308 C Encounters

Marketplace facts: Witnessing for ChristMarketplace facts: Witnessing for Christ

MARKETPLACE FACTSModule 308 C

Answers To The Usual Excuses One Encounters When Witnessing For Christ

Mario Denton

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Overall purpose of this series on Marketplace

To understand and learn from various marketplace facts so that you can: • Be more effective and anointed wherever you are in the marketplace.

• Adapt and benchmark your marketplace practices and principles discussed in this series.

• Use these material to facilitate the work of evangelism.



Usual Excuses When Witnessing For Christ

I am trying very hard. I believe in myself.





I am trying very hard. I believe in myself.

• For it is by grace you have been saved, through faith--and this not from yourselves, it is the gift of God-- not by works, so that no one can boast. (Eph. 2:8,9) (See Rom. 3:22-26; 4:5; Eph. 2:5; 1 John 5:10-12)




All religions lead to heaven. All religions are the same.



All religions lead to heaven. All religions are the same.

• Jesus answered, ‘I am the way and the truth and the life.

• No one comes to the Father except through me.’ (John 14:6) (See Acts 4:12; 1 Tim. 2:5; 1 Pet. 1:21)




I am not so bad.



I am not so bad.

• For all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God. (Rom. 3:23) (See Rom. 3:9-19)




There is plenty of time. I will believe in Christ some day.



There is plenty of time. I will believe in Christ some day.

• You sweep men away in the sleep of death; they are like the new grass of the morning… We are consumed by your anger and terrified by your indignation. (Psalm 90:5,7) (See Job 7:6,7; 9:25, 26; 14:1,2; 2 Cor. 6:2; James 1:11; 4:14)




I am too bad to be saved.



I am too bad to be saved.

• Repent, then, and turn to God, so that your sins may be wiped out, that times of refreshing may come from the Lord. (Acts 3:19) (See Ex. 34:6,7; Ps. 65:3; 103:10-12; 130:3,4; Isa 1:18)




There are many things that I do not understand



There are many things that I do not understand.

• The secret things belong to the Lord our God, but the things revealed belong to us and to our children forever, that we may follow all the words of this law (Deut. 29:29).




Since God is love, He surely will not punish us.



Since God is love, He surely will not punish us.

…Unless you repent, you too will all perish. (Luke 13:3)




There are many hypocrites in the church.



There are many hypocrites in the church.

• So then, each of us will give an account of himself to God. (Rom. 14:12) (See Isa. 58:1,2; Matt. 23; Gal. 2:12,13; 1 Pet. 2:1)




It will cost me too much



It will cost me too much

• What good is it for a man to gain the whole world, yet forfeit his soul? Or what can a man give in exchange for his soul? (Mark 4:26,27) (See Matt. 4:8-10; Luke 9:23,24; Phil. 3:7-10)




There is no God



There is no God

• For since the creation of the world God's invisible qualities--his eternal power and divine nature--have been clearly seen, being understood from what has been made, so that men are without excuse. (Rom. 1:20) (See Psalm 8:3,4 14:1; Rom. 1:18,18, 28)




Jesus is not God.



Jesus is not God.

• In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God…The Word became flesh and made his dwelling among us...(John 1:1, 14a) (See John 1:18; Phil. 2:6; Tit. 2:13)




The Bible was written by men.



The Bible was written by men.

• All Scripture is God-breathed and is useful for teaching, rebuking, correcting and training in righteousness (2 Tim 3:16) (See Acts 1:16; Heb. 4:12; 2 Peter. 2:19-21)



Prayer Focus• Father, In the name of Jesus, I

surrender myself to walk in the Word in the marketplace. Your word living in me produces the Life in this world.

• The word is a lamp to my feet and a light to my path. It makes my way plain before me.

• I boldly and confidently say that my heart is fixed and established on the solid foundation – the Living Word of God! Amen



Learning, application and commitment: James 1: 22-25

• “Do not merely listen to the word, and so deceive yourselves.

• Do what it says. • Anyone who listens to the word but does not do

what it says is like a man who looks at his face in the mirror and, after looking at himself, goes away and immediately forgets what he looks like.

• But the man who looks intently into the perfect law that gives freedom, and continues to do this, not forgetting what he has heard, but doing it - he will be blessed in what he does.” (NIV)



Learning, application and commitment

• One of the principles that I have learned from this lesson was …

• I intend to apply this principle in my marketplace by: …..

• With the help of the Holy Spirit, I will begin applying this truth immediately.



Jesus said: Take what I have given you and change the world!



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• Slides compiled by Dr Mario Denton. • Please commit yourself to inform us of the results regarding the

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