“But you will receive power when the Holy Spirit comes on you; and you will be My witnesses in Jerusalem, and in all Judea and Samaria, and to the ends of the earth.“ Acts 1:8 Witness. When we hear that word, we think of evangelism. Sharing our faith. Proclaiming the gospel. We think of a …
Have you ever considered the miracles Jesus performed and the potential purpose for these events? A friend asked me this week if Sonlife had a study specifically on the miracles of Jesus, and though our Harmony Study does cover these events, it doesn’t specifically look at them as a group. How many miracles did Jesus …
John 14 concludes with Jesus and the disciples leaving the Upper Room, so Jesus’ teaching and prayer in John 15-17 happens somewhere between the Upper Room and the Kidron Valley opposite the Mount of Olives. On the walk down toward the valley, before crossing over and entering the olive grove in the Garden of Gethsemane …
Have you ever thought about how Jesus strategically used His teaching to prepare His disciples for the harvest work He had invited them to join Him in? Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John each record large portions of teaching that the disciples were exposed to, and besides considering the themes and audience present for Jesus’ teaching, …
I’ll never forget the moment when I was struck with the fact that Jesus intentionally used short-term, cross-cultural mission trips as part of his disciple-making process. It was the spring of 2013, I was sitting on a bench made from rough-cut logs on a beautiful day at the property of the Latin America Multiplication Center …
Jesus-style equipping was purposeful, practical, and portable. Immediately after He challenged the disciples to become “fishers of people,” He took them on people-fishing expeditions. They were learning in the laboratory of real life how to bring the good news to both the religious and irreligious, to people with varying backgrounds with a multitude of needs …
I can count at least ten different gospel presentation tools that I’ve used throughout my lifetime. I could still use any one of them to share the gospel with a spiritually lost person today. What gospel presentation tool do you use? Ways to Present the Gospel As a child, my mom led a Good News …
I met Brandon just after my family and I moved from Ohio to Montana to plant a church. I was new in town and didn’t know anybody. I wanted to reach out to spiritually lost people with the Gospel of Jesus, and I needed to exercise. When I heard that a group of men played …
We receive an invitation every day. Maybe hundreds of them. We just don’t think of them as invitations. To us, they are intrusions. Banner adds. Pop-up adds. Unsolicited e-mails or phone calls. Commercials on the radio or television. Newspaper or magazine ads. Movie previews. Billboards. Bumper stickers. Junk mail. And then there are invitations of …