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The document discusses the relationship between evangelism and discipleship, emphasizing the importance of sharing personal and God's stories to make disciples. It introduces methods for sharing the gospel, including the Creation to Judgment Story and the 3 Circles method, which illustrate the concept of brokenness and the path to reconciliation with God through Jesus. Additionally, it outlines the characteristics of 'persons of peace' who are receptive to spiritual discussions and can facilitate group studies of the Bible.

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Gods Story

The document discusses the relationship between evangelism and discipleship, emphasizing the importance of sharing personal and God's stories to make disciples. It introduces methods for sharing the gospel, including the Creation to Judgment Story and the 3 Circles method, which illustrate the concept of brokenness and the path to reconciliation with God through Jesus. Additionally, it outlines the characteristics of 'persons of peace' who are receptive to spiritual discussions and can facilitate group studies of the Bible.

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REVIEW:

• RELATION OF EVANGELISM AND DISCIPLESHIP

• MAKING DISCIPLES THAT MAKE DISCIPLES

• Definition of a Disciple

• DISCIPLESHIP IS MULTIPLICATION
YOUR STORY
SHARING WHAT GOD HAS DONE IN YOUR LIFE
If you are seeking to share your story with someone you do not know in order to introduce them to God’s
story, it is helpful to think in terms of three stories: their story, your story and God’s story.

THEIR STORY: It is helpful if you can get them to share about their spiritual journey in order that you
might be able to adapt your presentation about your story and God’s story to be appropriate for their
worldview, values and priorities.

YOUR STORY: Think of your story in three parts also. Learn to share your story in 3 minutes: Share
about your life before following Jesus.
Share about why you choose to follow Jesus.
Share about your life after following Jesus & the difference He has made in your life.

? Make sure to ask for a response at the end of your story that leads into God’s story.
The main idea behind sharing your story is to open a door for you to share God’s
story. Once the door is open, share God’s story with the person.

GOD’S STORY
There are many possible ways to share God’s story [the gospel]. There is no
“best” way. The best way for any given person will be different based on their
worldview, experiences and the cultural/religious context that they live in. One
general approach that can be fairly easily adapted for various worldviews is the
Creation to Judgement Story approach. If you don’t already have another
method you are comfortable with, this is a good one to start with.
CREATION TO JUDGEMENT STORY

In the beginning, God created a perfect world. He made man a part of His family. Man rebelled against
God and brought sin and suffering into the world. This meant that man was separated from God’s family.
HE REIGNED

God sent His son Jesus into the world to bring man back into a relationship with Himself. Jesus lived a perfect life.
He taught the people about God. He performed miraculous acts and healed many people to demonstrate God’s
HE CAME
love and power.

Despite the fact that Jesus lived a perfect life and therefore did not have to die, He chose to die on a cross as
payment for our sins.
HE DIED

He was buried in a tomb. God saw Jesus’ sacrifice for sins and accepted it. He demonstrated this by raising Him
from the dead on the third day. So if we recognize Jesus as Lord [God] and that He died for our sins, repent of
HE AROSE
our sins and ask for His salvation then we are accepted back into God’s family and He gives us His Holy Spirit to
live in us.

Jesus stayed on earth for forty days after being raised from the dead. He taught His followers that through the
power of the Holy Spirit they were to bring people from all over the world to be His followers as well, joining
HE ASCENDED
the family of God. Then He was taken up into heaven while His followers watched.
THE 3 CIRCLES METHOD
SIN

GOD’ S BROKENNESS
PERFECT GO
DESIGN

TURN &
GROW
BELIEVE
JESUS
HERE’S WHAT TO SAY WHEN DRAWING OUT THE 3 CIRCLES:

