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“There was a man sent from God, whose name was John. The same came for a witness, to bear witness of the Light, that all men through him might believe. He was not that Light, but was sent to bear witness of that Light.” John 1: 6-8

this is my main scripture

Not making much progress, Bekki Phillips

A Witness of the Light

Do you notice how your eyes are drawn to the Light
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in a world of darkness.....

#1: You can witness in many different ways. It doesn't have to be knocking on doors and teaching Bible studies all day. Many of you are not good public speakers, like me; and many of you are excellent speakers. But its ok to start with something small: showing love to someone by carrying thier grocery bags or cooking supper for a neighbor going through a hard time.

#2: It is a Christian's Obligation to testify about Christ. The Bible says “Go ye into all the world, and preach the gospel to every creature.” That doesn’t mean you have to go to Africa and spend you whole life as a missionary. Now of course if God calls you to do something like that, than do it. But can’t we at least start by taking a little time to witness to people in our city or where we work. Just think half the people in this world will never have the chance of hearing the gospel of Jesus Christ, unless we tell them it.

#3: God wants everyone to go to heaven. Everyone is so very important to him, and they should be important to you and me. It seams so much now that Christians reject or at least ignore new people that come to their church. They stay away from them because they aren’t saved or they just happened see them at the bar last night. The Bible says, “For all have sinned, and come short of the Glory of God.” Then why sometimes is it easier for us to hate the sinner and not the sin? If Christ died for all the sinners in the world so that they could be saved and live with him for eternity, then we should start telling the the unsaved about Christ.

Im working on it... :-0 ha

Forever Amazed, Bekki Phillips

My outline...

A Witness of the Light...

Part of the 'hook' : "So the couple got taught a 12-week Bible study by Joe, a man who took five minutes to spell one sentence."

Thesis statement: We need to take the time to witness about Jesus.

Outline Points: #1: You can witness in many different ways. It doesn't have to be by knocking on doors; it could be...

#2: It's a Christian's obligation to testify about Christ. You can start by showing love to others by...

#3: God wants everyone to go to heaven. Every one is important to him, and they should be important to you...

Quote: "There was a man sent from God, whose name was John. The same came for a witness, to bear witness of the Light, that all men through him might believe. He was not that Light, but was sent to bear witness of that Light." John 1: 6-8

Opposing side: Now you could argue: " I'm too busy; I don't have the time." Look, I agree with you 150 percent. I really am too busy. But can you say you have never had a day where you just lie around being bored? I have had days where I will sit and practice my guitar until my fingers are purple...

Conclusion: What if everyone told one person about Jesus? Think about that... what a different world we would have.

Well I guess that's it...ha ha just kidding pastor!

Brainstorming....

Well, I really wanted to write about the glory of God. But ha I really found out how hard it is to write about God... You see I'm extremely passionate about God (I mean common he is omnipotent, omnipresent, all powerful, ever loving... and he died for a scum like me HA! how could you not be passionate about that!) but even though its usually easy for me to write when I'm passionate about something. God is not one of those easy things to write about. I have learned that I become: speechless, dumbfounded, baffled, and lost, when I try to explain how awesome God is! So my lovely point is I couldn't do it no matter how much I wanted to. So I went to Anne's and started walking back and forth and complaining and then throwing myself on the floor and sighing. Then suddenly Anne would mention something and I would be like "Ah ha!" I kept on writing down different ideas and points and then I would look at it and go "no". It was late and I had to go so finally on Sunday I picked my topic and on wrote out my outline on Monday... after another night at Anne's. (Yes, I was working very hard that night! *uncomfortable blush*) Anyway my topic is ha ha Hobbies! Ya I know hobbies is a FAR CRY from God but hey what can I say! The Heavens declare the Glory of GOD much better than I do! :-0

Once again I feel small and insignificant...

Forever amazed, Bekki Phillips