We Do Whatever It Takes to Reach All People

Luke 15. If you have your Bibles and want to welcome all of you with some a church and our friends at meteor gathered in homes all across the triangle. Some of you are individually mucin at a computer screen or your watch by yourself. And of course you got our friends are joining us on literally all over the globe and so it was a walk Allview I'm doing here by a wonderful group of people that is part of this little I guess you could call the home gathering and got three different families here and I probably look similar to the gathering that some of you were in some you parents say well, except these kids look like they're so well behaved. My kids run around the room in her swing off the swing of the light fixtures. Yeah, I get it. These kids are awesome. They got there Bibles I got the notebooks out. In fact, are you guys are you gonna picture note, you got a picture of me feel like there's probably some some pictures. But hey, whatever the pin you got some take notes on Abby. Great time to do this, we are in a series called be the movement in which we are looking at at at the core values that define that define the mission of the summa church. These are not new values for us. Of course they I've been there just the fresh articulations of the biblical values that have guided us now for going on about two decades. These are values that we believe should not only define our church. We believe they also want to define our lives and they are the essence. We believe of what it means to follow Jesus and I'm showing you how they are thoroughly anchored in in Jesus's life and ministry and in the lives of the apostles who followed him.

I want you to know these values to embody these values really at the core of who you are and what you live them out before I get to that. Let me just say one word about about the season that were in as a church how you know we have said for a while that our mission at the summa church is to be a movement of disciple making disciples in Raleigh Durham and around the world how we want to be merely a group that gathers in you know several hundreds and several thousands on the weekend for large religious show. We want to be a group of disciple making disciples who carry the gospel with you everywhere that you go well this season has given us yeah you realize a chance to actually take some huge leaps forward in that because we are in a season where we just can't come together as several thousand people in big location.

So when called on you to leave smaller gatherings of the church in your in your home. The church needs to still gather what we always say that not gathering is not an option for Christians. We say that nobody should worship alone will.

This means that that's an opportunity for multiple leaders in our congregation to rise up and lead in the movement in their homes and in their neighborhoods, perhaps even in the workplaces that we as summa church will supply you with materials things like Summit online which are participating in right now but you you get to leave the movement you you will be safe. You be the movement you know a while back I made statements to our church that I that I explained we needed a new standard for success for our members will count as maturity date. It was a quote from my getting Francis Chan hears all went is long gone are the days when we should be content with a bunch of people sing out loud.

Don't divorce and get the missions I know what I know I can drop off any member in any member of my church in a city and that person could grow in Jesus make disciples and help start a church.

We want to know that if your job sent you to do by and there were no churches there that you would be capable of helping start a church in making disciples.

There you see that's what God wants for his people. That's Jesus's vision for you as a disciple. I am like I said we had a chance right now in this season to actually do that in some very unique way. Some go listen. If we do this right, we rise to this moment when this chapter is over. I hope it's soon. I want to be back together altogether working to see a lot of leaders equipped to leave in this mission like never before. A lot of you are going to end up discovering leadership gifts that you did me know that you had that you really could be a part of a movement, and you can be a church leader want you to go to summa church.com/gather want to do that today to find out how you can lead one of these groups or how you can be involved now. If you're already doing that you already have hosted home gathering people already together.

Your gathered together in your your your your living room looks like this one right here. I still would you go to summa church.com/gather info only let us know that you're doing that you say, why don't you to formally let you know it's not, so we can track you would so weekend. We can supply you with resources on some suggestions. Best practices of how these work best we can resource you so we can connect the pastor with you so that pastor can just be helpful it is to serve you as if you're already doing this.

Just take a moment to summa church.com/gather, let us know and that will allow us to partner with you in this and said to really help facilitate you be in the movement. Okay. All right the first of our four values was number one, we prioritize the gospel.

Above all, which is what we look at last time for Jesus and the apostles. We saw the gospel was a message of first importance, which meant that all other agendas right no matter how good and worthy and important. They are all take a distant second place to the gospel. The second value number two look at today is we do whatever it takes to reach all people.

We do whatever it takes to reach all people.

Again, Luke 15, I got that got your Bible.

