Grace Abounding

Our current sermon series, The Church: To Know Her Is To Love Her, is designed to stoke our passion for the church and equip us to participate in God’s plan for the church.

This past Sunday we discussed how to “Unleash the Gospel in our Community.” Taking our cues from Jesus’s conversation with the outcast Samaritan woman at the well, we discerned seven principles for effective evangelism from John 4:1-42. The audio for this sermon didn’t record, so I’ve included the outline from Sunday’s text here:

Seven Reminders For Effectively Sharing the Gospel
1. Make Connections With Non-Christians (John 4:1-9).
Follow Jesus’s example and go out of your comfort zone to meet people with whom you can share the gospel.

2. Weave Christian Truth Into Your Conversations (John 4:10-15).
Don’t stop short and fail to bring up spiritual matters and Christian truth in your conversation that will lead to talk about the cross.

3. Be Clear On What Is the Gospel (John 4:16-20).
Discern what the person you’re talking with doesn’t believe or doesn’t know and make all the gospel clear to them, especially that slice of the gospel.

4. Overcome Your Fear With Worship (John 4:21-24).
Guilting you into sharing the gospel can never be as powerful a motivator as remembering God’s awesome majesty and indescribable grace, then responding to his glory by seeking to gather worshipers for him.

5. Make the Gospel Attractive By How You Live (John 4:25-30).
Our visual witness to the gospel is as important to our verbal witness. So fight sin in your life and work hard at loving the body of Christ so you are living proof that the gospel is true and works!

6. Ask For A Response To the Gospel.
By revealing his identity to her, Jesus called for the Samaritan woman to respond to who he is. It is a reminder to ask the person you’re speaking with to respond to Christ with faith and repentance.

7. Pray Together For A Harvest.
Our witness to Christ never saved a person; the Spirit of God draws people to receive the cross work of Christ on their behalf. Thus, a commitment to spreading God’s glory will involve you in gathering with other believers to pray for the success of the gospel.

Sermon Title: The Gospel to the Ends of the Earth
Speaker: Jonathan Matías

Series: The Church – To Know Her Is to Love Her

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Sermon Title: On the Fringe: Avoiding Extremes in Worship
Speaker: Garrett Lee

Series: The Church – To Know Her Is to Love Her

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Sermon Title: Saying ‘I Do’ to the Family of God
Speaker: Jonathan Matías

Series: The Church – To Know Her Is to Love Her

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Sermon Title: Eight Days A Week: The Church in Real Life
Speaker: Garrett Lee

Series: The Church  To Know Her Is to Love Her

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Sermon Title: Of First Importance for the Church
Sermon Text: 1 Corinthians 1:18-2:5
Speaker: Jonathan Matías

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Sermon Title: A Most Unexpected Dinner Guest
Sermon Text: Luke 24:13-35
Speaker: Jonathan Matías

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Sermon Title: The Centrality of God’s Word
Sermon Text: Colossians 1:24-29
Speaker: Jonathan Matías

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Sermon Title: The Church: To Know Her is to Love Her
Sermon Text: John 17:20-24; 1 Peter 2:9-10; Ephesians 3:8-11
Speaker: Jonathan Matías

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Sermon Title: Tough Love
Sermon Text: 2 Corinthians 12:11-13:14
Speaker: Jonathan Matías

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