Project Ezra - 1 John on July 4th 2013

Hello Project Ezra! July 4^th is next week, so it’s time to start talking to your friends and church family about you in participating in this year’s First John on July 4^th reading.  You can participate this weekend or next, or on the 4^th itself, of course.  The book is five chapters long, and the chapters are not very long, so it’s a good book for dividing up.  It’s also got an amazing amount of good springboards into the gospel.  1 John is one of my favorite books to read from before I open-air preach, particularly since it deals so directly with those who falsely profess Christ.  When I meet someone who states that they are a Christian, but I have questions due to their behavior, this is the book I recommend they read.  A false believer will have a hard time getting through 1 John without being seriously convicted.

If you invite a friend or two to join you, recommend that they visit our Facebook page below, or that they take a look at one or more of our event reports.  Both the Facebook page, and a couple of more recent event reports, are linked below.  It would be great to be able to put together another good event report for this 4^th of July, so if you are able to provide pictures, video, or a written testimony, please send them to me or post them on the event page, which is now up.

Project Ezra on Facebook:   https://www.facebook.com/groups/103701805742/

Mission Good Friday 2013: http://projectezra.blogspot.com/2013/04/mission-good-friday-2013-outreach-report.html

Mission Good Friday 2012: http://projectezra.blogspot.com/2012/05/normal-0-false-false-false-en-us-x-none.html

Here are a few suggestions for gospel springboards that I also shared last year.  You can use one of these, combine them, or use your own.  But more than anything, please be sure to spend time in prayer and in study of the scriptures to prepare yourself, intellectually and spiritually, to share the gospel in a way that honors and glorifies God.  Don’t forget, we are just the vehicle that caries the message.  By God’s grace we have the incredible privilege of being used for His purposes, and of seeing His power in operation.  But the work is not ours, it’s His. 

Please be sure to post your location on the event wall, so we know where you will be reading and so others can be praying for you.  May God be glorified in your obedience!

All for His glory,

Dan

 

1 John 1:1-4  The words of life, being manifest through Christ Jesus, with the Apostles as eyewitnesses

1 John 1:5-10  Walking in the light, confessing our sin, and being cleansed by the blood of Christ.  If we say we have not sinned, His word is not in us.

1 John 2: 1-2  Jesus Christ, the propitiation for our sins.

1 John 2:3-6  Walking in obedience out of love for Christ

1 John 2:15-17  Do not love the world.  The world passing away along with its desires

1 John 2:18-28  The Antichrists, the deceivers who deny the Father and the Son

1 John 3:4-10  The practices of sin and righteousness.  The fruit of true repentance and faith

1 John 4:1-6  Test the spirits.  The Spirit of God and the spirit of error

1 John 4:7-12  The love of God made manifest through us in Christ Jesus

1 John 5:1-5  Those born of God overcoming the world

1 John 6:6-12  The testimony of God concerning His son.  He who has the Son has life.