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Life Church – Part 4
Rocklyn Clarke – Sunday December 31, 2023
© 2023 Life Church Ministries, Inc.
Helpful Links:
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Sermon Podcast Page (includes links to audio, handout, and slides for all sermons)
Series Passage:
Sermon Resources:
Current Material
- Matthew 1
- Adam: Theory of mind – Smarties task and Sally-Anne Task – YouTube (00:05:55)
- Brain Academy: What is ‘Theory of Mind’ and why should you care. – YouTube (00:06:22)
Previous Material
- Matthew 3:1-12
- Matthew 4:12-25
- Matthew 5:1-20
- Matthew 6:5-15
- Matthew 6:19-34
- Matthew 7:21-29
- Kingdom references in the New Testament
- Bible Project: The Gospel of the Kingdom (How Jesus Became King of the World)
- Bible Project: Gospel of Matthew Summary: A Complete Animated Overview (Part 1) (00:08:17)
- Ephesians 4:1-16
- Kingdom references in the New Testament
- Bible Project: Gospel of Matthew Summary: A Complete Animated Overview (Part 1) (00:08:17)
- Bible Project: Gospel of Matthew Summary: A Complete Animated Overview (Part 2) (00:07:09)
- Matthew 1
- Genesis 5
- Genesis 6-10
- Genesis 11-12
- 2 Samuel 7
- The Bible Explained: What We Get Wrong in the Nativity Scene – YouTube (00:08:39)
Life Group Meeting
Life group leaders – pace yourselves. Look over all of the meeting components and make sure you have time to cover all of them.
Welcome (5-10 minutes)
Worship (optional for Sunday breakout sessions)
Word – Discussion Questions (if there are no specific questions use the default questions):
Spend 1 – 2 minutes in silence before you begin each question.
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How do stories help you to learn?
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Do you embrace the gospel narratives for your own life? Discuss.
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Do you embrace the gospel narratives for guiding others? Discuss.
Witness (check out the Witness section resources below):
How we work together as a team to be “good news” to the people around us.
- How is your group doing? Is anyone falling through the cracks?
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What are you doing to make your life group safe, healthy, and effective?
- Work on your testimonies.
- Identify people you can reach for Jesus this week. Pray for them.
Additional Life Group Meeting Components:
- Reflection – Include a brief time (e.g. 2 minutes) for quiet reflection sometime during your meeting. Potential times for this are:
- Just before reviewing the questions during the Word portion of the meeting.
- Just before prayer during the Witness portion of the meeting.
- Just after prayer during the Witness portion of the meeting.
Immediately after this reflection time, members may want to write down any thoughts or impressions that come to them and anything that they feel the Lord is saying to them or to anyone else. Encourage the members to consider how they might incorporate more reflection in their daily, weekly, and monthly routines.
- Life Group Housekeeping (do this once a month or more often if needed)
- Be familiar with our life group goals.
- Review our connection tools: e-Life & the life group email list
- Does everyone know how to use them?
- Is everyone’s information up to date?
- Is everyone receiving email from the life group email list?
- Is anyone not showing up for Sunday service or life group meetings? If so, who has been in touch with them?
- How will the group onboard the next visitor?
Word Section Default Questions
(Use these when there are no specific discussion questions for the passage:
- Question 1: “What is this passage saying?”
- Question 2: “What is God saying to you through this passage?”
- Question 3: “How can you apply this passage throughout the week?”
Taken from:
- What is the Best Small Group Lesson? (Three Questions that Will Help Revitalize Your Cell Group) – YouTube (00:5:15)
Witness Section Resources:
How we work together as a team to be “good news” to the people around us.
-
- Following Jesus: Evangelism
- InterVarsity Evangelism Prayer Cards (PDF)
- InterVarsity Evangelism 2+PrayerISM (PDF)
- Evangelism and Multiplication – Joel Comiskey Group
- Questions For Use In Relational Evangelism
- Small Group Evangelism: Strategies for reaching people for Jesus – YouTube (00:04:50)
- Small Group Evangelism: Why Small Group Evangelism is Essential – YouTube (00:04:25)
- Multiplication: Effective Cell Groups First Make Disciples before Giving Birth – YouTube (00:03:36)
- Multiplication: Myths and Truths about Effective Cell Group Multiplication – YouTube (00:04:35)
Life Groups
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! Becoming part of a life group is a major way that we “seek first God’s Kingdom and his righteousness”.
Check out our Life Group Pages for more life group information and resources.
Five Thresholds
Because the Five Thresholds approach to relational evangelism helps us to pay careful attention to the people that the Lord brings our way, it is an excellent way to meet people “where they are”. We want to prayerfully help them move through each threshold and become followers of Jesus. At any given stage, we may be planting a seed or watering a seed that we or someone else has planted. At each stage, we should see ourselves, together with other believers, as a hospital for sick and wounded people.
- 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

Christmas Eve
Rocklyn Clarke – Sunday December 24, 2023
© 2023 Life Church Ministries, Inc.
