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In this special equipping session, Pastor Karl passionately reminds the church of the Great Commission in Matthew 28: to go and make disciples by sharing the good news of Jesus. He celebrates those present for choosing to be equipped, stressing that every believer is called to "do the work of an evangelist" (2 Timothy 4:5), regardless of their primary spiritual gift. God's heart, as seen in 2 Peter 3:9, is clear—He is patient and desires no one to perish but for all to come to repentance through confessing sin, believing in Christ's death and resurrection for forgiveness, and committing their allegiance to Him as Lord. Pastor Karl emphasizes the urgency of leading people across the line of faith rather than simply teaching them to act like "good Christians," and he introduces two practical tools to help: the Romans Road (a chain of key verses like Romans 3:23, 6:23, 5:8, and 10:9) and the Two Cliffs illustration, which visually depicts humanity separated from God by sin and death, with Jesus' cross as the only bridge across.To make sharing faith feel natural and effective, Pastor Karl outlines six biblical styles of evangelism, each drawn from Scripture and suited to different personalities. These include the Intellectual style (reasoning through apologetics like Paul in Athens), Confrontational (boldly calling out sin when necessary, as Peter and Stephen did), Invitational (bringing people to Jesus through events and relationships, like the Samaritan woman or Matthew's party), Testimonial (sharing authentic stories of transformation, as the healed blind man did), Relational (building long-term trust before sharing, like Andrew with Simon), and Serving (demonstrating Christ's love through acts of kindness, like Tabitha, while always pointing to Jesus as the reason). He encourages everyone to identify their primary style, lean into its strengths, and develop the others, while targeting people under tension or in transition—who are often most open to the gospel.With the local community facing rapid growth—thousands of new residents expected in the coming years through developments like Riverstone and Tesoro—Pastor Karl declares this a pivotal moment for the church to be Plan A in reaching the lost, with no Plan B. He urges preparation: memorize the tools, complete the evangelism style inventory at home, pray for eyes to see harvest opportunities, and step out boldly in your unique wiring. Every soul matters eternally, and by doing the work of an evangelist, we partner with God to change destinies and bring people from darkness into His light.
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Welcome, welcome, welcome.
I'm so proud of you. I'm so proud of you.
You people are my favorite people
in this church.
They're, I'm a little bit joking.
I'm more serious.
And here's why.
Jesus gave his disciples
a great commission
in Matthew 28.
And he said, go
and make disciples of all nations.
And the only way you make disciples
is to tell people about Jesus.
So you are the ones who have chosen.
And others aren't here
for all kinds of different reasons,
but at least you chose
and adjusted your schedules to be equipped
to fulfill the Great commission
that Christ gave all disciples.
You're my favorite people.
Most people don't ever take advantage
of what,
of what you're taking advantage of.
And that's it.
As far as I'm concerned,
you get an extra gold star in the crown
in heaven for doing this. This is good.
I realized we ran out of some papers.
Don't worry. They're being made.
The thicker packet with the
things you fill out and the lines, that's
nothing you're going to need right now.
Are you going to take that home?
The other one. The thinner one.
That's what I'm going to refer to
as we go through tonight.
And that's
what we're making more of right now.
So we don't need it immediately.
We will you will want it.
And Jeff
will have more of those as he gets in.
He'll come and pass those out.
To those of you who don't have it,
so are we good with that?
Okay, a couple housekeeping things
just to warm in here.
It feels all right.
Okay.
Let me do this. Let's pray. Father.
Thank you.
I thank you that you are patient with us,
that you're patient with your creation,
that you're patient with us humans,
that you don't want anyone to perish.
I thank you that you have
developed a plan,
a way to introduce people to you,
and that we are it
and that there is no plan B.
Thank you for the commission
that you've given your people,
and thank you for those here this evening,
that understand that commission
that want to learn
how to fulfill that commission.
And, and I thank you in advance
for the myriads
and scores of people who will be in heaven
because of what these here in this place
have decided to invest
in knowing how to share their faith.
I thank you that because of tonight,
the scene of heaven is changing
and I thank you that we will get to look
one day through the Heavenly History Book
and see person
after person and name after name,
those who are
in heaven
who have transferred from hell to heaven,
because we were faithful to be equipped
to fulfill the Great Commission
and to carry it out in this world.
We love you, Jesus.
Speak to us, encourage
us, teach us, and train us.
We want to love you well.
We want to follow you faithfully,
and we want to change the world.
In your name I pray.
Amen.
Couple things.
The the bigger packet that's going to help
flesh out
what style of evangelism really fits you.
And so I'm going to walk
through all six of them tonight
and some of them will click with you.
You're like, yeah, that's me or nope,
that one's not me.
So some of it
you won't need that inventory
for some of
you that I'm sure is going to be helpful.
Okay.
So that that'll help flesh it out okay.
It's all self-reported info.
So however you answer it is right.
It will just reveal to you
what it is you said about yourself.
But that's that inventory there.
You don't need it tonight.
I want you to take it home
and see if the results of that match
what you hear tonight.
And you think you think matches use that.
Make sense?
Okay.
And we'll get to the five styles
explanation in a moment.
But before we do,
I need two volunteers.
And I need you to be volunteers
that are going to allow me
to do a little bit of correction
and some point out some growth areas.
We don't call them
weaknesses, we call them growth areas.
And put you on the spot a little bit
so you can't get a fit.
You can't be someone
who's easily offended.
Did I, did I just convince all of you
not to be a volunteer?
And we're all friends here, right?
I'm not asking you to go to the cross.
Anybody wants you to come with Maria
and Julie.
Come on up.
Perfect.
First two hands.
Here's your microphone.
Here's your chair.
Sit down.
Look at each other like your friends.
And I'm going to give you the choice now.
Yeah, yeah.
One of you is going to be the Christian.
The other of you
is going to be the hellbound one
that.
You can be the Christian.
And so here's the prompt,
Marie, here's your prompt.
Julie comes to you
and she says, I appreciate our friendship.
We've been friends for years.
I've seen your faith.
I don't have any other questions about who
Jesus is.
How do I get connected
to him like you are?
How do I know him like you do?
What are the next words out of your mouth?
Ready? Go!
He needs to be the very first thing
you think of every time
something comes up.
What else would you say, Maria?
She wants to cross the line of faith.
Well.
For example, if you're having trouble
with your marriage, it's the first
you tap into him first.
If you're ready to kill your teenage
kid, it's
the first thing you tap into first.
If you think you just your work
is you feel like you need to walk out
because it's impossible
what they're asking for.
You tapped into him first.
If you're ready to kill somebody
on the road,
you tap into him first.
