Teach like jesus3

Teach Like

JesusJosh Hunt

Jesus didn’t. . . • Do any advertising.• Have an outreach

strategy.• Follow up on prospects.• Contact absentees.• Do visitation.• Promote his meetings.• Do marketing.

Jesus did. . . • Tell people not to tell.• Seem to prefer the

small group over the crowd.

• Sometimes avoid the crowds.

• Have huge crowds.

It is not enough to teach what Jesus taught.

We need to teach how

Jesus taught.

Jesus’ teaching was amazing!

• Matthew 7:28 (NIV) When Jesus had finished saying these things, the crowds were amazed at his teaching,

• Matthew 13:54 (NIV) Coming to his hometown, he began teaching the people in their synagogue, and they were amazed.

• Mark 1:22 (NIV) The people were amazed at his teaching.

• Mark 1:27 (NIV) The people were all so amazed that they asked each other, “What is this? A new teaching--and with authority!

Jesus’ teaching was amazing!

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•Mark 4:2 (MSG) He taught by using stories, many stories.

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Stories• Mark 4:33 (MSG)

With many stories like these, he presented his message to them, fitting the stories to their experience and maturity.


Stories•Matthew 22:1

(MSG) Jesus responded by telling still more stories.


Stories•Matthew 13:34

(MSG) All Jesus did that day was tell stories—a long storytelling afternoon.


Stories• Matthew 13:34

(CEV) Jesus used stories when he spoke to the people. In fact, he did not tell them anything without using stories.


How to find stories

• Your own life• Bible• Story-rich books• www.sermoncentral.com

• Good Questions Have Groups Talking


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Proverbs• John 10:6 (CEV) Jesus told the people this

story. But they did not understand what he was talking about.

• John 10:6 (GW) Jesus used this illustration as he talked to the people, but they didn't understand what he meant.

• John 10:6 (ESV) This figure of speech Jesus used with them, but they did not understand what he was saying to them.

• John 10:6 (TEV) Jesus told them this parable, but they did not understand what he meant.

• John 10:6 (MSG) Jesus told this simple story, but they had no idea what he was talking about.


NIV. . .

• 2 Peter 2:22 (NIV) Of them the proverbs are true: “A dog returns to its vomit,” and, “A sow that is washed goes back to her wallowing in the mud.”


Proverbs of Jesus• John 8:32 (NIV)

Then you will know the truth, and the truth will


Proverbs of Jesus• John 8:32 (NIV)

Then you will know the truth, and the truth will set you free.


Proverbs of Jesus• Matthew 7:7 (NIV)

Ask and it will be given to you; seek and you will find; knock and the door


Proverbs of Jesus• Matthew 7:7 (NIV)

Ask and it will be given to you; seek and you will find; knock and the door will be opened to you.


Proverbs of Jesus

•Matthew 5:13 (NIV) You are the salt of the earth.


Proverbs of Jesus•Matthew 7:12

(NIV) So in everything, do to others what you. . .


Proverbs of Jesus•Matthew 7:12

(NIV) So in everything, do to others what you would have them do to you.


People don’t remember sermons or speeches—they don’t even remember paragraphs. What people remember are. . . slogans.

Warren, Rick —The Purpose Driven- Church

Memorable is portable.

— Andy Stanley

“One more

night with the frogs.”

I am not a grass-hopper.

What was R.G. Lee’s most

famous sermon?

What was R.G. Lee’s most

famous sermon?

Payday Someday.

What is Jonathan’s

Edwards most famous sermon?

What is Jonathan’s

Edwards most famous sermon?

Sinners in the hands of an angry God.

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Jesus asked questions• John 6:5-6 (NIV) When Jesus

looked up and saw a great crowd coming toward him, he said to Philip, “Where shall we buy bread for these people to eat?” He asked this only to test him, for he already had in mind what he was going to do.


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You are the bread of life.

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Do whatever he tells you.

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Do whatever he tells you.

Situation is hopeless.

