Missional EvangelismSermon Series

i. All Places Are Mission Fields

ii. Reach Your Community, Different Cultures & Ages

iii. Get to Know Unbelievers, Help Them to Repent

Missional EvangelismPart 4 Touch Broken Lives

Missional Evangelism : Touch Broken LivesScripture Ref : John 8:1-111 But Jesus went to the Mount of Olives. 2 At dawn he appeared again in the temple courts,

where all the people gathered around him, and he sat down to teach them.

3 The teachers of the law and the Pharisees brought in a woman caught in adultery. They made her stand before the group

4 and said to Jesus, "Teacher, this woman was caught in the act of adultery.

5 In the Law Moses commanded us to stone such women. Now what do you say?"

Missional Evangelism : Touch Broken LivesScripture Ref : John 8:1-11

6 They were using this question as a trap, in order to have a basis for accusing him.But Jesus bent down and started to write on the ground with his finger.

7 When they kept on questioning him, he straightened up and said to them, "If any one of you is without sin, let him be the first to throw a stone at her."

8 Again he stooped down and wrote on the ground.

Missional Evangelism : Touch Broken LivesScripture Ref : John 8:1-11

9 At this, those who heard began to go away one at a time, the older ones first, until only Jesus was left, with the woman still standing there.

10 Jesus straightened up and asked her, "Woman, where are they? Has no one condemned you?"

11 "No one, sir," she said. "Then neither do I condemn you," Jesus declared. "Go now and leave your life of sin."

Missional Evangelism : Touch Broken LivesEvangelism :

Obeying / Fulfilling the GREAT COMMISSION

Sharing the Gospel

Missions :

Crossing barriers / cultures / language ...

? ‘Missional Evangelism’ ?“Missio Dei” : God’s Mission

traditionally : “the CHURCH has a MISSION”

“the MISSION has a CHURCH”

Missional Evangelism : Touch Broken LivesQuestion:How did you become a Christian OR Under what circumstances did you decide to

invite / accept Jesus into your life ?a. I was born into a Christian family ...b. I read the Bible and was convicted ...c. I had a dream about Jesus ...d. A family member / friend invited me to a

Christian event / church ...e. I was having some difficulty / struggle /

illness and a Christian visited me ...

Missional Evangelism : Touch Broken Lives

Many if not the vast majority of usbecame Christians because of ...Physical needsEmotional needsSpiritual needs

Similarly in the Bible Jesus reached out to people with needs :Physical – blind, lame,

lepers, possessed, death...Emotional – woman at the

well, Zacchaeus...Spiritual – Nicodemus,

Matthew, Saul...

In all our ‘brokenness’-Physical, Emotional, Spiritual ...

o CHRIST is the ANSWER

Missional Evangelism : Touch Broken Liveso CHRIST - the ANSWERNew Testament

Jesus was physically present ...He touched & mended many broken lives...But He Died, Resurrected & Ascended...

TODAY - no longer ‘physically’ present ...He left behind THE CHURCH - Ekklesia a ‘called out’ assembly of people ‘called out’ to touch ... ‘called out’ to mend ... broken lives

o The CHURCH is HIS SOLUTION

Missional Evangelism : Touch Broken Liveso CHRIST - the ANSWERo CHURCH - the SOLUTIONQ: How many of you came to Church

last Sunday ?Yes we ‘come’ to ‘Church’ ...BUT Who is ‘the Church’ ?We, you & I are ‘the church’

If we have a ‘NEED’ –Physical, Emotional, Spiritual...

We bring the ‘NEED’ to the CHURCH ...Q: Who ministers to our ‘NEED’ ?

You & I – Christians will have to do ito CHRISTIANS is the INSTRUMENT

Missional Evangelism : Touch Broken Liveso CHRISTIANS - the INSTRUMENT...

We, You and I are God’s Instrument

to TESTIFY ...

to TOUCH LIVES ...

Broken, Hurting, Confused, in Bondage ...

Physically, Emotionally, Spiritually...

to TRANSFORM LIVES...

& EXPAND HIS KINGDOM

o CHURCH - the SOLUTION

o CHRIST - the ANSWER

Missional Evangelism : Touch Broken Lives

o CHRIST - the ANSWER

o CHURCH - the SOLUTION

o CHRISTIANS - the INSTRUMENT

Missional Evangelism : Touch Broken Lives• CHRIST is always the ANSWERQ: How many of you know of people who have

stopped going to church ?or people ‘once Christians’ but ‘something’ happened & they stopped going...

stopped believing ...? Offended ... Hurt ...? Disappointed ... Disillusioned ....BY ...

