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- and articulating your testimony of faith
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- Evangelism: the communication of that message
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- Mass
- Inspirational
- Settings
- Invitations in local church services
- Crusade-type events
- One on one
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- Sharing your faith shouldn’t be hard on your neighbor’s dental work
- Graphic from an ad for Asbury Theological Seminary
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- “Faith does, on occasion, arise -- partly because of us and partly in
spite of us” -- Brueggemann
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- Cup of cold water – expressing tangibly who Christ is
- Invitational – “come with me”
- Prophetic – “the Bible says”
- Apologetic – point by point logic
- Testimonial –
- “One thing I do know: I was blind but now I see”
- Relational – friendships
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- Evangelism that is intentional about bringing the Good News to someone
in the context of a relationship
- A majority of believers have come to faith in the context of a network
of friends and family
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- Content (Gospel)
- Incarnational (Our lives)
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- The unbeliever comes to see Christ through His incarnation in the
believer
- Latin lesson: incarnation =
“to make flesh; infleshment”
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- Example gospel presentations
- Evangelism explosion
- God, Human beings, sin, grace, salvation
- Four spiritual laws
- Roman road
- Gospel bracelets
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- God loves you and wants to establish a relationship with you
- Sin separates you from God
- Jesus is the “bridge”
- You must come to Christ and accept His lordship
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- Romans 3:23
- Romans 6:23
- Romans 5:8
- Romans 10:9-10
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- “We have souls that thrive in the warmth of kindred spirits. . . .God
wired us this way, and because of that wiring we have the capacity for
relationships” --Doug Fields
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- Is step-by-step (but not the step-by-step of the prophetic “the Bible
says” approach)
- Evangelism strategist George Hunter:
- “Conversion typically results from a ‘chain’ of experiences. The number of significant
experiences in that chain is typically about 30 links.”
- Relational evangelism creates those links
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- Its intentional focus on friendship places a high value on people
- “Every person has a right to hear the Gospel in a way that they can
understand” – Jim Rayburn, Young Life
- Earns you the right to be heard
- Relationship produces:
- Respect
- A sense of safety
- Conviction that you care
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- Recognizes God’s prevenient grace is always present
- Latin lesson: pre-venir =
grace that “comes before”
- The Lord goes before us and prepares the way
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- Is an intentional transforming journey involving a process
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- Listen. Listen. Listen . . . And
really hear.
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- Be simple
- Never underestimate other people’s intelligence
- Never overestimate their knowledge
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- Makes Christ central
- “My propositional truths are more correct than your propositional
truths”
- Looks to take conversation to a deeper level
- “Wouldn’t you like to believe in something?”
- “Does God (or a Higher Power) seem personal to you?”
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- Wrong motivations
- Notch on the gun
- An extremely thin covering of “relational” on our evangelism
- Ego trip
- Examples?
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- Losing sight of the goal
- The human relationship becomes the end
- “It makes me a little queasy to think about all the junk that gets
tossed our way in the name of ‘relational evangelism’“-- Art Rogers
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- Assuming our ”presence” is enough - never using the content rail
- Danger: Giving the impression
that we are the source of our spiritual life
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- “I’m not going to suggest a new formula, because . . . techniques aren’t
the most effective, especially for friends.
- “Have you ever thought of looking more deeply at the life of Jesus?
- “If you live by the same priorities and values that He had, you will
find evangelism happening naturally. It becomes a lifestyle and not a
project.”
- Out of the Saltshaker, by Becky Pippert
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- and Articulating Your
- Personal Testimony
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- Prayer for:
- Communicator
- Message
- Recipient
- Fasting and Prayer
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Notes