Hello Project Ezra! It’s time for our next reading,
First John on July 4th. The 4th
is Friday, so there is still time to talk to your friends and church family
about you in participating in this year’s reading. You can participate anytime this weekend,
though Thursday or Friday will probably be the best days. If you want to spend the evening of the 4th
with your family, look for a local picnic, parade, or the like, and go there. They make perfect venues for reading and
open-air preaching.
1st John is five chapters long, and the chapters
are not very long. its a good book for
dividing up, so if you bring someone along, even if they may not have been
planning to read, encourage them to do so anyway. It’s also got an amazing amount passages that
are good transitions into the gospel. It’s
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, so
use that to your advantage. Press people
on the passages regarding false conversion, and encourage them to take out
their own Bibles when they get home, and read it for themselves.
If you invite a friend or two to join you, recommend that
they visit our Facebook page below, and let us know where they will be
participating, and who they will be joining. The group has been very slow of
late, and I would like to post an outreach report this year, 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 2014: https://www.facebook.com/events/1522845594605869/?source=1
Here are a few suggestions for gospel springboards that I have
shared in past years. 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.