I sense a theme about ending
people's lives here.
Maria.
Let me let me flip this.
Let me flip this for a minute, okay?
Julie, Maria comes to you.
I don't have any other questions.
I see your faith.
How do I how
do I get connected to just like you are?
What do I do next? You need to pray.
Pray about everything first.
And you just have to have the faith.
Because.
And it's hard to see the faith
because it's not tangible.
But you just have to trust it.
Okay.
Give them a hand.
Great job.
That's it, that's it.
That's all it was.
Now, go ahead and sit down.
Now, I appreciate the fact that you're
not going to be offended
at all.
Did the person who doesn't know Jesus,
are they going to heaven now?
No. Why?
And this is nice.
Because they're.
Well, but happens a lot
is when we have the opportunity
to tell someone about Jesus.
Well, we end up doing this.
Tell him what they have to do
to be a good Christian.
Pray.
Go to God first.
Rarely do
we ever get to the point of saying
we're going to pray together.
Right now. You're going to confess
your sinner, repent of your sin.
That salvation.
Do you understand?
Maria?
Julie, thank you for not, you know, for
let me pick on you like that.
And it's so when, when when I do this at
Twitter at our church plant conferences,
many the majority of pastors
going into plant churches
don't know how to do this.
It's very typical
that people grow up in church.
Even pastors
know what to say, to tell someone
how to act like a good Christian
but don't know how to one on one walk
someone across the line of faith.
Do you understand?
Do you understand the difference
the Great Commission was is making a
disciple
is not about telling someone what to do,
so they act
like a good Christian.
It's the the the confession
of sin, repentance of their sin
and allegiance to Jesus Christ alone.
And if we don't know how to
lead someone to that,
we will live our entire lives
in opposition to the Great Commission
and never lead someone to Jesus.
You understand?
That's why this is so important.
That's why I'm so proud of you.
And so and so.
This is what I want to help you.
I want to help you learn to do this
in a way that fits you.
Let me just show a couple passage
of Scripture.
Second Peter three nine.
The Lord is not slow to fulfill
his promise as some count slowness,
but as what?
Patient not wanting anybody.
What to perish,
but wants all to reach repentance.
That's God's desire. Not that
they behave like a good Christian,
but that they come to repentance.
That's what God wants.
As for
you, I'm I want to
I don't want to read that one yet.
I want to read.
I want to stick with this one.
God wants, God wants, wants.
Everybody come to repentance. No.
When someone accept this as their Savior,
the Bible tells us that the Holy Spirit,
God the Father, chooses
through the Holy Spirit
what spiritual gifts to give that person.
Every Christian has at least one spiritual
gift, probably has more than one.
So for their spiritual gift mix
their spiritual gifts
like teaching and hospitality and helps
and giving and service and, and and,
you know, all kinds of things.
And so I'm ask you this question.
If your spiritual gift is
teaching, what should you do?
Teach
if your spiritual gift is, the gifts
of mercy and helps, what should you do?
Yeah, serve. Be merciful. Help.
If your spiritual gift is evangelism,
what should you do?
Evangelize.
If your spiritual gift is not evangelism,
what should you do?
Evangelize.
You don't get out of this because
just because it's not your spiritual gift.
And a lot of people say, you know what?
In this thing, I'm just not comfortable.
It's not it's not my gift. Doesn't matter.
Doesn't matter.
When Paul was bringing up
his young protege Timothy, Paul says,
this has for you always be
sober minded, endure suffering.
What's it say?
Or do the work of an evangelist?
For some of us with the spiritual gift
of evangelism, it's not work.
It's a
it's a gift given to us, not
that of ourselves, but of the Holy Spirit.
And that is a spiritual gift
that's very natural when we understand it
and just
but most people don't have that gift.
And if you don't have the spiritual gift
of evangelism, you're don't get it.
Let off the hook for you. It will be work,
and you're going to have to work
to develop the skill
and work to develop the knowledge
and work to develop the discernment
of what
the person needs to hear the context
and how to do it in a way
that will enable them to make the decision
to follow, repent of their sin,
and promise their allegiance to Jesus.
And for some of
you, it's going to be a work.
It won't be easy.
Why would the devil allow it to be easy?
This is the one thing
he doesn't want to happen.
But with the Holy Spirit inside,
though it will be work,
it will be worth it.
And doable and successful. You got it.
But don't let anybody say
I'm just not gifted in.
That doesn't matter.
Do the work of the evangelist.
And remember, evangelist is simply sharing
the good news.
Do the work of sharing the good news.
That's what we're talking about.
A couple of things
before we get into those six styles,
one of the things
that will be very important for you,
Jeff, has those extra copies.
If you if you're missing one of those
smaller packets, that's your copy.
So lift your hand up.
He'll walk around. I'm
going to keep going while he does that.
One of
the things I want to encourage
you to do is learn a tool
that will help you share your faith
and get people to cross the line of faith.
When I was in high school,
I was really burdened,
and I think God was was starting
to reveal the giftedness
that he had given me in evangelism.
And I was really burdened to learn a tool
to lead my friends to Jesus.
And the first tool that I learned
was the Romans Road.
Have you heard of the Romans Road?
Do you know what is the Romans Road?
Construction?
Well, I think all sin.
It's better to go down the spirit.
Yeah, you're a lot, right?
Yeah I know, yeah, right. Yeah.
So the Romans wrote it
just on a Roman structure in Romans 323,
and it goes to 623.
In Romans five eight.
Romans 323, for the wages of sin is death.
Sorry, Rose 323 all have sinned or fall
short of the glory of God.
Romans 623. The way to sin is death.
Romans five eight God
demonstrates his love for us in this while
we're still sinners, Christ died for us.
And it's a watch through
the book of Romans with these different
little passages that explain what sin is,
that we've all sinned.
And then it goes to first John one nine,
and then Romans, or
Romans ten three.
And it's just these five little verses
in Romans, and one additional
with first John that says, we've all sin.
The righteous sin is death.
God loved us enough
to send a son to die for us.
If we confess Jesus with our mouth,
please go, for there will be saved.
And it's a real simple
little five verse memorization.
I learned that in high school,
and I've used that tool
in talking to people about Jesus for
240 years.
So? So learn a tool you can look up.
Romans wrote. I was going to print some.
I forgot to print them for you,
but just just Google.
The Romans wrote
I will give you all the all the passages
and what they say and everything.
Memorize those verses.
It's a great tool.
The Romans wrote,
but the other one I learned
is two cliffs,
and this is one that I that isn't spoken.
It's more drawn.
And I've used this one
then talking to people
at a restaurant on a napkin or something,
or on a ball field.