Helpful Links:
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Sermon Podcast Page (includes links to audio, handout, and slides for all sermons)
Series Passage:
Sermon Resources:
Current Material
- Matthew 1
- Genesis 5
- Genesis 6-10
- Genesis 11-12
- 2 Samuel 7
- The Bible Explained: What We Get Wrong in the Nativity Scene – YouTube (00:08:39)
Previous Material
- Matthew 3:1-12
- Matthew 4:12-25
- Matthew 5:1-20
- Matthew 6:5-15
- Matthew 6:19-34
- Matthew 7:21-29
- Kingdom references in the New Testament
- Bible Project: The Gospel of the Kingdom (How Jesus Became King of the World)
- Bible Project: Gospel of Matthew Summary: A Complete Animated Overview (Part 1) (00:08:17)
- Ephesians 4:1-16
- Kingdom references in the New Testament
- Bible Project: Gospel of Matthew Summary: A Complete Animated Overview (Part 1) (00:08:17)
- Bible Project: Gospel of Matthew Summary: A Complete Animated Overview (Part 2) (00:07:09)
Life Group Meeting
Life group leaders – pace yourselves. Look over all of the meeting components and make sure you have time to cover all of them.
Welcome (5-10 minutes)
Worship (optional for Sunday breakout sessions)
Word – Discussion Questions (if there are no specific questions use the default questions):
Spend 1 – 2 minutes in silence before you begin each question.
-
Reflect on each of the passages and how they refer to God’s Kingdom.
-
What is this passage teaching Jesus’ listeners about God’s Kingdom?
-
What does this passage teach you about God’s Kingdom?
-
-
Take turns reading out loud the samples from the testimonies page.
-
Take turns sharing each of the 6 components of your testimony.
Witness (check out the Witness section resources below):
How we work together as a team to be “good news” to the people around us.
- How is your group doing? Is anyone missing? Do they know you care?
-
What are you doing to make your life group safe, healthy, and effective?
- Identify people you can reach for Jesus this week. Pray for them.
Additional Life Group Meeting Components:
- Reflection – Include a brief time (e.g. 2 minutes) for quiet reflection sometime during your meeting. Potential times for this are:
- Just before reviewing the questions during the Word portion of the meeting.
- Just before prayer during the Witness portion of the meeting.
- Just after prayer during the Witness portion of the meeting.
Immediately after this reflection time, members may want to write down any thoughts or impressions that come to them and anything that they feel the Lord is saying to them or to anyone else. Encourage the members to consider how they might incorporate more reflection in their daily, weekly, and monthly routines.
- Life Group Housekeeping (do this once a month or more often if needed)
- Be familiar with our life group goals.
- Review our connection tools: e-Life & the life group email list
- Does everyone know how to use them?
- Is everyone’s information up to date?
- Is everyone receiving email from the life group email list?
- Is anyone not showing up for Sunday service or life group meetings? If so, who has been in touch with them?
- How will the group onboard the next visitor?
Word Section Default Questions
(Use these when there are no specific discussion questions for the passage:
- Question 1: “What is this passage saying?”
- Question 2: “What is God saying to you through this passage?”
- Question 3: “How can you apply this passage throughout the week?”
Taken from:
- What is the Best Small Group Lesson? (Three Questions that Will Help Revitalize Your Cell Group) – YouTube (00:5:15)
Witness Section Resources:
How we work together as a team to be “good news” to the people around us.
-
- Following Jesus: Evangelism
- InterVarsity Evangelism Prayer Cards (PDF)
- InterVarsity Evangelism 2+PrayerISM (PDF)
- Evangelism and Multiplication – Joel Comiskey Group
- Questions For Use In Relational Evangelism
- Small Group Evangelism: Strategies for reaching people for Jesus – YouTube (00:04:50)
- Small Group Evangelism: Why Small Group Evangelism is Essential – YouTube (00:04:25)
- Multiplication: Effective Cell Groups First Make Disciples before Giving Birth – YouTube (00:03:36)
- Multiplication: Myths and Truths about Effective Cell Group Multiplication – YouTube (00:04:35)
Life Groups
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! Becoming part of a life group is a major way that we “seek first God’s Kingdom and his righteousness”.
Check out our Life Group Pages for more life group information and resources.
Five Thresholds
Because the Five Thresholds approach to relational evangelism helps us to pay careful attention to the people that the Lord brings our way, it is an excellent way to meet people “where they are”. We want to prayerfully help them move through each threshold and become followers of Jesus. At any given stage, we may be planting a seed or watering a seed that we or someone else has planted. At each stage, we should see ourselves, together with other believers, as a hospital for sick and wounded people.
- 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

Life Church Vision – Part 3
Rocklyn Clarke – Sunday December 17, 2023
© 2023 Life Church Ministries, Inc.
Helpful Links:
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Sermon Podcast Page (includes links to audio, handout, and slides for all sermons)
Series Passage:
Sermon Resources:
Current Material
- Ephesians 4:1-16
- Kingdom references in the New Testament
- Bible Project: Gospel of Matthew Summary: A Complete Animated Overview (Part 1) (00:08:17)
- Bible Project: Gospel of Matthew Summary: A Complete Animated Overview (Part 2) (00:07:09)
Previous Material
- Matthew 3:1-12
- Matthew 4:12-25
- Matthew 5:1-20
- Matthew 6:5-15
- Matthew 6:19-34
- Matthew 7:21-29
- Kingdom references in the New Testament
- Bible Project: The Gospel of the Kingdom (How Jesus Became King of the World)
- Bible Project: Gospel of Matthew Summary: A Complete Animated Overview (Part 1) (00:08:17)
Life Group Meeting
Life group leaders – pace yourselves. Look over all of the meeting components and make sure you have time to cover all of them.
Welcome (5-10 minutes)
Worship (optional for Sunday breakout sessions)
Word – Discussion Questions (if there are no specific questions use the default questions):
Spend 1 – 2 minutes in silence before you begin each question.