Jesus is going to tell three stories in this chapter that are absolutely gripping. These stories show you how God feels about people who are separated from him how he feels about you. If you are separated from him three parables. It really all make the exact same point each increasing in intensity hate you ever wonder wonder how God feels about you.

With these three stories will will tell you exactly how.

First, Jesus tells a story about a shepherd with 100 sheep when he discovers that that one is missing the shepherd and say well I got 99 more 1% attrition rate is a bad know he is so distraught over the one lost that he stows the 99 in a safe place and he goes out all night searching for the one that's how God feels about you look at the size of the summa church and say wow that's a lot of people know he cares for you declares that you were lost.

He wants you the second story is about a woman who loses a valuable coin.

This time is not 1/100, that's losses 1/10 were to assume by that that that means that it represents an attempt of her life savings.

So this woman spends an entire day to carry her house apart looking under all the questions and ripping up the carpet deceiver slipped under there just trying to find now obviously you wouldn't do that for a penny, you would do that for for something that was invaluable. You don't do something like that for something that is very valuable to you and the point is lost. People are valuable to God and he is searching for them. In the third pair in the third parable, the value of the lost object increases once again.

This time it is a lost son. The son rejects his father. It's what we call the story of the prodigal son.

His son shames the father and runs away with his inheritance to a far country.

The striking thing in this parable is that the father rather than just owning his son or harboring anger toward him. This father stands at the door of that day that there house. The norther property every day looking out for the far country where his son is runaway to longing for his son to come home and when that son comes home. Father can hardly contain himself.

He cast aside all dignity and runs to embrace it. He just can't he just can't be happy without his son is anybody you love so much that when they're not happy you can be happy and when they're separated from me, you can't be you can't you can't be happy. That's how God feels about about you. The point is, listen lost people matter to God. Lost people matter to God. In fact, let the extreme weight of Jesus's words here in Luke 1511 let them let them settle in on U-verse for what man of you having 100 sheep to be lost. One of them didn't leave the 90 and out of the open country and go after the one that is lost, until he finds it when he has found that he lays it on his shoulders, rejoicing when he comes home, he called together his friends and his neighbor saying to them, rejoice with me, for I have found my sheep that was lost just so I tell you, there will be more joy in heaven. Verse seven, over one sinner who repents than over 99 righteous persons who need no repentance. There is more joy in heaven over one lost person being reclaimed than over the faithfulness of the 99 Summit what you think about that for a minute there is literally nothing that we can do with the 99 that brings Jesus as much joy as rescuing that one. Yes, we care about the 99 yet we want to minister to you the 99. We want to take you deeper to the gospel to be our third value make disciples not just converts to get this nothing we can do with the 99 brings Jesus as much joy as rescuing the one here's how we say that at the summa church we say value to we will do whatever it takes to reach all people, show you now want you to say goodbye. Luke 15 was your first printing is not just three or four books you know to the right about your Bible and I will show you how the apostle Paul embodied this priority then I want talk about what it means specifically for our church apartment is nine if you could turn there, read beginning in verse 19. Here's how it goes right for though Paul says I am free from all three man I've made myself, actually a servant Paul ESV doesn't do a great translation there because the actual word that he uses his slave. I'm totally owned by something else, nothing, nothing is really mine anymore. What is it that Paul says he is owned by, he says I am owned by my desire to win more of them to the Jews.

I became as a Jew in order to win Jews to those of the law became as one on the law than on my cell been under the law course because of been freed by the gospel, but I did it so that I can win those out under the law to those outside the law I became as one outside the law is not of course be outside the law of God, but under the law of Christ.

What I do that so that I can win those outside the law to the Ouija became weak that I might win the week I become all things to all people, by all means I might save some. I do it all for the sake of the gospel that I may share with them and its blessings. Verse 24 did not know that in a race all the runners run, but only one actually receives the prize so Ryan Ryan that you may be this one who wins that prize. Paul says that for him winning people to Jesus is similar to running a race you race. If you are running a race you you lay aside anything that doesn't help you win. I.e. you have a right if you're running a 5K or a cross-country event. You got a right to wear backpacker football helmet that Nancy pair cowboy boots you love so much you can write where all that. But if you care about winning. You're not aware any of those things that you lay them aside. Paul says I will lay aside anything that keeps me from bringing more people to Jesus. I made myself, he says, a slave, I made myself a slave to the mission which means nothing. I have really belongs to me anymore.

