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Just out of curiosity, question, how many of you had someone lead you to faith in Christ?

Anybody have someone lead you to faith in Christ?

Okay, that's a lot of us, if not most of us, who are believers.

The question we need to ask ourselves is is how are people outside this building going to

come to know faith in Christ then, if not through us?

Through us sharing the word with them.

And so we talked about how that is a non-negotiable facet of disciple making.

What I want us to do this morning is to dive into a second

component of disciple making, which is not only to share the word, but to show the word. Now,

let me just on a tangent here, let me say that these are not necessarily chronological steps

that you take. You do number one, the number two, the number three, number four, now you're making

disciples. That's not the picture here. The picture is these are all facets that we see in Jesus' life as he poured his life into his disciples. And as he set the example for us to do the same thing in others' lives. So sharing the word, showing the word, and the others that we're going to see over the next two weeks, they all come together. And if you remember, couple of weeks ago, we had those cards that people, many of you came to the forward and got that say, follow me on the front, and I'll make you fishers of men on the back. They had different blanks. Share the word, show the word. And you have an opportunity to write that in on those cards on the back. So don't forget to do that. But I want us to look at John chapter 17 and see what it meant for Jesus to show the

word.

Remember the word is at the center of disciple making, the word made flesh, Christ making

his life known through us.

We show the word.

Look at John chapter 17, verse 6.

This is Jesus praying for his disciples and he says, I revealed you to those whom you gave me out of the world.

They were yours.

You gave them to me and they have obeyed your word.

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