-
Reflect on each of the passages and how they refer to God’s Kingdom.
-
What is this passage teaching Jesus’ listeners about God’s Kingdom?
-
What does this passage teach you about God’s Kingdom?
-
-
Take turns reading out loud the samples from the testimonies page.
-
Take turns sharing each of the 6 components of your testimony.
Witness (check out the Witness section resources below):
How we work together as a team to be “good news” to the people around us.
- How is your group doing? Is anyone missing? Do they know you care?
-
What are you doing to make your life group safe, healthy, and effective?
- Identify people you can reach for Jesus this week. Pray for them.
Additional Life Group Meeting Components:
- Reflection – Include a brief time (e.g. 2 minutes) for quiet reflection sometime during your meeting. Potential times for this are:
- Just before reviewing the questions during the Word portion of the meeting.
- Just before prayer during the Witness portion of the meeting.
- Just after prayer during the Witness portion of the meeting.
Immediately after this reflection time, members may want to write down any thoughts or impressions that come to them and anything that they feel the Lord is saying to them or to anyone else. Encourage the members to consider how they might incorporate more reflection in their daily, weekly, and monthly routines.
- Life Group Housekeeping (do this once a month or more often if needed)
- Be familiar with our life group goals.
- Review our connection tools: e-Life & the life group email list
- Does everyone know how to use them?
- Is everyone’s information up to date?
- Is everyone receiving email from the life group email list?
- Is anyone not showing up for Sunday service or life group meetings? If so, who has been in touch with them?
- How will the group onboard the next visitor?
Word Section Default Questions
(Use these when there are no specific discussion questions for the passage:
- Question 1: “What is this passage saying?”
- Question 2: “What is God saying to you through this passage?”
- Question 3: “How can you apply this passage throughout the week?”
Taken from:
- What is the Best Small Group Lesson? (Three Questions that Will Help Revitalize Your Cell Group) – YouTube (00:5:15)
Witness Section Resources:
How we work together as a team to be “good news” to the people around us.
-
- Following Jesus: Evangelism
- InterVarsity Evangelism Prayer Cards (PDF)
- InterVarsity Evangelism 2+PrayerISM (PDF)
- Evangelism and Multiplication – Joel Comiskey Group
- Questions For Use In Relational Evangelism
- Small Group Evangelism: Strategies for reaching people for Jesus – YouTube (00:04:50)
- Small Group Evangelism: Why Small Group Evangelism is Essential – YouTube (00:04:25)
- Multiplication: Effective Cell Groups First Make Disciples before Giving Birth – YouTube (00:03:36)
- Multiplication: Myths and Truths about Effective Cell Group Multiplication – YouTube (00:04:35)
Life Groups
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! Becoming part of a life group is a major way that we “seek first God’s Kingdom and his righteousness”.
Check out our Life Group Pages for more life group information and resources.
Five Thresholds
Because the Five Thresholds approach to relational evangelism helps us to pay careful attention to the people that the Lord brings our way, it is an excellent way to meet people “where they are”. We want to prayerfully help them move through each threshold and become followers of Jesus. At any given stage, we may be planting a seed or watering a seed that we or someone else has planted. At each stage, we should see ourselves, together with other believers, as a hospital for sick and wounded people.
- 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

Life Church Vision – Part 2
Rocklyn Clarke – Sunday December 10, 2023
© 2023 Life Church Ministries, Inc.
Helpful Links:
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Sermon Podcast Page (includes links to audio, handout, and slides for all sermons)
Series Passage:
Sermon Resources:
Current Material
- Matthew 3:1-12
- Matthew 4:12-25
- Matthew 5:1-20
- Matthew 6:5-15
- Matthew 6:19-34
- Matthew 7:21-29
- Kingdom references in the New Testament
- Bible Project: The Gospel of the Kingdom (How Jesus Became King of the World)
- Bible Project: Gospel of Matthew Summary: A Complete Animated Overview (Part 1) (00:08:17)
- Bible Project: Gospel of Matthew Summary: A Complete Animated Overview (Part 2) (00:07:09)
- Navigators: Born To Reproduce
Previous Material
- Matthew 3:1-12
- Matthew 4:12-25
- Kingdom references in the New Testament
- Bible Project: The Gospel of the Kingdom (How Jesus Became King of the World)
Life Group Meeting
Life group leaders – pace yourselves. Look over all of the meeting components and make sure you have time to cover all of them.
Welcome (5-10 minutes)
Worship (optional for Sunday breakout sessions)
Word – Discussion Questions (if there are no specific questions use the default questions):
Spend 1 – 2 minutes in silence before you begin each question.
-
Reflect on each of the passages and how they refer to God’s Kingdom.
-
What is this passage teaching Jesus’ listeners about God’s Kingdom?
-
What does this passage teach you about God’s Kingdom?
-
-
Take turns reading out loud the samples from the testimonies page.
-
Take turns sharing each of the 6 components of your testimony.
Witness (check out the Witness section resources below):
How we work together as a team to be “good news” to the people around us.
- How is your group doing? Is anyone missing? Do they know you care?
-
What are you doing to make your life group safe, healthy, and effective?
- Identify people you can reach for Jesus this week. Pray for them.
Additional Life Group Meeting Components:
- Reflection – Include a brief time (e.g. 2 minutes) for quiet reflection sometime during your meeting. Potential times for this are:
- Just before reviewing the questions during the Word portion of the meeting.
- Just before prayer during the Witness portion of the meeting.
- Just after prayer during the Witness portion of the meeting.
