Everyone A Witness
A Tale of Two Auditoriums (2|2)
The Global Purposes of Christ
Pages 132-142
TOGETHER read the book and the scripture.
INDIVIDUALLY take notes in your journal on what stands out.
1 Corinthians 9:21-22 (NIV) To those not having the law I became like one not having the law (though I am not free from God’s law but am under Christ’s law), so as to win those not having the law. To the weak I became weak, to win the weak. I have become all things to all people so that by all possible means I might save some.
Isaiah 2:1-3 (NIV) This is what Isaiah son of Amoz saw concerning Judah and Jerusalem: In the last days the mountain of the LORD’s temple will be established as the highest of the mountains; it will be exalted above the hills, and all nations will stream to it. Many peoples will come and say, “Come, let us go up to the mountain of the LORD, to the temple of the God of Jacob. He will teach us his ways, so that we may walk in his paths.” The law will go out from Zion, the word of the LORD from Jerusalem.
Micah 4:1-2 (NIV) In the last days the mountain of the LORD’s temple will be established as the highest of the mountains; it will be exalted above the hills, and peoples will stream to it. Many nations will come and say, “Come, let us go up to the mountain of the LORD, to the temple of the God of Jacob. He will teach us his ways, so that we may walk in his paths.” The law will go out from Zion, the word of the LORD from Jerusalem.
Isaiah 9:7 (NIV) Of the greatness of his government and peace there will be no end. He will reign on David’s throne and over his kingdom, establishing and upholding it with justice and righteousness from that time on and forever. The zeal of the LORD Almighty will accomplish this.
TOGETHER pray for one another.
INDIVIDUALLY answer the questions in your journal - process your notes and pray.
How can we as a group create a culture of ‘everyone a witness’?
How does it make you feel knowing that God has made promises concerning the global scale of His purposes?
What’s your takeaway from the book? What will you do differently from now on?
EXTRA READING:
“There we leave you in that blessed dependency, to hang upon Him that hangs upon the cross, there bathe in His tears, and lie down in peace in His grave, till he vouchsafes you a resurrection, and an ascension into that Kingdom, which He has purchased for you with the inestimable price of His incorruptible blood.”
- English poet John Donne (1572 - 1631)