I Am Not Ashamed...

Col 1:28 Him we preach, warning every man and teaching every man in all wisdom, that we may present every man perfect in Christ Jesus.

Today I had the great privilege to be able to teach a group of children the importance and different steps they could take to share their faith. This is a very exciting topic for me to speak and teach on because Christ and His gospel is what I live and breath for-we as Christians MUST know how to clearly communicate our Lord's gospel to a dying world. We preach the gospel so that Jesus name is glorified in all the earth and so that sinners would come to repentance and be saved from an eternity in hell and torture.

We started out our meeting with a skit about two men and a parachute-

 

"A man on a plane was told by a flight attendant to put on this parachute because it will make his flight more enjoyable, he was perplexed and didn't fully understand but he trusted the flight attendant so he did. A little while later he noticed the parachute was heavy and cumbersome sitting in his seat, to make matters worse the rest of the passengers started to stare at him even laughing at him to the point where he got up in disgust ripped the parachute off his back and threw it to the floor vowing he would never put that thing on again.

Another man on the plane was told by a flight attendant to put on this parachute because at some point during the flight the plane will crash. The man was too eager to put the parachute on even though it was heavy and cumbersome and people stared and laughed, he didn't care. Some time later a flight attendant in training was serving hot coffee as she approached the man with the parachute she stumbled and spilled scalding coffee all over the man, he was enraged and in pain but did he rip the chute off like the first man? No! because he wasn't told that the parachute would make his flight more enjoyable, he was told that the plane was going to crash and the parachute would save his life, if anything the scalding coffee incident caused the man to hold on to the parachute even tighter and made him look forward to his jump.

That parachute is Jesus Christ courtesy of Ray Comfort, Living Water Ministries on The Way Of The Master

It is not enough to just say, Jesus loves you and if you become a Christian your life would be so much better, happier because that is not the truth. That is why we have so many false converts in the church and out of the church today (we now call them atheists). I have come across many atheists who were told the same. We must be clear that there is an impending doom for all those who don't believe, it's hell and that Jesus died for us so we don't have to go there. When we deliver the message to unbelievers the right way then they will stay and grow instead of falling away even in the bad times they hold on to Jesus even tighter never letting go."
"If God's wrath is real then His mercy is relevant, if you don't have a real wrath, a real anger then the cross, long suffering and mercy are robbed of its meaning" Alistair Begg



Kerissa, Cameron, and Kelley Rose did an awesome job acting out the Parachute story. It was an important point in our learning how to share the gospel effectively.

After sharing and acting out the Parachute story, we watched a video on how to use the law (The Ten Commandments) when sharing your faith. In using the law you bring the un-believer to a knowledge of his condition before God and for his need of repentance and forgiveness.

Gal 3:24 Therefore the law was our tutor to bring us to Christ, that we might be justified by faith.

We also watched some real life experiences of witnessing and talked about what different responses you can get from people while witnessing.
"Way of the Master Witnessing Clip-Wake Up Call"

I know that walking up to a random person you don't know and talking to them about Christ is not the most comfortable thing, but we talked about the boldness you can have in and for Christ. If you truly love God and truly love others, and truly believer there is a hell then you will be most anxious to tell others of Christ-just think about where that person is going.

Pro. 29:25 The fear of man brings a snare, But whoever trusts in the LORD shall be safe.

We are not to be ashamed of the gospel of Christ-

Mar 8:34  When He had called the people to Himself, with His disciples also, He said to them, "Whoever desires to come after Me, let him deny himself, and take up his cross, and follow Me.

       Mar 8:35 For whoever desires to save his life will lose it, but whoever loses his life for My sake and the gospel's will save it.

       Mar 8:36 For what will it profit a man if he gains the whole world, and loses his own soul?

       Mar 8:37 Or what will a man give in exchange for his soul?

       Mar 8:38 For whoever is ashamed of Me and My words in this adulterous and sinful generation, of him the Son of Man also will be ashamed when He comes in the glory of His Father with the holy angels."

"8 Reasons Why I Don't Share My Faith"

I was able to share a letter from an atheist with the group, a letter that should wake up a lot of Christians-

"Ray,

You are really convinced that you've got all the answers.  You've really got yourself tricked into believing that you're 100% right. Well, let me tell you just one thing. Do you consider yourself to be compassionate of other humans? If you're right, as you say you are, and believe that, then how can you sleep at night? When you speak with me you are speaking with someone who you believe is walking directly into eternal damnation into an endless onslaught of horrendous pain which your 'loving' god created, yet you stand by and do nothing.

If you believe one bit that thousands every day were falling into an eternal and unreachable fate, you should be running the streets mad with rage at their blindness.  That's equivalent to standing on a street corner and watching every person that passes you walk blindly directly into the path of a bus and die, yet you stand idly by and do nothing. You're just twiddling your thumbs, happy in the knowledge that one day that 'walk' signal will shine your way across the road.

Think about it. Imagine the horrors Hell must have in store if the bible is true. You're just going to allow that to happen and not care about saving anyone but yourself? If you're right then you're an uncaring, unemotional and purely selfish (expletive) that has no right to talk about subjects such as love and caring.

James Franz"

May God give us a love and passion for Him and for the souls of millions who are without Christ and are doomed to an eternity in hell. Let us preach as dying men and women to a dying world.
 

Most of the young people there had never shared their faith so it was a great opportunity to get them started. I shared with them how to use a bunch of different tracks and was able to give them a bag full so that they could have the chance to hand them out to people as well. Evangelists in training :)
Here are some great places to purchase tracks that are biblically sound, effective, and fun to use-
Way Of The Master
Living Waters


Each young person got a bag filled with different tracks that they can now go hand out to others in their area.

Then lastly we talked about how it is only God who can save a person. There are some who water, there are some who plant, but it is God who gives the increase. Only through His Holy Spirit can a person see their desperate need for Jesus Christ, and that is why prayer is just as important as talking to people is. Pray for them that God would open the eyes of their heart to the truth and that He would have mercy on them.

All to the glory of God it was a successful meeting, may the Lord grant each one of us a passion for souls and the boldness to proclaim His wonderful gospel!!

For if I preach the gospel, I have nothing to boast of, for necessity is laid upon me; yes, woe is me if I do not preach the gospel! 1Co 9:16

"Are You a Good Person?-Way of the Master Video Production"