Last Updated on January 2, 2022 by Rocklyn Clarke
These are notes for our Sunday November 21, 2021 Sermon!
Jesus Backs Your Testimony!
Rocklyn Clarke – Sunday December 12, 2021
© 2021 Life Church Ministries, Inc.
Sermon Podcast Page (includes links to audio, handout, and slides)
Series Passage: Acts 22:30 – 23:35
Sermon Passage: Acts 23:11-22
Life Group Meeting
Without life groups, we are at the mercy of cliques and people who aren’t in a clique will “fall through the cracks”. Furthermore, even the people who are in cliques will have some of their issues and needs “fall through the cracks”. This is because life groups are organized to please, and be led by the Holy Spirit, whereas cliques develop solely around whatever the people in the cliques find appealing. Life groups are organized to help you grow and overcome your “issues”; cliques simply aren’t!
Check out our Life Group Pages for more life group information and resources.
- Welcome (5-10 minutes)
- Worship (optional)
- Word – Discussion Questions
For each question, spend 1 – 2 minutes in silence before you begin to respond.- What’s keeping you from getting to know new unchurched people?
- What’s keeping you from influencing the unchurched people you know to follow Jesus?
- Who in your network is only at the stage of trusting you?
- Who in your network is curious about your spiritual life?
- Who in your network is open to change?
- Who in your network is seeking?
- Default material (when there are no specific discussion questions for the passage): What is the Best Small Group Lesson? (Three Questions that Will Help Revitalize Your Cell Group) – YouTube (00:5:15)
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- Question 1: “What is this passage saying?”
- Question 2: “What is God saying to me through this passage?”
- Question 3: “How can I apply this passage throughout the week?”
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- Witness
- Pray for God to make your life group what he wants it to be.
- Pray for 1 or 2 people that you want to become followers of Jesus.
- Work on your testimony: describe your life before you came to Jesus. Include at least some of the suggested components:
- Your ethnicity, where you were born, where you were raised.
- The spiritual beliefs you were raised with and/or that you eventually adopted.
- What was your basis for deciding right or wrong?
- Your beliefs about and attitude towards Jesus and Christians.
- Examples that illustrate your former beliefs.
- What were your most important goals?
- Pray for 1 or 2 people that you want to become followers of Jesus.
- Pray for boldness to build your relationships with unchurched people and to talk about Jesus.
Five Thresholds
- Home Page | Evangelism
- The Five Thresholds | Evangelism
- Journey to Faith: The Five Thresholds | Evangelism
- Threshold 1: Trust | Evangelism
- Threshold 2: Curiosity | Evangelism
- Threshold 3: Openness | Evangelism
- Threshold 4: Seeking | Evangelism
- Threshold 5: Following | Evangelism
Salvation
- Following Jesus: Introduction – Lesson 2
- Acts 2
- John 10:1-5
- Acts 19:1-7
- Promises:
Your Testimony
