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Reaching Our Community

Reaching Our Community. Week 1 – What Matters Most. Week 2 – Reaching Out Together. Helping unchurched people become fully devoted followers of Jesus Christ.

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Reaching Our Community

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  1. Reaching Our Community

  2. Week 1 – What Matters Most Week 2 – Reaching Out Together Helping unchurched people become fully devoted followers of Jesus Christ.

  3. If every Christian in New Zealand introduced 1 other person to Christ every 5 years, in 20 years we would be living in a Christian nation. • 0 100,000 • 5 200,000 • 10 400,000 • 15 800,000 • 20 1,600,000

  4. 1. Scriptural • Matt 28v19-20 • Go therefore and make disciples of all the nations, baptisingthem in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, teaching them to observe all things that I have commanded you; and lo, I am with you always, even to the end of the age.” Amen.

  5. 1. Scriptural • Matt 10v8b • Freely you have received, freely give. • Luke 6v38 • Give, and it will be given to you: good measure, pressed down, shaken together, and running over will be put into your bosom. For with the same measure that you use, it will be measured back to you.”

  6. 2. Intentional • Matt 13v22 • As for what was sown among thorns, this is he who hears the Word, but the cares of the world and the pleasure and delight and glamour and deceitfulness of riches choke and suffocate the Word, and it yields no fruit.

  7. 2. Intentional • Pray – Talk to God about it daily • Listen – Listen as much as you pray • Strategise – How can I build my relationship with this person

  8. 3. Piscatorial • Matt 4v19 • Then He said to them, “Follow Me, and I will make you fishers of men.”

  9. 3. Piscatorial • Get into a small group • Ask God to bring someone’s name to your heart • Pray daily • Be Jesus to that person • Look for the opportunity • Love them

  10. 3. Fruitful • 2 Tim 2v2 • And the things that you have heard from me among many witnesses, commit these to faithful men who will be able to teach others also.

  11. 3. Fruitful • 1 Cor 11v1 • Imitate(or follow) me, as I follow Christ.

  12. The 1st step of discipleship is…. Be Jesus

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