Change the World
- Opening Question: Who do you think of when you think of People who changed the world?
- (answers from everyone)
- How did these people Change the world?
- How does the world treat people who want to shake things up and change the world?
- Why don't more people try to change the World?
- Opening Statement: God is always looking for men and women who will help him change the world. And when we look at the Bible, we see he has always been looking.
- Open your Bible to Acts 13
- Introduce the Scripture.
- In Acts 13, Paul and Barnabas are in Psidian Antioch on the first missionary journey. They are going to new places trying to help people become Christians, and we are going to read a scripture that really shows us what it would have been like to be with them.
- Acts 13:42-49
- What qualities about Paul and Barnabas made them world changers?
- They are going around the world for what they believe (radical)
- They were getting people to change the way they think
- They didn't give up when people were negative
- They were bold
- How did Paul and Barnabas go about changing the whole world?
- By changing the people right around them.
- Changing the world starts with changing our nation, state, city, community, school, job, circle of friends, family, self, etc…
- Changing lives spreads (Acts 13:49)
- Who are the people around you?
- Are you impacting them?
- In what way are you impacting them? Are you a positive or a negative influence?
- God has a plan for all of our lives, and he wants us all to change the world.
- Mark 16:15-16
- Jesus is calling for everyone of us to change the world by changing our lives and then changing the people around us?
- Will you change the world?
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