Immediately after this reflection time, members may want to write down any thoughts or impressions that come to them and anything that they feel the Lord is saying to them or to anyone else. Encourage the members to consider how they might incorporate more reflection in their daily, weekly, and monthly routines.
- Life Group Housekeeping (do this once a month or more often if needed)
- Be familiar with our life group goals.
- Review our connection tools: e-Life & the life group email list
- Does everyone know how to use them?
- Is everyone’s information up to date?
- Is everyone receiving email from the life group email list?
- Is anyone not showing up for Sunday service or life group meetings? If so, who has been in touch with them?
- How will the group onboard the next visitor?
Word Section Default Questions
(Use these when there are no specific discussion questions for the passage:
- Question 1: “What is this passage saying?”
- Question 2: “What is God saying to you through this passage?”
- Question 3: “How can you apply this passage throughout the week?”
Taken from:
- What is the Best Small Group Lesson? (Three Questions that Will Help Revitalize Your Cell Group) – YouTube (00:5:15)
Witness Section Resources:
How we work together as a team to be “good news” to the people around us.
-
- Following Jesus: Evangelism
- InterVarsity Evangelism Prayer Cards (PDF)
- InterVarsity Evangelism 2+PrayerISM (PDF)
- Evangelism and Multiplication – Joel Comiskey Group
- Questions For Use In Relational Evangelism
- Small Group Evangelism: Strategies for reaching people for Jesus – YouTube (00:04:50)
- Small Group Evangelism: Why Small Group Evangelism is Essential – YouTube (00:04:25)
- Multiplication: Effective Cell Groups First Make Disciples before Giving Birth – YouTube (00:03:36)
- Multiplication: Myths and Truths about Effective Cell Group Multiplication – YouTube (00:04:35)
Life Groups
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! Becoming part of a life group is a major way that we “seek first God’s Kingdom and his righteousness”.
Check out our Life Group Pages for more life group information and resources.
Five Thresholds
Because the Five Thresholds approach to relational evangelism helps us to pay careful attention to the people that the Lord brings our way, it is an excellent way to meet people “where they are”. We want to prayerfully help them move through each threshold and become followers of Jesus. At any given stage, we may be planting a seed or watering a seed that we or someone else has planted. At each stage, we should see ourselves, together with other believers, as a hospital for sick and wounded people.
- 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

Life Church Vision – Part 1
Rocklyn Clarke – Sunday December 3, 2023
© 2023 Life Church Ministries, Inc.
Helpful Links:
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Sermon Podcast Page (includes links to audio, handout, and slides for all sermons)
Series Passage:
Sermon Resources:
Current Material
- Matthew 3:1-12
- Matthew 4:12-25
- Kingdom references in the New Testament
- Bible Project: The Gospel of the Kingdom (How Jesus Became King of the World)
- Navigators: Born To Reproduce
Previous Material
- Mark 16:1-8; Matthew 28:1-8; Like 24:1-8; John 20:1-13
- Bible Project: Mark Book Collection – (00:05:35)
- Bible Project: Gospel of Mark Summary – (00:09:32)
- Life Church: Doing The Bible
- Life Church: Learn The Bible
- Mark 16:9-20; Matthew 28:9-20; Luke 24:9-53; John 20:14-31
- Navigators: Overview
- Life Church: Good News
- Life Church: Testimonies
- Matthew 4:12-17; Matthew 4:18-22; Matthew 28:18-20
- Mark 1:14-25; Mark 16:14-18
- Luke 4:14-21; Luke 5:1-11; Luke 24:44-49
- John 1:43-51; John 14:5-14; John 20:19-23
- Mark 16:9-20; Matthew 28:9-20; Luke 24:9-53; John 20:14-31
- Navigators: Early History
- Navigators: Born To Reproduce
- Life Church: Good News
- Life Church: Testimonies
- Revelation 2:1-7; Philippians 1:12-18; Luke 14:15-24
- A Gift Of a Bible – YouTube (00:05:12)
- Bob Kulhan: Improv 101 (The “Yes, and…” Principle) – YouTube (00:02:49)
- Improv lesson from Tina Fey – YouTube (00:02:03)
Discussion
Spend 1 – 2 minutes in silence before you begin each question.
- Do you regularly engage with the Biblical narrative or not? Discuss.
- Do you regularly reflect on the life of Jesus in community? Discuss.
- What does ”doing life together” mean to you?
- Where does your ”real life happen?
Life Group Meeting (no life groups today)
Life group leaders – pace yourselves. Look over all of the meeting components and make sure you have time to cover all of them.
Welcome (5-10 minutes)
Worship (optional for Sunday breakout sessions)
Word – Discussion Questions (if there are no specific questions use the default questions):
Spend 1 – 2 minutes in silence before you begin each question.
-
How’s your evangelism? Are you eager, active, passive, reluctant? Why?
-
Take turns reading out loud the samples from the testimonies page.
-
Take turns sharing each of the 6 components of your testimony.
Witness (check out the Witness section resources below):
How we work together as a team to be “good news” to the people around us.
- How is your group doing? Is anyone missing? Do they know you care?
-
What are you doing to make your life group safe, healthy, and effective?
- Identify people you can reach for Jesus this week. Pray for them.
Additional Life Group Meeting Components:
- Reflection – Include a brief time (e.g. 2 minutes) for quiet reflection sometime during your meeting. Potential times for this are:
- Just before reviewing the questions during the Word portion of the meeting.
- Just before prayer during the Witness portion of the meeting.
