Fourth Talk
HAVE YOU HELPED SOMEONE RECOGNIZE GOD'S LOVE?

I.	Purpose:	To be Christ-bearers, bringing God's love to others.

A.	To give our brothers/sisters in our group an opportunity to share in the joy we have experienced in sharing Christ with others and to remind them and ourselves of our need to be always open to sharing Jesus, with whom we walk, with those whom we meet on our journey.

II.	Definition:  To share how we have responded to the needs of those around us as Jesus would have responded.

A.	God is constantly sending us people to whom we are to minister.  Often, we don't recognize that until after it is too late.

B.	We each have gifts to share with the persons around us.  God gave us the gifts to use in serving one another.

C.	Our wholeness is the result of our servanthood.

D.	The team which came to conduct your short course came as servants.  Some waited tables, some gave talks, some played music, some cooked, some prayed.  They all served and were made more whole by that service.

III.	Example in Scripture.

A.	James and John, the sons of Zebedee, came to Jesus asking to sit on his right and left when he assumed his throne in his glorious kingdom.  Jesus told them that he didn't have the right to choose who would sit beside him, that it was God who would assign those places.  The other disciples were disturbed about this.  Read Mark 10:42-45:  So Jesus called them all together to him and said, "You know that the men who are considered rulers of the heathen have power over them, and the leaders have complete authority.  This, however, is not the way it is among you.  If one of you wants to be great, he must be the servant of the rest; and if one of you wants to be first, he must be the slave of all.  For even the Son of Man did not come to be served; he came to serve and to give his life to redeem many people."

IV.	Brief personal witness.  Speaker shares one chance he/she had to share Christ with others and maybe a good opportunity which he missed.

V.	Response by the Leader

A.	Invites participants to spend 15 minutes in subjective discussion of talk.

B.	Divides into new pairs.

C.	Instructs pairs to share the chances they had to share Christ with others during the past week.