11. In what way are we to be servant-leaders? How are we to “be masters” with authority to subdue the world? Jesus clarifies…
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13. That right! Evangelism! The very same mission of Jesus. Good News brings healing! Matthew 11:5 (NRSV) (Jesus said to tell John) “the blind receive their sight, the lame walk, the lepers are cleansed, the deaf hear, the dead are raised, and the poor have good news brought to them.”
14. JESUS’ MISSION STATEMENT Luke 4:18-19 (Message Bible) see Is 61:1-2 God's Spirit is on me; he's chosen me to preach the Message of good news to the poor, Sent me to announce pardon to prisoners and recovery of sight to the blind, To set the burdened and battered free , to announce, "This is God's year to act!"
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16. “ To announce good news” occurs some 55 times in Acts, But was it the plan of God in the Hebrew Scriptures? Answer: Yes!…
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18. What can happen when we get comfortable and don’t evangelize? Answer: God allows the world to rattle our cage!
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22. Paul puts it this way: Romans 15:18-19 (NRSV) For I will not venture to speak of anything except what Christ has accomplished through me to win obedience from the Gentiles, by word and deed, [19] by the power of signs and wonders, by the power of the Spirit of God, so that from Jerusalem and as far around as Illyricum I have fully proclaimed the good news of Christ.