A Faithful Witness (part 3)

READ: John 3: 3-7 (explain)

My experience with a Jehovah’s Witness - got schooled

What’s Your Testimony?

What was the occasion when you placed your trust in Christ

Can you tell someone, using Scripture?

Would you like to be able to?

Presenting the Gospel - Being a Witness

1- Pray

2 - Break the Ice

Ask the question: “Can I talk to you about Jesus?” or “Where do you go to church?”

Then listen to the answers

3 - Let God’s Word Do the Talking

Stick to Scripture

NOT - “Ask Jesus into your heart”- we often say this to children

Speak the truth of the Word; when we try to make it “easier to understand” we do injustice to the Word

The main issue is SIN, and people don’t like to hear that

One race of people, two kinds of people - lost and saved

Well, God is not real fond of sin, so we need to deal with that, before we get to the “good part”

So…let’s look at God’s Word

The Authority

John 12:48 NASB95

“He who rejects Me and does not receive My sayings, has one who judges him; the word I spoke is what will judge him at the last day.

Ecclesiastes 3:11 NASB95

He has made everything appropriate in its time. He has also set eternity in their heart, yet so that man will not find out the work which God has done from the beginning even to the end.

Romans 1:20 NASB95

For since the creation of the world His invisible attributes, His eternal power and divine nature, have been clearly seen, being understood through what has been made, so that they are without excuse.

The Reality

Genesis 1:27 NASB95

God created man in His own image, in the image of God He created him; male and female He created them.

Genesis 1:31 NASB95

God saw all that He had made, and behold, it was very good. And there was evening and there was morning, the sixth day.

Genesis 3:15 NASB95

And I will put enmity Between you and the woman, And between your seed and her seed; He shall bruise you on the head, And you shall bruise him on the heel.”

Romans 3:23 NASB95

for all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God,

Romans 5:12 NASB95

Therefore, just as through one man sin entered into the world, and death through sin, and so death spread to all men, because all sinned—

The Remedy

Romans 5:8 NASB95

But God demonstrates His own love toward us, in that while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us.

Romans 6:23 NASB95

For the wages of sin is death, but the free gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.

(Bridge Tract idea)

Separated from God

Church, works, baptism, good person, etc.

Can only bridge that gap with the cross

Romans 10:9 NASB95

that if you confess with your mouth Jesus as Lord, and believe in your heart that God raised Him from the dead, you will be saved;

What About You?

CLOSE - Some Tools (so many to choose from)

Our bulletin

Bridge tract

Bracelets

Rulers

I’d also like to share some RNM videos, I found helpful

Or....I know this is so simple....carry your Bible, have it marked (it’s OK to make a cheat sheet)

Personal challenges

Need to get saved today?

Need to share with others?

Try it this week

Break the ice

Open God’s Word (practice first, if anything, you will be so refreshed by God’s Goodness)

How GREAT He is to love us enough to have sent Jesus

Let’s tell the world! OK, let’s start with Noble