Title: Dropping Seed
Scripture: Luke 8:4-15
Author: James Merritt
Introduction
1. Imagine if What Happened in 30 a.d. Happened Today? Jesus, the Son of God Who Multitudes Saw Perform Miracles, Walk on Water, and Feed Thousands of People (Who Came Back With Fries and a Shake From MCDONALDS) Is Crucified and Is in a Tomb That Was Guarded by the Finest Soldiers Found Anywhere in the World and This Same Man Predicted Three Days Later That He Would Rise Physically From the Dead. Cameras Would Have Been Everywhere Watching. Reporters Would Have Been on the Scene 24/7 and Yet Without Doubt the Stone Is Rolled Away, the Tomb Is Empty and Eleven of His Most Devoted Followers Claim He Was Raised From the Dead. Now in This Day and Age With Social Media, Television, the Internet, Globalization Most of the Population of the World Would Have Heard This Fantastic Though Seemingly Hard to Believe News.
2. The Problem Is It Didn’t Happen Today. It Happened Two Thousand Years Ago. So How Is God Going to Get the News Out Now? Will He Send Legions of Angels to the Four Corners of the Earth and Loudly Proclaim the Good News So All Can Hear It? God Could Just Paint the News in the Sky and Leave It There 24/7 So People Could See It Day or Night and Know the Good News About Jesus.
3. No, God Again Does the Unthinkable, the Inconceivable, Almost the Illogical. God Entrusts His Followers Beginning With Those Eleven Disciples All the Way up to His Followers Today to Be the Ones to Get Out the Best News So Everyone Can Hear It.
4. Now People Use Different Terms to Describe That Job. One Term Is Evangelism. Another Term Is Sharing Your Faith. Another Term Is Proclaiming the Gospel, but for Many if Not Most Followers of Jesus, It Is Perhaps the Most Difficult Part of the Christian Life. Let’s Be Honest. We Know That We Need to Do It. We Know That We Ought to Do It. We Know That Others Need Us to Do It, but the Truth Is the Vast Majority of Followers Never Do It and ...
Scripture: Luke 8:4-15
Author: James Merritt
Introduction
1. Imagine if What Happened in 30 a.d. Happened Today? Jesus, the Son of God Who Multitudes Saw Perform Miracles, Walk on Water, and Feed Thousands of People (Who Came Back With Fries and a Shake From MCDONALDS) Is Crucified and Is in a Tomb That Was Guarded by the Finest Soldiers Found Anywhere in the World and This Same Man Predicted Three Days Later That He Would Rise Physically From the Dead. Cameras Would Have Been Everywhere Watching. Reporters Would Have Been on the Scene 24/7 and Yet Without Doubt the Stone Is Rolled Away, the Tomb Is Empty and Eleven of His Most Devoted Followers Claim He Was Raised From the Dead. Now in This Day and Age With Social Media, Television, the Internet, Globalization Most of the Population of the World Would Have Heard This Fantastic Though Seemingly Hard to Believe News.
2. The Problem Is It Didn’t Happen Today. It Happened Two Thousand Years Ago. So How Is God Going to Get the News Out Now? Will He Send Legions of Angels to the Four Corners of the Earth and Loudly Proclaim the Good News So All Can Hear It? God Could Just Paint the News in the Sky and Leave It There 24/7 So People Could See It Day or Night and Know the Good News About Jesus.
3. No, God Again Does the Unthinkable, the Inconceivable, Almost the Illogical. God Entrusts His Followers Beginning With Those Eleven Disciples All the Way up to His Followers Today to Be the Ones to Get Out the Best News So Everyone Can Hear It.
4. Now People Use Different Terms to Describe That Job. One Term Is Evangelism. Another Term Is Sharing Your Faith. Another Term Is Proclaiming the Gospel, but for Many if Not Most Followers of Jesus, It Is Perhaps the Most Difficult Part of the Christian Life. Let’s Be Honest. We Know That We Need to Do It. We Know That We Ought to Do It. We Know That Others Need Us to Do It, but the Truth Is the Vast Majority of Followers Never Do It and ...
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