21 Years of Family and Ministry

S.Y.F.
Building on the 5 Things Every Christian Should Know.
HOMEWORK; Memorize: 1 John 5:13 (ESV)
13 I write these things to you who believe in the name of the Son of God that you may know that you have eternal life.
2 Corinthians 5:14-15 (ESV)
14 For the love of Christ controls us, because we have concluded this: that one has died for all, therefore all have died;
15 and he died for all, that those who live might no longer live for themselves but for him who for their sake died and was raised.
Philemon 1:6 (ESV)
6 and I pray that the sharing of your faith may become effective for the full knowledge of every good thing that is in us for the sake of Christ.

  1. Introduction
A. Their Secular Life
B. Their Church Back Ground
C. Our Church ( their impression)
D. Testimony : Salvation/Church/ Sunday school class
E. Two Diagnostic Questions
Question 1- Do you know for sure if you died today that you would go to heaven?
Question 2-If you died today and stood before God and HE said to: “Why should I let you into my heaven?”. What would you say?

  1. The Gospel
  1. Grace
  1. Heaven is a __free_______ ____gift______. Romans 6:23
Romans 6:23 (ESV)
23  For the wages of sin is death, but the free gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.

  1. Heaven is not __earned______ or deserved. Ephesians 2:8,9
Ephesians 2:8-9 (ESV)
8 For by grace you have been saved through faith. And this is not your own doing; it is the gift of God, 9  not a result of works, so that no one may boast.

  1. Man
  1. Man is a ____sinner______. Romans 3:23
Romans 3:23 (ESV)
23  for all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God,

  1. Sin defined
  2. Three sins a day
  1. Man cannot _save______ ____himself___. Matthew 5:48
  1. Omelet with Bad Egg
  2. See why it is impossible?
  1. God
  1. God is _love______.       1 John4:8b
  2. God is _just______.       Exodus 34:7b
 
  1. Christ
  1. Who Christ is.       John 1:1; John 1:14; John 20:28
 
Jesus is the _infinite____ __God__-___man____

  1. What Christ did.   Isaiah 34:7b
Jesus _died_____ on the cross and __rose______ from the dead to __pay_____ the penalty for our sins and to ___ purchase_______ a place in heaven for us.

  1. Faith
The __key_______ to Heaven.

  1. What faith is not:_just believing __ in facts.
James 2:19
Faith is not ___temporary or for a season_______.
                       
  1. What faith is:
Trusting in Jesus Christ _____alone_____________ for salvation.
Acts 16:31
  1. Commitment
  1. Does this makes sense?
  2. Commitment: Would you like to receive the free gift of eternal life?
  3. Clarification
  1. Transfer trust
  2. Receive the resurrected and living Christ as Lord and Savior. Rev. 3:20
  3. Repent
  1. Prayer
  1. Pray for the person to understand
  2. Pray with the person, the “sinner’s prayer”
  3. Pray the person to have assurance and victory.
  1. Assurance
  1. Read John 6:47 aloud to the person.
  2. Go over the 2 Questions again
  3. Welcome to the family of God.
  1. Immediate Follow up.