- Just after prayer during the Witness portion of the meeting.
Immediately after this reflection time, members may want to write down any thoughts or impressions that come to them and anything that they feel the Lord is saying to them or to anyone else. Encourage the members to consider how they might incorporate more reflection in their daily, weekly, and monthly routines.
- Life Group Housekeeping (do this once a month or more often if needed)
- Be familiar with our life group goals.
- Review our connection tools: e-Life & the life group email list
- Does everyone know how to use them?
- Is everyone’s information up to date?
- Is everyone receiving email from the life group email list?
- Is anyone not showing up for Sunday service or life group meetings? If so, who has been in touch with them?
- How will the group onboard the next visitor?
Word Section Default Questions
(Use these when there are no specific discussion questions for the passage:
- Question 1: “What is this passage saying?”
- Question 2: “What is God saying to you through this passage?”
- Question 3: “How can you apply this passage throughout the week?”
Taken from:
- What is the Best Small Group Lesson? (Three Questions that Will Help Revitalize Your Cell Group) – YouTube (00:5:15)
Witness Section Resources:
How we work together as a team to be “good news” to the people around us.
-
- Following Jesus: Evangelism
- InterVarsity Evangelism Prayer Cards (PDF)
- InterVarsity Evangelism 2+PrayerISM (PDF)
- Evangelism and Multiplication – Joel Comiskey Group
- Questions For Use In Relational Evangelism
- Small Group Evangelism: Strategies for reaching people for Jesus – YouTube (00:04:50)
- Small Group Evangelism: Why Small Group Evangelism is Essential – YouTube (00:04:25)
- Multiplication: Effective Cell Groups First Make Disciples before Giving Birth – YouTube (00:03:36)
- Multiplication: Myths and Truths about Effective Cell Group Multiplication – YouTube (00:04:35)
Life Groups
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! Becoming part of a life group is a major way that we “seek first God’s Kingdom and his righteousness”.
Check out our Life Group Pages for more life group information and resources.
Five Thresholds
Because the Five Thresholds approach to relational evangelism helps us to pay careful attention to the people that the Lord brings our way, it is an excellent way to meet people “where they are”. We want to prayerfully help them move through each threshold and become followers of Jesus. At any given stage, we may be planting a seed or watering a seed that we or someone else has planted. At each stage, we should see ourselves, together with other believers, as a hospital for sick and wounded people.
- 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

Jesus Is Alive! – Part 4
Rocklyn Clarke – Sunday November 26, 2023
© 2023 Life Church Ministries, Inc.
Helpful Links:
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Sermon Podcast Page (includes links to audio, handout, and slides for all sermons)
Series Passage: Mark 16
Sermon Resources:
Current Material
- Matthew 4:12-17; Matthew 4:18-22; Matthew 28:18-20
- Mark 1:14-25; Mark 16:14-18
- Luke 4:14-21; Luke 5:1-11; Luke 24:44-49
- John 1:43-51; John 14:5-14; John 20:19-23
- Mark 16:9-20; Matthew 28:9-20; Luke 24:9-53; John 20:14-31
- Revelation 2:1-7; Philippians 1:12-18; Luke 14:15-24
- Navigators: Born To Reproduce
- A Gift Of a Bible – YouTube (00:05:12)
- Bob Kulhan: Improv 101 (The “Yes, and…” Principle) – YouTube (00:02:49)
- Improv lesson from Tina Fey – YouTube (00:02:03)
- Life Church: Good News
- Life Church: Testimonies
Previous Material
- Mark 16:1-8; Matthew 28:1-8; Like 24:1-8; John 20:1-13
- Bible Project: Mark Book Collection – (00:05:35)
- Bible Project: Gospel of Mark Summary – (00:09:32)
- Life Church: Doing The Bible
- Life Church: Learn The Bible
- Mark 16:9-20; Matthew 28:9-20; Luke 24:9-53; John 20:14-31
- Navigators: Overview
- Life Church: Good News
- Life Church: Testimonies
- Matthew 4:12-17; Matthew 4:18-22; Matthew 28:18-20
- Mark 1:14-25; Mark 16:14-18
- Luke 4:14-21; Luke 5:1-11; Luke 24:44-49
- John 1:43-51; John 14:5-14; John 20:19-23
- Mark 16:9-20; Matthew 28:9-20; Luke 24:9-53; John 20:14-31
- Navigators: Early History
- Navigators: Born To Reproduce
- Life Church: Good News
- Life Church: Testimonies
Life Group Meeting
Life group leaders – pace yourselves. Look over all of the meeting components and make sure you have time to cover all of them.
Welcome (5-10 minutes)
Worship (optional for Sunday breakout sessions)
Word – Discussion Questions (if there are no specific questions use the default questions):
Spend 1 – 2 minutes in silence before you begin each question.
-
How’s your evangelism? Are you eager, active, passive, reluctant? Why?
-
Take turns reading out loud the samples from the testimonies page.
-
Take turns sharing each of the 6 components of your testimony.
Witness (check out the Witness section resources below):
How we work together as a team to be “good news” to the people around us.
- How is your group doing? Is anyone missing? Do they know you care?
-
What are you doing to make your life group safe, healthy, and effective?
- Identify people you can reach for Jesus this week. Pray for them.
Additional Life Group Meeting Components:
- Reflection – Include a brief time (e.g. 2 minutes) for quiet reflection sometime during your meeting. Potential times for this are:
- Just before reviewing the questions during the Word portion of the meeting.