I got my clipboard, a piece of paper,
and I've used this one a lot.
And it's a great illustration
because some people are more visual
and this one kind of hits.
So the two tools I'd recommend to you,
the Romans wrote Google it,
print it, memorize those verses in Romans.
Romans 323 620 358.
First John one nine, Romans ten nine.
Just memorize those.
But the two cliffs are this.
And I'm going to draw this for you,
so you'll see it.
And so I would explain it like this.
Or someone I would explain like this
I'm talking to them about Jesus.
And I would say this okay.
So so let's
just say there's two cliffs and
you're right here on this cliff.
Okay. Big smile on your face.
And God
is over here on that side.
And you know, like, you know, inside
there's something separating you from God.
That's why we're having this conversation,
you know that.
And we try all kinds of things
to get to God,
and they all fall short.
We try to be good.
We try. You know what?
I'm going to clean up my life
and I'm going to go to church.
And eventually that falls short to
and I think, you know what?
I'm going to I'm
going to be real generous to people.
And that doesn't last very long anyway.
So it just ends.
I mean, you know what?
I'm going to pray
because I've heard someone say once
that if I want to close to Jesus,
I got to pray all the time.
So I'm going to pray a whole bunch.
But that eventually it just
I just don't can't close the gap.
And it seems that no matter what I do
to get close to God, it just falls short.
And the result of all our effort
trying to get to God.
Is death
to what the Bible says.
The wages of sin is death.
And as good as these things
might be, we can't get away
from death
as hard as we try.
And I would tell him, I said, haven't
you tried things to get close to God?
I mean, let me ask you, if you tried
other things, you get close to God.
Has it worked? No.
It's all religious activity.
And so how do you bridge this gap?
Let me say you can't.
But one did.
And the one who bridged the gap
is Jesus.
He bridged the gap
between us and God
so that we wouldn't fall down to death.
New bridge through the cross.
And then I do this.
Here's this pin
right on this bridge of the cross,
where you would say
you are as far as crossing
the pit of death to God.
Where are you?
I haven't had one person yet
ever say, oh, I'm already here.
Every time I don't know, I'm.
I'm better than Mo.
So I would say
I'm probably about right here,
probably about right there.
And then I say, well, great.
You want to cross the
you want to go all the way across now
you want to meet God.
Well, yeah.
How do I do that? I said, let's pray.
Did she.
Very simple tool.
But it makes it in crystal clear,
like vision that.
Okay, I get it.
And this is the this is the difficulty
when we don't know how to lead
someone across the line of faith,
all we end up doing is talking
about all this stuff that doesn't
cross the gap.
What I'm saying.
So this is a great tool
to use to help people
admit, okay, I'm
not here, but I want to get here.
And then
it's learning how to help them
make this confession.
Please understand, nowhere in the Bible
does did Jesus ever say,
I want you to invite me into your heart.
He what he told people
is, I want you to follow me.
The only place
we see anything about entering a heart
is in revelation 320,
which God was talking to the church,
that the church has walked away from him,
and the church
needs to open up the door to their heart.
But as far as accepting
Jesus as the leader of your life,
there's nothing in the Bible about
come into my heart.
We've developed that in Christian dumb
as a way of expressing,
I want you in my life.
But we've got to learn how to say,
admit you're a sinner.
Believe Jesus died on the cross.
So you're saying can be forgiven
and accept that.
Commit to following him
and dedicate your allegiance to him.
If you believe in your heart
that God raised him from the dead
with your mouth, that you know
you'll be saved,
and and so and so,
the idea is,
we gotta get people to the acknowledgment
that they're not here and then help them
cross the line of faith,
admit you're a sinner.
Believe
Jesus is the only way to be forgiven.
Confess that faith in him.
Commit to following him,
and devote your allegiance to him.
That salvation.
You got it.
And there's a way God has gifted you
to get people
to that place that fits who you are.
And so right off the
bat, I want you to
I want you to think about those two tools.
This is where the doing
the work of an evangelist comes in.
You're going to have to put some work in
to memorize these two tools
and, and,
and to make them sound natural to you.
You got it.
That's the work of an evangelist,
the Romans Road.
And I would suggest this two Cliff's
picture.
So there it is.
You got to do the work now.
And some of that work is going to be like,
I'm going to be courageous
enough in my conversation with people
to eventually get them
to the point of saying, do you admit that
you're a sinner separated from God?
And do you believe
Jesus died on the cross?
Or your sin could be forgiven?
Will you
commit to following him
and devote your allegiance to him?
That's going to be.
That's a bold place to get to
with someone, isn't it?
If not you, who?
This is where the work comes in.
As we.
As we go about our lives, I want you to.
Well, I do, I have another verse on here.
Oh, yeah.
Romans four John four.
Jesus says, look,
I'm going to tell you something.
The open up your eyes.
The fields are white for harvest.
Well, what are you seeing?
There's people all around us
that are ready to admit
they're not close to God,
and they need Jesus.
There's all people all around us.
And what Jesus saying?
Just open your eyes. Start
seeing people through this lens
and do the work.
An evangelist,
because there is a multitude of humanity
that's just waiting for somebody
to tell them about this
Jesus, who's the answer to their
every internal spiritual need.
There's waiting.
We gotta put the work in.
As you go through your world,
I want you to look for
two types of people.
Look for people under tension
and people in transition.
Those who are under tension
and in transition are ripe for the gospel,
because people who are under tension
will come to realize
Jesus is the only release possible.
Without Jesus.
You live continually in tension
and people in transition.
Jesus is the only stability.
He's the rock.
He's the foundation.
And so as you go through your world,
you have a mindset
that says who is under tension right now
and whose life is in transition.
Jesus is the answer to both of those.
When I was in Ukraine,
we're on the front lines
and I told the people in Ukraine, I said,
listen, you have a beautiful opportunity
to redeem this evil war
because everybody in
your country is under tension
and in transition.
Your country is ripe for revival
until the same thing to O'Neill in Cuba.
American's problem
is that we're too comfortable.
But there's enough people in our huddles
who are under tension and in transition.
Target them.
Literally target them.
All right,
so let's discover
what style of evangelism you are.
There are six styles.
So this is where that,
that little, center paper
is I'm going to walk
through all six styles,
and then I'm going to ask
as we go through this,
who thinks this is this is this is you.
The first biblical style.
Evangelistic style is the,
intellectual style.
Anybody? Intellectuals?
You might be.
Well, they said, this is what
this looks like, the intellectual style.
This is Paul in Athens, in acts 17.
And when it says Paul was in Athens
and he would reason with the people,
he would have debates with the people
about Jesus, about the Messiah.
