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INTRO: [VIDEO—Invite Somebody]
Today we are wrapping up the, I LOVE MY CHURCH series!
We have been talking about how Jesus gave the command to His disciples (& that includes us) that we are to love one another.
Let’s read it again.
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34 A new commandment I give to you, that you love one another: just as I have loved you, you also are to love one another.
35 By this all people will know that you are my disciples, if you have love for one another.”
In this series we have looked at different ways that we can show love for one another as a church.
We have talked about loving our church by connecting (fellowship), by giving (meeting the needs of others), & by serving (using our gifts).
Today we are going to look at how we can show our love by sharing Jesus with those that are a part of our church family and our community.
In this series we have looked at different ways that we can show love for one another as a church.
We have talked about loving our church by connecting (fellowship), by giving (meeting the needs of others), & by serving (using our gifts).
Today we are going to look at how we can show our love by sharing Jesus with those that are a part of our church family and our community.
TITLE & PRAYER (Loving by Sharing)
[ILLUS: Richard Hornbuckle was driving 2 friends across the Sunshine Skyway which spans Tampa Bay.
It was 7:38 am on May 9th, 1980.
It had started to rain and visibility was almost zero.
What Mr. Hornbuckle did not know was that moments before he reached the bridge a freighter named SUMMIT VENTURE had slammed into the #2 South pier knocking out a large section of the bridge.
Several cars had already gone over the edge when Mr. Hornbuckle, seeing what had happened, hit his brakes stopping just 14 inches from the edge.
A loaded greyhound bus was not as fortunate.
It didn't see the signal to stop and went over the edge killing everyone on board.]
Millions in this world are heading for a terrible fate.
It is our job to try to tell them before it is too late.
Today we are concluding our series I love My Church.
We have looked through this series at ways in which we can demonstrate love for one another through connecting, serving, and giving.
And one more way to demonstrate love is through sharing our faith with others who do not yet know Christ.
Today we are concluding our series I love My Church.
We have looked through this series at ways in which we can demonstrate love for one another through connecting, serving, and giving.
And one more way to demonstrate love is through sharing our faith with others who do not yet know Christ.
There are three important reasons we should show our love for our church by sharing our faith.
Let’s look at each of them.
The first reason we should be sharing of faith with others is because … I) WE ARE CONDEMNED BY OUR SIN
The context of this story is important.
The nation of Syria had sent a huge army against the nation of Israel.
The army had laid siege to the city of Samaria.
Because of the siege, there was no food in the city.
The people were starving.
Things had gotten so bad that the people were resorting to cannibalism.
We see in this story that two woman had killed and eaten one of their children.
When was the last time you thought to yourself, “I think I’ll cook one of my children from dinner tonight.”
Things have to be very bad to resort to something like that.
Because of the siege, there was no food in the city.
The people were starving.
Things had gotten so bad that the people were resorting to cannibalism.
We see in this story that two woman had killed and eaten one of their children.
When was the last time you thought to yourself, “I think I’ll cook one of my children from dinner tonight.”
Things have to be very bad to resort to something like that.
If things were that bad within the city, just imagine how bad the situation was for the 4 lepers that were outside the city gate.
Lepers were outcasts.
They begged for food and lived off the generosity of others.
If the healthy people within the city walls were starving to death, just imagine how bad it was for these 4 men.
Without Christ in our lives, we are in bad shape.
The Bible says that the wages of sin is death, but do we truly believe that?
Do we truly believe that without Christ we would be heading for hell?
Part of sharing our faith is to first understand the need.
We have to be convinced that without Christ we are eternally lost.
In order to help a person find their way, we have to first convince them that they are lost.
There is an old saying that you can lead a horse to water, but you can’t make it drink.
Our job as believers is not to make people drink, it is to make them thirsty.
It is to help them understand their need.
Sometimes we don’t understand the danger.
[ILLUS: Back in 1980 during the time of the Iranian Hostage Crisis, Greg Livingstone was asked to give a "missions minute" at a large church on the East Coast.
Since he had only one minute to speak, he decided to ask them only two questions.
The first one was, "How many of you are praying for the 52 Americans hostages being held in Iran?" 4000 hands went straight up and he said, "Praise the Lord!
Now, put your hands down and let me ask you another question … How many of you are praying for the 42 million Iranians being held hostage by Islam?"
This rebuke to the church by Livingstone served as a wake-up call for that church and helped launch a prayer ministry for Muslims which helped birth a prayer movement during the 1990s.
As a result, more Muslims are coming to Christ now in Iran than ever before.]
The second reason we should be sharing of faith with others is because … II) WE ARE COMPELLED BY OUR SALVATION
These 4 lepers were faced an impossible situation.
They said to each other “Why stay here until we die?
If we say, 'We'll go into the city'--the famine is there, and we will die.
And if we stay here, we will die.
So let's go over to the camp of the Arameans and surrender.
If they spare us, we live; if they kill us, then we die."
Their only hope was in the unknown.
What they did not know was that God has caused the enemy to flee.
The enemy had run away and left all their supplies behind.
When the lepers reached the edge of the camp they entered a tents and found food, silver, gold and clothes.
Then they went into another tent and then another.
Only then did it dawn on them what was happening.
To have kept all that food for themselves and not told the city would have been terrible.
If you had the cure for cancer and you did not share it, you would be a monster.
To let people die and not help when you are able to do so is terrible.
To have kept all that food for themselves and not told the city would have been terrible.
If you had the cure for cancer and you did not share it, you would be a monster.
To let people die and not help when you are able to do so is terrible.
Christ’s love compels us.
I am not ashamed of the Gospel because I understand that it is the power of life over death.
It rescues people.
This is why I am also not ashamed to share my faith with others.
Christ’s love compels us.
I am not ashamed of the Gospel because I understand that it is the power of life over death.
It rescues people.
This is why I am also not ashamed to share my faith with others.
DT Niles once said, “evangelism is just one beggar telling another beggar where to find bread.”
We give because we have first received.
Sharing our faith is not trying to push our own beliefs on others.
It is not about tolerance or having a lack of respect for others.
We share our faith because we know that without Christ we are lost and to NOT share our faith would be unloving.
[ILLUS: A pastor was talking to the children about sheep.
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