The Secret of True Happiness (Joy) and how to share it ... · Week 8 - Building bridges to neighbors and co-workers & lifestyle evangelism ! Brainstorming on how to build bridges

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The Secret of True Happiness (Joy)

and how to share it with others

Copyright Jeff Clayton 2015

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People are different, and they are reached in different ways

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Course Outline

Week 1 – The Secret of True Happiness – Joy Ø  Introduction Ø  God turned Christian my life around through evangelism? Ø  How did God reveal the Secret of True Happiness? Ø  The Secret of True Happiness - Videos & presentation

Week 2 - Why Witness? Ø  What holds us back from evangelism? Ø  Sharing our stories Ø  Key verses on evangelism Ø  The importance of prayer Week 3 – Transitioning discussions into sharing the Gospel Ø  The “Law of Conversational Sharing” Ø  Progressive questions Ø  Answering questions with questions - Jesus’ rabbinical style.

Week 4 – Sharing the Gospel Ø  The “One Verse Gospel” presentation Ø  Sharing the Gospel as a story

Week 5 – Developing your personal testimony Ø  Learn how to organize one of your most effective tools in evangelism


Course Outline

Week 6 – Immediate Follow-up Ø  Five key areas of spiritual growth

Week 7 – Role Play Ø  Practice sharing the One Verse Gospel Presentation with each other Ø  Discuss how it went (things that worked and problems encountered)

Week 8 - Building bridges to neighbors and co-workers & lifestyle evangelism Ø  Brainstorming on how to build bridges to neighbors and co-workers. Ø  Intentional friendship evangelism Ø  Lifestyle evangelism Ø  How God can use adverse circumstances for His glory

Week 9 – Handling objections Ø  Cover topics suggested by the class which might include some of the following:

•  What if they don’t believe there is a God? •  How can there be a God when there is so much evil and suffering in the world? •  What if they don’t believe in the Bible? •  Evidence of the resurrection •  What about all of the other religions? •  What about someone in Africa who has never heard the Gospel? •  Universal answer to ANY objection

Week 10 - Wrap-up Ø  God hunt - Looking for God at work in you life. Ø  How to live your life more intentional? 6


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The Secret of True Happiness


Tom Brady

YouTube video http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YdcJSsRfL8s

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John Robinson


What do these people have in common?


What do you think people are striving for in life?


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LOVE Family

Friends Dating

Spouse




LOVE Family

Friends Dating

Spouse

Happiness (Dependent on circumstances)

Things: Cars, HDTV, clothes, jewelry, large house, other things money can buy Experiences: Entertainment, sports, travel, partying, alcohol, drugs, sex




LOVE Family

Friends Dating

Spouse

SIGNIFICANCE Fame Money Beauty Athletic Ability Musical Ability Intelligence Power






LOVE Family

Friends Dating

Spouse




Ø  Which one of these do you think would improve your life the most if you had more of it?

Ø  Do you know someone who has a lot of that and yet is still not happy? Ø  Why are people not experiencing a life of love, significance and happiness?




LOVE Family

Friends Dating

Spouse




Ø  Which one of these do you think would improve your life the most if you had more of it?

Ø  Do you know someone who has a lot of that and yet is still not happy? Ø  Why are people not experiencing a life of love, significance and happiness?

SELF Guilt Fear

Loneliness Lack of Purpose



There was a French mathematician, physicist and philosopher in who lived in the 1600’s by the name of Blaise Pascal. He came to the conclusion that: “There is a God shaped vacuum in the heart of every man which cannot be filled by any created thing, but only by God, the Creator, made known through Jesus”




LOVE John 3:16 "For God so loved the world that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life.





SIGNIFICANCE John 1:12 Yet to all who received him, to those who believed in his name, he gave the right to become children of God.






Joy

(Not dependent on circumstances) John 15:11

I have told you this so that my joy may be in you and that your joy may be complete.






Joy




Jesus Forgiveness

Courage Purpose

Inner Peace Eternal Life





Joy



People’s desires have not change over the years. We all want the same things. God created us to desire love, significance and joy because God want us to desire Him. Ø  Is the source of happiness internal or external in each of these diagrams? Ø  How do you fill this God shaped vacuum? Ø  How do you come back into a relationship with God where you can experience the love, significance and joy that everyone is searching for?


Jesus Forgiveness

Courage Purpose

Inner Peace Eternal Life


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Witnessing is sharing Christ in the power of the Holy Spirit

and leaving the results up to God.


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The Secret of True Happiness (Joy) and how to share it ... · Week 8 - Building bridges to neighbors and co-workers & lifestyle evangelism ! Brainstorming on how to build bridges