Better Together: Reaching Out

Reaching Out

1 Corinthians 13:4 CSB

4 Love is patient, love is kind. Love does not envy, is not boastful, is not arrogant,

1 John 3:18 CSB

18 Little children, let us not love in word or speech, but in action and in truth.

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1 Corinthians 13:4 CSB

4 Love is patient, love is kind. Love does not envy, is not boastful, is not arrogant,

1 John 3:18 CSB

18 Little children, let us not love in word or speech, but in action and in truth.

1 Corinthians 13:11 CSB

11 When I was a child, I spoke like a child, I thought like a child, I reasoned like a child. When I became a man, I put aside childish things.

Some people grew up in church but never GREW up in church.

How can we reach our community together?

Mark 6:36–44 CSB

36 Send them away so that they can go into the surrounding countryside and villages to buy themselves something to eat.” 37 “You give them something to eat,” he responded. They said to him, “Should we go and buy two hundred denarii worth of bread and give them something to eat?” 38 He asked them, “How many loaves do you have? Go and see.” When they found out they said, “Five, and two fish.” 39 Then he instructed them to have all the people sit down in groups on the green grass. 40 So they sat down in groups of hundreds and fifties. 41 He took the five loaves and the two fish, and looking up to heaven, he blessed and broke the loaves. He kept giving them to his disciples to set before the people. He also divided the two fish among them all. 42 Everyone ate and was satisfied. 43 They picked up twelve baskets full of pieces of bread and fish. 44 Now those who had eaten the loaves were five thousand men.

1. Recognize The Need

They saw the need but did not have a solution.

This is why many people look elsewhere for the answers to their issues.

Are you familiar with the issues of your community?

What issues burden you?

2. Take Inventory

What do you have?

2 Corinthians 12:9 CSB

9 But he said to me, “My grace is sufficient for you, for my power is perfected in weakness.” Therefore, I will most gladly boast all the more about my weaknesses, so that Christ’s power may reside in me.

You have more to invest than you think you do

3. Get Organized

Mark 6:39–40 CSB

39 Then he instructed them to have all the people sit down in groups on the green grass. 40 So they sat down in groups of hundreds and fifties.

Be Strategic

Measure The Need

You can’t do everything.

4. Prepare Your Heart

Willing to give all he had.

2 Corinthians 9:11 CSB

11 You will be enriched in every way for all generosity, which produces thanksgiving to God through us.

Give from your heart and not your hand.

5. Be Available

Availability beats Ability

I want to break that culture

Time Investment

2 Corinthians 9:13 CSB

13 Because of the proof provided by this ministry, they will glorify God for your obedient confession of the gospel of Christ, and for your generosity in sharing with them and with everyone.

James 1:22 CSB

22 But be doers of the word and not hearers only, deceiving yourselves.