"Touching Broken Lives" Sermon Slides by Rev Dr Ng Swee Ming

2. Missional Evangelism
Sermon Series
i. All Places Are Mission Fields
ii. Reach Your Community,
Different Cultures & Ages
iii. Get to Know Unbelievers,
Help Them to Repent

3. Missional Evangelism
Part 4 Touch Broken Lives

4. Missional Evangelism : Touch Broken Lives
Scripture Ref : John 8:1-11
1 But Jesus went to the Mount of Olives.
2 At dawn he appeared again in the temple courts,
where all the people gathered around him, and
he sat down to teach them.
3 The teachers of the law and the Pharisees brought
in a woman caught in adultery. They made her
stand before the group
4 and said to Jesus, "Teacher, this woman was
caught in the act of adultery.
5 In the Law Moses commanded us to stone such
women. Now what do you say?"

5. Missional Evangelism : Touch Broken Lives
Scripture Ref : John 8:1-11
6 They were using this question as a trap, in order
to have a basis for accusing him.
But Jesus bent down and started to write on
the ground with his finger.
7 When they kept on questioning him, he
straightened up and said to them, "If any one of
you is without sin, let him be the first to throw
a stone at her."
8 Again he stooped down and wrote on the
ground.

6. Missional Evangelism : Touch Broken Lives
Scripture Ref : John 8:1-11
9 At this, those who heard began to go away one
at a time, the older ones first, until only Jesus
was left, with the woman still standing there.
10 Jesus straightened up and asked her, "Woman,
where are they? Has no one condemned you?"
11 "No one, sir," she said. "Then neither do I
condemn you," Jesus declared. "Go now and
leave your life of sin."

7. Missional Evangelism : Touch Broken Lives
Evangelism :
Obeying / Fulfilling the GREAT COMMISSION
Sharing the Gospel
Missions :
 Crossing barriers / cultures / language ...
? ‘Missional Evangelism’ ?
“Missio Dei” : God’s Mission
traditionally : “the CHURCH has a MISSION”
“the MISSION has a CHURCH”

8. Missional Evangelism : Touch Broken Lives
Question:
How did you become a Christian OR
Under what circumstances did you decide to
invite / accept Jesus into your life ?
a. I was born into a Christian family ...
b. I read the Bible and was convicted ...
c. I had a dream about Jesus ...
d. A family member / friend invited me to a
Christian event / church ...
e. I was having some difficulty / struggle /
illness and a Christian visited me ...

9. Missional Evangelism : Touch Broken Lives
Many if not the vast
majority of us
became Christians
because of ...
Physical needs
Emotional needs
Spiritual needs
Similarly in the Bible Jesus
reached out to people with
needs :
Physical – blind, lame,
lepers, possessed, death...
Emotional – woman at the
well, Zacchaeus...
Spiritual – Nicodemus,
Matthew, Saul...
In all our ‘brokenness’-
Physical, Emotional, Spiritual ...
o CHRIST is the ANSWER

10. Missional Evangelism : Touch Broken Lives
o CHRIST - the ANSWER
New Testament
Jesus was physically present ...
He touched & mended many broken lives...
But He Died, Resurrected & Ascended...
TODAY - no longer ‘physically’ present ...
He left behind THE CHURCH - Ekklesia
 a ‘called out’ assembly of people
 ‘called out’ to touch ...
 ‘called out’ to mend ... broken lives
o The CHURCH is HIS SOLUTION

11. Missional Evangelism : Touch Broken Lives
o CHRIST - the ANSWER
o CHURCH - the SOLUTION
Q: How many of you came to Church
last Sunday ?
Yes we ‘come’ to ‘Church’ ...
BUT Who is ‘the Church’ ?
We, you & I are ‘the church’
If we have a ‘NEED’ –
Physical, Emotional, Spiritual...
We bring the ‘NEED’ to the CHURCH ...
Q: Who ministers to our ‘NEED’ ?
You & I – Christians will have to do it
o CHRISTIANS is the INSTRUMENT

12. Missional Evangelism : Touch Broken Lives
o CHRISTIANS - the INSTRUMENT...
We, You and I are God’s Instrument
to TESTIFY ...
to TOUCH LIVES ...
Broken, Hurting, Confused, in Bondage ...
Physically, Emotionally, Spiritually...
to TRANSFORM LIVES...
& EXPAND HIS KINGDOM
o CHURCH - the SOLUTION
o CHRIST - the ANSWER

13. Missional Evangelism : Touch Broken Lives
o CHRIST - the ANSWER
o CHURCH - the SOLUTION
o CHRISTIANS - the INSTRUMENT

14. Missional Evangelism : Touch Broken Lives
• CHRIST is always the ANSWER
Q: How many of you know of people who have
stopped going to church ?
or people ‘once Christians’ but ‘something’
happened & they stopped going...
stopped believing ...
? Offended ... Hurt ...
? Disappointed ... Disillusioned ....
BY ...
.... ‘the Church’
• CHURCH then becomes - the PROBLEM

15. Missional Evangelism : Touch Broken Lives
• CHRIST - the ANSWER
• CHURCH - the PROBLEM
BUT ...
Church = People
We – you & I, are ‘the Church’
Therefore:
Problems with ‘the church’
= problems with Christians
• CHRISTIANS - the STUMBLING STONES

16. Missional Evangelism : Touch Broken Lives
•CHRIST
•CHURCH
•CHRISTIANS
- the PROBLEM
- the STUMBLING
STONES
- the ANSWER
- the SOLUTION
- the INSTRUMENT

17. SSMC Tag-Line :
TRANSFORMING LIVES
EXPANDING HIS KINGDOM
AS A CHURCH :
We Have Touched Lives...
We Are Touching Lives...
We Will Touch Lives...

