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SLIDE 1: TITLE - Contagious Christian Preview

Today we are going to have a short preview into the Contagious Christian Series. Which we will officially start the week of Sunday March 8. Small groups will begin to meet that week, but we will have more on that a little later.

SLIDE 2: What is Contagious Christianity?

Contagious Christianity is built on Relationships, Contagious Christianity flows out of Authenticity; Contagious Christianity is fueled by Love.

Our lives are interconnected with friends, family and coworkers. God has placed those people in your life for a reason.

SLIDE 3: Contagious Christianity is about…

Being Yourself and Impacting Others, Deepening you Relationships and Conversations, Telling your Story.

Most people come to Christ because of some personal relationship, some friend or family member who cared about them, was willing to share in their lives and when the time was right talk about their own experience of what God has done for them.

SLIDE 4: Contagious Christian is about…

Communicating God’s Message, Helping Friends Cross the Line of Faith.

While most of us may be a shy about sharing our faith, we have all as followers of Christ been given the knowledge needed to so. “Becoming a Contagious Christian” is study that will help equip us to carry out this calling. But like any tool, it is not of use unless it taken out of the tool box and put to work. So let’s consider a question…

SLIDE 5: How do you get to Heaven?

Think about that as we watch this video clip.

VIDEO: How2get2 Heaven

SLIDE 6: How do you get to Heaven?

How often have you heard there are many ways to God, that Jesus was just a good Man or "As long as I'm sincere, I'll come out all right in the end."

Ask for responses from the congregation. Ask for answers to the question “How do you get to Heaven.” Example: Jesus said, "I am the way, the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father except through Me" (John 14:6). “I am the gate, those who come in through me will be saved” (John 10:9) “

SLIDE 7: Romans 10:13-14 NLT

For everyone who calls on the name of the Lord will be saved. But how will they call on him unless they believe in him? And how can they believe in him if they have never heard about him? And how can they hear about him unless someone tells them?

 A devotional from Our Daily Bread entitled "A Final Witness" read as follows.

If you were in the midst of a disaster, would you think to witness to people around you? John Harper did.
Harper was a Scottish minister who was traveling by ship to preach for 3 months in Chicago. As he returned home and the ship crossed the Atlantic, it struck an iceberg and began to sink. Some passengers were able to reach lifeboats, but many, Harper included, were flung into the cold Atlantic.
As the people frantically tried to stay afloat, Harper swam around asking individuals if they knew Jesus. At one point, Harper approached a passenger floating on a piece of debris and pleaded with him to trust Christ. Just before Harper slipped under the icy waters for the last time, he said, "Believe on the Lord Jesus Christ, and thou shalt be saved."

Four years later, at a meeting of survivors of that ship, the Titanic, the man testified that he had been saved twice that night. First, he had trusted Christ because of Harper's witness, and second, he had been plucked from the frigid sea.
Harper's dying wish was that he could bring hope to hopeless people. Is that our living wish? In crisis or at ease, do we let people know about the One who can save for eternity? Harper's final witness reminds us to tell the good news to people who are drowning in their sin.

Read Scripture again together: For everyone who calls on the name of the Lord will be saved. But how will they call on him unless they believe in him? And how can they believe in him if they have never heard about him? And how can they hear about him unless someone tells them?

SLIDE 8: YOU ARE THAT SOMEONE

                Charles Spurgeon, who was the Billy Graham of the 19^th century, said the following…

“I thank God that I owe my conversion to Christ to an unknown person, who certainly was no minister in the ordinary acceptation of the term; but who could say this much, "Look unto Christ, and be saved, all ye ends of the earth." I learned my theology, from which I have never swerved, from an old woman who was cook in the house where I was an usher. She could talk about the deep things of God; and as I sat and heard what she had to say, as an aged Christian, of what the Lord had done for her, I learned more from her instruction than from anybody I have ever met with since. It does not require a college training to enable you to tell about Christ; some of the best workers in this church have little enough of education, but they bring many to Christ.”