The Craving

Philippians 3:10-11

  1. Paul had a craving to know Jesus Christ personally/full justification.

  2. Paul had a craving to know Jesus Christ powerfully/continual sanctification.

  3. Paul had a craving to know Jesus Christ passionately/ambitious personification.

  4. Paul had a craving to know Jesus Christ permanently/future glorification.

The Holy Spirit

Romans 8:14-17

  1. The Holy Spirit will bear to me that I should have a desire to follow the Holy Spirit.

  2. The Holy Spirit testifies to me that I don’t have to live in fear.

  3. The Holy Spirit testifies to my spirit that when I do die I will be in a rightful place

  4. The Holy Spirit bears witness with my spirit that I have affection with God.

  5. The Holy Spirit bear witness that I am God child.

  6. The Holy Spirit testifies with my spirit that God will be with me in difficult days.

Evangelism-Just Tell somebody About Jesus-Part 2

The Holy Spirit at Work in a Christian Witness

Acts 1:8

“But you will receive power when the Holy Spirit comes on you; and you will be my witnesses in Jerusalem, and in all Judea and Samaria, and to the ends of the earth.”

When Jesus told the Disciples to spread the Word through out the world.

  1. It was geographically impossible.

  2. It was physically impossible.

  3. It was numerically impossible.

  4. It was financially impossible.

  5. It was legally impossible.

  6. It was socially impossible.

The Institute For American Church Growth

How did you become a Christian? What led you to be at the Church you are presently attending?

I had a special need-3%

I just walked in-3%

I liked the minister-6%

I visited there-1%

I liked the Bible classes-5%

I attended a gospel meeting-0.5%

I liked the programs-3%

A friend or relative invited me-79%

Evangelism-Just Tell Someone About Jesus

2 Corinthians 2:15-16

2 Corinthians 5:20

Why we don’t tell people about Jesus

  1. It is politically incorrect to do so.

Christianity is unquestionably exclusive. That is, there is no room for other gods or other pathways to God. If you are a Christian, you take Jesus at His Word. In John 14 He said, “I am the Way, the Truth and the Life and no one come to the Father except through Me.”

2. The philosophy of the day, which of course is postmodernism.

Postmodernism as a philosophy seems to permeate everything we hear these days.  Postmodernism says that there is no absolute truth.  Postmodernists would say, there is no one truth which is applicable at all places for all people at all times.  While many Christians have unconsciously succumbed to this way of thinking, many others are not really equipped to answer the questions or to respond to the objections that postmodernists have.  

3. Fear

Christians fear being ostracized by their lost friends.  They are afraid of what it will cost them to be identified with Him so they are secret agents in God’s service.  Others fail to share the good news of Jesus because they have, somehow, through scriptural gymnastics, convinced themselves that it is not their responsibility.  Some fail to share the gospel because they have nothing more than a head knowledge of Jesus, they have never truly been transformed by His power and have never experienced the new birth.  It is easy to see why they don’t share their faith.  They have nothing to share. You can’t relay an experience you’ve never experienced. Others don’t share because sin in their lives has sidelined them.