In this Ripple Effect Module (RE1 – Jesus & Me) you will learn how to prayerfully proclaim the Good News about Jesus to people by telling them about how Jesus met and changed you.
Learning to speak clearly about Jesus and our relationship with Him is important for our own understanding of the Gospel, and for that of our family and friends. When we talk about what it means to know Jesus, we give people information about, and reasons to trust, Jesus themselves.
Everyone has unique opportunities to share Jesus and life with the people around them. In this session we ask God to help us ‘see’ and pray for the people He has placed in our lives.
People may make jokes about having ‘an existential crisis’, but the desire for meaning and purpose runs deep within us. God’s story, revealed in the Bible, helps us understand why humans are like this.
Everyone experiences the world’s brokenness. Whatever language people use to explain it, all our lives are marred by sin and death.
When Jesus lived, died and rose again, God broke into our world and showed us a new world. This is the Bible’s answer to the question ‘How can I be safe in a broken world?’
When we trust that Jesus died for us, our relationship with God is restored. God also promises that Jesus will return to save and to judge, and that when He returns, all our relationships will be restored. God’s story is one of hope for God’s people.
Every Christian has a story about how they became a Christian and why they stay a Christian. It will always be a story about how God, in Christ, transforms our identity, brokenness, security and hope. But it will always be a unique story because people are different, our experiences are different, and how Jesus meets us in the particulars of our life is different. No two stories will be exactly the same.
The Bible gives us many reasons to evangelise and they all matter. In different ways, they are all natural outworkings of what we believe and who we are in Christ.