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Reflection #1: Getting Started (Monday, March 19)


Evangelism can be a scary!  How do I do it? Do I know enough? Do people really want to hear?  There are so many reasons to let fear and anxiety keep us from doing anything.  Today we want to be reminded that we can’t allow all these questions to keep us from doing what we can do and what we do know.  Read today’s scriptures and then consider the questions provided .


Luke 16:10 (NIV) — “Whoever can be trusted with very little can also be trusted with much, and whoever is dishonest with very little will also be dishonest with much."

Mark 4:24 (NIV) — “Consider carefully what you hear,” he continued. “With the measure you use, it will be measured to you—and even more."


1. What are some principles that are clear to you right now about the evangelistic mission that has been entrusted to us?

2. What are some specific actions you already know to do as far as being involved in this mission?

3. Read Luke 16:10 and Mark 4:24. What principle do you find in these verses about understanding more and being able to do more for God? What does this principle say about the notion that we need to understand evangelism thoroughly before we ever began to be involved in it?

4. Based on the question above, do you believe acting on what you currently know about evangelism will enable you to understand more about it and be used more by God in it?

5. How would you evaluate your faithfulness in acting on God’s mission, as far as doing the things you stated in answer to the first two questions?

6. PRACTICAL APPLICATION:  What is something you could do today or tomorrow to act on what you already know? Do this, and you will be allowing the new vitality of the transfusions from God to change you.


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