It's all been surrendered to the goal of the mission.

Interestingly, all the context of first Corinthian's nonverbal rights. That is, Paul is explaining why he won't defend himself against certain attacks that have been made on his character, and how much it bothers you when somebody attacks you, you want to like you know the wrong in your you want to get out. You want to defend yourself like bosses. I got a right to defend myself. I have the right to defend myself but I just don't see how that will help the Gospels advance in your lives. So I'm gonna lay down that right to defend myself to verse 51 he says, but I've made no use of any of those rights and I had even defending my reputation is going to come second to the Gospels advance in people's lives whether it helps him reach more people is Paul's grip for everything and we express that here the summa church by just saying this, we do what ever it takes to reach all people. I want to explain my guess at what that looks like practically here the summa church but before I do is stop really where you are for a minute and we meditate on. Can we marvel at the love of God for lost people the love of God for us is old with the love of God that drives him to be like that drives us to be like this toward our community. What's help me this week is reflecting on the fact that that I was the one who was lost when Jesus came for me to want to first John 31 on the screen. It's a great verse about the love of God is to read it together and here's what I want you to do don't you go around the room and I want you just to say the name of the person who was instrumental in helping you find Jesus and just the year that it happened for me will be Lynn and Carol Greer. My parents 1988 as an example okay so let's read first John three want together and then you do that there around the room by the lake.

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If we read this verse you take whatever time you need for people say that and then you you unpleasant and will be here when you when you come back and that little read this together right now. First John three want everybody together in our homes. See what kind of love the Father has given to us that we should be called children of God. And so we are not yet, but is go around the room. The name of the person that was influential in helping you find Jesus in the year that it happened and I think helps you to pause until you're done with that and then come back to us talk about what this means for the summa church okay if you think your number one means that our mission to the lost trumps the comfort of our members are missing the lost will always trump the comfort of our members early on. Here, the summa church. We decided to set aside our preferences in order to reach people want the stories that I love to tell about this involves a beloved saints who unfortunately just went home to be with Jesus. Just a few weeks ago.

His name is David Weber's one of her elders are the church for for many years. When I first came to heads of the summa church in 2002 and started a basketball ministry in the gym that we owned at the time and I groups local guys from the neighborhood would come to play every Monday night in and I noticed that we all knew each other well will have nicknames for each other that corresponded to what they're good at basketball. I want to guys out of money because he never missed a three pointer. Another got a cold street because he just was so fast it cut in the lane and and the nickname that they had for me was no don't shoot hundred and I wish I were kidding. That is, that is the gospel truth. There's no guys name was there and they called him that because he was so big it jump like crazy and he and I guess very unexpectedly. We struck up a friendship and I ended up Mary and he and his fianc�e, but make a long story short of the over the course of the muscles they believe in the faith in Christ, he come from a pretty pretty difficult background and so I had to baptize them in our church and up and up in the baptistery and y'all as far as I know as far as I can remember it was the first African-American that we baptized in the summa church and sit up there and were that old property of Homestead Heights Baptist Church and yell he give the most incredible testimony about coming to faith in Christ and probably a dry eye in the whole place and baptized him, and after the service. David Weber came up to me and he said I he said son Cavell called me son back in those days his son says you know that a lot of people complained about these changes you're making our church as a yes sir he said you know I got some questions about some of the changes will make into I, smiled at 101, where he was going with them and I looked at him and I could see get a bill to your well enough in his eyes is his voice.

It was shaky and he pointed toward the baptistery, he said, but son, if that's what we can to get right there you can count me in for all these changes naturally embody the spirit of people of the summa church that's that.

They just said whatever it takes will chat will will let whatever needs to change. Change. It helps us reach more people for Jesus want you to know some, especially those of you that are newer here that where we are we are we are because of a group of people, a group of Saints are willing to make themselves uncomfortable for the sake of reaching others on sadly you know this. The countryside of America is dotted with churches who won't do that, their members, their members don't want to change because change is uncomfortable. So they said on furniture that was designed in the 1940s. They listen to music that was popular in the 1950s. They listen to a pastor who was dressed like he got stuck in the 1960s, I heard one guy say says you of the 1950s ever come back. A lot of our bags. Churches are totally going to be ready right. Some of you by the way you might've grown up in a church like this.