He would go into the public halls,
and reason in the synagogues
with the Jews.
And God fear God fearing Greeks about why
Jesus was the Messiah.
They were looking for for the Jews
and why he was the answer,
the God above all gods for the Greeks.
And he used an intellectual approach
to reason with the intellectuals
in Athens about the reality of Jesus.
It's the same thing that Jesus did in
Matthew 22 regarding taxes
and marriage at the resurrection.
Intellectually,
he said, you want to talk about taxes?
Let let's just be logical about this.
Whose face is on the money? Caesar's
give it a Caesar.
What Caesar's. And give to gods
what's God's? What was he saying?
You saying you are the image
Bureau of God?
You better give God yourself.
It's philosophical argument.
Same thing with the marriage
at the resurrection.
He said, your problem is you don't
understand Scripture nor the power of God.
And so let's talk about
she was talking about the power of God.
And intellectually he reasoned with people
about the kingdom.
And some of us are wired this way.
The intellectual approach to sharing her
faith is understand.
Look,
we can go to the ontological argument,
the argument from design,
the moral argument, for instance,
why is it that no culture
in the history of the world has ever said
it was okay to kill babies for fun?
That's true. No.
No culture in the world.
Now, some culture says
okay to kill babies.
We're one of them.
An abortion.
But no, culture says it's
okay to kill babies for fun.
There's a moral commonality there.
Where where does that moral come from?
It's got to come from something
outside of ourselves.
If it's true for every culture
of the world that's ever lived.
And there's three bridges
that evolution can't cross the bridge
from nothing to something, from something
to life and from life to consciousness.
You understand?
And logically, it just makes sense
that there's a moral agent out there
that's beyond us
that evolution cannot solve
the argument from design.
If you're to walk on the beach
and there's nobody around,
you're on an island all by yourself,
and there's no other humanity
human on the earth.
And all of a sudden
you find a Rolex watch lay in there.
Would you think that somehow it
just kind of the pieces
just kind of fell together
and made a Rolex watch? No.
You do realize there's
there's a designer out there.
There has to be.
Like, things are too
intricate to just happen by chance.
And it's evangelism by Intellection.
And some of you understand
that some of you, this makes sense,
and you're able to walk into people
who have legitimate questions
and a logical thought process.
And for them, faith
just doesn't make sense.
And they're able
to step into those environments and say,
well,
let's talk about the argument from design.
Let's talk about the moral argument.
Let's talk about the problem of pain,
and let's reason together
about why Jesus is still the answer.
Do any of you feel like this is this
you're wired this way?
No, not really a little bit.
I'm wired this way.
I like apologetics,
that's what this is.
This is an intellectual process
to apologetics.
And I'm.
You know, I wouldn't necessarily thought
that of myself growing up,
but I like to reason together with people.
So. So here's the thing with this,
with this style of evangelism,
it validates and protects
the truth of the gospel.
This is just on your outline.
That's all. I'm
that's all I'm looking at right here.
And you can contextualize the gospel
to current,
events and trends.
And it's easy for people who are wired
this way to kind of tear down
the intellectual barriers
that keep other people from faith.
You can reason with them about why
faith is real.
The weaknesses are this
sometimes we can get
stuck on academic points that evidence
and not really ever get to the gospel.
Sometimes people who are wired this way
might present the gospel
as more of an intellectual concept,
and not a
person who died on the cross
and rose from the grave.
It just stays in their head.
Sometimes people with this style
of evangelism kind of overlook
the role of the Holy Spirit.
And they think, you know, faith.
Faith is simply a matter of intelligence.
This is Lee Strobel book, evidence
that demands a verdict.
And have you ever read that?
That's the intellectual style
of evangelism.
He was like, here's the evidence.
And the man's verdict is pretty simple.
If you're smart enough,
you'd be a Christian.
I mean, that's right.
That's pretty much
everybody boils it down to
is a great book.
And they might overwhelm
or humiliate people
in the process of explaining Christianity
and the gospel.
It's easy to make some people feel like
idiots because you just outreaching them,
and that's a dangerous place to be.
You don't want to do that.
Does it make sense about
the intellectual style of evangelism?
Not many people
know.
Maybe a little bit back there.
So here's the deal.
If, if if you're around people who are
who are kind of wired this way,
but they're not Christian,
make sure you get them around
people who are wired this way,
who are Christian.
Because otherwise they're going
to think they're
too intellectual for Jesus.
So that's one of the styles.
Then another style of evangelism
is the confrontational style.
Right off the bat,
if you think you're wired this way
for confrontation
on the kind of a little bit
two, three, four year,
let me give you the examples of this.
And let me just say this. There are times
when error and evil
and ignorance need to be confronted
and can't be soft sold.
And rather than a gentle persuasion,
there's got to be a push.
There are times when that has to happen,
and when people have to be confronted
with the truth
and have to be confronted with their sin.
For a lot of people,
this sounds really, really harsh.
It's very loving, but it sounds very harsh
and there's many people are going
to revolt against this style of evangelism
because for you,
it tramples on your sensitivities
and it tramples on what you feel is
is not being loving towards other people.
But this is a biblical style
of evangelism.
I wouldn't lead with this style.
I wouldn't lean into it too much.
But I want to show you
a couple examples. Watch this.
This is Peter talking.
Men of Israel hear these words
Jesus of Nazareth,
a man attested to you by God,
with mighty works and wonders and signs
that God did through him in your midst.
As you yourselves
know this Jesus delivered up
according to the definite plan
and foreknowledge of God, you crucified
and killed by the hands of lawless men
is that soft and gentle,
Not in the least.
There was error and evil
that had to be confronted.
Well, look at this.
Look at what Stephen,
you stiff necked people.
I don't think Stephen said like this.
You stiff.
Next little stinkers.
You stiff
necked people, uncircumcised in heart,
and you always resist the Holy Spirit
as your fathers did.
So do you want you to prophesy?
Did your fathers not persecute?
They killed those who announced beforehand
the coming of the righteous one,
whom you have now betrayed and murdered.
You receive the law as delivered
by the angels who did not keep it.
Now when they heard these things,
they were enraged,
and they ground their teeth.
So why he wasn't being intellectual.
He wasn't being invited.
He was being confrontational
because sometimes sin
and evil and error
have got to be confronted.
That doesn't fly well in this culture.
You understand.
But it is a biblical style of evangelism.
And there are times
when the prophetic voice has to come out
and it's got to be called out,
and it's got to be proclaimed.
You understand,
I'm wired this way.
And do you believe me?
Yeah.
And I have to learn not to lead with this.
And there
are times I gotta be honest with you.
