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  1. Our task to carry out the great commission of Matthew 28:19 is so multifaceted that accomplishing the majority of details is complicated beyond ability of the visionaries of leadership. Many opinions make total organization nearly impossible. Matt.28:19 was not written specifically for Seventh Day Adventist, but I believe that God has the right answers for the task at hand as He wills.

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  2. But,He did say we were to follow His example in reaching out, John SB 1146 Updates | Concordia University Irvine

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  3. We should show compassion to one another that our Lord God will continually bless us in His appointed time. Do not be weary of doing good to one another for in the due season you shall reap the fruit, Amen (Galatians 6:9)

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  4. Jesus wants us to reach out to others. I was touched by the idea of the child shivering in the cold. We really must do the good that is in our power to do for we really are God's hand and feet in this world to help make the world around us a better place for others and to uplift our fellowman.

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  5. This is not just to study but to practice it in our lives. who study this lesson like others and refuse to practice it is on his/her own (On-Your-Own).
    thanks for the lesson
    from Nigeria

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  6. I recognized the outreach pattern in the sabbath school quarterly when I glanced at the table of contents.
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    MSNCF

    "Christ's method alone will give true success in reaching the people. The Saviour mingled with men as one who desired their good. He showed His sympathy for them, ministered to their needs, and won their confidence. Then He bade them, “Follow Me.” MH 143

    There are a couple more patterns...
    CLIRTS
    confrontational, logical, invitational, relational, testimonial , service.
    FORT
    family occupation, religion, testimonial.

    I have shared pithy approaches for the gospel.

    The creator God loves humans and will forgive & fix them so they can live forever.
    God has a gospel of grace pardon & rehab program for Earthling criminals.
    Humans have a problem, God has a solution. One can accept it and have life eternal.

    Here is an SOP gospel definition that get very little exposure in SDA churches.

    "The gospel is the good news of grace, or favour, by which man may be released from the condemnation of sin, and enabled to render acceptable obedience to the law."

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  7. If your Church doesn't have an outreach, then pray that you may be used to start one, so many more in the Church can serve the needs of the community. Luke 10:2

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  8. The powerful poem was first published (and apparently authored) in Gujarat, India by Anthony de Mello, a Indian Jesuit priest, in a 1982 work, The Song of the Bird. It was later republished as unknown attribution by Sister Mary Rose McGready of Covenant House in her 1997 book Please Help Me God, and popularized by its inclusion in Chicken Soup for the Christian Soul that same year--Dwight Nelson likely encountered it in one of those 1997 books. Wikipedia has articles on both de Mello and McGready.

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