And so you know how hard it is to get them to change anything right. The Oregon the order of service the handbills a moneygrubbing place with what happened IN males and Lord help us of some of you to try to bring in a drum set to be tantamount to setting up an altar to Satan.

The sad truth is that many of these churches have prioritized maintaining their traditions overreaching their grandchildren and listen, I know it's easy for us to sit here and feel small because over so modern and contemporary but answer by the way, this is an amazing church, but you realize how easy it is for that spirit to creep back in.

How willing are you and I to put up with things that we don't like in church for the sake of reaching somebody else how comfortable are you with being uncomfortable when you make us real for a minute okay.

Paul's illustration for Sprint is not looking at his illustration for how he applied this principle was to have Timothy his traveling companion circumcised I am. If you want what is circumcision.

You just ask whoever leave your home gathering and will be happy to explain to you. Okay you Jews mean circumcised, was that thing you did to show respect to your heritage will Timothy had a Jewish mom but a Gentile dad and so Timothy had never been circumcised that had become a huge obstacle is a problem for a lot of Jews. They were trying to reach because it was a stumbling block because they thought that that meant Timothy was disrespecting his heritage in pulses is according to the gospel. You need to be circumcised right is free so in order to remove any obstacle of the gospel. Paul had Timothy, a grown man get circumcised. I want you keep that in the back your mind is the standard for being uncomfortable in church.

I like Timothy would say to a lot of us. Please do not bellyache that the music is not exactly to your liking, and I feel like we would hear him say that be a shame we believe that we should always be pushing the envelope here with want to get comfortable, like I'm saying with being uncomfortable. We want to do things innovative layer is what it feels risky hello hello pastor friend about getting Craig Rochelle said that he said to reach people that nobody else is reaching you be willing to do what nobody else is doing. This is why by the way, we chose to pursue multisite all those many years ago. I'm just to be clear, multisite is a big headache for everybody but we figured that it was easier for us to reach more people in the Triangle, if lost people had a facility that they could come to within a Fifteen Mile Dr. of their homes.

I always say that I'm flattered that you draw 45 minutes to come to our church.

I really am honored by that, but I can promise you that the person that you just met in Starbucks or in your neighborhood who doesn't know Jesus that well is not to draw 45 minutes to come here message that they don't really understand yet right voice that is rather than build one big gargantuan Six Flags over Jesus, building how we said let's build slightly smaller gospel outpost all the Triangle and so we say to people stay where you are sir where you live. Let's be the church in that community. And that's what we did that, even though it wasn't an ideal way to set up a church and there are a lot of challenges to it. I hope you and I will always feel a little bit uncomfortable.

The summa church because the mission is not about meeting our needs. The mission is about reaching our neighbors number two being a church that that that's willing to do whatever it takes to reach all people means to we pursue with not just depth. I sometimes hear the criticism that we need to stop focusing on growing and instead focus on taking people date and I get that I got told your third value is that we make disciples not just converts my bike but you can see from Jesus's parable that there is literally nothing that we can do with the 99 that brings Jesus as much joy as reaching the one which means that in all our focus on taking people D which were going to do. We can never lose the priority of going after the one is nothing we can teach to the 99 nothing we can do as the 99 brings Jesus as much joy as restoring that one lost sheep is reclaiming that one lost prodigal son.

Prodigal daughter Charles Spurgeon who was 1/19 century preacher who was not known for his shallow sermons.

It wasn't you light seeker friendly. Here's what he said if my hearers are not converted, so I have wasted my time. I've lost the exercise of brain and heart. I feel as if I lost my hope is lost my life unless I find for my Lord. Some of his blood bought once I would sooner bring one Sen. Jesus Christ and unpack all the mysteries of the divine word for conversion is a thing that works with a live for. Here's you known throughout history as one of the deepest preachers it's ever been around. He said the thing that drives me is seen that one lost son or daughter be restored home. So yeah we want to continue to grow deeper in talk about that, but believers that grow deep without also growing wider probably not as is deep in the Gospels, a thing, because growing deep in the gospel always makes you reach wide for the gospel were not supposed to be in a stagnant stagnant pond where you simply receive receive receive were supposed to be a river work gospel water flows through us to others as number two.

