Teaching The Truth In Love! Eph. 4:15

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Teaching The Truth In Love! Eph. 415

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  Proven Methods of Personal
  Evangelism

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How NOT to Evangelize

• Scream the gospel on the busiest corner in your
  focus community
• Wear a 3-piece suit and carry a huge black Bible
  when you go out to witness.
• Begin witnessing with TURN or BURN!

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How NOT to Evangelize - contd

• Talk about your church but not Christ.
• Send out direct mail, work on your computer, plan
  the services, organize your teams, BUT dont
  share the gospel with individual people.

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How NOT to Evangelize - contd

• Criticize their religion or profession in Christ.
  You cant argue someone to Christ. Preach the
  Truth in Love.
• Let yourself get side tracked with things that
  dont really matter.

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Evangelism is a

• PASSION not a PROGRAM!

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PASSION

• How can a person develop a passion for
  evangelism? 3 ways
• Powerful Experience Mark
  519
• Pointed Scriptures Acts
  18 Matt. 2818-20
• Personal Involvement
• The burden comes from going!

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POTENTIAL

• How do you reach your potential in evangelizing
  your focus community? You must be
• BE STUDIOUS
• --Become the EXPERT. 2 Tim. 215
• --FOCUS AUDIENCE.
• --Develop a PROFILE. (Survey)
• BE SENSITIVE
  Project your love for people.

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POSSIBILITIES

• What are possible approaches to personal
  witnessing?
• Printed tracts
• Testimony/Stories
• Church Visitation
• Marked New Testament
• Ministry Evangelism
• Draw the Gospel

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How do I get started?

• F
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How do I get started?

• Family
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How do I get started?

• Family
• Interests
• R
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How do I get started?

• Family
• Interests
• Religious background
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How do I get started?

• Family
• Interests
• Religious background
• (DIAGNOSTIC QUESTION)
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How do I get started?

• Family
• Interests
• Religious background
• (DIAGNOSTIC QUESTION)
• Message

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Draw the Gospel
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1. God loves You. John 316
God - Sinless
John 1010
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1. God (Christ) created the world. John
11-3, 14 Colossians 116
2. God loves You. John 316
John 1010
God - Sinless
3. All have sinned. Romans 323-25

Man - Sinful
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Good News Gospel
1. God (Christ) created the world. John
11-3, 14 Colossians 116
God - Sinless
2. God loves You. John 316
John 1010
SIN
Man - Sinful
3. All have sinned. Romans 323-25
Romans 623
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Good News Gospel
2. God loves You. John 316
John 1010
1. God (Christ) created the world. John
11-3, 14 Colossians 116
3. All have sinned. Romans 323-25
Romans 623
God - Sinless
2000 Years ago Christ made an atonement for sin.
4. Christ died, rose, and made a blood atonement
for us. Romans 58-9
Man - Sinful
5. Receive Christ. John 111-12
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Good News Gospel
1. God (Christ) created the world. John
11-3, 14 Colossians 116
2. God loves You. John 316
John 1010
3. All have sinned. Romans 323-25
Romans 623
God - Sinless
The sin is gone!
4. Christ died, rose, and made a blood atonement
for us. Romans 58-9
Man - Sinful
Acts 1631
HOW?
5. Receive Christ. John 111-12
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Good News Gospel
1. God (Christ) created the world. John
11-3, 14 Colossians 116
2. God loves You. John 316
John 1010
3. All have sinned. Romans 323-25
Romans 623
God - Sinless
4. Christ died, rose, and made a blood atonement
for us. Romans 58-9
Man - Sinful
Acts 1631
HOW?
5. Receive Christ. John 111-12
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Good News Gospel

• What else do you have to do?
• Nothing
• Repenting is turning from trusting in your
  righteousness to trusting in Christs
  righteousness alone!
• We cannot make Christ Lord, He is Lord!
• We cannot repent of all of our sins.
• If we could lose our salvation it would not be
  grace.

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Good News Gospel
Trust in Christ and Him alone!
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Now that you are a Christian . . .
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1. How to be SURE read

• 1 John 512-13

• John 316-18

• Hebrews 135

• John 1027-29

2. How to GROW spend time daily in

• Bible reading

• Prayer

• Fellowship

• Witnessing

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• How to deal with sin memorize
• 1 John 19

Confession - Wash your feet!
a. Telling God about your sins (and making
restitution)
b. Remember your sins were forgiven, but use not
grace as an occasion to sin.
c. The life of dedication is the life of
RE-DEDICATION!
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Control
Step down off the throne and give Jesus control
as King. Dont play games with GOD.
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Grow in Grace

• Go to church
• Read you Bible daily
• Obey the Lord in Baptism
• Witness for Him (Share your testimony)
• Tithe and Take time to pray (Faith)
• Hide the Word in your heart

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Control
Step down off the throne and give Jesus control
as King.
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Submit to the Holy Spirit to use you as a vessel
of holiness. Romans 121-2
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Control
Step down off the throne and give Jesus control
as King.
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Victorious Christian Life

• The flesh against the Spirit! Gal. 517
• The one that wins is the one you feed.

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Know Your Weapon Eph. 6

• D.L. Moody said of the Bible
• This book will keep you from sin or sin will
  keep you from this book.