Message Notes-Context

Here are the notes to Pastor Steve’s message for week #3 of “Roar” on Sunday, September 27th, 2020. Feel free to print them and follow along during the online message at 9:55 a.m on Facebook.

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Today’s focus:  Contextualizing the message of Christ.  

• To contextualize;  to place something in context.  

While Paul was waiting for them in Athens, he was greatly distressed to see that the city was full of idols.  17 So he reasoned in the synagogue with both Jews and God-fearing Greeks, as well as in the marketplace day by day with those who happened to be there.  18 A group of Epicureans and Stoic philosophers began to debate with him.  Some of them asked, ‘what is this babbler trying to say?’  Others remarked, ‘he seems to be advocating foreign gods.’ They said this because Paul was preaching the good news of Jesus and the resurrection.  19 Then they took him and brought him to a meeting of the Areopagus, where they said to him, ‘May we know what this new teaching is that you are presenting.  20 You are bringing some strange ideas to our ears and we would like to know what they mean.  22 Paul then stood up in the meeting of the Areopagus and said; ‘People of Athens!  I see that in every way you are very religious. For as I walked around and looked carefully at your objects of worship, I even found an altar with this inscription:  to an unknown God.   23 Now what you worship as something unknown I am going to proclaim to you.  24 The God who made the world and everything in it is the Lord of heaven and earth and does not live in temples built by human hands.  25 And he is not served by human hands, as if he needed anything.  Rather, he himself gives everyone life and breath and everything else.  26 From one man he made all the nations, that they should inhabit the whole earth; and he marked out their appointed times in history and the boundaries of their lands.  27 God did this so that they would seek him and perhaps reach out for him and find him, though he is not far from any one of us.  31 God has given proof of this to everyone by raising Jesus from the dead. 32 When they heard about the resurrection of the dead, some of them sneered, but others said, ‘We want to hear you again on this subject.”  33 At that, Paul left the council.  34 Some of the people became followers of Paul and believed. Acts 17.16-27, 31-34

What does Paul do?

• Paul  ___________________.  

• Paul  ___________________ the truth.  

“We live in a streaming world so when we speak of Jesus, we don’t speak in a VCR kind of way.”   Steve Gill

Question for you to think about. What is something you’ve learned to adapt to?  

Key takeaways and application

1. I  ___________________how I  ___________________ the message of Christ.  

2. I  ___________________ the  ___________________ of the message of Christ.  

Here’s a way to think about the word ADAPT 

A ___________________.  

D___________________.  

A ___________________.  

P ___________________.  

T ___________________.  

How do I adapt and protect?  

1. Tell your  ___________________. 

• Start building your story. Use the below resource to begin writing and learning to tell your story.

https://www.cru.org/us/en/train-and-grow/share-the-gospel/evangelism-principles/how-to-tell-your-story-worksheet.html

2. Stick to  ___________________. 

Start with Jesus. Stick to Jesus. Stay with Jesus.

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