Everybody in the Kingdom needs to be able to share the “Good News” of Jesus in a 2-3 minute opportunity.
We need to be skilled, disciplined and prepared at all times to deliver this.
We also need to be flexible and patient, working with the Holy Spirit to deliver the “right message in the right moment to the right person”.
Are you ready? Is the listener ready and receptive? Have you practised something useful you can use?
You may reach a point in a conversation or a relationship where this “Special Moment” of sharing has come.
You might start with a request that sounds something like this: “May I share something really special with you?”
Then be ready for the person to say “Yes”… and let’s begin.
(Here’s my version… copy it, use it, refine it… but make it yours that you can repeat at any time… this takes me 4 mins or less to share)
CREATION
Way back in the beginning, God created the Heaven, the Earth and put man into that space and everything was perfect. God’s creation was so perfect that there was no killing, no police, no crime, no money, no banks, just peace, kindness, generosity, supernatural health and incredible abundance and eternal (forever) living. God also had wide open fellowship with humans every day. It was like heaven on earth.
THE FALL
Unfortunately, this “sin” crept into this situation and humans broke the relationship and a simple agreement they had with God. This sin ruined this beautiful place. Humans were now separated from God. This is what sin is. Separation for God. In this new chaos, new things entered the human experience like murder (when Cain killed his brother Abel), then came sickness, disease, money, poverty, lack, famines, wars and more chaos, people actually died. So death now entered the human experience.
THE REMEDY FOR SIN
This made God very sad. He saw the most precious thing he created (us humans) in a world of pain and hurt. So, he planned a way to make peace and have an agreement or covenant with humans. This was a simple process of making an animal sacrifice (shedding of blood) to cover the sin.
HUMANS FAILED AGAIN
In the journey of humanity, from Adam, to Noah, to Abraham, to Moses and to Jacob, humans kept breaking each new covenant that God made. Humans just could not keep up with the rules, laws and the agreements that they made with God.
THE FINAL SOLUTION
So, God’s final plan was to send his only son, Jesus Christ from Nazareth, to be the final sacrifice for us all. Jesus proved he was God’s son with mighty miracles like being born from a virgin (his mother Mary), healing the blind, the deaf, the lame and the sick. He walked on water and raise several dead people like Lazarus and Dorcas. He gave himself up to be tortured and murdered on a cross in Jerusalem to be that final sacrifice. even death could not hold him down, and God raised him up, and we walked right out of the tomb and walked the earth for 40 days, talking to people, about 500 eye witnesses.
What’s different about Jesus and other sacrifices, is the man-made sacrifices to God, but when he Jesus this was God coming to Earth and making a sacrifice (a new spiritual contract) with humanity. No god has ever done that before or since. That’s it. It’s finished. There is no more sacrificing to do on earth. Jesus made a way for us to have fellowship with God once again, and to bring Heaven back to a broken earth and restore all the good stuff God intended.
WHAT JESUS AND THE SCROLLS SAY
Jesus said, “I am the door. No one comes the Father but through me.” Another writing says, “There is no name under heaven by which man can be saved.” Another writing says, “If you believe in your heart that Jesus is Lord, and confess with your mouth that Jesus is Lord, then you can be saved”.
WHAT DO YOU THINK?
What do you think now about God, Heaven, Earth and Jesus? Would you like to make Jesus your friend and your Lord, and have access to all the Good that God has prepared for you?
That’s it. That’s really good news!
Cheers
Martin Spratt
Oikos National Team
