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Introduction
Illustration: The Boy and the beach full of starfish
One day.
a man was walking near the ocean shoreline littered with starfish that had been beached on the sand from a recent storm.
As the man walked.
he came upon a young boy frantically picking up the dying starfish and throwing them back into the ocean.
“Son,” the man smiled as he placed his hand on the boy‘s shoulder.
“You know what you’re doing is futile, right?”
from a recent storm.
As the man walked.
he came upon a young boy frantically picking up the dying starfish and throwing them back into
the ocean.
“Son,” the man smiled as he placed his hand on the boy‘s
shoulder.
“You know what you’re doing is futile, right?”
The boy didn’t reply.
He hardly even looked up.
He just reached for another starfish and hurled it into the ocean.
The man tried again.
“Look,” he pointed along the shore.
“There are miles of washed up starfish.
Tens of thousands of them.”
of them.”
The boy grunted as he reached for another.
“You could be here all day and all the next day and the day after that. .
.you could be here all week, and you wouldn’t make a difference in all these starfish.”
after that. .
.you could be here all week, and you wouldn’t make a difference in all these starfish.”
For the first time the boy turned to look at the man.
He stood as tall as he could with his shoulders back, chin tilted, and starfish in hand.
Then he turned and threw the starfish into the ocean.
Once again he looked at the man.
“Made a difference for that one.”
And then he bent down to pick up another.
We long for significance - to make a difference in our lives
Those who know the Lord long for others to know him as well
There are 7 Billion people in the world - can we really make a difference?
We are not all called to....Pastor, be a foreign Missionary, public teaching....
But we are all called to share the gospel
Transition
So as we begin this series of lessons on taking the “great commission” personally, lets be reminded of the value of one soul and the fact that impacting just one makes a tremendous difference!
I.
The Value of One
Why is one soul so valuable?
Jesus shared the value of just one person in
We are not all called to....Pastor, be a foreign Missionary, public teaching....
We are not all called to....Pastor, be a foreign Missionary, public teaching....
But we are all called to share the gospel
So as we begin this series of lessons on taking the “great commission” personally, lets be reminded of the value of one soul and the fact that impacting just one makes a tremendous difference!
A. A soul is Eternal
The best lived life on earth is meaningless without eternal hope
Mk
B. Heaven & Hell are real
C. Jesus is the only way of salvation
Quote: “A man may go to heaven without health, without riches, without honors, without learning, without friends; but he can never go there without Christ.”
- John Dyer - The Welsh Poet
We live in a pluralistic society and to claim one way is completely opposed to what people think
II.
To Seek and To Save
If you had fewer than 20 words to give a one-sentence purpose statement for your life, what would you say?
Would you list your roles - husband, father, mother, son.. daughter?
Would you list your goals?
How you hope to be remembered?
Listen to what Jesus says:
He didnt come to be admired
He didnt come for comfort or enjoyment - He had that in Heaven
He came for lost souls!
He didnt come for
He went out of his way to reach people
The woman at the well
He stopped a procession to heal blind Bartimaeus
He sought out those who could not come to him - the cripple at the pool of Bethesda
He structured his life around reaching people with the gospel
His ultimate and final instructions
A. We are commanded to “Go”
“go ye therefore”
because of Christ’s power we are able to go
B. We are commanded to “Win”
“and teach all nations”
What are we to teach them?
notice the parallel passage in Mark
First - we are to teach them the gospel
We will look more specifically at this in a later lesson
C. We are commanded to “Baptize”
“baptizing them in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost”
Salvation is just the beginning of our responsibility
The main thing is the whole of the commission not just a segment of it
D. We are commanded to “teach”
“teaching them to observe all things...”
Here is the second time the word “teach” is used
It is referring to structured discipleship - line upon line
III.
Owning the Mission
A. Make a commitment
B. Set a plan
C. Seek God’s help
D. Prepare a message
Conclusion
Next week we are going to discuss how to present the gospel.
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