The Good News of Jesus

GOOD NEWS CULTURE

A “DISCIPLE-MAKING CULTURE”

Mark 3:13

"Jesus went up on a mountainside. He called people to come to him, and they

came.”

vs. 14: “He appointed 12 of them and called them apostles ... to be with him.

He would also send them out to preach”.

Jesus called people to him ...

We call people to come to Jesus.

Jesus knew that ...

The people of his day were walking in darkness ... so he told them he was the

light of the world ...

and he gave sight to the blind to show that he had power over what made their

hearts blind;

Jesus called people to him

People were hungry for reality

so he fed massive crowds on 2 occasions to demonstrate that he was the bread of

life ...

that they must come to him and be filled.

In fact, he said, Jesus said, “I am the bread of life. No one who comes to me

will ever go hungry.” (John 6:35)

Jesus called people to him ...

People were thirsty for truth ...

so, in Jerusalem, on the 8th day of the great feast celebrating God’s provision in

the desert, he stood up and told the crowds that he was the water of life.

Jesus, in fact, said, no one who believes in me will ever be thirsty. (John 6:35)

Jesus called people to him ...

People were lost and didn’t know the way back to God ...

so he told them he was the way ...

the only way

Jesus called people to him ...

People lived in fear of death ...

so he raised a man who had been dead 4 days and told the people

he was “the resurrection and the life”

Psalm 96:3

"Tell the nations about his glory. Tell all people about the

wonderful things he has done".

Jesus calls everyone. God doesn’t want a single person to

be lost.

When you respond and come to him,

he sends you out to tell others about this.

He sends out all those who come to him!

How do you “know” you’ve been called?

Those Jesus calls ... he sends“He appointed twelve—designating them apostles—that they might be

with him and that he might send them out to preach and to have authority to

drive out demons”. (Mark 3:14)

Mark 3 vs. 14 says that

12 men responded

and came to him

so he called them "apostles"

(sent ones)

The first call is

when he calls you to him

You come to know him ...

you learn from him,

and keep learning from him ...

and you stay close

The 2nd part of the call is

he sends you out to work in his harvest field.

Luke 10:2 “The harvest is huge, but the workers are few.

“So ask the Lord of the harvest to send out workers into his harvest field".

Mark 3:13-14

Jesus called 12 to him,

to be with him ...

and that he might send them out ...

... to preach and to use his authority.

His authority is essential for every part of being “sent”