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What does outreach look like?

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What does an evangelist look like?

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Describe someone who reached you for Christ?

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What do we think “outreach” looks like?

A model A model evangelistevangelist

A model A model evangelistevangelistPeter replied, "Even if all fall

away on account of you, I never will...”

Peter declared, "Even if I have to die with you, I will never disown you." And all the other disciples said the same.

Matthew 26:33,35

A model A model evangelistevangelistOn this model...

Outreach is

• Sporadic

• Segregated

• Self-motivated

A model A model evangelistevangelist

“Lord, you know that I love you.”

-- John 21“Feed my sheep.”

1 Peter1 Peter1 Peter, an apostle of Jesus Christ,   To God's elect, strangers in the world, scattered throughout Pontus, Galatia, Cappadocia, Asia and Bithynia, 2 who have been chosen according to the foreknowledge of God the Father, through the sanctifying work of the Spirit, for obedience to Jesus Christ and sprinkling by his blood: Grace and peace be yours in abundance.

What was God doing What was God doing in the beginningin the beginning??

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They were enjoying

each other’s company

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SON SPIRIT

1 Peter1 Peter1 Peter, an apostle of Jesus Christ,   To God's elect, strangers in the world, scattered throughout Pontus, Galatia, Cappadocia, Asia and Bithynia, 2 who have been chosen according to the foreknowledge of God the Father, through the sanctifying work of the Spirit, for obedience to Jesus Christ and sprinkling by his blood: Grace and peace be yours in abundance.

1 Peter1 Peter1 Peter, an apostle of Jesus Christ,   To God's elect, strangers in the world, scattered throughout Pontus, Galatia, Cappadocia, Asia and Bithynia, 2 who have been chosen according to the foreknowledge of God the Father, through the sanctifying work of the Spirit, for obedience to Jesus Christ and sprinkling by his blood: Grace and peace be yours in abundance.

What does it mean What does it mean for God to be Father?for God to be Father?

Life-giving

Father Son

Eternally begotten of the Eternally begotten of the FatherFather

Life-giving

Father Son

Eternally spoken by the Eternally spoken by the FatherFather

Commun-icating

Speaker Word

Eternally shone from the Eternally shone from the FatherFather

shining

Light Radiance

Eternally loved by the FatherEternally loved by the Father

LoveLover Beloved

The Eternally Outgoing GodThe Eternally Outgoing God

SpiritFather Son

shining

life-giving

commun-icating

loving

Holy Spirit

The Eternally Outgoing GodThe Eternally Outgoing God

SonFather Spirit

Philippians 2:5-11Philippians 2:5-11

The Ultimate OutreachThe Ultimate Outreach

“Jesus suffered outside the city gate to make the people holy through his own blood. Let us, then, go to him outside the camp, bearing the disgrace he bore.”

Hebrews 13:12-13

Outreach is our ongoing life becauseOutreach is our ongoing life becauseoutreach is God’s eternal lifeoutreach is God’s eternal life

“As the Father has sent me, I am sending you.” John 20:21

If a friend said “What’s all this Trinity nonsense?”, how would you respond?

When you think of “outreach” what springs to mind? Which ‘Peter’ do we often follow?

What difference does it make to our outreach to know God’s outgoing nature?

How does God feel about Rothely?

Jesus is always going “outside the camp” what might that look like in Rothely?

Bringing people to GodBringing people to God

He did!

We are!

I can!

Bringing people to GodBringing people to God

He did!He did!

“For Christ died for sins once for all, the righteous for the unrighteous, to bring you to God.”

1 Peter 3:18

Bringing people to GodBringing people to God

He did!He did!

How have you experienced guilt in relation to evangelism?

What’s the answer?

Bringing people to GodBringing people to God

We are!We are!9 But you are a chosen people, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a people belonging to God, that you may declare the praises of him who called you out of darkness into his wonderful light. 

Bringing people to GodBringing people to God

We are!We are!10 Once you were not a people, but now you are the people of God; once you had not received mercy, but now you have received mercy.

Bringing people to GodBringing people to God

We are!We are!11 Dear friends, I urge you, as aliens and strangers in the world, to abstain from sinful desires, which war against your soul. 12 Live such good lives among the pagans that, though they accuse you of doing wrong, they may see your good deeds and glorify God on the day he visits us.

Bringing people to GodBringing people to God

We are!We are!

...a royal priesthood

Bringing people to GodBringing people to God

What do priests do?What do priests do?

Who are priests for?Who are priests for?

What does it mean for St What does it mean for St Mary’s to be a priesthood?Mary’s to be a priesthood?

