TODAY’S “GOOD NEWS” – November 21, 2004

MESSAGE:  “TEAMING UP TO WIN:

                          …Becoming People God Can Use!”

SCRIPTURE:  Acts 11:19-30

KEY VERSE:  v. 20  “But there were some of them, men of Cyprus and Cyrene, who came to Antioch and began speaking to the Greeks also, preaching the Lord Jesus.”

FOCUS:  God will use ordinary people to accomplish His purpose.

THINK ON THIS:  “I am absolutely convinced that any man (woman) who is willing to pay the price may be used of God regardless of talents and gifts, not perhaps to the extent of some, but certainly to the full limit of his (her) capacity.  The trouble is that men (women) are interested in too many things today to be used of God.”                     ~ Oswald J. Smith

I. THE SPONTANEOUS OVERFLOW OF A DEVOTED HEART

II. THE ALL-INCLUSIVE NATURE OF CHRISTIAN MINISTRY

III. THE BOTTOM LINE MESSAGE IS SIMPLE AND CLEAR

IV. THE MIGHTY HELPER WHO ENABLES THE WORK

CONCLUSION:  “We should love to hear of gospel triumphs as Christ plants His Church among peoples held for centuries by alien powers of darkness.”                                                                      ~ John Piper in “Don’t Waste Your Life”

PREACHING:  Pastor Holland Lewis