GO2020 - Week 3

GO2020: HERE
• Only 8% of regular church attenders believe that sharing their faith is “very important.”

• Almost 50% of Christians think that most non-Christians have no interest in hearing about Jesus.


• 78% of the unchurched would listen to someone who shared what they believed about Christianity.

• 3 out of 4 Christians (74%) seldom have a “spiritual conversation” with anyone.


• 2 out of 3 Christians (65%) say it is better to share your faith by the way you live, rather than to speak about it.

• Almost half of all faith sharers (45%) never share their story of how they came to Christ.


• 52% of all “Christians” believe that non-Christian faiths can lead to eternal life.
Luke 10:1-3
1 The Lord now chose seventy-two other disciples and sent them ahead in pairs to all the towns and places he planned to visit. 2 These were his instructions to them: “The harvest is great, but the workers are few. So pray to the Lord who is in charge of the harvest; ask him to send more workers into his fields. 3 Now go, and remember that I am sending you out as lambs among wolves.

• THE HARVEST IS GREAT

• THE WORKERS ARE FEW

• PRAY TO THE LORD

• NOW GO AND REMEMBER

• LOOK, PRAY, GO...LEAVE THE OUTCOMES TO GOD.

Luke 10: 4-11,16
4 Don’t take any money with you, nor a traveler’s bag, nor an extra pair of sandals. And don’t stop to greet anyone on the road. 5 “Whenever you enter someone’s home, first say, ‘May God’s peace be on this house.’ 6 If those who live there are peaceful, the blessing will stand; if they are not, the blessing will return to you. 7 Don’t move around from home to home. Stay in one place, eating and drinking what they provide. Don’t hesitate to accept hospitality, because those who work deserve their pay.

8 “If you enter a town and it welcomes you, eat whatever is set before you. 9 Heal the sick, and tell them, ‘The Kingdom of God is near you now.’ 10 But if a town refuses to welcome you, go out into its streets and say, 11 ‘We wipe even the dust of your town from our feet to show that we have abandoned you to your fate. And know this—the Kingdom of God is near!’

16 Then he said to the disciples, “Anyone who accepts your message is also accepting me. And anyone who rejects you is rejecting me. And anyone who rejects me is rejecting God, who sent me.”




BOTTOM LINE:
God uses us to do the work of sharing the good news of Jesus.
Our job is to go then share and leave the harvest outcomes to God.