Sunday Morning 10:00am Service
Sun, Nov 30, ‘25 - AM Services
"Our Pattern for Proclaiming" - Dr. Doug Melton
John 20:19-23
1. Since the first commission, fear of others is part of the story.
“Courage is fear holding on a minute longer.“
Gen. George S. Patton
2. Our commission begins with belief.
“And when they saw Him, they worshiped Him, but some doubted.” Matthew 28:17
“But when they heard that He was alive and had been seen by her, they would not believe it.“
Mark 16:11
“ … but these words seemed to them an idle tale, and they did not believe them.“
Luke 24:11
We learn then that the Church’s very first need, before it can begin to engage in evangelism, is an experience and an assurance of Christ’s peace — peace of conscience through His death that banishes sin, peace of mind through His resurrection that banishes doubt. … Once we are glad that we have seen the Lord, and once we have clearly recognized Him as our crucified and risen Savior, then nothing and no one will be able to silence us.“
John R. W. Stott
3. The Father sending the Son is our pattern for the Son sending us.
• You will be sent into the world.
“As you sent me into the world, so I have sent them into the world.“
John 17:18
“We are not really fulfilling the Great Commission until we live with, befriend, love, and enter into the experiences of those to whom we are sent.“
James Montgomery Boice
• You will be sent into the world to seek the lost.
• You will be sent into the world to glorify Christ.
4. What we are sent to do, we can’t do without the Holy Spirit.
5. The extreme importance of Christ’s commission.
“Go into all the world and proclaim the gospel to the whole creation. Whoever believes and is baptized will be saved, but whoever does not believe will be condemned.“
Mark 16:15-16
“Thus it is written, that the Christ should suffer and on the third day rise from the dead, and that repentance and forgiveness of sins should be proclaimed in His name to all nations, beginning from Jerusalem.“
Luke 24:46-47
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