YOU CAN CHANGE YOUR WORLD

5 Simple Practices to Change Your World

Dave Ferguson

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LISTENING as Mission

EATING as Mission

SERVING as Mission

STORY as Mission

MISSION IS INTENTIONAL

INTENTIONAL IS THE KEY

MISSION IS INTENTIONAL

YOUR MISSION

IF WE CARE ENOUGH WE MEET BROKEN PEOPLE

DAILY WE MEET LOST PEOPLE

The need to know their way back to God

They need to know that JESUS came to REDEEM and to HEAL their “BROKENESS”

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CONSIDER

CONNECTING Instead of

EVANGELISM

JESUS HAD TO GO THROUGH SAMARIA JOHN 4:4-28, 39-42

The Samaritans

are far from God

NOW HE HAD TO GO THROUGH SAMARIA

A Compelling Cause A Greater PurposeA woman needs to be REACHED and RESTORED

WHY?

WHY IS IT COMPELLING?

Jews normally avoid Samaria unless absolutely necessary. Samaritans were despised, hated and considered as enemy

1.Are there anyone you tried to avoid?

2.Do you have strong dislike toward a group of people?

3.Do you have strong prejudice against a group?

4.Is your conduct consistent with the way Jesus treated people?

QUESTIONS TO CONSIDER

THAT By living out your God given mission BRINGS PURPOSE, MEANING and a FULFILLING way to make a difference with your LIFE and to OTHERS?

DO YOU KNOW THATYou are born with a God given mission for your life?

Why did she choose to draw water at midday when no one else was there and not in the morning where the whole community would gather?

CONSIDER THE SAMARITAN WOMAN?

What could be the various probable reasons?

IT DID NOT STOP JESUS TO MEET HER BECAUSE JESUS WAS ON A MISSION (I came to seek and save those that are lost)

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S She may be a SamaritanShe may be a woman with questionable reputationShe may be a reject in her community

HE engaged her inconversation

HE treated her with dignity

HE spoke to her with compassion

HOW DID

JESUS TREAT

HER?

CAME trying to avoid BUT LEFT

- ENCOURAGED by the love of Jesus

- EAGER and SHARING of her life changing experience

What is the result of her encounter with Jesus?

HER LIFE RESTORED

What is the PLAN?

FIVE MISSIONAL PRACTICESPRAY – LISTEN – EAT – SERVE - STORY

HELPING LOST PEOPLE FIND THEIR WAY BACK TO GOD

1.KNOW the mission of Jesus

2.DISCOVER your own God given mission

3.MODEL your lives after Jesus

4.PRACTICE what you learn

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MINDSET CHANGE EACH DAY START BY thinking, “This is what I have to do!”

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JESUS MISSION IS MY MISSION Begin by POSSESSING a compelling cause and mission

THREE LIFE-CHANGING AND WORLD-CHANGING ELEMENTS REACH – RESTORE – REPRODUCE

WHAT IS OUR MISSION? REACH – RESTORE – REPRODUCE

Our mission to REACH them

1.She was spiritual BUT far from God

2.She has spiritual questions, spiritual interests, and spiritual longings BUT does not know her way back to God

JESUS SAID, “I HAVE TO GO” it’s about reaching people who are far from God.

WHAT HAPPENED WHEN LIFE IS TRANSFORMED?

NO MORE “Go get water” What I have to-doNOW, THIS IS WHAT I LOVE TO DO Sharing the love of Jesus

HER LIFE MISSION CHANGED

From that city many of the Samaritans believed in him because of the word of the woman who testified (John 4:39)

“ONE MORE FOR JESUS”OUR MISSION

Helping people find their way back to God

MAINTAIN this clear purpose and missionSTART INVESTING intentionally to find the lost REPRODUCE the mission in others

THE BLESSING STRATEGY5 Simple Practices to Change Your World

Genesis 12:2-3I will bless you, You will be a blessingAll of the families of the earth will be blessed in you.”

B – BEGIN WITH PRAYER L – LISTEN E – EAT S – SERVE S – STORY

B L E S S

QUESTIONS FOR REFLECTION AND DISCUSSION

Is there anyone in your life you could identify as “the woman at the well”?

Maybe someone you see often but don’t know, or a social outcast to whom you would be uncomfortable speaking?

What is stopping you from speaking to this person?

How about sharing your personal testimony with people you know on how God restore you through Jesus Christ?

Are you currently working to restore God’s dream in your family? In your community? In your workplace? If not, would you start your mission as from TODAY?

1. What is one thing you can do this week to REACH someone who is far from God?

2. How would you help RESTORE someone’s life to be closer to the dream of God concerning him/her?

3. Would you REPRODUCE the Jesus Mission in someone else?

It’s your turn

REACHING PEOPLE who are far from God

AS CHRIST FOLLOWERS WE ARE ON THE SAME MISSION

RESTORING OUR WORLD to how it was meant to be

REPRODUCING THE MISSION in others