Practical Ways to Share Bible Stories

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Practical Ways to Share Bible Stories
Global Missions Emphasis 2021
Ryan and Bethany Reedy

Key passage: Acts 17:16-34

What Stood Out?

• Paul’s grief about the idols

  • Acts 17:16 (provoked, upset)

• Paul took time to understand the culture.

  • Acts 17:23 (unknown god)

• Where Paul went

  • Acts 17:17 (synagogue, public square)

• Paul’s emphasis on the resurrection

  • Acts 17:18

What question might someone have about this story? 

• What is an Areopagus?

  • Acts 17:19 - a place to discuss religion, culture, philosophy

  • Acts 17:18

    • Epicureans: focused on pleasure, pain avoidance. Agnostic.

    • Stoically: Pantheistic. Strived for virtue.

• Who are these poets Paul mentions?

  • Acts 27:28 - Paul learned their culture to connect with the people he was ministering to.

What do we learn about people?

• The people love to discuss and debate ideas.

  • Acts 17:21

• We are committed to the idols and gods that we’ve created in our own lives.

  • Acts 17:22-23

• Two different response to truth.

  • Rebellion - Acts 17:32, 18

  • Humility - Acts 17:34

• People need to repent

What did we learn about God?

• There is one true God

  • Acts 17:24-25

• God isn’t made by human hands or imagination.

  • Acts 17:29

• God made us to know, love, and honor him

  • Acts 17:27

• God has been patient, but he will eventually judge us.

  • Acts 17:29

Two Ways to Live

How do I live out what I learned?

• Are we following the one true God or the idols of our own making?

• How do we respond to this truth?

• Do we have a burden/conviction for the people around us who are caught up in their own idolatry?

Who can you tell this story to this week?

• Pray and ask God to convict and burden our hearts to share this good news with others.

Be Bold - Grad Sunday 2019

Be Bold

Phil Woodman - 06/02/19

Key Passage: 2 Timothy 3:10-17

Steps to a bold life that impacts the world for Jesus.

Bold Trust

• You have followed my teaching

  • 2 Timothy 3:10

• Continue on in it

  • 2 Timothy 3:14-15

Consistent Choices

• Conduct - manner of life

  • 2 Timothy 3:10

• Living sacrifice

  • Romans 12:1-2

  • Transformed, not conformed

Embrace our Purpose

• Testify to the gospel of God’s grace

  • Acts 20:24

Expect Opposition

• “All who want to live a godly life will be persecuted”

  • 2 Timothy 3:11-13

Light of the World

He Set His Face - Light of the World

Dave Riddle - 04/07/19

Key Passage: John 9:1-38

Luke 9:51 - When the days were coming to a close for Him to be taken up, He set His face resolutely towards Jerusalem. 

• Resolute: purposefully unwavering or determined.

A Four-Part Testimony

“The Man Called Jesus”

• Luke 9:8-12

• The simple story of what Jesus did in his life.

He’s a Prophet

• Luke 9:13-23

Man From God

• Luke 9:24-34

• The healed man is growing in his understanding of Jesus. First His name, then His role, and now where He comes from.

Son of Man

• Luke 9:35-38

• “I believe Lord!”