1. ReachBuildSend

2. What does outreach look like? Reach

3. What does an evangelist look like? Reach

4. Describe someone who reached you for Christ? ?

5. What do we think “outreach” looks like?

6. A model evangelist

7. Peter replied, "Even if all fall away on account of you, I never will...” Peter declared, "Even if I have to die with you, I will never disown you." And all the other disciples said the same. Matthew 26:33,35

8. A model evangelist On this model... Outreach is Sporadic Segregated Self-motivated

9. A model evangelist “Lord, you know that I love you.” -- John 21 “Feed my sheep.”

10. 1 Peter 1 Peter, an apostle of Jesus Christ, To God's elect, strangers in the world, scattered throughout Pontus, Galatia, Cappadocia, Asia and Bithynia, 2 who have been chosen according to the foreknowledge of God the Father, through the sanctifying work of the Spirit, for obedience to Jesus Christ and sprinkling by his blood: Grace and peace be yours in abundance.

11. What was God doing in the beginning? The OmniBeing They were enjoying each other’s company

12. What was God doing in the beginning? The OmniBeing FATHER SON SPIRIT

13. 1 Peter 1 Peter, an apostle of Jesus Christ, To God's elect, strangers in the world, scattered throughout Pontus, Galatia, Cappadocia, Asia and Bithynia, 2 who have been chosen according to the foreknowledge of God the Father, through the sanctifying work of the Spirit, for obedience to Jesus Christ and sprinkling by his blood: Grace and peace be yours in abundance.

14. 1 Peter 1 Peter, an apostle of Jesus Christ, To God's elect, strangers in the world, scattered throughout Pontus, Galatia, Cappadocia, Asia and Bithynia, 2 who have been chosen according to the foreknowledge of God the Father, through the sanctifying work of the Spirit, for obedience to Jesus Christ and sprinkling by his blood: Grace and peace be yours in abundance.

15. What does it mean for God to be Father? Life- giving Father Son

16. Eternally begotten of the Father Life- giving Father Son

17. Eternally spoken by the Father Commun- icating Speaker Word

18. Eternally shone from the Father shining Light Radiance

19. Eternally loved by the Father Love Lover Beloved

20. The Eternally Outgoing God Spirit Father Son

21. shining life- giving commun- icating loving Holy Spirit

22. The Eternally Outgoing God Son Father Spirit

23. Philippians 2:5-11 The Ultimate Outreach

24. “Jesus suffered outside the city gate to make the people holy through his own blood. Let us, then, go to him outside the camp, bearing the disgrace he bore.” Hebrews 13:12-13 Outreach is our ongoing life because outreach is God’s eternal life “As the Father has sent me, I am sending you.” John 20:21

25. If a friend said “What’s all this Trinity nonsense?”, how would you respond? When you think of “outreach” what springs to mind? Which ‘Peter’ do we often follow? What difference does it make to our outreach to know God’s outgoing nature? How does God feel about Rothely? Jesus is always going “outside the camp” what might that look like in Rothely?

26. Bringing people to God He did! We are! I can!

27. Bringing people to God He did! “For Christ died for sins once for all, the righteous for the unrighteous, to bring you to God.” 1 Peter 3:18

28. Bringing people to God He did!  How have you experienced guilt in relation to evangelism?  What’s the answer?

29. Bringing people to God We are! 9 But you are a chosen people, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a people belonging to God, that you may declare the praises of him who called you out of darkness into his wonderful light.

30. Bringing people to God We are! 10 Once you were not a people, but now you are the people of God; once you had not received mercy, but now you have received mercy.

31. Bringing people to God We are! 11 Dear friends, I urge you, as aliens and strangers in the world, to abstain from sinful desires, which war against your soul. 12 Live such good lives among the pagans that, though they accuse you of doing wrong, they may see your good deeds and glorify God on the day he visits us.

32. Bringing people to God We are!...a royal priesthood

33. Bringing people to God  What do priests do?  Who are priests for?  What does it mean for St Mary’s to be a priesthood?

