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Why share the Good News? 1) It’s real – and exciting!. Why share the Good News? 2) Rescue their friends and neighbours. Why share the Good News? 3) God says so – duty, obedience ‘Go...make disciples...’ (Mt 28) ‘The harvest is plentiful.. Ask the Lord to send out workers’ (Mt 9)
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Why share the Good News? 1) It’s real – and exciting!
Why share the Good News? 2) Rescue their friends and neighbours
Why share the Good News? 3) God says so – duty, obedience ‘Go...make disciples...’ (Mt 28) ‘The harvest is plentiful.. Ask the Lord to send out workers’ (Mt 9) 4) The example of Jesus – John 10 ‘I am the good shepherd’ ‘I lay down my life for the sheep’ ‘I have others... I must go and fetch them’
(Jesus – Jn 1) 5) It’s just what we want to do! John’s Gospel ‘Come and see’ ‘The first thing that he did was to tell his brother’ ‘Follow me’ ‘Come and see’ ‘Do whatever he tells you’ ‘He told me everything I ever did!’ ‘The man went away and told all the Jewish leaders’ (Andrew – Jn 1) (Jesus – Jn 1) (Philip - Jn 1) (Mary – Jn 2) (Woman at the well – Jn 4) (t the pool – Jn 5)
It’s just what we want to do! (continued...) Mark’s Gospel ‘I know who you are – the holy one of God!’ (the evil spirit! – Mk 1) Instead he began to talk freely, spreading the good news’ The man began to tell in the Decapolis how much Jesus had done for him’ (Demon-possessed man – Mk 5) ‘Jesus sent out through his disciples from the east to the west the sacred and ever-living message of eternal salvation’ (Mk 16) (Healed leper – Mk 1)