Tag Archives: Evangelism

Aug 4 2011

One Hit Wonders: Tainted Love (Book of Jonah)


Free resources for youth pastors and small group leaders:
Jonah (mp3).mp3
Jonah (ppt).ppt
Jonah (handout).pdf
Jonah (sermon notes).doc
Jonah (service order).doc
I won’t do any small group questions with this lesson on Jonah. Our small groups this Sunday we be a promotion. All the students are promoting up to their next grade for the new school year. They will be getting new small group leaders and a new small group room. So this Sunday, I want all our small group leaders to focus on getting to know their small group students. I want all our small group students to focus on getting to know each other and their small group leaders.

The book of Jonah rocked my world! Talk about having a tainted love. Jonah had a very skewed view of love for God and for people. Jonah did not want to go and tell Nineveh about God’s forgiving love because Jonah didn’t want God to forgive them. Jonah knew that Nineveh was the capital city of Assyria…who was about to attack the northern kingdom of Israel and send them into exile. How could God forgive His enemies?! Jonah seemed to love God but hate Nineveh. I think our problem is the opposite. It seems to me that we don’t witness because we love people and hate God. Could that be your problem? Check out this study on the book of Jonah, listen to the podcast, and let God rock your world as well. He will use you as a great witness!

Mar 2 2011

CBSM @ GIC Missions Conference

As Capshaw Baptist is holding our 2nd annual “Global Impact Celebration” Missions Conference this week till Sunday, I wanted to update you on everything that CBSM will be doing from now until then.

Wednesday Night: March 2nd
CBSM will be meeting with the rest of the church in our gymnasium area for a ton of free food from 5:00 – 6:00pm. If you’re bringing your family, then bring some food to contribute! Then at 6:30pm, we’ll all meet and sit together in the main auditorium of the church for the epic opening event of this GIC Conference. You will experience an awesome light show, aired-up globes bouncing around the room, unbelievable excitement, African drum performance, around 30 missionaries from all over the planet and our nation, passionate worship, and a challenging message from one of the premier speakers on missions and the gospel. This will last until 8:00pm. We want all of our CBSM students here! Continue reading →

Dec 31 2010

“Where God and Satan Agree” (2 Corinthians 3:12 – 4:6)

Free files for student pastors and small group leaders:
Where God and Satan Agree – 2 Cor 3-4 (mp3)
Where God and Satan Agree – 2 Cor 3-4 (handout)
Where God and Satan Agree – 2 Cor 3-4 (commentary)
Where God and Satan Agree – 2 Cor 3-4 (outline)
Where God and Satan Agree – 2 Cor 3-4 (small groups)
This was our final CBSM worship service of 2010, which is why God chose for us to study this passage and challenge us in this special way. Could you imagine God and Satan agreeing on anything? They actually do! They agree on the key to all of life. God is sovereignly working towards it, and Satan is trying to stop him from it. So then the question is…what is the key to all of life? Listen and find out!

Oct 15 2010

CBSM Sermon Clip – How to Witness to an Atheist


This is a quick sermon video clip during “Man On The Island: Is MOTI Ignorant about God?” This clip is all about how we challenge our students to evangelize atheists. Check it out.

Aug 26 2010

framework #32: the doctrine of general revelation – Is the man on the island IMPORTANT to God?

Free files for youth pastors and small group leaders:
3 – MOTI – Important (mp3)
3 – MOTI – Important (ppt)
3 – MOTI – Important (handout)
3 – MOTI – Important (notes)
3 – MOTI – Important (pulpit)
3 – MOTI – Important (service)
3 – MOTI – Important (small groups)
This is our last sermon through the MOTI (Man On The Island) series. We go back over if Moti really is IGNORANT of God’s existence, if Moti really is INNOCENT of sin, and if Moti really is IMPORTANT to God and to us. We really laid our cards on the table with this one…answering if Moti dies tomorrow…would he go to heaven or hell? Some people may not like our answer…but that doesn’t matter! What matters is…how God answers this question in Scripture! In this message, we had 255 teenagers present since it was our BACK 2 SCHOOL BASH event night. At least 7 teenagers received Christ and were saved on this night. It was just simply a night that God used to rock our lives and our student ministry. I want to thank our students for doing such an amazing job of being missionaries and bringing their friends. I want to thank all of our adult leaders who serve so well and make everything run smoothly. I want to thank Dr. Russell Moore for this amazing sermon that he preached that we could piggy-back off of and turn into a student ministry series. And lastly I want to thank JESUS for coming to us, revealing Himself to us through the preaching of the gospel of others, that we could be saved and enjoy eternity with Him! Continue reading →

Mar 16 2010

on CBSM Making an Impact…Globally

Chuck Rheam (church planter out of San Diego, CA with Centerpoint Church) was CBSM’s guest speaker during our church’s GIC: Global Impact Celebration conference on missions.  He whipped up a powerful sermon for our students on Saturday night of the conference.  Check it out here if you weren’t able to listen.  He basically preached on: “Do you have what it takes to be a missionary.”  Listen to find out what it takes, and how to grow in it.