We are working to pursue not just depth within pursue with also number three number three. It means that we go after all peoples in our community, not just one kind you noticed our statement specifically says we do whatever it takes to reach all people all their doesn't just mean as many as possible. It means all kinds of people certainly want to reach as many as possible. That's the whole point of the story of the 99 and the one every lost person matters to God, but all they are means means all kinds of people, people from every walk of life from every socioeconomic strata from every ethnic group. When Jesus gave the great commission in Matthew 28 he told the apostles to go and make disciples from contact ethnic that's a great phrase that literally means all the people groups different tribes in different ethnicities and different language groups.

That's why the summa church we send out so many missionaries from the church, but only currently we have 276 members were living overseas right now on a church planting tape.

We do that we don't do that because everybody in the triangle is reached is nothing left to do here. We do it because Jesus wants people from every tribe and tongue to be a part of his family right that's also why we as a church try to reach all different kinds of people in the triangle itself and by the way the vision for doing that is not is not starting separate churches for each of the different kinds of people. The vision for that is one united church were different kinds of people come together in one united family in Christ. When Paul went to court to plant a church and start a first Jewish Baptist on one side of town and burst Gentile bags. On the other side down. Even though, honestly, that probably would've been easier and everybody what got along better. You planted one united church with everybody together and many wrote letters like Corinthian's to help the people get along with all the culture clash may experience when became the church together.

Why would Paul do that wanted to start a Jewish church in the Gentile church. Well, he explains in the book of Ephesians that the mystery and glory of the gospel would be revealed in a special way in a community of family of people who have little in common and good culture.

But everything in common. In Christ that would reveal God's glory more than a bit and then a church where everybody looked the same. Like the same things in and approached an approach social questions all the same way. By the way, did you notice that in first Corinthians 9, when Paul goes through all the different ways he's willing to adapt for the sake of the gospel to reach all people. Did you know that almost every single one of the examples that he used about he was willing to adapt was cultural verse 20 he says to the Jew, the Jew he says I became like a Jew I did Jewish things. I ate Jewish food I resonated with Jewish questions.

I entered in the Jewish struggles. I will Jewish close.

I made Timothy get circumcised at the cultural adaptation right to those under the law. He said I became like one under the law. I respected lost traditions that followed the law protocols I adapted to the local community is much as possible. Even though technically I was free in Christ to live outside the Jewish law. Again, that's cultural adaptation to those who are weak.

He said Paul by the way is most likely referring when he says those that are weak talking about Jewish converts who are weak in their understanding that the gospel has released them from Jewish Old Testament laws like he discusses in Romans 14 and Paul says I accommodated their weakness.

I did make a big deal out of it, but I did my best not to offend them again. That's a cultural adaptation. Quite often, you understand the thing that gets in the way of people in the triangle here in the gospel it's cultural barriers.

The gap between us and many of our neighbors summa church is often a cultural barrier.

Jesus didn't just dive for Republicans in just dive for conservatives in just as I'd die for white people or middle-class families with kids.

He died for all people at all stages of life at all economic strata and to reach them. We have to be willing to lay aside parts of our culture. Sometimes we have to enter into somebody else's world. I'll tell you from experience that hard was it is really easy for Russell figures come not our heads and say oh yes you and we affirm that, but it's hard when the rubber actually it's the right look. Let me show you what I what I mean. One of our members of color within a black church for most of his life told me that growing up in times like these. The church was the one place he could go for refuge is confident that everybody there would feel his pain share his anxieties as respective this understood. He said in the churches. That was one place where I can just let down my guard and just be the trauma that had been left by slavery and Jim Crow laws created. He said the solidarity in the black community that served as a refuge and and and and a time of trial or her fear.

He said said so something tragic would happen in the black community, he could expect that we can be discussed at church because that shared payment shared fear was on everybody's mind is that in choosing the Congo multiethnic church is an especially one where the majority of the membership is white is that I've given up that comfort because not everybody in the church understands why some. In fact, he said sing primarily concerned to show me that my warrior my pain is not legitimate is that I've chosen to be a part of of our community here because he believes in the vision of this church.