- Just before prayer during the Witness portion of the meeting.
- Just after prayer during the Witness portion of the meeting.
Immediately after this reflection time, members may want to write down any thoughts or impressions that come to them and anything that they feel the Lord is saying to them or to anyone else. Encourage the members to consider how they might incorporate more reflection in their daily, weekly, and monthly routines.
- Life Group Housekeeping (do this once a month or more often if needed)
- Be familiar with our life group goals.
- Review our connection tools: e-Life & the life group email list
- Does everyone know how to use them?
- Is everyone’s information up to date?
- Is everyone receiving email from the life group email list?
- Is anyone not showing up for Sunday service or life group meetings? If so, who has been in touch with them?
- How will the group onboard the next visitor?
Word Section Default Questions
(Use these when there are no specific discussion questions for the passage:
- Question 1: “What is this passage saying?”
- Question 2: “What is God saying to you through this passage?”
- Question 3: “How can you apply this passage throughout the week?”
Taken from:
- What is the Best Small Group Lesson? (Three Questions that Will Help Revitalize Your Cell Group) – YouTube (00:5:15)
Witness Section Resources:
How we work together as a team to be “good news” to the people around us.
-
- Following Jesus: Evangelism
- InterVarsity Evangelism Prayer Cards (PDF)
- InterVarsity Evangelism 2+PrayerISM (PDF)
- Evangelism and Multiplication – Joel Comiskey Group
- Questions For Use In Relational Evangelism
- Small Group Evangelism: Strategies for reaching people for Jesus – YouTube (00:04:50)
- Small Group Evangelism: Why Small Group Evangelism is Essential – YouTube (00:04:25)
- Multiplication: Effective Cell Groups First Make Disciples before Giving Birth – YouTube (00:03:36)
- Multiplication: Myths and Truths about Effective Cell Group Multiplication – YouTube (00:04:35)
Life Groups
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! Becoming part of a life group is a major way that we “seek first God’s Kingdom and his righteousness”.
Check out our Life Group Pages for more life group information and resources.
Five Thresholds
Because the Five Thresholds approach to relational evangelism helps us to pay careful attention to the people that the Lord brings our way, it is an excellent way to meet people “where they are”. We want to prayerfully help them move through each threshold and become followers of Jesus. At any given stage, we may be planting a seed or watering a seed that we or someone else has planted. At each stage, we should see ourselves, together with other believers, as a hospital for sick and wounded people.
- 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

Jesus Is Alive! – Part 3
Rocklyn Clarke – Sunday November 19, 2023
© 2023 Life Church Ministries, Inc.
Helpful Links:
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Sermon Podcast Page (includes links to audio, handout, and slides for all sermons)
Series Passage: Mark 16
Sermon Resources:
Current Material
- Matthew 4:12-17; Matthew 4:18-22; Matthew 28:18-20
- Mark 1:14-25; Mark 16:14-18
- Luke 4:14-21; Luke 5:1-11; Luke 24:44-49
- John 1:43-51; John 14:5-14; John 20:19-23
- Mark 16:9-20; Matthew 28:9-20; Luke 24:9-53; John 20:14-31
- Navigators: Early History
- Navigators: Born To Reproduce
- Life Church: Good News
- Life Church: Testimonies
Previous Material
- Mark 16:1-8; Matthew 28:1-8; Like 24:1-8; John 20:1-13
- Bible Project: Mark Book Collection – (00:05:35)
- Bible Project: Gospel of Mark Summary – (00:09:32)
- Life Church: Doing The Bible
- Life Church: Learn The Bible
- Mark 16:9-20; Matthew 28:9-20; Luke 24:9-53; John 20:14-31
- Navigators: Overview
- Life Church: Good News
- Life Church: Testimonies
Life Group Meeting
Life group leaders – pace yourselves. Look over all of the meeting components and make sure you have time to cover all of them.
Welcome (5-10 minutes)
Worship (optional for Sunday breakout sessions)
Word – Discussion Questions (if there are no specific questions use the default questions):
Spend 1 – 2 minutes in silence before you begin each question.
-
How’s your evangelism? Are you eager, active, passive, reluctant? Why?
-
Take turns reading out loud the samples from the testimonies page.
-
Take turns sharing each of the 6 components of your testimony.
Witness (check out the Witness section resources below):
How we work together as a team to be “good news” to the people around us.
- How is your group doing? Is anyone missing? Do they know you care?
-
What are you doing to make your life group safe, healthy, and effective?
- Identify people you can reach for Jesus this week. Pray for them.
Additional Life Group Meeting Components:
- Reflection – Include a brief time (e.g. 2 minutes) for quiet reflection sometime during your meeting. Potential times for this are:
- Just before reviewing the questions during the Word portion of the meeting.
- Just before prayer during the Witness portion of the meeting.
- Just after prayer during the Witness portion of the meeting.
Immediately after this reflection time, members may want to write down any thoughts or impressions that come to them and anything that they feel the Lord is saying to them or to anyone else. Encourage the members to consider how they might incorporate more reflection in their daily, weekly, and monthly routines.
- Life Group Housekeeping (do this once a month or more often if needed)
- Be familiar with our life group goals.
- Review our connection tools: e-Life & the life group email list
- Does everyone know how to use them?
- Is everyone’s information up to date?
- Is everyone receiving email from the life group email list?
- Is anyone not showing up for Sunday service or life group meetings? If so, who has been in touch with them?
- How will the group onboard the next visitor?
