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Reminder #1: Follow the example of godly mentors
2 Tim 3:
Faithful men who have walked before us.
Those whom you can emulate now.
For what purpose?
Why do we follow the example of godly men?
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Be a godly mentor
You need these 3 types of men in your life at all times:
Paul
Barnabas
Timothy
Reminder #2: Expect and Teach Persecution (12-13)
Expect to suffer persecution
You might never experience real persecution, but expect it.
Teach that persecution for the believer is coming
The American church teaches the opposite today: we teach that we are a favored nation and thus believers are always surprised when the lost behave like lost people.
Paul told Timothy that evil men AND imposters would grow worse and worse.
one who entices to impious action by apparently pious words,
In the strictest sense of the word, “a magician.”
People will follow these people and their twisted gospel message, causing the persecution to come from those who claim to know Christ, but in reality are far from Him.
Understand that it simply isn’t going to get better for believers here on earth
The biblical pattern is persecution, not a Christian earthly utopia.
Reminder #3: Follow the example of scripture
The verb “continue” in verse 14 also means to remain, stay, or reside.
It is an present, active, imperative verb.
Notice here how Paul talks about “the things you have learned,” and “who you learned them from.”
What things?
The Holy Scriptures
What are they for?
To make you wise for salvation through faith which is in Jesus Christ.
The scriptures is what is going to make us wise: study programs help, following a solid Bible teacher is good, but spending time in the scriptures will make you wise for salvation.
A final reminder from Toby: Preach the gospel.
2 Tim.
4:1-
Today, you are being ordained as a minister of the gospel.
Do the work of an evangelist.
Be a minister of the gospel.
This is what you are being ordained into.
You aren’t a paid problem solver, you are a gospel minister.
You aren’t a program expert, you are a gospel minister.
You aren’t the main one to organize the setting up of tables, the cleaning of the building, or the only one responsible for shoveling snow in the winter.
You are a gospel minister.
Hospital visitation for the saints shouldn’t receive more time than your study and evangeilzing.
You are a gospel minister.
Prioritize the study of the Word in order to preach evangelistically.
Now more than ever we not only have more lost people in our churches, we need to mobilize the saved to do the work we’ve been called to do.
As you preach, share personal examples of how you evangelize.
You will be the evangelistic thermometer of your church.
No one in your church will be more evangelistic than you.
Find places preach outside of your home church.
When someone invites you to pray before your child’s game, do it.
When the nursing home needs someone to preach once a month, do it.
Who needs the gospel more than a lost person in an assisted living home?
Be the camp pastor.
Sign up to preach a service at the camp ground.
Go tell Bill you’d like to preach at every church one one wants to preach in.
Set a goal of evangelistic encounters for the month and have someone hold you accountable.
I interviewed former Home Mission Board evangelism executive Darrell Robinson a couple of months ago.
I asked him his thoughts on training pastors to be intentionally evangelistic.
Here’s what he said:
“If you’d like to be intentionally evangelistic as a pastor, church planter, or leader, you need to personally talk to at least 10 lost people everyday.”
Many of you know that I wrote my dissertation based upon Charles Brock’s red book.
Dr. Brock says this about evangelism:
“You need to share the Good News with everyone, everywhere you go.
There are lost people at Wal-Mart, the doctor’s office, and the gas station.”
His favorite fishing hole right now is the cancer clinic.
He goes, hands out red books, and talks to people who are interested.
Scott, sit down this week and realistically write down the number of evangelistic encounters you have each month right now and figure out what you have to do to get to 1 a day, 5 a day, or 10 a day.
(200 per month!)
Take someone with you as you evangelize.
Make a goal to go evangelize with your pastor twice a month.
Go with your wife and kids.
Learn the secret of the two extreme age groups:
Take a kid with you door to door, or simply doing surveys at the mall.
Take your own, or bring a friend with their little one-a smiley happy one.
No one says no to a kid.
Take a senior adult with you.
A smiley, happy one.
I’ve been with Dr. Brock on a college campus.
No one said no to him.
Be a student of past evangelists.
This is important in the area of evangelism.
CE Matthews
As you evangelize, you’ll learn all sorts of crazy ideas.
One of the best ways to combat this is by teaching what the Bible says rather than what you think it says.
Roland Allen
Roland Leavell
Roy Fish
CE Autrey
Robert Coleman
Charles Spurgeon
Jonathan Edwards
Offer some type of gospel invitation every time you preach.
Some of the best times to do this are at weddings, funerals, the holiday services.
Why?
Because lost people are there!
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