session three

Challenge: Use one of the four models to share or explain the

gospel this week

Feedback from session two

Reactions

Understanding and Response

• The Parable of the Sower, Mark 4, Luke 8

• Matthew 13:34, Jesus spoke all these things to the crowd in parables; He did not say anything to them without using a parable.

• Different soils, different contexts, different approaches

The Foundation

1 Christmas (God with us)2 Easter (God for us)

3 Pentecost (God in us)

1 Christmas (God with us)

Q: How do we explain the significance of the incarnation today?

2 Easter (God for us)

How do we communicate this truththat God is for us?

Everyone has ‘Felt Needs’

Internal• Peace• Joy• Hope• Transformation

Everyone has ‘Felt Needs’

External• Freedom• Friendship• Justice• Peace• Equality

3 Pentecost (God in us)

What does this truth mean forthe sharing of our faith?

Holy Spirit• Prepares hearts as we share our faith

• Is the senior partner as we share our faith

• Gives assurance as we share our faith

• Has His own methods

Questions Christians don’t want to be asked!

Can we

trust the

gospels?

Why isn’t God more obvious?

Is God

homophobic?

How can a God of love send people

to Hell?

What about other

faiths?

How can a

God of

love allow

suffering?

Challenge: How would you answer some of these difficult questions?

Stumbling blocks

Fear• Of what people might think of us• Of not knowing the answers• That I will not make any sense (or say the

wrong thing) as I answer and simply make things worse

Red herring

The question behind the question

• Relationship

• The heart of the matter

Answers attempted

God’s laws as great apologetics

Breaking God’s laws breaks:• Family• Relationship• Community

Challenge: Go and explore the answer to one of the difficult

questions you least want to be asked!