“Open your eyes… do not go alone… be a sniper. For Christ.”
Larry Martini encourages us to be intentional in our relationships and how we go about building our community and evangelizing to others in this coming school year.
EVT Larry Martini "Evangelism and Your Campus" [43:47m]: Play Now | Play in Popup | DownloadLarry Martini describes mercy ministry as, “alleviating physical needs to point people to Christ.” Instead wallowing in guilt or becoming desensitized to the needs in the world around us, we are encouraged to engage the world with passion and with intense acts of love (Luke 10:30-37).
EVT Larry Martini "Evangelism and Mercy Ministry" [29:51m]: Play Now | Play in Popup | DownloadLarry Martini begins by tracking down the history of community from the beginning with the relationship between God and His creation. THen he explains how this influences our how we evangelize in light of community.
EVT Larry Martini "The Gospel, Your Life, and Community" [27:54m]: Play Now | Play in Popup | DownloadIn this talk, Larry Martini compares dangerous motives and Christ-centered motives to share the gospel, concluding that we share our faith because we love God.
A morning to sleep in (for most at least; some people worked), go to the beach and relax. At beach evangelism Larry Martini (on a caffeine high) shared about “Evangelism and your college campus” with the hope that a sustained desire to give our lives away on the college campus will develop. We are called to a race (Hebrews 12:1-2) but God is to sustain us, it is about endurance. We can share our faith like a machine gunner (everywhere and to everyone, all over the place, not very accurate) and share it like a sniper (very accurate, working in one person’s life). We are to pray over August about where we can go in our college. 
Then, as machine gunners we hit the beach to share the gospel and got back and shared the stories. For the rest of the day, many Wal-mart workers went bowling to raise money with their co-workers, a couple of group dates went on and lots of people were organizing themselves for the presentations at the job social!
Elliot Stokes helps us to fight through the obstaclesself-dependence and insecurity, results of unbelief. He encourages us to set our sight on the power of the cross and not in our self.
Elliot Stokes delves into our fear of evangelism, rooting the biggest source in our hearts. Our pride and desire for the approval of others needs to be crushed and given back to God.
Elliot Stokes presents evangelism, not just for the pros and weirdos, but also for normal regular Christians. Evangelism isn’t just limited to the pulpit, but will look differently according to the gifts of each individual.
Every Wednesday is a day off for almost all the disciples and there is leadership training and then at 1.30pm everyone drives to Garden City Baptist to hear a talk on Evangelism. Larry Martini (and his moustache) spoke about Why We Share the Gospel, some of the bad motives and the good ones (obedience of God, love of people but most importantly, out of love for God).
Larry and his moustache
We broke up into pairs to talk about what our motives are to pray over them and then each different group headed off either to Surfside beach or to the beach opposite our hotel. Everyone goes in pairs or in threes, usually with a room leader, team leader or this week a member of the CCP and walk up to people on the beach to share our faith.
Leah, Eb and Raquel
Chris and Joe
At about 3.45pm everyone gets back to Project and debriefs with their team – sharing stories, names and praying for the people that we talked to. Yesterday there was ice-cream for us all after debriefing and it was great!
Praying after a debrief
In our first Evangelism Training Talk, Elliot Stokes communicates the significance of the gospel in our lives and walks through the bridge diagram.
