This is Part 15 of Pastor Chuck Bernal’s message series, “Passages That Pump Me Up”. This message was designed to challenge and inspire every person to reach out to the lost and bring them to our Explore God campaign beginning on September 13m 2015. All of us who know Christ are obligated to warn the lost about their need of Christ and invite them to know Him. This messsage was delivered at LifePointe Church in Crowley, TX on Sunday, September 6, 2015

2. Starting next Sunday!
7 QUESTIONS EVERYONE ASKS

4. connecting with the lost:
our biblical
mission
& mandates

5. CONNECTING
WITH THE LOST:
OUR BIBLICAL MISSION

6. The greatest premise:

7. Lost people
matter to God

8. The greatest promise:

9. We honor Jesus,
He attracts people

10. If I be lifted up from the earth,
I will draw all men unto me.
(John 12:32 – King James Version)

11. The greatest priority:

12. Therefore, our job is to
make God famous

13. God, it’s Your reputation that
gets the boost. You’re the one
who gets the credit.

14. It’s Your fame that should
balloon from this.
You’re the only God!
(Nehemiah 9:5 – Word On The Street Bible)

15. CONNECTING
WITH THE LOST:
OUR BIBLICAL MANDATES

16. Be wise when you engage
with those outside the
faith community;

17. make the most of every
moment , encounter
and opportunity.
(Colossians 4:5 – The Voice)

18. You must worship Christ as Lord
of your life. And if someone asks
about your hope as a believer,
always be ready to explain it.
(1 Peter 3:15 – New Living Translation)

19. MANDATE 1

20. WARN EVERYONE WITH
A SENSE OF URGENCY

21. When an army comes against a
country, and the people of that
land choose a watchman and
he sees the army coming and
blows the alarm to warn them,

22. then anyone who hears the
alarm but refuses to heed it
and dies, the fault is his own.
For he heard the warning and
wouldn’t listen . . .

23. But if the watchman sees the
enemy coming and doesn’t
sound the alarm and warn the
people, he is responsible for
their deaths.

24. They will die in their sins, but I
will charge the watchman with
their deaths. I have appointed
you as a watchman . . .
(Ezekiel 33:2-7 – Living Bible)

25. The rich man said,
“Send Lazarus to the house
of my father where I have
five brothers,

26. so he can tell them the score
and warn them so they won’t end
up here in this
place of torment.”
(Luke 16:27-28 – The Message)

27. Urgency implies
importance

28. Urgency demands
action

29. Urgency underscores
compassion

31. MANDATE 2:

32. INVITE EVERYONE
WITH A HOPE OF
RECEPTIVITY

33. So go into the streets and invite
anyone you see; invite everyone
you meet. And the servants
did just that—

34. they went into the streets and
invited everyone they met, rich
and poor, good and bad, high
and low, sick and well.

35. Everyone who was invited came,
and the wedding hall practically
burst with guests.
(Matthew 22:9-10 – Voice)

36. CASE STUDY 1:

37. Andrew: He invited
his brother Peter

38. Andrew then went to find his
brother Peter and told him, “We
have found the Messiah!” And he
brought Peter to meet Jesus.
(John 1:41-42 – Living Bible)

39. CASE STUDY 2:

40. Samaritan Woman:
She invited everybody

41. Then the woman left her
waterpot beside the well and
went back to the village
and told everyone,

42. “Come and meet a man who
told me everything I ever did!
Can this be the Messiah?”

43. So the people came streaming
from the village to see him.
(John 4:28-30 – Living Bible)

44. Be bold

45. Be loving

46. Be enthusiastic

47. Be sincere

48. Be strategic

49. Be Bold
Be Loving
Be Enthusiastic
Be Sincere
Be Strategic

50. new groups begins september 13th

53. There is such a big harvest of
people to bring in. But there are
only a few workers to help
harvest them.

54. God owns the harvest.
Ask him to send more workers
to help bring in his harvest.
(Luke 10:2 – Easy To Read Version)

55. I planted the seed, Apollos
watered the plant, but it was
God who made the plant grow.

56. The one who plants and the one
who waters really do not matter.
It is God who matters, because
he makes the plant grow.
(1 Corinthians 3:6-7 – Good News Bible)

58. Let’s Pray