To Know Christ and Make Him Known: April 22, 2018

Acts 4:5-12

⁵ The next day the rulers, the elders and the teachers of the law met in Jerusalem. ⁶ Annas the high priest was there, and so were Caiaphas, John, Alexander and others of the high priest’s family. ⁷ They had Peter and John brought before them and began to question them: “By what power or what name did you do this?”

⁸ Then Peter, filled with the Holy Spirit, said to them: “Rulers and elders of the people! ⁹ If we are being called to account today for an act of kindness shown to a man who was lame and are being asked how he was healed, ¹⁰ then know this, you and all the people of Israel: It is by the name of Jesus Christ of Nazareth, whom you crucified but whom God raised from the dead, that this man stands before you healed. ¹¹ Jesus is

“‘the stone you builders rejected,
which has become the cornerstone.’

¹² Salvation is found in no one else, for there is no other name under heaven given to mankind by which we must be saved.”

INTRODUCTION

1. You Are Going to Be Challenged for Your Faith.
   7 “By what power or what name did you do this?”

2. The Proven Response is to Tell the Simple Story.
   10 It is by the name of Jesus Christ of Nazareth, whom you crucified but whom God raised from the dead, that this man stands before you healed

3. Why Share with Students, Internationals and the Nominal Religious?12 Salvation is found in no one else, for there is no other name under heaven given to mankind by which we must be saved.

CONCLUSION

Introducing two Campus ministers at American University:

1. Moses Lee at OneU DC http://www.oneudc.org/about
2. Blane Young at Chi Alpha http://www.blaneyoung.com/ 

QUOTES FROM INFLUENTIAL CHRISTIAN LEADERS

Earthly riches are full of poverty. — St. Augustine

Can a mortal ask questions which God finds unanswerable? Quite easily, I should think. All nonsense questions are unanswerable. — C.S. Lewis

Many of us are hunting mice – while lions devour the land. — Leonard Ravenhill

My brethren, if you were left to yourselves, you would be overcome by every temptation with which you are beset. — George Whitefield

Revival is Jesus gone public. — Corey Russell

Give me one hundred preachers who fear nothing but sin, and desire nothing but God, and I care not a straw whether they be clergymen or laymen; such alone will shake the gates of hell and set up the kingdom of heaven on Earth. — John Wesley

Untold millions are still untold. — John Wesley

Jesus didn’t go to the cross so we wouldn’t have to. He went to the cross so we could join him there. — Dallas Willard

http://thinktheology.org/    (This is a great resource to use for individual growth. I invite you a few times a week to read an article….)