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Evangelismo- Usa tu boca

Lección 2: Ve y cuenta

Lesson Workbook - Click here for NIV Click here for KJV
Passing It On (Game) Click here
You Dirty Demons (Optional Skit) Click here

LESSON OBJECTIVES

Goals

1. To develop in students a new passion for evangelism.
2. To motivate students to employ the go and tell method.
3. To give students an inside look at that method at work in Scripture.

Topics

Boldness, Evangelism, Testimony, Witnessing

OPENING PRAYER (5 to 10 minutes)

GROUP BUILDING (5 minutes)

Passing It On (Game) Click here

GETTING STARTED (10 minutes)

If you included the High 5 card activity from last week, have everyone get out their High 5 cards, or at least recall the names they have chosen to be a big mouth to. For students that may have been absent last week, give each five index cards. Re-explain the purpose of the High 5 cards, and give them an opportunity to write down 5 names.

• Did any of you have a chance to share with any of the people we’ve been praying for?

Don’t forget the come and see method. It’s easy to do. Keep praying for your five friends.

Today, we shift to another story from scripture and to another method of evangelism, so let's get started.

DIGGING IN (30 minutes)

Read Mark 5: 1-20

We’re talking all about how to be a big mouth, and there’s lots of talking in this text. We want to look at three different sets of communication:

1. Jesus and the Demons
2. The Townspeople and Jesus
3. Jesus and the New Man

First, let’s look at Jesus and the demons.

Discussion Questions

1. What do you think it would’ve been like to encounter a crazy, demon-possessed man, in the middle of the night in a graveyard?
2. Name the manifestations of his demon possession. What was he like? (supernatural strength, self-injuring, yelled out, wore little to no clothing, etc.)

3. The disciples aren’t even mentioned in this text. What do you think they were doing as Jesus and the demons converse?

4. How many pigs? (2000)

Optional Activity (10 mintues)

You Dirty Demons (Skit) Click here

The Townspeople and Jesus
Read again Mark 5: 14-17

Discussion Questions

1. Verse 15 says that the people who came out to see what was going on were afraid. What do you think they were afraid of? (Two possible reasons 1.) the demon possessed man who they were probably used to, or 2.) Jesus, who had healed a man they had come to write off as a lost cause)
2. How does what the townspeople have to say to Jesus in verse 17 relate to the events we’ve talked about so far?
3. Does Jesus grant their request? (yes)
4. Why do you think he does what he does? (perhaps because he saw they didn’t want to hear his message)

Jesus and the New Man
Read again Mark 5: 18-20

(Move your students from the more general questions to those that are more pointed. Take your time. The idea here is to get them to buy into the idea that Christianity is not about our own comfort and ease, but about telling others about the good news of Jesus)

Discussion Questions

1. In your opinion, what is the point of being a Christian? (To go to heaven, to be like God, etc. are likely responses)
2. What is the obligation of the Christian to share the good news of Jesus?
3. Do you think Jesus is harsh here in not letting the restored man go along with him? Why/why not?
4. What exactly does Jesus tell him to do instead? (go home and tell his family what God has done)
5. How hard would those instructions be to follow, based on what the townspeople have seen him act like in the past?
6. If you were in the man’s shoes, how would you feel as you saw Jesus and the disciples push off from shore, leaving you behind?
7. What did he do according to the passage? (he went and preached throughout the region)

MAKING IT REAL (10 minutes)

We see later that the man must have done exactly as Jesus told him to do.

Look up and read Mark 7:31 and 8:1

• Where did the large crowd come from? How did they hear about Jesus?

The point is simple. Jesus returns to this area, and a large crowd is ready to receive him. Where did they get that desire? How did they know who he was? How could a crowd that asked him to leave be ready to listen to what he had to say? It must be that the man took Jesus at his word and went and told everyone he knew about what God had done for him.

It’s hard sometimes to share our faith. Fear gets in the way, we worry about what people will think of us, and all that. But when it comes down to it, evangelism is simple…Go and Tell. Go and Tell people what God has done for you. The things you wrote on your list, the grace God has given you, that’s all you need to know to Go and Tell.

Look at your High 5 cards again. If you don’t have them, recall the 5 people you wrote down last week.

Imagine with me if all five of them came to know Jesus. Then imagine if they shared the good news with five people each. The multiplication goes fast:

Tonight I want to encourage you to go and tell. You have a story. Jesus has done good for you. You once were lost, but Jesus found you, and now you are different. Isn’t that a message worth sharing?

SCRIPTURE MEMORIZATION (5 to 10 minutes)

This Weeks Verses

"Jesus did not let him, but said, "Go home to your family and tell them how much the Lord has done for you, and how he has had mercy on you." So the man went away and began to tell in the Decapolis how much Jesus had done for him. And all the people were amazed." (Mark 5: 19,20)

CLOSING PRAYER (2 minutes)