Winning People to Christ
August 31, 2024

You Must Have Vision

The Fish Aren’t Biting
It’s Too Cold To Fish
It’s Too Hot To Fish
There’s No Fish In This Place

Do you not say, ‘There are still four months and then comes the harvest’? Behold, I say to you, lift up your eyes and look at the fields, for they are already white for harvest!
John 4:35

What Do You See When You Look At Our World?

You Must Love Fishing More Than Catching

Everyone Loves To Catch, But You Will Never Be Good At Catching Until You Master Casting

Every Cast Is With The Heart of Success
While Balancing The Reality of Failure

“Now whatever city or town you enter, inquire who in it is worthy, and stay there till you go out. And when you go into a household, greet it. If the household is worthy, let your peace come upon it. But if it is not worthy, let your peace return to you. And whoever will not receive you nor hear your words, when you depart from that house or city, shake off the dust from your feet.
Matthew 10:11-16

Do you not say, ‘There are still four months and then comes the harvest’? Behold, I say to you, lift up your eyes and look at the fields, for they are already white for harvest! And he who reaps receives wages, and gathers fruit for eternal life, that both he who sows and he who reaps may rejoice together. For in this the saying is true: ‘One sows and another reaps.’
John 4:35-37

You Must Become An Expert About Your Quarry

You Need To Know More About Fish Than The Fish Knows About Themselves

For though I am free from all men, I have made myself a servant to all, that I might win the more; and to the Jews I became as a Jew, that I might win Jews; to those who are under the law, as under the law, that I might win those who are under the law;
1 Corinthians 9:19-20

to those who are without law, as without law (not being without law toward God, but under law toward Christ), that I might win those who are without law; to the weak I became as weak, that I might win the weak. I have become all things to all men, that I might by all means save some. Now this I do for the gospel’s sake, that I may be partaker of it with you.
1 Corinthians 9:21-23

4 Simple Ideas
Everyone Wants To Be:
Needed and Known
Loved and Valued

You Must Be Diligent

**Diligent (Merriam Webster) Definition

Then He got into one of the boats, which was Simon’s, and asked him to put out a little from the land. And He sat down and taught the multitudes from the boat. When He had stopped speaking, He said to Simon, “Launch out into the deep and let down your nets for a catch.”
Luke 5:3-4

But Simon answered and said to Him, “Master, we have toiled all night and caught nothing; nevertheless at Your word I will let down the net.” And when they had done this, they caught a great number of fish, and their net was breaking. So they signaled to their partners in the other boat to come and help them. And they came and filled both the boats, so that they began to sink.
Luke 5:5-7

When Simon Peter saw it, he fell down at Jesus’ knees, saying, “Depart from me, for I am a sinful man, O Lord!” For he and all who were with him were astonished at the catch of fish which they had taken;
Luke 5:8-9

and so also were James and John, the sons of Zebedee, who were partners with Simon. And Jesus said to Simon, “Do not be afraid. From now on you will catch men.” So when they had brought their boats to land, they forsook all and followed Him.
Luke 5:10-11

You Must Have Confidence

Confidence Pronounced “Godfidence”

being confident of this very thing, that He who has begun a good work in you will complete it until the day of Jesus Christ;
Philippians 1:6

For the Lord will be your confidence,
And will keep your foot from being caught.
Proverbs 3:26

Now this is the confidence that we have in Him, that if we ask anything according to His will, He hears us.
1 John 5:14

I can do all things through Christ who strengthens me.
Philippians 4:13

Have Confidence In What God Has Done.
Have Confidence In What God Is Doing.
Have Confidence In What God Is Going To Do.