34. Bringing people to God 11 If anyone speaks, he should do it as one speaking the very words of God. If anyone serves, he should do it with the strength God provides, so that in all things God may be praised through Jesus Christ. To him be the glory and the power for ever and ever. Amen. 1 Peter 4:10-11

35. Bringing people to God We are a priesthood  What does the corporate life of St Mary’s communicate?

36. Bringing people to God Together we are a priesthood  What do I do individually that I could do with others?  What do we do together that could be priestly?

37. Bringing people to God I can “But in your hearts set apart Christ as Lord. Always be prepared to give an answer to everyone who asks you to give the reason for the hope that you have. But do this with gentleness and respect.” (1 Peter 3:15)

38. Bringing people to God I can  What can I do to be prepared?  What can St Mary’s do to prepare me?

39. Bringing people to God He did! We are! I can!

40. Eternally begotten of the Father Life- giving Father Son

41. Eternally spoken by the Father Commun- icating Speaker Word

42. Eternally shone from the Father shining Light Radiance

43. Eternally loved by the Father Love Lover Beloved

44. The Eternally Outgoing God Spirit Father Son

45. shining life- giving commun- icating loving Holy Spirit

46. The Eternally Outgoing God Son Father Spirit

47. Build 4 As you come to him, the living Stone- -rejected by men but chosen by God and precious to him-- 5 you also, like living stones, are being built into a spiritual house to be a holy priesthood, offering spiritual sacrifices acceptable to God through Jesus Christ. 1 Peter 2:4-5

48. Build He became what we are - 1 Pet 2:21-25 We become what He is

49. Build CHRIST US Chosen 1:20 1:2 Living Stone 2:4 2:5 Priest 3:18 2:9

50. 1:19 the precious blood of Christ, a lamb without blemish or defect. 2:4 As you come to him, the living Stone-- rejected by men but chosen by God and precious to him— 2:6 "See, I lay a stone in Zion, a chosen and precious cornerstone, and the one who trusts in him will never be put to shame." 2:7 Now to you who believe, this stone is precious. But to those who do not believe, "The stone the builders rejected has become the capstone,"

51. “The Christ in the word of a brother is stronger than the Christ of your own heart.” Dietrich Bonhoeffer

53. Send

54. Bringing people to God He did! We are! I can!

55. Bringing people to God He did! “For Christ died for sins once for all, the righteous for the unrighteous, to bring you to God.” 1 Peter 3:18

56. Bringing people to God We are! 9 But you are a chosen people, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a people belonging to God, that you may declare the praises of him who called you out of darkness into his wonderful light.

57. Bringing people to God We are! 10 Once you were not a people, but now you are the people of God; once you had not received mercy, but now you have received mercy.

58. Bringing people to God We are! 11 Dear friends, I urge you, as aliens and strangers in the world, to abstain from sinful desires, which war against your soul. 12 Live such good lives among the pagans that, though they accuse you of doing wrong, they may see your good deeds and glorify God on the day he visits us.

59. Bringing people to God We are!...a royal priesthood

60. Bringing people to God 11 If anyone speaks, he should do it as one speaking the very words of God. If anyone serves, he should do it with the strength God provides, so that in all things God may be praised through Jesus Christ. To him be the glory and the power for ever and ever. Amen. 1 Peter 4:10-11

61. Bringing people to God I can “But in your hearts set apart Christ as Lord. Always be prepared to give an answer to everyone who asks you to give the reason for the hope that you have. But do this with gentleness and respect.” (1 Peter 3:15)

62. He did! - He did! - How have you experienced guilt with regards to evangelism? What’s the answer? We are! - We are! - What would it mean to consider Rothely parish church as a priesthood? - - What do you do individually that you could do with others from church? - - What do you do together that could be more priestly? I can! - I can! - What can I do to be prepared? - - What can the church do to prepare me?

63. Bringing people to God 11 If anyone speaks, he should do it as one speaking the very words of God. If anyone serves, he should do it with the strength God provides, so that in all things God may be praised through Jesus Christ. To him be the glory and the power for ever and ever. Amen.