Laughlin Community Church
Tues 2/26/19
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  • Love Lifted Me *
  • Hallelujah *
  • Doxology
  • I Will Magnify*
  • You Have Been Given

  • Introduction

    If there is something that needs to be done, but you don’t see the reason why, You aren’t going to do it.
    Think about Math in High School. If you understood why you were more likely to try. if you didn’t you might get it done because you had to, but it was a chore and you probably don’t remember it very well.

    Luke 15:1-10

    Luke 15:1–10 LEB
    Now all the tax collectors and the sinners were drawing near to hear him. And both the Pharisees and the scribes were complaining, saying, “This man welcomes sinners and eats with them!” So he told them this parable, saying, “What man of you, having a hundred sheep and losing one of them, does not leave the ninety-nine in the grassland and go after the one that was lost until he finds it? And when he has found it, he places it on his shoulders, rejoicing. And when he returns to his home, he calls together his friends and neighbors, saying to them, ‘Rejoice with me, because I have found my sheep that was lost!’ I tell you that in the same way, there will be more joy in heaven over one sinner who repents than over ninety-nine righteous people who have no need of repentance. Or what woman who has ten drachmas, if she loses one drachma, does not light a lamp and sweep the house and search carefully until she finds it? And when she has found it, she calls together her friends and neighbors, saying, ‘Rejoice with me, because I have found the drachma that I had lost!’ In the same way, I tell you, there is joy in the presence of the angels of God over one sinner who repents.”
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    Witnessing about the Gospel is part of the Joy of Being in Christ, but often we don’t tell a soul. A LifeWay study showed 61% of evangelical Christians had not told a soul about Christ in the previous six months. The Good news is that the younger Millennial generation shows a hirer rate of witnessing than older believers (Reid, Sharing Jesus 9)
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    I stated earlier that I think the primary reason we don’t witness is because we don’t discipline ourselves in Soul winning. We claim things like I don’t how, or fear, but this attitude just gives us excuses to not share the Gospel. If we correct our motivation to witness then our attitude becomes such that we Get to Witness not that we have to Witness.
    It is an Opportunity.
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    MCCHURCH

    (by Vernon C. Lyons)
    We live in in culture of convenience Christianity. We want it short, simple, fast and cheap.
    The McBible does not have the tedious 66 books, but just a few with short sentences and simple words at the fifth grade level. There are numerous pictures and some pages ruled with lines so that you can add your own spiritual thoughts, just in case you get a new revelation. 
    The McWorship service is all sweetness and love with nothing offensive. The McSermon is easily digested with a minimum of nutrition and a maximum of fat.
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    And where Witnessing is the drive through
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    But this is not how it should be. For any of it. The Bible is 66 Book of Jewish Meditation Lit. Sermons sometimes do have to be digested. Worship is about your very life not just singing in the Pew. and Witnessing isn’t about a quick take out.
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    God is in us
    It’s night of the living dead out there and we have the cure
    Romans 10:13–15 LEB
    For “everyone who calls upon the name of the Lord will be saved.” How then will they call upon him in whom they have not believed? And how will they believe in him about whom they have not heard? And how will they hear about him without one who preaches to them? And how will they preach, unless they are sent? Just as it is written, “How timely are the feet of those who bring good news of good things.”
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    I have already said that you are called to Go, but more than that you Get to Go
    Why because We love
    1 John 4:19 LEB
    We love, because he first loved us.
    as we love We will be drawn to tell others of Jesus Christ
    “If Sinners Be damned, at least let them leap to Hell over our dead bodies. And if they perish, let them perish with our arms wrapped about their knees, imploring them to stay. If Hell must be filled, let it be filled in the teeth of our exertions, and let not one go unwarned and unprayed for.”
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    C.H. Spurgeon
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    If Hell is real. They we would really hate someone to wish them to hell, By Word or silence. We Love Because we first Loved. We Care because we have seen Mercy.
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    Next Steps

    What excuses stand in your way
    Felt the Love of Christ
    Is Hell Real?

      • Luke 15:1–10CSB

      • Romans 10:13–15CSB

      • 1 John 4:19CSB

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