19. So What ?
MISSIONAL EVANGELISM
i. All Places Are Mission Fields
ii. Reach Your Community, Different Cultures & Ages
iii.Get to Know Unbelievers, Help Them to Repent
iv.Touch Broken Lives
Bringing people into the Church
through the front door ...
Helping them to stay ?
Becoming part of the SSMC family?
And not go out the “BACK DOOR”

21. Application / Conclusion:
As a Church – ‘Closing Our Back Door’
Ref : John 8:1-11
Woman caught in adultery ...
TWO Important Lessons ...

22. 1. No COMPROMISE
• Jesus did not excuse her sin ...
• She was caught in the very act ...
• A Sin is a Sin
and need to be dealt with
accordingly
Jesus hated the sin...
but loved the sinner
• Tendency nowadays to ...
excuse sin...
try to find scientific justification
for sin...
Sin needs to be acknowledged
Sin needs to be dealt with
Sin needs confession – repentance
– God’s forgiveness

24. 2. No CONDEMNATION
John 8:10-11
Jesus straightened up and asked her, "Woman,
where are they? Has no one condemned you?"
"No one, sir," she said.
"Then neither do I condemn you," Jesus
declared. "Go now and leave your life of sin.”
Jesus did not CONDEMN her
Jesus forgave her sin
Jesus forgave her

25. 2. No CONDEMNATION or COMPLAINING
Rom 8:1
Therefore, there is now no condemnation for
those who are in Christ Jesus,...
Yet sometimes it’s in Church, among Christians ...
• Ridiculed / Laughed-at / Gossip...
• Shunned / Avoided / Rejected ...
• Complaining / Condemning...
Esp people ‘different’ from us ...
• Socially / Academically
• Economically
• Culturally

26. 2.NoCONDEMNATIONor
COMPLANING

27. Luke 18:9-14 Pharisee & Tax-Collector
"Two men went up to the temple to pray, one a
Pharisee and the other a tax collector.
The Pharisee stood up and prayed about himself:
'God, I thank you that I am not like other men
— robbers, evildoers, adulterers — or even like
this tax collector. I fast twice a week and give a
tenth of all I get.'
"But the tax collector stood at a distance. He would
not even look up to heaven, but beat his breast
and said, 'God, have mercy on me, a sinner.'
"I tell you that this man, rather than the other, went
home justified before God. For everyone
who exalts himself will be humbled, and
he who humbles himself will be exalted."

28. 3. No COMPARISON
V11-12
The Pharisee stood up and
prayed about himself: 'God, I
thank you that I am not like
other men — robbers, evildoers,
adulterers — or even like this
tax collector. I fast twice a week
and give a tenth of all I get.'
The Pharisee was COMPARING
himself...
with the tax-collector ...
listing all his ‘good deeds’ ...

29. 3. No COMPETITION
We live & work in a very fast paced world ...
‘Rat-Race’ ...
‘Dog eat dog’ ...
‘Every man for himself’...
‘ I, Me & Myself’ ...
Out in the world – COMPETITION is King
Competition is good at times ...
Drives creativity, innovation ...
Challenges status quo ...
But in the Church !!!

30. 3. No COMPETITION
the word / idea is very foreign to the Bible ...
Closes to it is in Heb 10:24
‘spur one another on towards love & good deeds’
Opposite of Competition : UNITY
The Bible have plenty to say about UNITY
• Rom 15:5 ‘spirit of unity’
• Eph 4:3 ‘unity of the Spirit’
• Col 3:14 ‘together in perfect unity’
• John 17:20-23

31. 3. No COMPARISON or COMPETITION
John 17:20-23
20 "My prayer is not for them alone. I
pray also for those who will believe in
me through their message, 21 that all
of them may be one, Father, just as
you are in me and I am in you. May
they also be in us so that the world
may believe that you have sent me.
22 I have given them the glory that you
gave me, that they may be one as we
are one: 23 I in them and you in me.
May they be brought to complete
unity to let the world know that you
sent me and have loved them even as
you have loved me.

33. MISSIONAL EVANGELISM
Opening our FRONT DOORS wide ...
Closing our BACK DOORS shut...
SSMC’s Church Culture & DNA -
to Proclaim & Practice...
• No COMPROMISE
• No CONDEMNATION or COMPLAINING
• No COMPARISON or COMPETITION
Only - ACCEPTANCE,
ENCOURAGEMENT
& LOVE