REVIEW: THE PURPOSE OF THE CHURCH
• OUR ASSIGNMENT: Make Disciples Who Make Disciples
• OUR AUTHORITY: Jesus
• OUR ASSURANCE: He Is Always With Us To Help Us.
REVIEW: EVANGELISM SERIES THE PAST TWO SUNDAYS
• OUR MOTIVE FOR EVANGELISM: Compassion…Truly Caring About People.
• THE IMPERATIVES OF EVANGELISM:
• Be Filled with the Holy Spirit
• Be a Witness of the Truth…Jesus!
• Be a Witness Everywhere You Go.
“It is vital to share Christ with others; experience and expression are the alternate beats of the Christian heart. And if these two things are not in operation, the Christian heart ceases to beat. Then what happens? We settle down to dead forms, dead attitudes, and dead prayers…Nothing is really ours until we share it - the expression will deepen the impression. So in seeking to stay spiritually fresh, discipline yourself to share appropriate issues with your Christian and non-Christian friends.” —ANONYMOUS
UNDERSTANDING THE PRINCIPLES OF THE HARVEST:
• These Principles are NOT just Evangelism Principles.
• These Principles relate to ALL AREAS of the Believer’s life:
• ATTITUDES: Grace, Mercy & Judging
• ACTIONS: Forgiveness, Giving, Discipleship & Evangelism
• ALL AREAS OF LIFE are affected by the Principles of the Harvest
PRINCIPLE ONE: You must sow before you reap.
• 2 Corinthians 9:6
PRINCIPLE TWO: How you sow determines how you reap.
• 2 Corinthians 9:6
PRINCIPLE THREE: You reap what you sow.
• Galatians 6:7
PRINCIPLE FOUR: You reap more than you sow.
• Luke 6:37-38
“It’s time for Christians to stop looking for spotlights and start looking for mud puddles of human need.” —DWIGHT ROBERTSON
“The fate of the world is in the hands of nameless saints.” —PAUL BILLHEIMER
BOTTOM LINE:
• COMPELLED BY COMPASSION… Truly care about people and build relationships.
• EMPOWERED BY THE HOLY SPIRIT… Get out of your comfort zone and look for the opportunities you have regularly to plant seeds of the Gospel to reap a harvest for God’s Kingdom!
• The principles are for God’s glory and the betterment of the people that are touched and changed.