GO! Evangelism 2011

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GYC Southwest

Wes Peppers

Bible Work - Part 2

Well, we're going to move ahead here, and I'm hoping to cover this little next little part right before lunch.

And this afternoon, we will work on how to actually give Bible studies.

And Normally I take, just so you know, normally I take much more time with each of these.

So if you came through our AFCO to go course, which is 10 days, or if you came, of course, to the 4 month course, you're gonna get much more.

You can only do so much in 4 hours, you know what I mean?

So I'm doing my best to cover everything I can as depth as I can without, in just the short amount of time that we have.

So anyway, we're gonna look at, in this class, a little bit why we want to...

I skipped over a few slides, so we're going to be on the very next section of the slide, section 2, that starts...

I don't know, these don't have page numbers, do they?

But it's section 2 there, you'll see there.

In this class, I'm just gonna cover kind of the ABCs of giving Bible studies.

Then after lunch, we'll talk about how to actually give studies and then we'll talk about how to write studies.

So let's just bow our heads and again because of our time I'm hoping to be able to take some questions but if not I'm happy to answer them individually for you, okay?

Father in heaven, once again, we are delighted to be here and we thank you so much for the time we have and draw our hearts and minds near to you and be with us, we pray in Jesus' name, amen.

All right, I just wanna start with a scenario for you here and I want you to imagine that let's suppose that we have 10 people how many?

10 people that God wants us to witness to, okay?

Now what's the biggest fear people have about either witnessing to someone or thinking about giving that person Bible studies?

There's more than 1, but Okay, there might be a question that I can't answer, right, so therefore I have to have more what?

Knowledge, okay, so that's 1, and people often think that they imagine burying themselves in their closet for the next 10 years and learning exactly how to draw that 2, 300 day timeline out with gusto, right?

How many of you are nervous about doing that?

If I gave you a test right now to do it, could you do it?

Alright, you could, you could if you really thought about it.

I'm afraid somebody's gonna ask me something that's too hard, right?

So therefore I just back away And I don't do Bible studies at all, okay?

And I'm not picking on you, sister, for saying that, But I'm just saying in general, are you better than Jesus?

So if Jesus was rejected, then should you also at least be willing to be rejected?

So many people are afraid to say anything because they're afraid people are going to say no, but what if, just what if, there was a chance that they might say yes, right?

You don't know how to start giving Bible studies.

Okay, I'm gonna teach you how to do that.

So primarily, the biggest 2 reasons are, 1, rejection, and 2, because people are afraid that somebody might ask them a question that they don't know the answer to, right?

Okay, okay, I'm gonna hopefully in our time at least show you some principles for that, okay?

All right, so let me back up, Let me, so let's just imagine, I want to dispel, the devil has convinced people that for these reasons and there are others as well, that they can't give Bible studies, they can't share, okay?

So I wanna paint a scenario for you that will prayerfully dispel that, any fear, any thoughts, any misconceptions that you have about this, okay?

And God impresses you to witness to those 10 people.

And you go up to a group of 4 people, not a group, but you talk to them 1 by 1, and you start talking with them and you engage with them and then after a few minutes, you say, hey, I'd be interested in sharing the Bible with you, would you like to do Bible studies, etc, etc.

And they look at you in the eye and they say, what's your name sister?

And they look at you and say, Jessica, you got to be out of your mind.

I want nothing to do with your God, your Bible, your Jesus, your anything.

You're crazy, you're, pardon my, you're stupid for even thinking about me wanting to do it.

She goes on and she's not dead, it's not the end of the world, she's still alive.

She's just been a little bit insulted, but she'll cry a little bit and get over it, okay?

So I go to 3 of those people and so that covers the rejection, right?

Then I go to the next 3 people and I say, hey brother, sister, would you be interested in doing Bible study?

I've been looking for someone who I could study more deeply with.

And so I go to that second person and they say yes, and so I started studying with them, and after some time I say the wrong thing.

You think Pastor Doug Baxter has blown it a few times?

You think Mark Finley has blown it a few times.

Because I haven't blown it a few times, I've blown it a lot of times.

Do people make mistakes when they give Bible studies?

Do people say the wrong thing at times, yes or no?

I can tell you countless stories when people have said the wrong thing and God covered their ears and made that person hear the right thing.

Well let's suppose that you say to 3 people the wrong thing and for some reason or another they end the Bible studies.

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