Empowered Evangelism: Trusting God in Our Mission
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### Quotes for Outreach
1. "We don't mind doing a task or a chore if we're given maybe proper expectations. Like men, your wife quickly asks you if you can help clean the dishes for her as she goes to run some errands. You say sure, you go down there and realize you didn't realize that she made a five-course meal of your favorite Italian dish. Now there's pots and pans not just in the sink but every counter space and maybe somewhere in the living room as well." [33:53]
2. "I don't know about you, but I bet if I asked you about an evangelism encounter that you had recently or in the past that you were in the midst of the conversation and all of a sudden you're saying things that you didn't even think of at the time or you're answering an objection to go and I didn't think of that but all of a sudden you have the answer." [01:17:56]
3. "We need to be prepared for painful opposition to not just the gospel but of the design of what God has made in the world. But we cannot be surprised. You need to jot down John 31:19-20. Jesus says this: 'The light has come into the world.' That sounds nice. If people just saw Jesus, they all would respond. That's not true because the light came into the world, but the people loved the darkness rather than the light because their works were evil." [01:07:58]
4. "We need to make sure we know our audience, get to know our neighbors, know our co-workers, know our family members and go, you know what, if I say the word Trump or Biden, is that because it's going to derail all my efforts to evangelize to these people? If I bring up different senses of politics, world news, is that just going to just cause this conversation to explode? Instead, how can I just be tactful to get to the gospel?" [53:34]
### Quotes for Members
1. "We cannot be foolish in our endeavor. We can't do things in our own wisdom. We can't just rely on our own wit. We can't rely on our own opinions. We must utterly depend on Christ for us to fulfill our duty to go out and make disciples, beginning with evangelizing to the lost." [48:32]
2. "We need to approach evangelism with Biblical expectations. I love new believers because new believers are just bold and zealous and just excited, and they are ready to share it with anyone. But we need to make sure that we encourage them to keep going, to say, 'Hey, guess what, you're going to get slapped in the face a little bit. Someone's going to mock you, and not everyone's going to be very happy about your change.'" [49:13]
3. "We need to trust God to provide the strength, the wisdom, and the words as we go out and evangelize. We need to see these examples, and these examples need to embolden us to trust God more and to go out more and to evangelize more, to make more disciples for the glory of God." [01:17:56]
4. "We need to be ready to keep moving. There's a lot of interpretations on verse 23. One in particular that I all agree on is that when it says you will not reach all the towns until the Son of Man comes, well, there's an initial fulfillment meaning Jesus like you won't reach all the towns until I come. You're going to do all these witnessing, and I'm going to preach in your cities soon after." [57:16]
5. "We need to be prepared for painful opposition. Jesus is so gracious and merciful to properly prepare these disciples as they go out to say, 'Hey, I'm going to give it to you real. I'm not going to hide anything. This is what you're going to experience as you live things out in my name.'" [01:06:00]
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1. "We don't mind doing a task or a chore if we're given maybe proper expectations. Like men, your wife quickly asks you if you can help clean the dishes for her as she goes to run some errands. You say sure, you go down there and realize you didn't realize that she made a five-course meal of your favorite Italian dish. Now there's pots and pans not just in the sink but every counter space and maybe somewhere in the living room as well." [33:53]
2. "I don't know about you, but I bet if I asked you about an evangelism encounter that you had recently or in the past that you were in the midst of the conversation and all of a sudden you're saying things that you didn't even think of at the time or you're answering an objection to go and I didn't think of that but all of a sudden you have the answer." [01:17:56]
3. "We need to be prepared for painful opposition to not just the gospel but of the design of what God has made in the world. But we cannot be surprised. You need to jot down John 31:19-20. Jesus says this: 'The light has come into the world.' That sounds nice. If people just saw Jesus, they all would respond. That's not true because the light came into the world, but the people loved the darkness rather than the light because their works were evil." [01:07:58]
4. "We need to make sure we know our audience, get to know our neighbors, know our co-workers, know our family members and go, you know what, if I say the word Trump or Biden, is that because it's going to derail all my efforts to evangelize to these people? If I bring up different senses of politics, world news, is that just going to just cause this conversation to explode? Instead, how can I just be tactful to get to the gospel?" [53:34]
### Quotes for Members
1. "We cannot be foolish in our endeavor. We can't do things in our own wisdom. We can't just rely on our own wit. We can't rely on our own opinions. We must utterly depend on Christ for us to fulfill our duty to go out and make disciples, beginning with evangelizing to the lost." [48:32]
2. "We need to approach evangelism with Biblical expectations. I love new believers because new believers are just bold and zealous and just excited, and they are ready to share it with anyone. But we need to make sure that we encourage them to keep going, to say, 'Hey, guess what, you're going to get slapped in the face a little bit. Someone's going to mock you, and not everyone's going to be very happy about your change.'" [49:13]
3. "We need to trust God to provide the strength, the wisdom, and the words as we go out and evangelize. We need to see these examples, and these examples need to embolden us to trust God more and to go out more and to evangelize more, to make more disciples for the glory of God." [01:17:56]
4. "We need to be ready to keep moving. There's a lot of interpretations on verse 23. One in particular that I all agree on is that when it says you will not reach all the towns until the Son of Man comes, well, there's an initial fulfillment meaning Jesus like you won't reach all the towns until I come. You're going to do all these witnessing, and I'm going to preach in your cities soon after." [57:16]
5. "We need to be prepared for painful opposition. Jesus is so gracious and merciful to properly prepare these disciples as they go out to say, 'Hey, I'm going to give it to you real. I'm not going to hide anything. This is what you're going to experience as you live things out in my name.'" [01:06:00]
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