He said, but it's it's hard. I nothing we can understand that but here's the truth we realize right. He shouldn't have to be the only one who has to adapt. For those of us who are in the white community. We to have to enter as much as we can in the culture of others to take on their burdens to to listen to them and mean that that their perspective is infallible and ours is wholly flawed that it does mean that we lay aside cultural preferences and perspectives and try to enter in with each other and remove as many barriers as possible to lay aside whatever we can for the sake of the gospel. I'd say it's a race were trying to win. It also means by the way that that all of us are to be muted on some of our perspectives to keep from crook to keep from causing unnecessary division of the body, but Romans 14 listen listen Paul was willing to be quiet or muted on secondary convictions.

He was only commensurate right in him that he thought were important because he thought the unity of the church and its evangelistic mission more important than maintaining a uniformity of perspective in these other secondary things. Even though he thought like a said they were important.

Hear me listen everything everything to Paul was secondary behind bringing people to Jesus being willing to do whatever it takes to reach all people means removing any obstacle we can that gets in the way of gospel proclamation, we see a great example of this philosophy at work in the early church accepting Jewish and Gentile believers were so divided over a cultural issue and accepting that they can even worship together anymore.

Many commanded the Jews to the Gentiles, they can get all bowed up Gentiles and Jews. Mega bowed up and so Gentile churches and a Gentile leaders were experiencing up Jewish flight and vice versa by the apostles knew that that this undermine Jesus's prayer for unity.

The church unity to Jesus that would demonstrate the that that the truth of his message to the church leaders come together to try to work something out there solution. However, when we did a natural team.

The solution actually seems confusing because they basically say three next 15 they said the Gentile should do two things they should a patient avoid sexual immorality and be patient avoid anything that died by strangulation, both of which were regular part of Gentile culture now.

The reason for the prohibition on sexual immorality.

I think that's pretty.

That's clear enough right but but but but but the other reason I don't eat something that's not by strangulation of zinc in a random right leg of all the things in the law and because that was part of the Hebrew law.

That's the one you want to pick as being something really really important. Don't eat something that God by Jody was not really like that important.

Let James the leader of the Jewish segment of the church, let him explain the reason he said his wife for from ancient generations Moses has had in every city, those who proclaim him. Acts 1521. In other words, there were a lot of Jews in every major city lost juice Jews who needed to be reached for Jesus and the apostles knew that these unsaved Jews came into the church of people they were eating strangled animals and the Jews wouldn't be able to stomach being there, no pun intended. Right. Because of that they wouldn't hear the gospel because they couldn't be there so he asked the Gentiles to refrain from doing things they had a right to do because it would keep unsaved Jews from hearing the gospel. James explains their overarching rationale right in the and and ask 15 verse 19 your ears all explains it. We should not make it difficult for the Gentiles or the Jews were turning to God.

He asked both Jews and Gentiles to behave in ways to surrender things so that he would not make it difficult for unsaved members of the other group to find their way back to God. Both are going to be a little bit uncomfortable. Both would have to be willing to have their their firm rubbed the wrong way.

Sometimes the gospel he said was worth it.

What ever it takes to reach more people for Jesus on the family. I wish I could plaster James this phrase on every single one of our hearts and make it a headline of every single one of our Facebook pages, do all you can to not make it hard for the Gentiles who are turning to God.

Don't make it hard for our black friends to find God. Don't make it hard for Democrats don't make it hard for Republicans will make it hard for white seekers or brown seekers or Asian seekers will make it hard for public school teachers or policeman, we have a gospel to precious and a mission to urgent to let anything stand in our way. For some of you are your on the politics and social solutions that we should care about justice and righteousness in our society, but you let the particulars of your perspective. Create an obstacle for others to be here. Of course we should be united in speaking out against injustice and united in speaking out for life. But our perspectives on the best solutions for these things were convictions on which candidate would best get the job done should never get in the way of the one essential thing that we have to do now is preaching the gospel.

Hear me. I know I sound like a broken record in this is not that these things is not that these political these social things are unimportant. They are I they are important to the gospel we preach is that important.