So we live in this world, and it is characterized by brokenness. We don’t have to


look very hard to see that there are things like disease, disasters, war, broken
families...there’s a lot of pain in this world. But this is not God’s original design.
God has a perfect design for our lives. The way that we have gotten ourselves
into brokenness is through something the Bible calls sin. Sin is turning away from
God’s design and pursuing our own way, and that leads us to brokenness.
Brokenness eventually leads us to death, and that death will separate us from God
forever. But God doesn’t want us to stay in brokenness.
So He’s made a way out, and that way is Jesus. Jesus comes, and he enters into
our brokenness, and the death that we deserve for pursuing brokenness, Jesus
takes on himself and dies on a cross, and his body is broken for us. Three days
after he died, he rose from the dead and made a way out of brokenness.
People try many things to get out of brokenness. Things like religion, success,
money, relationships, education, or drugs and alcohol, but none of these things can
get us out of brokenness. The only way out is Jesus. If we turn from our sin and
believe that Jesus died for us and rose from the dead, we can leave brokenness
and grow in a relationship with God and pursue his perfect design for our lives.
And more than that, we can go. We can be sent just like Jesus, back into
brokenness, to help others come through him to pursue God’s design.
Now there are two types of people in the world, there are people that are
pursuing God’s design, and there are people that are still in brokenness. We have
to ask ourselves, “Where are we?” So, where do you think you are?
PERSONS OF PEACE
SEARCH THE SCRIPTURES - Read Luke 10:1-11 [You can also read Matthew 10:5-14]

Jesus Sends Out the Seventy-Two


10 After this the Lord appointed seventy-two[a] others and sent them two by two ahead of him to
every town and place where he was about to go.
2 He told them, “The harvest is plentiful, but the workers are few. Ask the Lord of the harvest,

therefore, to send out workers into his harvest field.


3 Go! I am sending you out like lambs among wolves.
4 Do not take a purse or bag or sandals; and do not greet anyone on the road.
5 “When you enter a house, first say, ‘Peace to this house.’
6 If someone who promotes peace is there, your peace will rest on them; if not, it will return to

you.
7 Stay there, eating and drinking whatever they give you, for the worker deserves his

wages. Do not move around from house to house.


8 “When you enter a town and are welcomed, eat what is offered to you.
9 Heal the sick who are there and tell them, ‘The kingdom of God has come near to you.’
10 But when you enter a town and are not welcomed, go into its streets and say,
11 ‘Even the dust of your town we wipe from our feet as a warning to you. Yet be sure of this:

The kingdom of God has come near.’


Characteristics of the What the sent one does:
person of peace:
Luke 10 :
Luke 10 :
V. 1 - goes two by two
V. 5 - opens his door to you V. 2 - prays for laborers
V. 6 - receives your blessing V. 3 - goes with danger all
and shows interest around
V. 7 - opens his house to V. 4 - leaves behind bags
you/hospitable V. 4 - does not waste time
V. 7 - offers to sustain you in V. 5 - gives greeting
some way
V. 6 - if favorable response,
give blessing
V. 7 - fellowship with them
V. 9 - ask God for healing
where needed
V. 9 - minister to them
V. 9 - proclaim the words of
the Kingdom
V. 10 - if no response,
announce protest, then leave
SUMMARY
● Pray for laborers; Go where God sends you.
● Enter a place or area proclaiming the Kingdom.
● Do not waste time; Inquire with discernment.
● Visit the person of peace candidate and engage them and their family if possible.
● Give greetings and ask spiritual interest questions.
● If there is a favorable response - give blessing & ask evangelistic questions.
● Spend time with the candidate and their family; Fellowship with them and discern.
● Minister to them by sharing your testimony, the gospel and other Bible passages, etc...
● Always be bold and truthful.
● If there is no response, announce protest and then leave.

FILTERS FOR THE PERSON OF PEACE:


● Welcoming
● Hungry for spiritual things
● They ask questions of you [not just tell you their opinion – but want to know yours]
● Is willing to gather their family/group/community to study the Bible in a group setting
LOOK FOR PERSONS OF PEACE: Persons of peace are interested in
spiritual things and open their home to you. They are willing to invite their
friends and family to study the Bible and/or will let you use their home for
a Group.

LOOK FOR GROUPS OF PEACE: Find groups that are already in


existence and form them into Groups. For example: sports groups, a men’s
or women’s group, religious groups, etc...

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