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John 6:7 (NIV) Philip answered

him, “Eight months’ wages would not

buy enough bread for each one to

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John 6:7 (NIV) Philip answered

him, “Eight months’ wages would not

buy enough bread for each one to

have a bite!”StoriesProverbsQuestionsReward

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John 6:8-9 (NIV) Another of his disciples, Andrew, Simon Peter’s

brother, spoke up, “Here is a boy with five small barley loaves and two small fish, but how far will they go among so

many?”


John 6:8-9 (NIV) Another of his disciples, Andrew, Simon Peter's

brother, spoke up, “Here is a boy with five small barley loaves and two small fish, but how far will they go among so

many?”

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Jesus asked questions• Matthew 16:13-14 (NIV)

When Jesus came to the region of Caesarea Philippi, he asked his disciples, “Who do people say the Son of Man is?”

• They replied, “Some say John the Baptist; others say Elijah; and still others, Jeremiah or one of the prophets.”


Jesus asked questions• Matthew 16:15-16

(NIV) “But what about you?” he asked. “Who do you say I am?” • Simon Peter answered,

“You are the Christ, the Son of the living God.”


Jesus asked questions• Matthew 16:15-16 (NIV)

“But what about you?” he asked. “Who do you say I am?” • Simon Peter answered,

“You are the Christ, the Son of the living God.”

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We are changed more by

what we say than what

we hear.


Matthew 15:18 (NIV) But the

things that come out of the mouth

come from the heart, and these

make a man “unclean.”

Does what comes out of

your mouth reveal the

heart, or change the

heart?



Matthew 15:18 (NIV) But the

things that come out of the mouth

come from the heart, and these

make a man “unclean.”

3 When we put bits into the mouths of horses to

make them obey us, we can turn the

whole animal.

4 Or take ships as an example. Although

they are so large and are driven by strong

winds, they are steered by a very small rudder

wherever the pilot wants to go.

Jesus asked questions• Romans 10:9 (NIV) That

if you confess with your mouth, “Jesus is Lord,” and believe in your heart that God raised him from the dead, you will be saved.


My two favorite questions•Why should I?•What bad things

will happen if I don’t?


Hebrews 11:6 (NIV) And without faith it is

impossible to please God, because anyone

who comes to him must believe that he

exists and that he rewards those who

earnestly seek him.


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Lewis said, “We are far too easily

pleased.” Almost all of Christ’s commands are motivated by “the unblushing promises

of reward.”


Based on “the staggering nature of the rewards

promised in the Gospels, it would seem that our

Lord finds our desires not too strong, but too

weak.”— The Dangerous Duty of

Delight. Piper


If people serve God only for what they get out of it, then

they are not serving God at all, they are

only serving themselves by

making God their servant.

“God is more interested in

your holiness than your

happiness.”

Matthew 6:1-6 (NIV)

“Be careful not to do your ‘acts of

righteousness’ before men, to be

seen by them. If you do, you will have no

reward from your Father in heaven.


“So when you give to the needy, do not announce it with trumpets, as the hypocrites do in the synagogues and on

the streets, to be honored by men. I tell you the truth, they have received their reward in full.


3 But when you give to the

needy, do not let your left hand know

what your right hand is doing,


4 so that your giving may be in

secret. Then your Father, who sees

what is done in secret, will

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5 “And when you pray, do not be like the

hypocrites, for they love to pray standing in the

synagogues and on the street corners to be seen

by men. I tell you the truth, they have received

their reward in full. StoriesProverbsQuestionsReward

6 But when you pray, go into your room, close the door and

pray to your Father, who is unseen. Then

your Father, who sees what is done in secret,

will reward you. StoriesProverbsQuestionsReward

Mark 10:29-31 (NIV) “I tell you the truth,”

Jesus replied, “no one who has left home or brothers or sisters or

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30 will fail to receive a hundred times as much in this present age (homes, brothers, sisters, mothers, children and fields—

and with them, persecutions) and in the age to come, eternal life. 31 But many who are first will be last, and the last first.”


Hebrews 11:6 (NIV) And without faith it is

impossible to please God, because anyone

who comes to him must believe that he

exists and that he rewards those who

earnestly seek him.


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God to give or to get?Stories

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I read the Bible almost every day.

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God is a rewarder

You must come to love the

Christian life or you will never

come to live the Christian life.

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