Like, after a Sunday morning,
I go home and I call.
You got to tone down your little prophet
voice a little bit, because I don't know
if I'd come back to your church sometimes
because you get a little bit too.
Like a prayer.
Yeah,
but this is part of how God's wired me.
And it's biblical.
We've got to be careful, though.
I mean, the strings are great.
He gets directly to the point,
and it deals with falsehood
and error and evil
right off the bat very succinctly.
And he gives a super clear pastor
a confession of faith.
I'm it's it's right now,
but it can be perceived as
harsh and unloving.
Right?
And sometimes we can value winning the war
rather than saving the soul.
And so with all of these styles,
there are some great strengths.
There's some great weaknesses to it too,
but they're all biblical.
And one of them fits you. The other.
I would encourage
you identify the one that fits you most,
and then do the work to develop
the other five.
Don't be a one trick pony
when it comes to evangelism.
The souls are too important.
Now, if you learn
this confrontational style,
your confrontational style
look very different than mine
because it comes very naturally to me.
But you can still call out error and sin,
and maybe do it
a little more gently than what I would.
So intellectual style?
No, no, no, maybe a little bit.
You like Charlie Kirk?
So yeah, that makes sense.
I mean, he's
this was that was what he did right.
Confrontational style.
Some kind of little bit.
All right.
Depends on the topic.
The topic is Jesus.
So that's what evangelism is.
There's an invitational style,
the invitational.
So people with the invitational star
or the Martha Stewart of the evangelism.
They just make people feel comfortable
and wanted and included.
And they're always ready
to invite people to stuff.
They network really, really well.
They're bringers and includes
their kind of the life of the party stuff.
They don't know a stranger.
They'll talk to a wall
and have a great time.
They're social and persuasive
and down to earth and, oh.
I really want raise my hand.
Yeah.
It's the Samaritan woman in John eight.
She's talking to Jesus at the well,
and Jesus says, woman,
if you only knew that the one you're
talking to could give you living water.
And she says, well, give me this water.
He says, I am it.
Drink from me.
You'll never be thirsty again.
You have so much pain
and hurt in your life.
You've been with so many men
who have hurt you and abused you.
You don't have a husband.
You've had five and the one you're with
now isn't even your husband.
You've been used
and abused and passed around.
And I am the life you're looking for.
And the Bible says that
that she she's like, oh Lord.
And the Bible says she went back
and and and told everybody that
she ever did about, I mean, told everyone
she ever knew about Jesus.
So you catch that?
You gotta keep up with me.
You gotta keep up with me
and all.
She told the whole town,
she said, come out and meet this guy.
She was invite her.
And the whole town came out to meet Jesus.
It was all through scripture.
Levi and Matthew nine.
We talked about him today. Matthew.
Jesus calls him to follow.
He leaves everything.
First thing he does is what
those are. Matthew party
some of you a great party throwers
just start throwing parties
for Jesus. Now.
I mean, throw your same parties,
don't drink as much
and make sure you got people there
talking about Jesus.
It's a Matthew party.
It's a style of evangelism
and you've never known it.
You've been an evangelist your whole life.
You just have an evangelist for Jesus.
And this is how God has wired some of you.
And it's beautiful
and it's inclusive for people.
Is Jesus.
And Mark one
passing along the Sea of Galilee?
So Simon and Andrew,
the brother of Simon, catch.
And then the sea. They're fishermen.
Say, come, follow me.
And Simon Andrew went out.
And those are brothers.
And hey, we found him. Come on.
There's this culture
of inviting all through scripture,
and it's one of the styles of evangelism.
Some of you are incredible and fighters,
and you're so connected with people.
The old adage
goes like this whenever there's an event,
it's about the who, not the what.
It doesn't matter what the what is.
It matters
who the who's going to be there.
And some of you are the who's
that can attract a whole bunch of other
who's to whatever's going on.
And so God says, I've wired you
that way to be the who's for other people,
to invite them to a place
where they can hear about me.
It's your style of evangelism.
How many of you are natural and fighters?
That your evangelism style.
That's what you employ
to get them to meet Jesus.
The strength is that it
makes outreach very successful
because you're connected to people
who will follow you.
You can act as a bridge
to a a world
that's lost, that doesn't know Jesus.
The the weaknesses of it
is sometimes you can rely on other people
too much to share the gospel.
Because
you haven't put the work in
to know how to do it yourself.
The danger of it is
that you might have to work on dealing
with the natural consequences
that the gospel brings regarding conflict,
because anytime the gospel enters
the life, there's going to be conflict
with the old life, in the new life
that's to come.
And for some people who are real invaders,
they care so much
about the people and including the people
they don't want to have.
They don't want the to introduce
conflict in their lives.
The gospel is going to create conflict.
The danger in this style
is that you might have to realize
that the gospel itself says,
and not the event, and not the church.
You got to get them to the gospel.
If you're a natural invader
and this is your style of evangelism,
the theme that'll be very important
for you.
As always,
have something in the docket to invite
people to.
Always have something to invite people to.
Where is a church? An event?
Some at your house, like in.
And then make sure that
if you're doing this evangelistic Lee,
that there are people there
who can help talk about Jesus
and walk people across the line of faith,
you can't do it all.
It has to be other people
with you to to do.
But but you're responsible to be
the innovators and to get people there.
Does that make sense?
Do you follow
how many of you are the natural invaders?
Good, good that this this is true
every time we
every time I do this,
this makes sense to people.
Like,
I don't want to have a big confrontation
with people like, I know I just
it just sets me off.
I don't I won't sit around and talk about,
you know, the argument from design
and all this in a logic style.
I just
man, I just want to
I want to be together with people
I care about, people
I want, want, I want to, I want to enjoy.
Great. That's your style of evangelism?
It was Matthew style.
It was the woman. Well, style.
Jesus. The disciples even did the style.
They went
got their brother. Hey, we found him.
Come on, let's go.
Invited people to meet Jesus.
Just make sure you got something
to invite people to
and make sure that the end result
of that invitation is Jesus.
You understand?
And like I said,
some of you have been have been practicing
your evangelistic style your whole life.
You just never realized it.
And the moment you sanctify
what you thought
was just your natural wiring,
it becomes purposeful and eternal
the moment you sanctify.
I just don't like throwing parties.
I like to be a part of an event
that invites people
where they can hear about Jesus.
Now that natural wiring becomes sanctified
and you start viewing it differently
now you have a purpose
rather than a good time
to make sense.
The next one is testimonial,
testimonial style.
There are some people,
who can tell their story of transformation
very openly and authentically.
And there's no doubt
that they have been changed.
They have a story.