I say that for many of us that the ones of us say constantly offended here on the verge of leaving. Perhaps the problem is not that the issues tempting you to leave her so important is that the greater mission of the gospel is not important enough to you I that's why we do what we do. Number four number four last one of you church it does whatever it takes to reach all people means and before our members take responsibility for the mission. I was in here is maybe the most important truth that you can hear this weekend doing whatever it takes to reach all people means that you you each of you takes responsibility for reaching people at the summit church with you; Hoosier one and it's a challenge for every person to have a least one person in the life, one for New Year's. This one person that you're praying for and asking God to help you reach out to to bring somebody to Jesus and what you tells you that is so we can pray with you on not talk like this.

People always say well I don't know evangelism is not my gift. I get nervous talking to people and you look like you could sell vacuum cleaners and adore the respirometer but but unity like this is not my gift. I listen Jesus at 9419 follow me and I will make you a fishermen that means when you accepted the call to follow Jesus. You also accepted the commission to reach people right back command to reach people called the great commission is not a special gifting for some of the mandate role. Jesus promised that when he brought you to himself, whatever your personality was extrovert introvert with your one or nine, or three or 748.21 in a grand scale. He was going to use you in reaching people you say why don't know how though I don't want to share Christ okay will come of it will save you first, you should learn to provide several opportunities for you to grow in those this fall but I don't think I can if you can learn to order drinks at Starbucks will always complex and you will learn to share the gospel and some others to love the radar on our website right now. You go right now some jerk.com and check some of them out right. So first you learn. Second, I would also say how hard actually. Is it you were trapped on the top of a burning building and just when you are about to give up hope and it is burning building. Suddenly the door flies open and there's a firefighter breaks up the door put you over his shoulder and carries you 10 flights of stairs down the safety put you down on the sidewalk goes back in for somebody else. Somebody walks by and says hey what just happened. You men of the guys name, you may not be able to explain how it happened but you could say I was going to die.got saved I in the meantime while you're learning all your Bible verses in your letter the right questions and all the right terms to use. You can still point people to Jesus, you can invite them to join you on the weekend for service or how about this.

Tell them your story right on the front page of the website as a tool for helping you write and tell your story with God in less than three minutes. Maybe you can figure how to share your story less than three minutes to check that out and learn to write your story okay were church.

It does whatever it takes to reach all people pleasing to questions when asked all of the number one. Have you met Jesus see this is Jesus's heart for you. Jesus Lapin 99 for you. It could be happy without you. He stands at the gate of heaven.

Every day looking out after you I he can't be happy until you are restored.

Are you ready to come home right. If so, them right now. Could you just bow your head. I was about all bow our heads at all of our home gatherings wherever you are if you need to trust Christ. You can right now saving him Lord Jesus and ready to come home.

I surrender to you.

I received your offer to save me. Thank you Jesus for saving a man a man if you if you pray that with me. I want you to text your decision right now to 33933 I just text that bonded 33933, just text the word Jesus will know what you mean by that. Okay is my first question. Do you know Jesus and do you know Jenna Jesus number two is do you have a line do you have the one I referred to that somebody that you're praying for.

If so don't you go to summit church.com/1 where you'll find some resources there for how you can can share the gospel with your want and how to begin to take the next steps and you can also let us know about your one.

That way we can help. Pray for you and resource you have it. If that be helpful. You okay listen. I know some of you this is such an unusual time like I'm sure how to reach out to people because we be under quarantine.

How do you do that I want you to hear an awesome story. The summit number who is leveraging this time this moment to be able to reach people for Jesus is an example of whatever it takes about a year ago we went to the HOA and just ask for them to send out an email basically to everybody in the neighborhood and invite them to a driveway type gathering so we simply opened up our driveway and garage. Everybody brought different drinks and snacks and we just started talking with people and getting an open we for a lot of years did not do anything when God gave us the need to move into this neighborhood we really calling us. There were a specific reason during covert now people are really finding that there is such a thirst for seeing people live in face-to-face. So we see an increased interest had a foundational aim of her name is now going in different things.

It's been a sweet thing to watch it with me and every service was something you were sent.

What exactly does that mean for sent where we said were certainly sent to her neighbors and so we've been convicted more than anything and so I would say consider what you were sent means to you is no perfect solution. You're going to make mistakes and it's going to feel a little uncomfortable and that is really okay the richness that we get back out far surpasses any extra little effort or burden that we've had and were hoping to see people's lives change