Talk 1: What Good News Are You Sharing?
Talk 2: How Can I Be a Witness?
Talk 3: The Cost of Being a Witness
Talk 4: The Mess of a Loving Community (Part 1)
Called To Witness
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Called To Witness
How To Share The Good News With Your World
Talk 1: What Good News Are You Sharing?
Welcome to our new series, CALLED TO WITNESS: How To Share
The Good News with Your World.
God calls you to be His witness in your world: In your family. In your office. In your school. Among your friends.
What will you share? Good News.
But there is a lot of confusion about what Good News really means.
Talk 1 clearly defines Good News.
The key message of this Talk: God is making all things new.
Talk 2: How Can I Be a Witness?
WELCOME to the second installment of our series, CALLED TO WITNESS: How To Share The Good News with Your World.
Talk 1 What Good News Are You Sharing? defined what is Good News (It is Jesus, not a retirement home in Heaven). The key message: God is making all things new.
Talk 2 is about what witness really means. In the Bible, the Hebrew word for witness is eid. Eid isn’t something we do, but something we become—because of what we’ve experienced. The key message of Talk 2: The goodness of God will make you His witness.
Talk 3: The Cost of Being a Witness
OUR series, CALLED TO WITNESS, disturbs our comfortable life,
because in this 5-Talk course, we’re exploring what it means to evangelize,
to be witnesses for God.
But being God’s witness is dangerous.
Talk 3 presents martyrs–those who were persecuted, who died,
as they openly lived and defended their faith amid non-Christian countries or environments.
God still calls us to be His witnesses—His martyrs. Not necessarily shed blood, but to die to our own selfishness so we can witness God’s Love to the world.
For many of us it is impossible to do that. The only solution is to encounter Jesus again, seeing His sacrifice on the Cross daily, and being so overwhelmed by His love, we cannot help loving Him back.
The key message of Talk 3: Keep meeting Jesus.
Talk 4: The Mess of a Loving Community (Part 1)
WELCOME to the second-to-last installment of our series, CALLED TO WITNESS.
A quick review:
Talk 1: What Good News Are You Sharing? is about God’s call for you to be His witness in your world. The key message: God is making all things new.
Talk 2, How Can I Be a Witness? is about what witness really means. In one sense, you don’t just choose to become a witness. Instead, the goodness of God will compel you to become a witness. The key message: The goodness of God will make you His witness.
Talk 3, The Cost of Being a Witness, presents martyrs– those who were persecuted, who died, as they openly lived and defended the Catholic faith amid non-Christian countries or environments. To be God’s witnesses, we must encounter Jesus again and again. The key message: Keep meeting Jesus.
Talk 4 laments that we’ve added to our Christianity, even to our Feast Community, stuff that makes us spiritually sick: Spiritual pride, self-righteousness, legalism, and hypocritical religiosity. In the process, we become bad witnesses. To follow God, we must do so with a bunch of imperfect friends and love each other. It’s God’s most important strategy for winning the world. This is the big dream of The Feast: To build small loving spiritual families all over the world.
The key message: God is making us a loving community