I remember growing up in church,
and we would always go to camps
and hear these speakers talk about this
incredible transformation stories.
And I always thought, man,
I wish I was a drug addict
living in the gutter so Jesus could save
and have a great story.
I just don't have a story.
Like I grew up going to church.
I had a drug problem,
my parents dragged me to church
and that was about it.
And I was. I'm a story.
But you know,
some people have stories, right?
And they know who they used to be.
It's like the blind man,
the blind man
all of a sudden, Jesus.
Like, you know, how about
how about you start seeing today?
He's like, yeah, that was awesome.
And the Bible says, Jesus
spit on the ground
and made some mud and put mud in his eyes.
He said, go wash.
And he washed and he could see.
The thing I love about that whole story is
nobody told the blind man
where the mud came
from.
He's telling the story
and the like.
Give testimony who you know,
I don't know.
This guy put mud in my eyes.
He has no idea because he was blind.
And I love the him.
And I could just see the disciples say
maybe.
Yeah. Why?
Tell him.
You know what I'm saying?
Like he has no idea.
And he stand up
before the religious leaders
and says, look,
I don't know how all I know I was blind.
There was this guy,
Jesus, and now I see how he did it.
I don't know, all I know, I was blind.
And then there was Jesus, and now I see.
So what are you going to say?
You can prove me wrong.
That's my testimony.
And some of you have a testimony.
All I know is I was a violent idiot
and really angry.
And then there's Jesus.
And now
I like people
right?
The great thing about your story
is it's your story.
And nobody can argue with your story.
And if they knew your before self
and they know your current self,
all they can say is I guess it's Jesus,
right?
How many of you
I have a testimony evangelism.
I love that about our church.
Yeah, a lot of you.
I'm God.
I knew you after Jesus.
Some of you I knew before, but.
But this is this is so beautiful.
Because there's some of you in this church
that when I met you, I remember
telling my wife, oh, my gosh.
There's a couple of you right now
in this room.
I'm thinking, oh, man, there is no way.
There's no way.
And to look at what
Jesus has done,
what you've allowed Jesus to do,
and then make us friends.
It's just beautiful.
And the great thing about the testimony
is with nobody.
Nobody can deny it.
And it helps you identify with people
and it helps people identify with you.
And it builds relationship
through vulnerability
and authenticity and empathy.
And it's so powerful.
The danger is sometimes you can rely
so much on telling your story.
You never get to the Jesus part.
The dangerous.
Sometimes you can communicate
that the gospel is subjective
rather than no, no, it's Jesus
and me repenting.
The dangerous.
Sometimes you can fail
to tell the whole gospel
and just rely on your own story.
And the truth of your story is
there is repentance of your sin.
And Jesus forgave you,
and you accepted that,
and you renounced the old life.
That's what you got to get to.
But the power of that is your story.
And so if you have this personal style
of evangelism, of testimonial,
develop your testimony.
I would develop it
in three different ways.
I would get it down pat.
The whole story.
If God ever gives you an opportunity
to tell the whole story,
this is this is a this is how bad it got.
And this is where that badness started.
And here's the whole thing.
And then this was my
this is why I had to give Jesus
a shot, man, because I had nothing.
And then this.
So I would develop one, the whole thing.
When you get an opportunity
to spend some time.
But I would also encourage you to develop
a little five minute
testimony much shorter.
I know we don't got much time
where you give me five minutes.
Here's who I was
and this is how bad it got.
This is how I experience Jesus
and this is who I am now.
And then I would develop it.
Elevator testimony.
It's about 30s long.
You know your story well enough.
Two things about my past Jesus.
Two things about my present.
That fast.
And if you can develop
those three things about your testimony,
you will never be unprepared
to evangelize.
Do you understand?
So do the work,
develop it, get it down, and then watch
for people under tension in transition,
just like you were before.
Jesus.
Those with the testimonial style
evangelism.
At one point you were under tension
and in transition in your world, right?
Right.
Yeah.
Powerful man.
And at some level,
all of us have a testimony
at some level.
And so I would encourage you to start
developing your testimony,
just your own story.
If you've been changed by Jesus,
you got a story.
And then there's
the relational style of evangelism.
This is Andrew with Simon.
This focuses on
establishing a relationship as an avenue
over a course of time,
to share the gospel with somebody.
And these people,
with this show evangelism,
they kind of wait, and they read the room
and they read the person,
and they read the life.
And strategically
they feel like, okay, now's the time.
I've established this relationship
over all these years,
and now is the moment where I can push in.
And it's based on their evangelism,
is based on the relationship
that they've built with this person.
Do you understand what I'm saying?
It's not confrontational.
It's not spur of the moment.
It's not an elevator thing.
It's like
like we've got a lot of history together.
And now is the moment where I feel like
you've given me some permission
to enter into your world in your story
and tell you about Jesus.
It's a very personal relational.
It's Andrew and Simon in John one.
Andrew,
Simon Peter's brother, was one of the two
had heard what John had said and followed
Jesus.
The first thing
Andrew did was find his brother
and said, look, bro,
I love you.
You're my brother
and I want to tell you about this Jesus.
It's based on relationship.
It's Philip with Nathaniel.
Philip told him to handle his friend
said, hey, we found him finally.
There was a relationship there.
Usually people
with the style of relational
evangelism
make people feel very affirmed in her.
They easily develop friends
with with people
they value
the uniqueness of the individual.
People aren't cookie cutter.
You don't just throw, you know,
you get Jesus and you get Jesus.
And you get Jesus.
It's like individualized
based on the relationship.
The danger is
because a relationship is so important,
you might resist being willing
to take the risk of the relationship
by sharing the gospel.
Because the moment
I bring up their sin and their need
for repentance, they might reject me.
And the
relationship is too important to me
for the sake.
It shows up
for the sake of the relationship
because you really want them in heaven
and not in hell.
You don't share the gospel with them
because it might ruin the relationship.
Isn't that backwards?
But but that's the struggle.
The danger is
you might never get to the point of
sharing the gospel because you're trying
to protect the relationship.
And so you might need to work on boldness,
accept some risk
to be able
to speak the truth to your friends
and learn not to shy away
from appropriate conflict,
not inappropriate conflict,
but appropriate conflict.
So how many of you would say, you know,
I'm not the confrontational type,
the intellectual like debate style
say, I'm not going to,
you know, throw a party and have people.
But but I got people in my life
that I've known for years
that I'm just I'm, I'm, I'm
laying some groundwork.
I'm I know it's going to get to the point
at some point.
It's not there yet.
But how many of you are relationally style
evangelism?
A lot of you.
Yeah, a lot of you that make sense to me.
