Share your Highs and Lows for the week or since your last meeting
Read the Lesson (John 1: 43-51)
Talk and discuss the following:
What image / person / situation stood out to you in the story and why? What did it make you feel or understand about God?
Some thoughts on how the church messed up evangelism?
“By
presenting
a false
dichotomy between evangelism and justice.”
“By finger wagging.”
“The church has screwed up
evangelism by aggressively beating people over the head with "the message”
and forgetting
to “love” people. People won’t
listen to people who they don’t believe love them.”
“By distorting the gospel; too
much law and not enough grace.”
“Made evangelism a belief and set
of rubrics rather than an action where we seek to live in Christ's
likeness.”
“I think that evangelism in
impoverished areas, specifically Africa, can lead to dishonest evangelism.
Also, I don't think infomercial evangelism was what Jesus had in mind.”
“In trying to spread good news of
great joy for all people, we've made it bad news for most people, especially
people with whom Jesus would have hung out.”
“The "church" hasn't
messed up evangelism, humans have. It seems that Jesus had
a lot to say about the Holy Spirit, but the "church" doesn't
seem to talk about the Holy Spirit very much.”
What might effective and
faithful evangelism look like?
Pray with and for each other (you can use the Lord's Prayer or sing the Doxology)
Bless each other by making the sign of the cross on each other's forehead and saying "The Lord Bless You and Keep You!"
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