Word Section Default Questions
(Use these when there are no specific discussion questions for the passage:
- Question 1: “What is this passage saying?”
- Question 2: “What is God saying to you through this passage?”
- Question 3: “How can you apply this passage throughout the week?”
Taken from:
- What is the Best Small Group Lesson? (Three Questions that Will Help Revitalize Your Cell Group) – YouTube (00:5:15)
Witness Section Resources:
How we work together as a team to be “good news” to the people around us.
-
- Following Jesus: Evangelism
- InterVarsity Evangelism Prayer Cards (PDF)
- InterVarsity Evangelism 2+PrayerISM (PDF)
- Evangelism and Multiplication – Joel Comiskey Group
- Questions For Use In Relational Evangelism
- Small Group Evangelism: Strategies for reaching people for Jesus – YouTube (00:04:50)
- Small Group Evangelism: Why Small Group Evangelism is Essential – YouTube (00:04:25)
- Multiplication: Effective Cell Groups First Make Disciples before Giving Birth – YouTube (00:03:36)
- Multiplication: Myths and Truths about Effective Cell Group Multiplication – YouTube (00:04:35)
Life Groups
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! Becoming part of a life group is a major way that we “seek first God’s Kingdom and his righteousness”.
Check out our Life Group Pages for more life group information and resources.
Five Thresholds
Because the Five Thresholds approach to relational evangelism helps us to pay careful attention to the people that the Lord brings our way, it is an excellent way to meet people “where they are”. We want to prayerfully help them move through each threshold and become followers of Jesus. At any given stage, we may be planting a seed or watering a seed that we or someone else has planted. At each stage, we should see ourselves, together with other believers, as a hospital for sick and wounded people.
- 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

Jesus Is Alive! – Part 2
Rocklyn Clarke – Sunday November 12, 2023
© 2023 Life Church Ministries, Inc.
Helpful Links:
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Sermon Podcast Page (includes links to audio, handout, and slides for all sermons)
Series Passage: Mark 16
Sermon Resources:
Current Material
- Mark 16:9-20; Matthew 28:9-20; Luke 24:9-53; John 20:14-31
- Navigators: Overview
- Navigators: Early History
- Navigators: Born To Reproduce
- Life Church: Good News
- Life Church: Testimonies
Previous Material
- Mark 16:1-8; Matthew 28:1-8; Like 24:1-8; John 20:1-13
- Bible Project: Mark Book Collection – (00:05:35)
- Bible Project: Gospel of Mark Summary – (00:09:32)
- Life Church: Doing The Bible
- Life Church: Learn The Bible
Life Group Meeting
Life group leaders – pace yourselves. Look over all of the meeting components and make sure you have time to cover all of them.
Welcome (5-10 minutes)
Worship (optional for Sunday breakout sessions)
Word – Discussion Questions (if there are no specific questions use the default questions):
Spend 1 – 2 minutes in silence before you begin each question.
-
How’s your evangelism? Are you eager, active, passive, reluctant? Why?
-
Take turns reading out loud the samples from the testimonies page.
-
Take turns sharing each of the 6 components of your testimony.
Witness (check out the Witness section resources below):
How we work together as a team to be “good news” to the people around us.
- How is your group doing? Is anyone missing? Do they know you care?
-
What are you doing to make your life group safe, healthy, and effective?
- Identify people you can reach for Jesus this week. Pray for them.
Additional Life Group Meeting Components:
- Reflection – Include a brief time (e.g. 2 minutes) for quiet reflection sometime during your meeting. Potential times for this are:
- Just before reviewing the questions during the Word portion of the meeting.
- Just before prayer during the Witness portion of the meeting.
- Just after prayer during the Witness portion of the meeting.
Immediately after this reflection time, members may want to write down any thoughts or impressions that come to them and anything that they feel the Lord is saying to them or to anyone else. Encourage the members to consider how they might incorporate more reflection in their daily, weekly, and monthly routines.
- Life Group Housekeeping (do this once a month or more often if needed)
- Be familiar with our life group goals.
- Review our connection tools: e-Life & the life group email list
- Does everyone know how to use them?
- Is everyone’s information up to date?
- Is everyone receiving email from the life group email list?
- Is anyone not showing up for Sunday service or life group meetings? If so, who has been in touch with them?
- How will the group onboard the next visitor?
Word Section Default Questions
(Use these when there are no specific discussion questions for the passage:
- Question 1: “What is this passage saying?”
- Question 2: “What is God saying to you through this passage?”
- Question 3: “How can you apply this passage throughout the week?”
Taken from:
- What is the Best Small Group Lesson? (Three Questions that Will Help Revitalize Your Cell Group) – YouTube (00:5:15)
Witness Section Resources:
How we work together as a team to be “good news” to the people around us.
-
- Following Jesus: Evangelism
- InterVarsity Evangelism Prayer Cards (PDF)
- InterVarsity Evangelism 2+PrayerISM (PDF)
- Evangelism and Multiplication – Joel Comiskey Group
- Questions For Use In Relational Evangelism
- Small Group Evangelism: Strategies for reaching people for Jesus – YouTube (00:04:50)
- Small Group Evangelism: Why Small Group Evangelism is Essential – YouTube (00:04:25)
- Multiplication: Effective Cell Groups First Make Disciples before Giving Birth – YouTube (00:03:36)
- Multiplication: Myths and Truths about Effective Cell Group Multiplication – YouTube (00:04:35)
Life Groups
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! Becoming part of a life group is a major way that we “seek first God’s Kingdom and his righteousness”.
