These last two weeks we have started to talk to our youths about their responsibility to share the gospel.... but some of them don't even know what to do. I don't think our job is to keep telling our youths must share gospel must share gospel. If we just do that, very soon they dread coming because we always talk to them abt what they fail to do.

We must get (and help) them to do it. Not talk but action. Not airy fairy but practically. So this week instead of Acts 3, we will cover Sharing the Gospel (pdf). Print out the first page in the pdf as the hook for your youths.

Main pointers for discussion:
1. Why do we need to share the gospel?
2. How do we share the gospel?

Opening Questions
1. Answer the following question with a Yes or No.

Would you risk your life to save:

1. a friend?
2. a sibling?
3. your mother?
4. someone whom you hold dearly to? (this is to establish the point that we are concerned about the lives of people whom we are related to or are important to us)
5. What about a criminal?
6. Or an enemy?
   

At this point you can mention that each one of us are criminals in our own way and enemies of God but Jesus died for us. And by doing so, we can have eternal life. However, not everyone has the privilege of knowing this wonderful news and we know that do not know the gospel (the message of Jesus) will eventually die. They are in need of spiritual help. Are we going to help them? Let’s bring in an example. If your friend was drowning, will you ignore him or quickly jump in to save him? After asking them this, go on to the next question.

2. "Is spiritual help and physical help of the same importance?" Do you think this statement is true or false? Why?

Read,
Proverbs 24:11-12
Matthew 28:19-20
Point: It is our purpose and duty the share the gospel.

Sharing,
Since they have acknowledged that people close to them are important, ask them to name people in their life who need to know about Jesus.

Challenge them... if they have the opportunity, would they be willing to share the gospel with the person(s) they named?

Now teach them a simple evangelism method. If you don't know any, you can find the Bridge to Life in your Love Joy Peace material.

Explain what is the Bridge to life,
The ‘Bridge to Life’ section is a suggestive outline to how we can share the gospel by telling them that Christ has died and paid for sins so that we can go heaven and they can ask the non-christian to decide whether they want to accept Christ.

Go through the Bridge to Life,
From bridge to life points 1-3, we must recognize that if our loved ones do not come to know about the gospel then it leads to death and eternal judgment. So...we need to share the gospel to them!

Ask them,
4. Suppose you wanted to try and rescue some of your friends from dying spiritually. List in order of effectiveness which would be the best ways to conduct the rescue, with 1 being the most effective.

- Email them a letter about Christ
- Bring them to a church service
- Give them a bible
- Send the pastor to talk to them
- Give them a gospel booklet
- Preach a sermon to them
- Tell them what Christ means to you
- Pray for them
- Loan them a Christian cd
- Bring them to a youth Group
- Wear a Christian T-shirt

Point: Help them to realize that we can set the stage for sharing the gospel and the possibilities are endless.

Close: Ask them if they are willing to make a commitment to reach out and share the gospel to the people they name (or two friends). Pray for them to be able to do so.

You can ask them informally whether they will be willing to invite their friends if we organize an event to help them share the gospel to their friends. My suggestion is that we have a board games event with food (like minds cafe) and also put in time for some storytelling... we can share abt our r/s Jesus and open the door for our youth to share the gospel... or we cld come up w a game that shares the gospel.

I think we must do this. I will be asking some of you to help head it. Only when we lead them in sharing the gospel... then we have truly become their leader. Last time we used to do street evangelism... but to me this idea is more friendly and meaningful rather than cold-calling. They can invite their friends and it is also a gd opportunity to ask their parents to support us... they can invite their cousins who are non-Christians....