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INTRODUCTION
My name is Jake Davidson.
I am the pastor of New Beginnings Baptist Church.
I want to begin by thanking you for your generous support of this ministry and our vision to make disciples.
When I began to sense God’s call upon my heart to plant this church, I had no idea what I was doing.
And your pastor was the first one who reached out and said hey we want to help.
And God has used Bro Darrell and this church greatly to meet so many needs.
Paul said to the Corinthians, “We are God’s fellow workers” and “it is God that gives the increase”.
So we ask that you rejoice with us this morning as we celebrate two lives that God has redeemed and called into a relationship with Him.
~PRAYER~
UPDATE: For the past year we have been meeting in a small building at my house.
This year one of our goals was to move into a public location closer to our mission field of Oak Grove.
And just this past month, God has answered those prayers and opened a door to building about 5 minutes from where we are witnessing.
So we are very excited about this move and excited to be out of my house!
WHAT I’D LIKE TO TALK TO YOU ABOUT TODAY IS EVANGELISM.
One reason is because this is such a big part of our church.
Both of these baptisms this morning were the result of evangelism.
1/3 of what we do together as a church plant is evangelism.
Without it we would shrivel up and die.
Here are some things I discovered about church planting: you have a very limited amount workers, you also have very few leaders, you also have very limited finances, and you also have no building.
And so what do you do?!
From my personal experience, God does not just send people through the doors of our church; especially if the church is at your house!
What God expects us to do is to take the Gospel message out into the world and win people to the faith.
And here is the danger both to our church and to this church: Evangelism becomes neglected and even ignored once the ministry becomes healthy and the seats of the church are filled.
But, this work of evangelism is a lifetime calling.
It is not just for the purpose of getting people into our churches, but for the purpose of getting people into the Kingdom of God and that work is NEVER FINISHED!
I want to give you 5 principles this morning of personal evangelism.
My prayer is that you will be encouraged and motivated to join in this great work.
1) Personal Evangelism is a Lifestyle
Explanation: I want you to notice what Jesus is doing in these verses.
He is going about his everyday business.
He has left Judea and is headed into Galilee.
He is going to Galilee because there is an Official’s son that needs to be healed.
John will call this healing the second sign.
The point is: Jesus is a man on a mission because His hour is coming and He must be about His Father’s business.
But in the midst of all of this, he purposely places himself in the path of someone who needs the Gospel message.
Notice the Scripture tells us it is the 6th hour Which is about 12:00 (lunch time).
And Jesus knows that this is the perfect opportunity to have a gospel conversation with someone in great need.
Bridge: Often, when we think about evangelism we think of a kind of ministry that we participate in where people hear the good news.
We think about our upcoming Easter service where our churches will have more visitors than any other time.
We think about going door-to-door and taking to Gospel from house to house.
But for Jesus evangelism never stopped!
It was a part of His life and everywhere that Jesus walked His eyes open to harvest around Him. Jesus said, “For the Son of Man has come to seek and save that which was lost!”
And listen believers, that mission that Jesus began has been given to us.
Application: Is evangelism a way of life for you?
What if you decided that every Sunday you would eat at a different restaurant, so that you could encounter a new waitress who needs to hear about Jesus?
What if we timed our daily duties so that we could purposely cross paths with people who need the the Gospel.
What if we waited for the ONE cashier at Kroger instead of rushing through the self-checkout for an opportunity to share our faith.
What would this world look like if we walked through it like Jesus did always keeping our minds on the harvest that lays before us.
Jesus told the disciples in v 35, “Look, I tell you, lift up your eyes, and see that the fields are white for harvest.”.
Personal evangelism is a lifestyle that sees every person that we encounter as a potential lost person just waiting to hear the good news.
2) Everyone is worthy to hear the Gospel Message
Explanation: Notice that Scripture goes out of its way to make it known that Jesus is speaking with a Samaritan woman.
John even goes so far to plainly tell us that “Jews have no dealings with Samaritans”, so we do not miss this point!
Why is there strife between Jews and Samaritans?
Because the Samaritans were considered compromisers with pagan religion.
They wouldn’t come down to the Jewish temple to offer sacrifices.
They are descendants of Jews BUT intermarried with Gentiles.
And for a Jewish man to talk to a Samaritan woman was unheard of and welcomed ridicule.
The point is: Samaritans were considered LESS than the Jewish people.
They were not worthy of he Jewish religion Because they had compromised many years ago.
Bridge: Has anyone ever made a judgment about someone based upon what they saw on the outside?
Maybe it was the color of someone’s skin, maybe it was someone living in deep sin, maybe it is someone that lives a totally different lifestyle than us.
What we see on the outside cannot determine what is in someone’s heart.
And Jesus is not just the Savior of one kind of people, he is the Savior of the world.
And there is NO ONE who God cannot save.
Jesus took the gospel to the Jews, he took it to the Gentiles, He took it to the Samaritans, He took it to both men and women, and even offered it to His enemies who were desperately wanting to kill Him.
If Jesus offered the Gospel to every kind of people regardless of what that culture thought about them, how much more should we?
How much more should we be people who do not make judgements based on the outside, but know that every single person is made in the image of God and worthy of the Gospel of Jesus Christ.
Illustration:
I was a fireman before God called me to become a pastor.
But while I was a fireman I was a Christian.
And God gave me many opportunities to share my faith both at the fire station, and in the back of an ambulance.
There was a man who trained me while I was going through paramedic school.
He was a good guy, but he was a pretty immoral man in my eyes, used vulgar language, said things about his wife that made me pretty uncomfortable.
And I came to the conclusion that he would never want anything to do with Christ.
We both ended up leaving the Fire Dept and didn’t see each other for a couple years.
I happened to run into him sometime later and you’ll never guess what he told me: HE GOT SAVED.
And when I heard that I thought to myself what a lesson to be learned here.
What a fool I was to think that the gospel cannot penetrate any heart!
What a thing to think that there is someone that God cannot save!
Everyone is worthy of the Gospel, and we must see everyone as a potential believer.
3) Effective Evangelism gets Personal
Explanation: I want you to notice this woman’s response to Jesus.
She responds with some sarcasm.
“Sir, if you really have this magical water then give me some so I do not have to come back to this well everyday!”
But Jesus sees right through this and gets the heart of the matter.
He makes it personal!
Look how Jesus responds, “Go, call your husband and come here.”
Jesus transitions this conversation about living water to why this woman so desperately needs this living water.
the gospel and applies it directly to her life.
What I love so much about this is He does not beat around the bush, but gets right down to the point that the biggest need in this woman’s life is her sin problem!
She is not even aware of this greater need until Jesus reveals it her.
Bridge: There is something that every person in the world has in common with the Samaritan woman.
That is the desperate need of a drink from the cleansing water of Jesus Christ.
It does not matter how moral, how religious, how well put together on the outside someone may seem, they all need what only Jesus can give.
When we share the gospel, we want to shine the penetrating light of Jesus Christ into the darkness of people’s lives.
This is exactly what Jesus was doing, he was shining the light into the darkness of this woman’s soul.
What Jesus says to this woman, is the same thing you and I must be willing to say to others: “What are you going to do about your sin?”
People may want marital help, people may want help from depression, people may want financial freedom, people want to be freed from addiction, BUT all of this flows from sin and man’s greatest need is be forgiven!
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