Check out our Life Group Pages for more life group information and resources.
Five Thresholds
Because the Five Thresholds approach to relational evangelism helps us to pay careful attention to the people that the Lord brings our way, it is an excellent way to meet people “where they are”. We want to prayerfully help them move through each threshold and become followers of Jesus. At any given stage, we may be planting a seed or watering a seed that we or someone else has planted. At each stage, we should see ourselves, together with other believers, as a hospital for sick and wounded people.
- 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

Jesus Is Alive! – Part 1
Rocklyn Clarke – Sunday November 5, 2023
© 2023 Life Church Ministries, Inc.
Helpful Links:
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Sermon Podcast Page (includes links to audio, handout, and slides for all sermons)
Series Passage: Mark 16
Sermon Resources:
Current Material
- Mark 16:1-8; Matthew 28:1-8; Like 24:1-8; John 20:1-13
- Bible Project: Mark Book Collection – (00:05:35)
- Bible Project: Gospel of Mark Summary – (00:09:32)
- Life Church: Doing The Bible
- Life Church: Learn The Bible
Previous Material
- The Bible Project: Gospel of Mark Summary
- The Bible Project: Mark Book Collection
- The Bible Project: Son of Man
- Mark 15:1-15; Matthew 27:11-26; Luke 23:1-25; John 18:29 – 19:16
- Incredibly Close Crosswind Landings – YouTube (00:07:33)
- Bible Project: The Story of the Bible (00:05:38)
- Mark 15:1-15; Matthew 27:11-26; Luke 23:1-25; John 18:29 – 19:16
- Mark 15:16-20; Matthew 27:27-31
- Mark 15:21-32; Matthew 27:32-44; Luke 23:26-43; John 19:16-27
- Crucifixion | A Medical Perspective – YouTube (00:06:32)
- 1 Corinthians 1:18-25; 1 Corinthians 2:1-5
- Mark 15:33-41; Matthew 27:45-56; Luke 23:44-49; John 19:28-37
- Psalm 22; Psalm 31
- Mark 15:42-47; Matthew 27:57-66; Luke 23:50-56; John 19:38-42
- Bible Project: What Is Bible Project? – YouTube (00:02:31)
Discussion
Spend 1 – 2 minutes in silence before you begin each question.
- What does the empty tomb mean to you?
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What are the implications of the empty tomb?
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How has the resurrection of Jesus impacted your life?
-
Do you have any other questions?
Life Group Meeting (no life groups today)
Life group leaders – pace yourselves. Look over all of the meeting components and make sure you have time to cover all of them.
Welcome (5-10 minutes)
Worship (optional for Sunday breakout sessions)
Word – Discussion Questions (if there are no specific questions use the default questions):
Spend 1 – 2 minutes in silence before you begin each question.
Witness (check out the Witness section resources below):
How we work together as a team to be “good news” to the people around us.
Additional Life Group Meeting Components:
- Reflection – Include a brief time (e.g. 2 minutes) for quiet reflection sometime during your meeting. Potential times for this are:
- Just before reviewing the questions during the Word portion of the meeting.
- Just before prayer during the Witness portion of the meeting.
- Just after prayer during the Witness portion of the meeting.
Immediately after this reflection time, members may want to write down any thoughts or impressions that come to them and anything that they feel the Lord is saying to them or to anyone else. Encourage the members to consider how they might incorporate more reflection in their daily, weekly, and monthly routines.
- Life Group Housekeeping (do this once a month or more often if needed)
- Be familiar with our life group goals.
- Review our connection tools: e-Life & the life group email list
- Does everyone know how to use them?
- Is everyone’s information up to date?
- Is everyone receiving email from the life group email list?
- Is anyone not showing up for Sunday service or life group meetings? If so, who has been in touch with them?
- How will the group onboard the next visitor?
Word Section Default Questions
(Use these when there are no specific discussion questions for the passage:
- Question 1: “What is this passage saying?”
- Question 2: “What is God saying to you through this passage?”
- Question 3: “How can you apply this passage throughout the week?”
Taken from:
- What is the Best Small Group Lesson? (Three Questions that Will Help Revitalize Your Cell Group) – YouTube (00:5:15)
Witness Section Resources:
How we work together as a team to be “good news” to the people around us.
-
- Following Jesus: Evangelism
- InterVarsity Evangelism Prayer Cards (PDF)
- InterVarsity Evangelism 2+PrayerISM (PDF)
- Evangelism and Multiplication – Joel Comiskey Group
- Questions For Use In Relational Evangelism
- Small Group Evangelism: Strategies for reaching people for Jesus – YouTube (00:04:50)
- Small Group Evangelism: Why Small Group Evangelism is Essential – YouTube (00:04:25)
- Multiplication: Effective Cell Groups First Make Disciples before Giving Birth – YouTube (00:03:36)
- Multiplication: Myths and Truths about Effective Cell Group Multiplication – YouTube (00:04:35)
Life Groups
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! Becoming part of a life group is a major way that we “seek first God’s Kingdom and his righteousness”.
Check out our Life Group Pages for more life group information and resources.
Five Thresholds
Because the Five Thresholds approach to relational evangelism helps us to pay careful attention to the people that the Lord brings our way, it is an excellent way to meet people “where they are”. We want to prayerfully help them move through each threshold and become followers of Jesus. At any given stage, we may be planting a seed or watering a seed that we or someone else has planted. At each stage, we should see ourselves, together with other believers, as a hospital for sick and wounded people.
- 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