.... ‘the Church’• CHURCH then becomes - the PROBLEM

Missional Evangelism : Touch Broken Lives

• CHRIST - the ANSWER• CHURCH - the PROBLEMBUT ...Church = PeopleWe – you & I, are ‘the Church’Therefore:

Problems with ‘the church’= problems with Christians

• CHRISTIANS - the STUMBLING STONES

Missional Evangelism : Touch Broken Lives

•CHRIST

•CHURCH

•CHRISTIANS

- the PROBLEM

- the STUMBLING

STONES

- the ANSWER

- the SOLUTION

- the INSTRUMENT

SSMC Tag-Line :TRANSFORMING LIVES

EXPANDING HIS KINGDOMAS A CHURCH :

We Have Touched Lives...We Are Touching Lives...

We Will Touch Lives...

So What ?MISSIONAL EVANGELISM

i. All Places Are Mission Fields

ii. Reach Your Community, Different Cultures & Ages

iii.Get to Know Unbelievers, Help Them to Repent

iv. Touch Broken Lives

Bringing people into the Church

through the front door ...

Helping them to stay ?

Becoming part of the SSMC family?

And not go out the “BACK DOOR”

Application / Conclusion:

As a Church – ‘Closing Our Back Door’

Ref : John 8:1-11

Woman caught in adultery ...

TWO Important Lessons ...

1. No COMPROMISE• Jesus did not excuse her sin ...• She was caught in the very act ...• A Sin is a Sinand need to be dealt with

accordinglyJesus hated the sin...

but loved the sinner• Tendency nowadays to ...excuse sin...try to find scientific justification

for sin...Sin needs to be acknowledgedSin needs to be dealt withSin needs confession – repentance

– God’s forgiveness

2. No CONDEMNATIONJohn 8:10-11

Jesus straightened up and asked her, "Woman, where are they? Has no one condemned you?" "No one, sir," she said. "Then neither do I condemn you," Jesus declared. "Go now and leave your life of sin.”

Jesus did not CONDEMN herJesus forgave her sinJesus forgave her

2. No CONDEMNATION or COMPLAININGRom 8:1

Therefore, there is now no condemnation for those who are in Christ Jesus,...

Yet sometimes it’s in Church, among Christians ...• Ridiculed / Laughed-at / Gossip...• Shunned / Avoided / Rejected ... • Complaining / Condemning...Esp people ‘different’ from us ...• Socially / Academically• Economically• Culturally

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Luke 18:9-14 Pharisee & Tax-Collector

"Two men went up to the temple to pray, one a Pharisee and the other a tax collector.

The Pharisee stood up and prayed about himself: 'God, I thank you that I am not like other men — robbers, evildoers, adulterers — or even like this tax collector. I fast twice a week and give a tenth of all I get.'

"But the tax collector stood at a distance. He would not even look up to heaven, but beat his breast and said, 'God, have mercy on me, a sinner.'

"I tell you that this man, rather than the other, went home justified before God. For everyone who exalts himself will be humbled, and he who humbles himself will be exalted."

3. No COMPARISONV11-12 The Pharisee stood up and prayed about himself: 'God, I thank you that I am not like other men — robbers, evildoers, adulterers — or even like this tax collector. I fast twice a week and give a tenth of all I get.' The Pharisee was COMPARING himself...with the tax-collector ...listing all his ‘good deeds’ ...

3. No COMPETITION

We live & work in a very fast paced world ...‘Rat-Race’ ...‘Dog eat dog’ ...‘Every man for himself’...‘ I, Me & Myself’ ...

Out in the world – COMPETITION is KingCompetition is good at times ...

Drives creativity, innovation ...Challenges status quo ...

But in the Church !!!

3. No COMPETITIONthe word / idea is very foreign to the Bible ...

Closes to it is in Heb 10:24

‘spur one another on towards love & good deeds’

Opposite of Competition : UNITYThe Bible have plenty to say about UNITY

• Rom 15:5 ‘spirit of unity’

• Eph 4:3 ‘unity of the Spirit’

• Col 3:14 ‘together in perfect unity’

• John 17:20-23

3. No COMPARISON or COMPETITIONJohn 17:20-2320 "My prayer is not for them alone. I pray also for those who will believe in me through their message, 21 that all of them may be one, Father, just as you are in me and I am in you. May they also be in us so that the world may believe that you have sent me. 22 I have given them the glory that you gave me, that they may be one as we are one: 23 I in them and you in me. May they be brought to complete unity to let the world know that you sent me and have loved them even as you have loved me.

MISSIONAL EVANGELISMOpening our FRONT DOORS wide ...

Closing our BACK DOORS shut...

SSMC’s Church Culture & DNA -

to Proclaim & Practice...

• No COMPROMISE

• No CONDEMNATION or COMPLAINING

• No COMPARISON or COMPETITION

Only - ACCEPTANCE,

ENCOURAGEMENT

& LOVE