1. EGR: Encountering God, Growing in Him and Reaching the World
Created to encounter the world by experience:
See
Hear
Smell
Taste
Touch/feel

2. EGR: Encountering God, Growing in Him and Reaching the World
Ps 34:8 "taste and see the Lord is good and blessed is the one who takes refuge in Him."
Taste: Literally taste and perceive (experience)
See: to see, observe, find out, discern, discover

3. EGR: Encountering God, Growing in Him and Reaching the World
The Purpose of Encounter
Reveals the one you are encountering

4. EGR: Encountering God, Growing in Him and Reaching the World
The Purpose of Encounter
Reveal your purpose
Old Testament
Moses
Gideon
New Testament
Peter
Blind Bartimaeus

5. EGR: Encountering God, Growing in Him and Reaching the World
Matthew 10
Luke 10:1-2&8-9
V17-18
Acts 2:4

6. EGR: Encountering God, Growing in Him and Reaching the World
1 Corinthians 2:4 my message and my preaching were not in persuasive words of wisdom but in demonstration of the Spirit and of Power, so that your faith would not rest on the wisdom of men, but on the power of God ."