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Marketplace facts: Making an impact for ChristMarketplace facts: Making an impact for Christ

MARKETPLACE FACTSModule 501 B

If You Want To Have An Impact For Christ In Your World, Consider This

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.



Three years after conversion

• Studies indicate that within two to three years after conversion, most believers lose their network of relationships with their lost friends and associates.

• What a tragedy! • By default we find ourselves gravitating

toward the more comfortable and safe world of believers at the expense of continued involvement with the lost.



• Today it is possible through home schooling, Christian schools, church involvement, etc. to almost totally disengage from people outside the pale of Christian influence.

• By default we become part of the Christian ghetto!



Making an Impact For Christ In Your World

• Take out a sheet of paper and ‘map’ all your relationships by name.

• Categorize them on the paper as ‘relatives’, ‘friends’, and ‘associates/acquaintances.’

• List everyone by name.




• Then ask, “With whom among these people is God working?” Tag them.

• Then make a commitment to pray for them.




• Ask God to continue to draw them to Himself. Also ask God to give you a heart of compassion for them.

• Then ask the Lord if, how and when you should become more involved in their lives to influence them spiritually.



To significantly affect the lost among you consider the following

• Intentionally become engaged in the lives of the lost.

• While in line at the supermarket, for example, choose to converse with the person next to you. Get their name or card.

• Begin praying for them. • A week or two later when you run into

them again, call them by name.



View evangelism (and discipleship) not as an event, but as a process

• Think of everyone you meet as living at some point on a continuum. Our desire is to be used of God to help move them on the continuum toward +10.

-10 -------------------------------------------------- 0 --------------------------------------------------- +10 (No interest in Christ) (Neutral) (Total commitment to Christ)



Allow them access to your life

• Rather than preach at the lost, allow them access to your life so they can observe the effect of the Gospel as to how you treat your spouse, handle your money and deal with issues such as ethics, personal purity, pride, etc.



Allow them access to your life

• In other words, live out Matthew 5:3-9 in such a manner that they can see the ‘salt’ and ‘light’ of your life. (Matthew 5:13,16)



In your social relationships

• In your social relationships, generally opt for more involvement with the lost than with the saved. (See Luke 14:12-14) Develop a mindset that allows you to move naturally among the lost.



In your social relationships

• Jesus was accused of being a glutton and drunkard because of his natural engagement among the lost. (Matt. 11:19)



• Later, when Jesus was eating supper at Matthew's house with his close followers, a lot of disreputable characters came and joined them. When the Pharisees saw him keeping this kind of company, they had a fit, and lit into Jesus' followers. "What kind of example is this from your Teacher, acting cozy with crooks and riff-raff?"



• Jesus, overhearing, shot back, "Who needs a doctor: the healthy or the sick? Go figure out what this Scripture means: 'I'm after mercy, not religion.' I'm here to invite outsiders, not coddle insiders. (Matthew 9:10-13 Msg.)



It boils down

• Ultimately it boils down to a question as to whom we choose to offend; God, for our failing to obey his injunction to fish for men (Matt. 4:19) or our Christian friends who may not understand our involvement among the lost. Given the choice, I’ll choose to offend the latter. How about you?



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



A new commandment I give unto you

That you love one another as I have loved youThat you love one another as I have loved youBy this shall all men know that you are my disciplesIf you have love one for anotherBy this shall all men know that you are my disciplesIf you have love one for another



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!



Sources and acknowledgementCHRIST@ WORK NEWSLETTER

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• The “Facts of the Matter” is also available through the Internet: www.factsofthematter.org. R. Dwight Hill.

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

effectiveness thereof should you wish to use this material.

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