those of other faiths

• Common mistakes
• Little or no prayer beforehand
• Little/no reliance on the Holy Spirit (Acts 18)
• We use church words such as saved, lost, walk the
  aisle, etc. most people do not understand.
• We do not know what we believe, or we have not
  been redeemed ourselves!
• Complicate the simple truth of the gospel!

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Sharing Our Faith with those of other faiths
Some examples of being harshthese methods only
distracts us from the real Message! What is that
message? For God so loved the world that He
gave His only Son that whoever believes in Him
will not perish but have everlasting life. John
316
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Sharing Our Faith with those of other faiths
Bullhorn man
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Sharing Our Faith with those of other faiths
When witnessing and sharing the gospel of Jesus
Christ, we are going to be attacked
spiritually And even if our gospel is veiled,
it is veiled to those who are perishing. The god
of this age has blinded the minds of unbelievers
so that they cannot see the light of the gospel
of the glory of Christ who is the image of God.
2 Corinthians 43-4
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Sharing Our Faith with those of other faiths
When witnessing to people, why are we, as
Christians surprised when they do not act with
the same worldview as us?
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Sharing Our Faith with those of other faiths
Remember, the Bible says the gospel is offensive
to those who are perishing We have one thing to
share with the lost and dying worldus Our
testimony of what God did for us and what He is
doing in us todaydo you have a testimony today?
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Sharing Our Faith with those of other faiths
Girl on bench video