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God the Evangelist
by Lon Allison
Text: John 6:44
Topic: God's evangelistic work
Big Idea: God is the great evangelist.
Keywords: Evangelism, Sovereignty, Witnessing
Introduction:
- Evangelism is something only God can do.
God is already active in evangelism.
- God makes himself known through the beauty of his creation.
- Illustration: Allison uses a scene from the movie Grand Canyon to show how a despairing world can look around at the wonders of creation to find God.
- God makes himself known through the people he created.
God is the primary seeker of the lost.
- The Son of Man came to seek the lost.
- Illustration: Losing their son, even briefly, caused the Allisons to know and understand the heart of a parent searching after a lost child.
- God seeks after the individual.
- Illustration: Steve Wingfield and C. S. Lewis are quoted, relating a perspective on God's personal, intentional, and sovereign evangelism.
God includes us in his work.
- We are included through the work of prayer.
- We are included through God's divine appointments for us.
- Illustration: Allison relates a story of a seemingly coincidental, but divinely appointed, conversation with a hotel valet.
- Illustration: A man in the next booth at a local Denny's overhears Allison's witness and asks to know God.
God joins us in evangelism.
- He sent us with the promise not to leave us.
- He promised we would be given the right words at the right time.
God is responsible for the results of evangelism.
- Illustration: C. S. Lewis describes his being drawn into God, not knowing how but knowing when.
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