Bringing people to GodBringing people to God

11 If anyone speaks, he should do it as one speaking the very words of God. If anyone serves, he should do it with the strength God provides, so that in all things God may be praised through Jesus Christ. To him be the glory and the power for ever and ever. Amen. 1 Peter 4:10-11

Bringing people to GodBringing people to God

We are a priesthood

What does the corporate life of St Mary’s

communicate?

Bringing people to GodBringing people to God

Together we are a priesthood

What do I do individually that I could do with others?

What do we do together that could be priestly?

Bringing people to GodBringing people to God

I canI can

“But in your hearts set apart Christ as Lord. Always be prepared to give an answer to everyone who asks you to give the reason for the hope that you have. But do this with gentleness and respect.” (1 Peter 3:15)

Bringing people to GodBringing people to God

I canI can

What can I do to be prepared?

What can St Mary’s do to prepare me?

Bringing people to GodBringing people to God

He did!He did!

We are!We are!

I can!I can!

Eternally begotten of the Eternally begotten of the FatherFather

Life-giving

Father Son

Eternally spoken by the Eternally spoken by the FatherFather

Commun-icating

Speaker Word

Eternally shone from the Eternally shone from the FatherFather

shining

Light Radiance

Eternally loved by the FatherEternally loved by the Father

LoveLover Beloved

The Eternally Outgoing GodThe Eternally Outgoing God

SpiritFather Son

shining

life-giving

commun-icating

loving

Holy Spirit

The Eternally Outgoing GodThe Eternally Outgoing God

SonFather Spirit

BuildBuild4 As you come to him, the living Stone--rejected by men but chosen by God and precious to him-- 5 you also, like living stones, are being built into a spiritual house to be a holy priesthood, offering spiritual sacrifices acceptable to God through Jesus Christ.

1 Peter 2:4-5

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He became what we are- 1 Pet 2:21-25

We become what He is

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CHRISTCHRIST US US

Chosen 1:20 1:2

Living Stone 2:4 2:5

Priest 3:18 2:9

1:19 the precious blood of Christ, a lamb without blemish or defect.

2:4 As you come to him, the living Stone--rejected by men but chosen by God and precious to him—

2:6 "See, I lay a stone in Zion, a chosen and precious cornerstone, and the one who trusts in him will never be put to shame."

2:7 Now to you who believe, this stone is precious. But to those who do not believe, "The stone the builders rejected has become the capstone,"

 “The Christ in the word of a brother is stronger than the Christ of your own heart.”

Dietrich Bonhoeffer

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Bringing people to GodBringing people to God

He did!

We are!

I can!

Bringing people to GodBringing people to God

He did!He did!

“For Christ died for sins once for all, the righteous for the unrighteous, to bring you to God.”

1 Peter 3:18

Bringing people to GodBringing people to God

We are!We are!9 But you are a chosen people, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a people belonging to God, that you may declare the praises of him who called you out of darkness into his wonderful light. 

Bringing people to GodBringing people to God

We are!We are!10 Once you were not a people, but now you are the people of God; once you had not received mercy, but now you have received mercy.

Bringing people to GodBringing people to God

We are!We are!11 Dear friends, I urge you, as aliens and strangers in the world, to abstain from sinful desires, which war against your soul. 12 Live such good lives among the pagans that, though they accuse you of doing wrong, they may see your good deeds and glorify God on the day he visits us.

Bringing people to GodBringing people to God

We are!We are!

...a royal priesthood

Bringing people to GodBringing people to God

11 If anyone speaks, he should do it as one speaking the very words of God. If anyone serves, he should do it with the strength God provides, so that in all things God may be praised through Jesus Christ. To him be the glory and the power for ever and ever. Amen. 1 Peter 4:10-11

Bringing people to GodBringing people to God

I canI can

“But in your hearts set apart Christ as Lord. Always be prepared to give an answer to everyone who asks you to give the reason for the hope that you have. But do this with gentleness and respect.” (1 Peter 3:15)

He did!He did! - - How have you experienced guilt with regards to evangelism? What’s the answer?

We are!We are! - - What would it mean to consider Rothely parish church as a priesthood? - - What do you do individually that you could do with others from church?- - What do you do together that could be more priestly?I can!I can! - - What can I do to be prepared?- - What can the church do to prepare me?

Bringing people to GodBringing people to God

11 If anyone speaks, he should do it as one speaking the very words of God. If anyone serves, he should do it with the strength God provides, so that in all things God may be praised through Jesus Christ. To him be the glory and the power for ever and ever. Amen.