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10 Keys to Sharing Your Faith

RECAP: Closed Doors – Jordan Rubin..good thing isn't always a God thing.

Evangelism is spiritual warfare – ACTS 17 [Paul and Silas came to

Thessalonica], where there was a synagogue of the Jews. 2 Then Paul, as his

custom was, went in to them, and for three Sabbaths reasoned with them from the

Scriptures, 3 explaining and demonstrating that the Christ had to suffer and rise again

from the dead, and saying, “This Jesus whom I preach to you is the Christ.” 4 And

some of them were persuaded; and a great multitude of the devout Greeks, and not a

few of the leading women, joined Paul and Silas.

1. Know your audience and the rebuttals

 Isaiah…“it was the LORD’s will to crush Him and cause Him to suffer” and

afterwards “to raise Him to life so that many people could be forgiven”

(Isaiah 53:10-12).

5 But the Jews who were not persuaded, becoming envious, took some of the evil

men from the marketplace, and gathering a mob, set all the city in an uproar and

attacked the house of Jason, and sought to bring them out to the people.

2. Opposition is the rule, not the exception

 When the false kings are challenged, the only response is hate and anger – your

response is love and grace.

Fast-forward to vs10 Then the brethren immediately sent Paul and Silas away by

night to Berea. When they arrived, they went into the synagogue of the Jews. 11

These were more fair-minded than those in Thessalonica, in that they received the

word with all readiness, and searched the Scriptures daily to find out whether these

things were so.

3. Study the Bible and let the Bible study you

 You’re sharing truth – how do you share what you do not know?

Search and see – if I’m thinking God’s thoughts? Search and see if I’m acting

according to the character of God. Search and see if I’m parenting…if I’m making

decisions…

FF vs. 16 Now while Paul waited for them at Athens, his spirit was provoked within

him when he saw that the city was given over to idols. 17 Therefore he reasoned in

the synagogue with the Jews and with the Gentile worshipers, and in the marketplace

daily with those who happened to be there.

4. Don’t ignore the leading [provoking] of the Spirit – to stimulate or

excite.

18 Then certain Epicurean and Stoic philosophers encountered him. And some said,

“What does this babbler want to say?” Others said, “He seems to be a proclaimer of

foreign gods,” because he preached to them Jesus and the resurrection. 19 And they

took him and brought him to the Areopagus, saying, “May we know what this new

doctrine is of which you speak? 20 For you are bringing some strange things to our

ears. Therefore we want to know what these things mean.” 21 For all the Athenians

and the foreigners who were there spent their time in nothing else but either to tell or...