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South Texas Bible Ministry

Training Center

MIN 123 — Evangelism and Discipleship in the Local Church

Week 2

Ricky Joseph, Ph.D.

OBJECTIVES

• Explain the motives for pursuing “lost” people

• Discuss the concept of “shaking and shining” for effective evangelism

• Explain the meaning of telling the good news

• Discuss the meaning expressing in helping people to become good enough

• Explain what evangelism is in light of pursuing the lost, telling the good news, and helping people become good enough

Motive

• The Real Business of Life – 1Corinthans 10: 31-33 Whether therefore ye eat,

or drink, or whatsoever ye do, do all to the glory of God. Give none offence, neither to the Jews, nor to the Gentiles, nor to the church of God: Even as I please all men in all things, not seeking mine own profit, but the profit of many, that they may be saved.

– The Hamburger and Ice Cream Business

– The Salvation of Souls Business

Motive

• The Real Business of Life

– Why are We Here?

– How to Glorify God

– Ambassadors

– Evangelism Is

• The real business of life

• Refusing to be quickly and easily distracted away from the real business of life

• Serving God as Christ’s ambassadors

Motive

• Obedience to the Great Commission

– Acts 1:8 But ye shall receive power, after that the Holy Ghost is come upon you: and ye shall be witnesses unto me both in Jerusalem, and in all Judaea, and in Samaria, and unto the uttermost part of the earth.

– The Great Commission has always been the Heart of God

– The Great Commission Is for All Followers of Jesus

Motive

• Obedience to the Great Commission

– The Great Commission is Not the Great “Suggestion”

– The Great Commission Must be Obeyed at All Cost

– No Reserve, No Retreat, No Regret

– Evangelism is:

• All out obedience to the Great Commission

• Sharing the gospel to the ends of the Earth whatever the cost

Motive

• The Supreme Challenge of this Generation

–2Timothy 2:3

• The Bad News

• The Good News

• The Not Exactly Good News

• The Problem

• Beliefs Affect Future Behavior

Motive

• The Supreme Challenge of this Generation

– Faulty Beliefs Negatively Impact the Effectiveness of the Church

• How Does this Impact Evangelism

• A New Generation

• “The Few, the Proud”

• Spiritual Marines

• Good Soldiers of the Lord Jesus Christ • “Served His Generation”

• A Few Good Men and Women

Motive

• The Supreme Challenge of this Generation

– Evangelism is:

• Standing up for your faith if everyone else remains seated

• Going against the grain of culture

• Becoming a spiritual marine

• The supreme challenge of this generation

Motive

• Pursuing Lost People

– Introduction:

– Luke 19:10 For the Son of man is come to seek and to save that which was lost.

• Why Did Jesus Come?

• Lost

Motive

• Pursuing Lost People

– Jesus Loves Lost People

– Jesus Believed Lost People Merited an All-out Search

• Importance: Retrieving Lost People Is of Highest Priority

• Initiative: Retrieving Lost People Requires Costly Initiative

• Identification: Retrieving Lost People – Won’t Happen Without Active Identification with them

• Following Jesus Means Actively Loving Lost People

Pursuing Lost People

• Jesus Believed Lost People Merited an All-out Search

• Luke 15:4 What man of you, having an hundred sheep, if he lose one of them, doth not leave the ninety and nine in the wilderness, and go after that which is lost, until he find it?

• Importance: Retrieving Lost People Is of Highest Priority

• Initiative: Retrieving Lost People Requires Costly Initiative

Motive

• Pursuing Lost People

–Evangelism is:

• Loving those whom Jesus loves, lost people

• Actively pursuing and retrieving lost people for God

• Identifying with lost people where they are and where we are

Motive

• Shaking and shining

– Introduction

– Matt 5:16 Let your light so shine before men, that they may see your good works, and glorify your Father which is in heaven

– Jesus

– You

Motive

• Shaking and shining

– Salt and Light

–Different from the World

–Go Public

–Unless Until . . .

– The Value Comes from Going Public

Motive

• Shaking and shining

– What Did Jesus Do?

• Jesus was a friend of sinners (Luke 7:34)

• Jesus went into the homes of sinners (Luke19:10)

• Jesus invited sinners to eat with Him (Matt 9:9-11)

• Jesus came to seek and save the lost (Luke 19:10)

• Jesus sent us to do the same (John 20:21)

– What Would Jesus Have Us Do?

Meaning

• Telling Good News

– Introduction

– We Are like the Lepers

– Evangelism Is Sharing Good News

– “Evangelism Is One Beggar Telling Another Beggar Where to Find Bread”

– The Bible and Sharing Good News

– We Must Share the Good News

Meaning

• Telling Good News

– Evangelism Is

• One beggar telling another beggar where to get bread

• Actively believing that the gospel is the power of God unto salvation

• Sharing the gospel or good news.

• Telling the good news of the death, burial, and resurrection of Jesus for our sins

Meaning

• Helping People Become Good Enough

– Introduction

–2 Cor 5:21

– The Goal of Evangelism

– Lost People Need a Relationship with God

– Lost People Lack Righteousness Before God

Meaning

• Lost People Lack Righteousness Before God

– The Issue Is Righteousness

– Their Own Righteousness

–Missing the Mark

–How Good is Good Enough

–God’s Righteousness

• God’s Accounting Book

Meaning

• Lost People Lack Righteousness Before God

– Evangelism Is

• Helping people realize they are not good enough for God without Jesus

• Helping people become good enough for God through faith in Jesus

God’s Accounting Book

My Righteousness Christ’s Righteousness

2 Cor 5:21; 1 Pet 3:18

US JESUS

+SIN

Isa 64:6; Rom 3:10;

3:23

-SIN

1 John 2:1; Heb 4:15

DEATH

Rom 6:23a

LIFE

Rom 6:23b