Jim, can I tell you
can I tell him how proud I am of you?
There's been multiple times in
Jim's life when he's told me,
said, Carl,
I really want you to be praying for
you. Said there at a place in our life
right now where
I think they're really open to the gospel.
I've been I've known him for,
you know, 30 years.
You know, they know I'm a Christian.
They know they know my faith.
We've never had that
that opportunity that God has opened
the door to really, he said.
But now it's come and I'm
and I'm going to go talk to him.
And, you know, on Tuesday
I'm a lay out salvation for them.
They're at a place in their life
where they need
Jesus and they realize it over and over
and over and over.
Jim has told me
I've laid this foundation for years,
and God's
been faithful to give me the opportunity.
And then Jim has been bold enough
to risk the relationship
and say, here's
this is Jesus, this is sin.
This is confession of faith.
And you need to make it before you die.
This is beautiful,
Jim. You're an evangelist.
You're relationally gifted evangelist,
and God puts you in
people's lives over the long haul
so that across the line of faith,
it's just beautiful to see.
Thank you for that example.
So a lot of you are our work
this way, right?
Here's the danger.
Be willing to risk the relationship.
There has to come to a point
where you get to Jesus.
And if they reject Jesus,
they reject Jesus.
You have to be willing to
to feel part of that rejection.
They're not rejecting you, the
rejecting him, but you'll feel part of it.
You understand?
But I remember what Jesus said
get your eyes open
because the fields are ripe for harvest.
My bet is most won't deny you.
They'll come to faith.
The last style is the serving style.
This is, acts nine.
This servant,
so to say, have high mercy and compassion,
compassionate levels for others in need.
They use acts of service
and acts of kindness as an avenue
to talk to people about Jesus,
to demonstrate the love of Christ,
to break down barriers, to open up
conversations.
Acts nine.
The story of Tabitha.
Her other name was Dorcas, but they didn't
want to put the name Dorcas up there
because that just sounds like a weird
name to me.
And Tabitha was a lady
who did acts of kindness for the church
and her kindness
spread to the whole community,
and was an incredible testimony
to the love and mercy of God.
And just a
beautiful evangelist
in the way of serving,
how many of you have a high serving?
Like, I just love to help people.
Yeah,
that's probably your style of evangelism.
I love to be able to see
a need to be able to meet a need,
a real need, in whatever way
I'm gifted, whether it's a physical thing
or a counseling.
Just in some.
I love to serve and I love to help.
The great thing
about people with the serving serve
evangelism is, builds
credibility with skeptics.
Like if you Christians are willing to be
this kind of people, that really
speaks volumes, especially those
who can't do anything for you.
You're not asking for anything from me.
You're just helping.
It builds credibility.
It reflects the heart of Jesus
in real, practical ways,
and it tends to break down hostility.
When people view the
church and Christians
as the super judgmental confrontation.
You know all the things I am
in the negative way,
people, the service of evangelism,
they just make Jesus look so good.
They make the church look so good.
And some of you are gifted this way.
You love helping
the date there is.
You can stop short of a verbal witness
and you think that your goodness
is testimony enough,
your kindness is testimony enough,
and just not anybody can be kind.
Colts can be kind.
Non-Christians can help people.
And so when you're serving stop short
of a verbal presentation of the gospel,
all you are is a good Boy
Scout or Girl Scout,
which is great,
but it's not what we're called to.
Doing good deeds without the gospel
explanation is self-serving,
and there's like other religions
that are self-centered.
At the end of the day,
as far as a Christian is concerned,
if it doesn't get to Jesus at some point,
it's really self-serving
because it makes us look good
and not him.
And it risks reducing.
Jesus is someone to be admired
but not followed.
And so if your style of evangelism
is serving,
serve, serve, serve, serve, serve, serve,
but serve with the additional bullet
point of the reason
why is because Jesus served me first.
Mark 1045 Even the Son of Man did not
come to be served,
but to serve and to give his life.
That's why I'm doing this,
because he served me
first, and I just want to be like him
in this world.
Real simple explanation of the gospel
right there.
Real simple
introduction of Jesus into your service.
If we serve and we do something good.
Okay, thanks so much.
That was really kind of I appreciate it.
Yeah. No problem.
Be absolutely God bless you and walk off.
What?
There's no testimony.
It's nice.
No testimony
rather than. You're very welcome.
Was my pleasure.
Can I tell you why
nobody is going to say no?
Well, sure,
because I read this Bible verse once.
It's in Mark 1045.
It says that Jesus didn't
come to be served. He came to serve.
And I want to be like him
because he served
by giving his life for me and changed me.
And I just want to reflect that to you.
You see the difference
now you're serving as evangelistic
and God isn't asking you to, okay.
If you serve and that's your style, then
you better learn how to be confrontational
to, you know, just lean into who you are.
I made you now think about this.
Let me just draw
full, sir. Think about this.
If God doesn't want anybody to perish
and he's gifted you with this job
evangelism, don't you think
he's good enough to take those
he doesn't want to perish who respond
to your style of evangelism
and put you two together?
Listen,
if we are concerned enough that people die
without Jesus,
are eternally separated from him in hell,
there is a more selfish reason
for us to evangelize.
If the fact that people will die
without Jesus, go to hell.
If that's not enough motivation
to encourage us
to do the work in evangelism, there's
another reason why we should do this,
and it's a more self-serving reason.
But there's another reason.
Hebrews 114
aren't all they're talking about angels?
Aren't all angels ministering spirits
sent out to serve those for the sake of
who will inherit the kingdom of God
you sent?
Angels are designed to be sent out
to serve those of us
who will inherit salvation.
That's the role of angels.
Did you know that as part of the roles
to serve us who are in our salvation?
That's the role.
So the question is, how do I get an angel
to work on my behalf?
Why don't you like an angel?
Every day who wakes up in heaven is like,
okay, God, what do you got for me?
I got help, Carl.
But like, that would be so.
So how do you get an angel to work on
your behalf?
It's not by praying.
Jesus, I tell you the truth here.
Everyone who acknowledges me before me in
the Son of Man will
also acknowledge before whom
the angels in heaven angels
only move at the command of Christ,
at the command of God.
That's it.
You don't pray an angel
into acting in your life.
They don't listen to you.
They only respond
to the command of their commander.
And they're on at heaven's edge.
Ready? Right now
to serve those who are in here
at salvation. Us
when we're in need.
And we say, God, would you please?
Every one of us has at least one
angels like, yeah, let me go.
Give me the sign, one of them.
I'll go take care of him right now.
Cut me loose! God, let me go.
And Jesus says,
stand down.
They don't acknowledge me before people.
