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I. INTRO
A. Greeting
a. Who I am
B. Where we’re going
a. prayed a great deal about what God wants 2 communicate 2 u
1.
No amount o preaching u haven’t heard, nor studying u can’t get frm these great teachers here.
2. So, what do I have 2 offer u that u can’t get frm the folks here?
3. I had a simple thought:
i.
If I never got a chance to speak w/this group again, what would I communicate?
ii.
God proceeded to remind me o a simple vs & I knew what I MUST pass on 2 u.
b.
Illust.
1. have u ever done a book report?
i.
You get to know a lot about the book
- what happened
- Who’s involved
- how the story ends
ii. the problem is,
- you can get to know a lot about a person when u read a book (especially an auto-biography)
- but u can never get to know a person
iii.
Diff.
btwn knowing about some1 & KNOWING some1!
-This 1 distinction makes all the difference in the world!
2. Rebekah- the football fan
i. green hair, jersey, the works
ii.
Knows a bunch about their QB (who knows the SEA QB?)
iii.
doesn’t know him (no conversations, no time spent, not trust)
iv.
She knows me though (she knows…)
-brings us back 2 that simple vs:
2 Tim 1:12
C. Pray
C. Pray
II.
BODY
A. Context
a. “Paul suffered…why?
1. Paul just outlined the Gospel & his calling as a proclaimer o that Gospel
i. What’s the Gospel?
2. then says, this is why I suffer as I do.
i. suffering for telling people about the hope he has in Jesus
ii.
Where is paul?
prison about 2 b executed 4 telling people about Jesus
iii.
He was suffering in that moment & lived a life o suffering
2 Cor 11:24-
-This might make any1 “ashamed of the Gospel”
*i.e.
question belief
*Stay silent rather than speak out
*Go back home & live a quiet, uneventful normal life
~IF
b. bringing it hm
1.
What keeps a person going strong through this type o abuse?
i. the same thing that will keep u frm
-being lead away frm the truth,
-abandoning ur faith,
-Staying quiet when u should speak!
-its what 80% of teen christians lose sight of:
ii.
Quick stat:
-did u know that something like 80% o teens stop going 2 church after graduation…what happens?
while in high school, they go to youth group, go on cool trips, enjoy upbeat music, even go on missions trips, but then they stop having real encounters w/God…or never had any to begin w/.
*while in high school, they go to youth group,
*go on cool trips,
*enjoy upbeat music,
*even go on missions trips,
*but then they stop having real encounters w/God…or never had any to begin w/.
then they go off to college/work & start waking up on sunday morning and say “i’m too tired this week” then say same next week, and the next…and pretty soon they havent been 4 mnths.
then they only go on christmas and easter.
~ then they go off to college/work &
^ start waking up on sunday morning & say “i’m too tired this week”
^ then say same next week, & the next…
^ & pretty soon they haven’t been 4 mnths.
^ then they only go on christmas & easter.
they start asking, how come I’m not hearing frm God
~ they start asking, how come I’m not hearing frm God
then, did I ever really hear frm God?
~ then, did I ever really hear frm God?
- What keeps us frm
*Caving under pressure,
*Abandoning our faith,
*What keeps us connected to Jesus
-How do we keep ourselves frm defecting in2 secular atheism/religious complacency?
-What keeps us frm
*Caving under pressure,
*Abandoning our faith,
*What keeps us connected to Jesus
-Its more than knowing facts
-its not religious rituals
-its more than memorizing scripture,
-its more than the ability 2 debate our way through religious arguments
its not religious rituals
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