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Inviting sportspeople to hear and respond to the gospel
Study 12
Ready
Do you have authentic or superficial friendships with your sports friends? How do you know?
In order to be good witnesses to our sports friends, we need to invest time in them; learn what they like, learn about them, have shared experiences with them. To have the trust to be vulnerable looking at the Bible, our friends need to trust us. In order to build this trust, alongside spending time with people, we need to be authentic in how we live our lives.
Are we consistent in our actions, is our life in any way going to compromise sharing the message?
Set
Read: Romans 10:12-17
1. How would you try to persuade another Christian sportsperson to bring their team to hear the gospel explained using this passage?
2. Who does verse 12 tell us the gospel is for?
3. What does someone need to do to be saved according to verses 13-14?
4. How do verses 14-17 describe our role in enabling this to happen?
5. Discuss what it would look like to have ‘beautiful feet’ (v15) in your sports club?
6. How would people describe your ’feet’ today in line with this passage.
What you need to know:
In verse 15, Paul quotes Isaiah 52:7 which refers to those who bring the exiles the good news of their imminent release from captivity in Babylonia. Here it is applied to those who bring the good news of release from the captivity of sin.
Here we see that God uses people to proclaim his word and he uses his proclaimed word to save people. Think about how you can give your sports friends an opportunity to hear Gods message in an environment in which they will listen. Remember the role we have to play in people hearing the good news about Jesus. Though it often makes us nervous asking our friends to come to an event or church, nothing is more thrilling than seeing our sports friends engage with Jesus Christ!
Go
Who are you inviting to hear the gospel? Who is going to hold you accountable for asking them?
Pray with that person for the courage to follow through on good intentions and for your sports friends to hear about Jesus and respond to him in faith.