You realize that?
When we evangelize,
by the very nature of it,
we're acknowledging Jesus before men.
So if you want a selfish
reason to evangelize.
If people's
eternity isn't motivation enough,
if you need a selfish reason
to evangelize.
Cut me loose.
Jesus. He.
He's red.
He needs me right now. Cut me loose.
He's crying out right now. He needs.
He needs all the heaven behind him
right now.
And Jesus says, yeah, go right now.
He's doing good right
there. And all. Gimme! Go! Good.
Go get him.
And all of a sudden, the angels of heaven.
Do you ever think about that?
So, my dear friends,
evangelize.
I've used multiple ways of evangelism
when I'm coaching.
There was a one of our coaches that just
dropping Jesus's name like a bad habit.
It just all over G-d, this and Jesus
Christ and all kinds of stuff.
And on
the headsets with all the other coaches.
Listen, I told him, I said, listen,
I got to tell you, no more.
If you need to say someone's name,
say Buddha or Joseph
Smith or Gandhi or Mohammed, don't
say Jesus.
All the coaches are listening
and we show up to practice on Monday
and he comes up.
He goes, look, Carl,
I got to apologize, man.
I'm sorry.
I got a real problem.
There. Yeah. You do.
We can talk about that.
But Jesus is important enough for me, for
you to not to blaspheme with your mouth.
There's a confrontational style.
Had a conversation this year
with our coaches to begin the season.
And talking about life and death.
And I told me, I said, you know,
your problem is you haven't suffered
enough to ask the eternal questions
you need to be asking
your life
too comfortable
because God's been so gracious to you.
But pretty soon
the wheels are going to fall off
and you'll start
asking the eternal questions
that you should be asking right now.
And I hope it's not too late. Then
do you mind if I give you a book to read?
Gave two of our coaches a book.
I mean, there's all kinds of opportunities
to use these different styles
of evangelism.
There's one coach that they coach with,
he calls me Brother Sunday.
I called him one day, Sunday.
It's been going on for years.
Hey brother, Sunday.
Hey, one day Sunday.
You know what time we meet, right?
We're at three services now.
I want to invite, you know.
So one day I will. Okay? One day, Sunday,
it's invitational style evangelism.
Was on one of my church
planning trips
and took a trip with an Uber guy and.
And what do you do?
I'm a pastor.
I don't ever leave without my golf coach.
Football.
And I'm a pastor.
Yeah, I believe in being good.
We ought to be as good as we can be. Why?
Because if we're just good
for just good, that's,
you know, just makes the world better.
So we'll see that. Ask me. Answer me this.
What if you're good?
Tramples on what I think is good
and what I think is good.
Tramples on what you think is good.
There's got to be
a standard of what is right
and what's wrong and just be what's good.
If there's no standard
worth of what
we say is good to trample on each other,
then who's right?
Whoever's strongest.
That makes no sense, don't you think?
There's got to be a objective
moral standards somewhere.
Why, I guess.
Or does what do you think that objective
moral standard comes from?
So intellectual style of evangelism.
You see what I'm saying.
And so do though and learn how to.
And the one you use is
you get developed this
you can shift and depending on who you're
talking to in this situation, you're in
to always be about the work of evangelism
to make sense.
I was talking to one lady
and I said, you know,
I've had about three conversions
in my life.
Three conversions. What's that mean?
Well, you're really say, God,
I need you to change my life.
I've had three different ones.
And so,
you know, the first one is
when I gave my life to Jesus.
February 19th, 1983.
I was a church kid, but really didn't
know the Lord, and he just convicted me.
I can't be a good kid.
Good enough.
I need to be a Christ follower.
And then I had this other hug
and I just share with her my story.
And it wasn't a dramatic, you know,
I used to be a drug addict
and had needles in my vein
living in the gutter,
but it was still my story.
And these three conversions that
Christ did in my life,
the continual transformation.
So you just you,
you do the work and you understand what
where am I?
Who's this person? What's the scenario?
So I can I can evangelize wherever I am
with whomever I'm with as it make sense
to do the work of an evangelist.
Guys, we got to get this.
We got to get this.
Let me just close with this
and tell you why this is so urgent.
For the past 20 years, our committee,
the Ranchers Committee,
has been in a no growth scenario
for the last two decades.
Virtually no growth.
20 years ago, the birthrate in this area
was probably one birth
in every seven days.
That's no growth.
In 2015,
there was one birth every four days.
In 2024,
there was one birth every one point.
One day.
It's still a virtually
a no growth scenario that is all changing.
It's all changing.
GBU, SD is one of the fastest
growing school districts
in the entire state of California. Now.
It will exceed
the school district,
will exceed our enrollment
of over 7000 students
in the next ten years.
Fastest
growing school district in the state.
At build out,
as I understand
that the Riverstone areas plan for over
6500 residential homes.
Resulting in 20,000 plus more population.
Build out Tesoro
is plan for almost 5200
residential units at over
15,000 additional population.
In those two communities
alone, in the next ten years, over 35,000
increased population
in our little community.
That doesn't necessarily include
for Liberty Acres, the Hill and other
planned communities for every ten homes
is a projected increase of 40 students.
Of those 40 students, 29 of them
are going to be elementary kids, at 73%
elementary kids.
Growth,
13% junior high and 14% high school kids.
Here's here's what I'm saying.
There's a lot of people in next
ten years
are going to be coming into our community,
and we're just going to assume
that all of them need Jesus.
To understand
we are at the perfect position
to enter into people's lives
who are under tension and in transition.
That's what happens when people move.
We are at a beautiful position right now
for the explosion of the Kingdom of God
in this entire Ranchos community.
He's called you here for this purpose.
He's called you here for this reason.
He's equipped you
to do the work of an evangelist
because there are literally
thousands of people
who will be in this community
within the next ten years
who will need to know Christ
and have a place to worship him.
You are plan A.
God has no plan B.
Do the work of an evangelist
to understand so.
I'm proud of you.
I love you and I have faith in you.
Did you identify at least one style
that fits who you are?
Did you identify how to include
Jesus in that style?
Do you remember the two tools
that you need to memorize now and develop?
What are they from?
Romans Road and the Two cliffs.
Take that packet
home, go through that packet,
that thicker packet, and just see
if how you rate yourself proves true
with what you feel about yourself.
As far as your style of evangelism.
And pray that God opens your eyes to see
people in transition and under tension,
and then gives you boldness to step into
your style of evangelism and walk them.
Give them the opportunity
to walk across the line of faith,
not to become a good church person.
You understand
any questions?
Comments Christ shouts of outrage.
Thank you, thank you.
Someone pray for us.