You Y’all will be my witnesses.
It’s a story too big to tell alone.
Meet your hosts
Madison and Chandler
Madison and Chandler are college students in Boston with roots in Texas, Arkansas, and Germany. They will get us started at the beginning of each practice we are learning together.
The Power of Invitation
When was the last time you were invited to something that made you feel . . .
INCLUDED
SPECIAL
INTIMIDATED
SURPRISED
CHOSEN
(another feeling)
Meet Tyler
Addie’s world began to change when she felt like she belonged to something bigger.
INVITATION
Can anything good come out of Nazareth?
“Come and see.”
INVITATION in the story of Jesus and his followers
John 1:35-50
Read Together
Imagine yourself as one of the people in this story. Then answer the questions as if you were that person.
What person did you choose? What stands out to you about this person?
What did it feel like to be invited? Or to be the one inviting?
What things are already beginning to change about your characters identity as a result of the invitation?
The Bible describes the result of God’s saving work in your life in two ways.
“Christ in you”
Jesus comes into you
Colossians 1:27; Galatians 2:20; Romans 8:9-10
“You in Christ”
You come into the body of Christ
Ephesians 2:19-22; 2 Corinthians 5:17; Galatians 3:26-27; Colossians 1:2, 2:6-7
Ponder & Discuss
If becoming a Christian involves more than Christ coming into your life, but also you entering into the body of Christ, what implications does that have for body-life witness and the practice of inviting?
LOVE AND UNITY
Jesus speaks to the power of an embodied witness.
“By this all people will know that you are my disciples, if you have love for one another.”
“Father, I pray that all who believe in me can be one. You are in me and I am in you. I pray that they can also be one in us. Then the world will believe that you sent me. ”
MODEL OF THE DISCIPLESJesus not only stated the importance of this witness and prayed for it, but his discipleship band embodied it.
The community that gathered around Jesus included both:
men and women
Jewish zealots and Roman sympathizers
the honest and the morally compromised
the formerly demon-possessed and the spouse of one of the highest-ranking managers King Herod’s court.
The fact that this diverse and culturally divided group of individuals would gather together for a single meal is remarkable in itself.
But the thought that they shared countless meals and sleeping quarters as they traveled thousands of miles on foot together for nearly three years is mind-blowing.
SALVATION
