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Love Your Friend to Faith Becoming a Convincing Christian

Love Your Friend to Faith Becoming a Convincing Christian. Church Renewal Resource Evangelism Ministries USA/Canada Region Church of the Nazarene. Becoming a Convincing Christian. Purpose: Encourage people to live a life of integrity Objectives: To speak the truth in love.

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Love Your Friend to Faith Becoming a Convincing Christian

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  1. Love Your Friend to FaithBecoming a Convincing Christian Church Renewal Resource Evangelism Ministries USA/Canada Region Church of the Nazarene

  2. Becoming a Convincing Christian Purpose: Encourage people to live a life of integrity Objectives: • To speak the truth in love. • To become a godly person. • To live distinctly different from the culture.

  3. Becoming a Convincing Christian Introduction: • What does it take to convince someone to become a Christian? • What are people who are thinking about a life with Christ looking for among Christian witnesses? • How does God advise us to live so as to be convincing?

  4. Becoming a Convincing Christian A Christian knows DOCTRINE. • To know what to BELIEVE is important. • In an age when what you feel gets catered to, the Christian CHOOSES a higher, more stable path. • We believe there is absolute TRUTH. • We know truth does not CHANGE even when times do.

  5. Becoming a Convincing Christian A Christian GROWS in Christ. • If Christians acquire information and cite certain creeds, CHRISTIANITY would be merely cerebral and cold. • Christians increase in INTIMACY with Christ, a person. • Christians allow CHRISTto be the governing love of their lives. • GOD, who is good, loving, just, and kind, calls us to be like him. • Christians can live out a CONVINCING portrait of God.

  6. Becoming a Convincing Christian A Christian DISTINGUISHES himself/herself from the culture. • Our culture has become FUTILE in their thinking. • They have come to accept RELATIVISM. • Our culture denies transcendent truth and REFUSES to embrace absolutes. • Even CHRISTIANS have come to think, "There are lots of ways to God." • Embracing PLURALISM has lessened the need to evangelize.

  7. Becoming a Convincing Christian • Futile thinking has led to hard HEARTS. • INSENSTITIVITYleads to sensuality. • Sensuality leads to INSATIABILITY,"a continual lust for more." • A Christian knows Christ not from feelings but by the truth found in JESUS.

  8. Becoming a Convincing Christian We, the church, are held together by CHRIST. • We are not a HUMANorganization alone. • We function under divine LORDSHIP. We, the CHURCH, grow and build in love. • Love BINDSus together. • Love propels us to GROW.

  9. Becoming a Convincing Christian Put off the OLDself. • The old self follows DESIRESrather than principles. • PHYSICALdrives and psychological needs cry out for fulfillment. • Desires deceive and they CORRUPT.

  10. Becoming a Convincing Christian Put on HOLY living. • The new self begins with our ATTITUDES. • The set of our MINDS decides our behavior. • When our motivation is to be GOD-LIKE He gives us a new self. • We were created for RIGHTEOUSNESS. Conclusion: • Our task in the world is to speak the truth. • This, then, is how we become convincing Christians.

  11. Becoming a Convincing Christian What does it take to convince someone to become a Christian? What are people who are thinking about a life with Christ looking for among Christian witnesses? How does God advise us to live so as to be convincing?

  12. Becoming a Convincing Christian Action Planning/Reporting How can I use what was presented in this module to be a convincing Christian to the world around me?

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