Embracing God's Fullness for Effective Evangelism

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I pray that the fullness of your being and your love and your wisdom and your power and your justice and your truth and your eternality and your unchanging ways would come like a weight of glory upon this organization, so that that song would be explosive with theological content in its biblical fullness. [00:01:19]

People have the gospel and are saved when they penetrate through the events, through the offer to the ultimate final best highest good that is offered in the gospel, namely 2 Corinthians 4:4, the gospel of the glory of Christ who is the image of God to be saved through the gospel is to see and savor and treasure Christ. [00:03:40]

Conversion is fundamentally verse six, the miracle of God who said let there be light, speaking that same creative word into the dead blind heart and saying let there be light and Christ shines with compelling glorious beauty and that's conversion and people are drawn to him, they can do no other. [00:04:19]

God may perhaps grant them repentance that's God's word you can't make anybody repent, you can't engineer this or in any way bring this about this is a work of God, repentance is a gift if it happens in a soul that you're talking to, God has mercifully made your teaching his instrument of bringing about repentance. [00:06:27]

The devil only has one power, deception. He's a liar and he murders through lying, and if eyes can open to see that there is a superior pleasure, a superior satisfaction, a superior truth, a treasure beyond anything the devil could offer, his power is broken. [00:08:29]

I don't want passion to be quenched by, and I'm tempted to say, knowledge, but it chokes me to talk like that, and the reason it does is because for about 40 years the opposite of that connection has been true in my life, that is knowledge chokes passion that has never been true for me. [00:11:49]

Knowing Christ savingly comes through knowing about Christ truly. Knowing Christ the person savingly comes through knowing about Christ truly. Therefore you can't as an organization, if you care about people knowing Christ and being saved, you cannot be indifferent about true propositions about Christ and the gospel. [00:30:29]

Students, along with everybody else, don't have the categories to embrace a simple gospel statement yet, by and large there are exceptions there are exceptions but you're the experts on this you tell me, do they have a right conception about God do they have a right conception about who they are as human beings in God's image. [00:37:08]

When you know him like I want you to know him, like I'm pleading with you to know him in the fullness of his being, more power more wisdom, more going more risk more death is going to flow from your life, you're going to be willing to die you're going to be willing to risk you're going to be willing to go to places and do things. [00:44:09]

I pray earnestly that you would grant a thorough, deep, comprehensive grasp not of everything, not of everything, there are things in your bible we want to believe it all I'm not saying we shouldn't believe it all but oh God we want to hold together around this pattern of sound words this standard of teaching. [00:46:26]

Lord granted campus crusade would hold together and not just hold together but would be explosively energized for this afternoon's dreaming and brainstorming explosively energized for catalytic ways of reaching 400,000 students on 100 campuses when you only have a half a dozen workers lord grant I pray. [00:47:40]

I pray that there would be dreams born out of the teaching, confidence born out of the teaching love born out of the teaching passion born out of the teaching risk taking born out of the teaching and a readiness to lay your life down in Tibet or China or Afghanistan out of the teaching. [00:48:26]

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