GO! Evangelism 2011

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Wes Peppers

Bible Work - Part 1

All right, good morning everyone I If you see this thing go pink, it's not I don't use pink lettering in my PowerPoints, so, you know, but there's a little problem with this Cord So anyway, I'm thankful that we are here, thankful that you're here, and I'm excited about what we're gonna share today, amen?

And my name, for those of you that may not, may have just come in this morning.

I've taught 10 AAFCO classes over the course of 4 years.

And we're also actually now expanding AAFCO internationally.

So we have a school in England, we have a school in Ukraine, we're starting a school this year in India, and next year we're starting a school in Philippines.

And then so I can't remember the name of the town.

I have it in my email, but I can't remember the name, how to pronounce these places.

But I just copy and paste it when I need to.

And hopefully, very soon, we'll also be in the next couple of years we'll be placing 1 somewhere in Latin America and also Africa and also in 1 of the neighboring countries to China so that Chinese people can come over and get training and then go back home to do that.

I just was in Malaysia last summer, where there's a lot of Chinese people there.

And I videotaped with translation a 16-part series on personal evangelism, how to give Bible studies and those things.

And they're gonna be duplicating that and using that in the underground churches there.

So it's pretty exciting to see what's happening around the world.

And I believe that aside from revival and reformation, training people how to share Christ with others is 1 of the most important works that we can do and putting the power of the message in the hands of lay people.

And you know, what I'm going to share with you today is very basic ways on how you can share Bible studies, and this by any means does not cover everything that there is to do.

There's a hundred ways to do the right thing.

And so I would encourage you to pray about, if you've never considered, about coming to 1 of the evangelism training schools.

Obviously, I teach at AFCO, so I am biased towards AFCO.

I mean, In fact, this could be like a third of our class this fall.

If you got all you guys signed up and quit your jobs and quit school and just come, you know.

Some people just quit everything and they say, I'm not going to run from God's calling any longer.

And so, anyway, if you've ever considered that, you can check out the website, afco.org, A-F-C-O-E, or you can talk to me.

I'm here, and I'll be happy to talk to you throughout the rest of the weekend.

We haven't decided if we're gonna do that or not because we want you guys to come and experience it.

So you can get the class, but it's not the same experience.

There's a lot that happens that you cannot put on videotape and put online.

The spiritual revival, the spiritual growth that happens, It's just really amazing.

For 4 months, including your tuition, your meals, 2 meals a day, and your housing is $4, 500.

So it's really, really much less than most schools you can go to for a semester of college.

And actually we have through Griggs University we have 16 credit hours that are transferable to Adventist colleges.

Southern accepts them, Andrews accepts them, and others do as well.

And so also we have the Weimar College there that's under new leadership, and God is really blessing.

Anyway, wish I had more time to tell you.

If we weren't getting started late, I would talk about that more.

So we'll see how ou well, maybe we'll have so Loma Linda accepts the cr right now they do.

Bec have a theology department have religion, bible cour that they do, but I think that they have kind of resisted doing that through Greg.

So I don't know, honestly I don't know the details, but I know Southern for sure, I know Andrews for sure, and we would love to see that if it's not.

I mean it is, It is a recognized university through the Adventist Church.

So it is like the official online college of the church.

So that should, probably should, would be able to do that.

So anyway, all right, well let's get started, shall we?

I'm excited to share with you today, so let me just tell you what we're going to do.

In our first class, I'm going to give you several ways on how you can get Bible studies, ministries you can do within your church to create an interest and not so much creating instant entrance but interest but build a relationship with people then you can begin to offer them Bible studies okay And so I'll show you a number of things in there.

The second class we're gonna do is actually how to give the Bible study, okay?

How to give the Bible study, how to go into the home and present giving Bible studies.

Then this afternoon, I'm gonna actually teach you 2 different ways on how you can write your own Bible studies.

So I'll teach you how to do it from a study guide, then I'll teach you how to do it from scratch.

I'm going to teach you a simple way and then I'm actually going to, if we have time, which I hope we will, we'll actually divide up maybe into 3 groups probably if we have this many people, and you're going to actually write your own Bible study while you're here.

So that way when you leave, you'll have something that you can then go and share with others, right?

So I encourage you, I'm not going to discourage you from visiting other tracks, but the reality is that it's better if you pick which track and stick with it because each track is going to build on the other, each class will, so you understand how that goes.

Alright, well let's just have a word of prayer together and then we're going to dive right in and I'm excited at what you're going to learn today and I'm sure that you're going to teach me something as well.

Father in heaven, we thank you so much for this time.

And we just ask your blessing to be with us.

And we just pray, Lord, that as we learn these skills, as we understand this information, that it won't just be information, but it will indeed change our lives.

And that once we receive these things, we are then responsible and accountable to use them as we are a witness for you.

Okay, 2 pages after 1 page 25 in your syllabus there.

Alright, so our first class is on how to get Bible studies.

Well, typically I go over this in much more depth, but because of our time restraints here, I'm just going to give you a very brief summary.

I mentioned this yesterday if you were here for the Sabbath School panel, but there's a statement in Ministry of Healing, page 143, that I believe is crucial if you want to get Bible studies, if you want to...

While you're giving Bible studies to people.

And this is basically the key ingredients to having success in what we call personal evangelism.

Now, we have students that come to AAFCO, and we have these young men that come, and they have this vision in their minds that they want to become a great evangelist, right?

They want to stand up before a lot of people and they want to preach the gospel and there's nothing wrong with that.

I mean it's inspiring to do that, but what people learn at AAFCO is that Jesus actually spent more time with individuals than he did preaching sermons on the mount, right?

You look at the number of times Jesus stopped and talked to individual people, and you find that to be a great large number more than sermons he preached.

And so personal evangelism is actually the greater work, and Ellen White says that.

That if you do the 2 balanced, if you do personal evangelism that is followed by public evangelism, that's the best method of reaching people, okay.

The delight about personal evangelism is that everybody and anybody can do personal evangelism, right.

You know, Jesus didn't say, I've approached people before about when I've been a Bible worker, I've been an evangelist, I've been a pastor, I've worked in various areas of ministry, and I've conducted a lot of evangelism training classes.

I go to people in the church and I say, hey, why don't you come and be in my class, you know?

Well, I'll teach you how to give Bible studies, I'll teach you how to how to talk to people, I'll teach you all the things you need to know." And they step back and they go, oh Brother Wes, that must be for somebody else because giving Bible studies, going door-to-door is not my gift, right?

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