Transformed Conference

• wretchedradio.com
• First premise of the conference was: measure what we say against the word of God
• Love for others necessitates a deep desire to share your faith. If you don’t love others, then you don’t know God.
• True courage is when you conquer fear, not that fear is absent
• Weakness becomes strength, through prayer

Three keys:

• The first key is FAITH
  • Romans 15:13
  • Faith produces joy, which produces physical energy (FIRE)
  • No faith, no joy (no fire)
• The second key is LOVE
  • Perfect love casts out all fear
  • God if you did that for me, I will do anything for you
• The third key is … (didn’t catch it)
  • Analogy of children playing at the bottom of an elevator shaft
    • Person running over to save them, stopping, and saying to themselves “they’re happy, I’ll leave them alone” or “I don’t know them”

• Jesus came to make us righteous, not happy.  You can be happy without Jesus
• Relations are the hardest people to witness to
• Would you evangelize more if you were offered $1,000 per person?
  • This puts fear in perspective
  • Can you deal with your fear of men for the love of money, but not for the love of God?
• More Than a Carpenter
• You have to come to God on His terms.  Invite Him to reveal Himself to you – with a humble heart
• Repentance is far more than a change of mind.  It is a change of heart and a change of will
• It’s not about perfection, it’s about focus and direction

Five reasons to not ask Jesus into your heart:

1. It’s not in the Bible
2. It leaves out the gospel message to repent
3. It leaves out the gospel message to believe in Jesus
4. It presents Jesus as a beggar, as if we are in control
5. The result is people who cry out “Lord, Lord”, and Jesus responds that He never knew them

10 things not to use in evangelizing:

1. Hell fire preaching
   • Don’t want a fear response.  Want a response to grace. (tear-filled, not fear-filled)
2. Just believe
   • It’s not enough to believe, you must repent
3. Accept Jesus
   • Jesus accepts us, not the other way around.  We need to be accepted by Him
4. God shaped hole in your heart
   • It’s sin-stained
5. Jesus plus _______
   • “You’ll get all these things if you just become a Christian”
   • This focuses on the gifts, not the giver
6. Fruit as a draw card
   • “Jesus will fix your marriage if you would just become a Christian”
7. Decisional Regeneration
   • Deciding to be Christian doesn’t make you one
   • The decision + repentance
8. Make Jesus your Lord and Savior
   • He already is Lord and Savior
   • You don’t grant Him status
9. Commit to Jesus
   • Surrender, not commitment
10. It’s easy to believe
    • Surrendering your pride is not easy

• Saved people grow based on the gospel, nothing else
• You don’t need or are even looking for a decision when evangelizing.  You are planting the seed of the gospel.
• Law to the proud.  Grace to the humble.
• Heart still tied to the “dock” of the world
• Getting past / through your fear is a matter of getting past your pride.