Chuck Rheam Sat Night (mp3)

Mar 17 2009

That’s what he said.

floundersAs I’m chillin down in Pensacola, FL right now with my family, we went to the busiest restaurant on the beach – Flounders.  My mom always beats me to the punch by asking the server what could we pray for them about since we pray before every meal.  Finally, I beat her!  I asked the dude, “Man, we’re about to pray before we eat, is there anything we can be praying for you about?”  He said he had to think about it.  Several minutes later he came back and said, “I got one.  This is the busiest restaurant on the beach, and we have about 50 new servers on staff who don’t know what they’ve gotten into.  We’re a family restaurant until 9pm rolls around.  Then we ask the families with children to leave, we pump the music, we turn this place into a dance club, we break out all the drinks…we have wet tshirt contests and everything.”  To all that I just said, “Well there’s a lot to pray for in that situation!”  Then he said, “So pray for our staff to serve them well.”  Let me recap…I asked for prayer to the Holy, Almighty God.  He asked for prayer for his servers to keep serving alcohol, to keep the party going, and to keep the tshirts wet.  That’s what he said!  I’m still not sure how to pray…except for salvation and judgment :)

Dec 9 2008

Seminary and Student Ministry (part 6): the importance of teaching on the SPIRIT

holy-spiritFree file for youth pastors:

Paper: How does Acts teach about the Holy Spirit?

When we talk about the Holy Ghost, we scare little children.  When we talk about the Holy Spirit, we excite teenagers.  So many people look at the Holy Spirit as either a spiritual energy drink Who’s going to make them feel the energy of Jesus, or more like a spiritual shot Who’s going to make them lose all control.  Have you ever thought any of these questions to yourself: Continue reading →

Oct 1 2008

Storyline #25: Numbers 1-10 “WHO’S COUNTING? The promises, place, and people of Christ”

Free files for fellow youth pastors:

25 – Numbers 1-10 (Handout)

25 – Numbers 1-10 (mp3)

25 – Numbers 1-10 (powerpoint)

 

One of my favorite movie series was Home Alone.  You remember, where the family wakes up late in the morning to catch their flight out of town for their Christmas vacation.  The family was so huge and so rushed that they forgot one of their kids: Kevin.  Then Kevin had to stay Home Alone, provide for himself, and fend off burglars.  My favorite scene was the bricks in Home Alone 2.  I’ll try to attach that here.  This movie reminds us: counting is important!

 

            In a similar way, Israel is about to leave for a trip, and they are to be counted.  But they aren’t going on vacation, rather they are leaving the mountain of God and heading towards the land He has promised to give them.  They also aren’t counting just to make sure everyone is present, but God tells them to count to show the people that God is faithful to His promises. Continue reading →

Sep 20 2008

Students being saved!

 In the past few weeks we’ve had several students saved in our student ministry.  I think many student ministries might be experiencing this, but let me tell you why I’m especially excited about this.  We don’t teach or preach an “easy-believism” gospel at all.  We never have students repeat a prayer after us.  We never have students merely raise their hands if they want to be saved…and then pronounce them saved.  What we do is…preach the gospel of Jesus Christ (His identity, life, death, resurrection, and Lordship).  We are very clear that salvation isn’t just believing in Jesus as Savior, but also following Him as Lord (Romans 10:9-10, 13).  We preach very explicitly that salvation is discipleship which means that to be saved means also that you desire to live and follow Jesus.  Statistics waver somewhere between 50% - 90% of church-going students who graduate from high school never return to the church again.  Why are we shocked with this when we just ask students to repeat a prayer of salvation after us, or we baptize them without them fully being able to articulate the gospel and show evidence of their faith in Christ?  1 John 2:19 says that the reason people leave the church is because they never truly were apart of the church…or Christ.  To counter that, we are preaching a full-gospel, a loving gospel, and a powerful gospel.  We’re preaching a gospel that calls for repentance of sin, and a gospel that calls students to walk after Christ.  And praise God by the work of His Spirit…students are being saved for the glory of His Son!