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Leading and Evangelizing

ninamariani — Thu, 23 Jun 2011 19:56:45 +0000

Yesterday, disciples enjoyed a morning of rest. As they spent the morning relaxing, the leaders went to leaders training. Andrew Knight gave a talk on becoming a godly leader. One point he made was that as leaders, we too should always fight to make sure someone is leading us. As someone pours into us and points us to Christ, we can pour into others and lead them to Christ.

During the afternoon, Reid Jilek gave a talk on evangelism to everyone. We watched a clip in which an atheist made the point, “How much do you have to hate someone to not share your faith?” He said that if you knew for sure that heaven and hell were real, why would you not be urgently telling others of truth? This stuck out to many of us because we often shy away from sharing our faith. However, the reality is startling, that unless people know Christ, they will be forever eternally sepertaed from Him. This comment gave students much to think about.

After evangelism training, students went out on the beach to share their faith. This was a wonderful time for students to practice sharing what they believe with others. Many students desire to continue praying with those that they had shared their faith with. Even though people may not immediately accepted Jesus Christ as the way to God, it can be seeds that are planted.

EVT: Larry Martini “Evangelism and Your College Campus”

stpweb — Wed, 28 Jul 2010 21:00:16 +0000

“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 Mercy Ministry”

stpweb — Wed, 28 Jul 2010 20:03:01 +0000

Larry 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 “The Gospel, Your Life, and Community”

stpweb — Wed, 28 Jul 2010 19:06:25 +0000

Larry 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 “Why Share the Gospel?”

stpweb — Thu, 22 Jul 2010 16:30:13 +0000

In 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.

Machine gunners & snipers

kheron — Thu, 22 Jul 2010 16:16:43 +0000

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!

EVT: Elliot Stokes “Obstacles to Evangelism -Unbelief”

stpweb — Fri, 16 Jul 2010 22:05:54 +0000

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.

EVT: Elliot Stokes “Obstacles to Evangelism -Fear”

stpweb — Fri, 16 Jul 2010 20:48:00 +0000

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.

EVT: Elliot Stokes “Evangelism”

stpweb — Fri, 16 Jul 2010 17:52:01 +0000

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.

Beach Evangelism…

kheron — Thu, 01 Jul 2010 12:45:27 +0000

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

: Jon and Reid

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

EVT: Elliot Stokes “What is the Gospel?”

stpweb — Sat, 26 Jun 2010 20:13:08 +0000

In our first Evangelism Training Talk, Elliot Stokes communicates the significance of the gospel in our lives and walks through the bridge diagram.