Please sit with your
group members
Inviting others into the Ultimate Relationship
MISSION STRATEGY:
SHARING THE GOSPEL
The Main Thing
WIN:
Inviting college students into a growing
relationship with Jesus Christ and His Church.
BUILD: Inspiring and equipping them
for a lifetime of Christ-centered
SEND:
Evangelization, Discipleship, & Friendships
SPIRIT.
in which they lead others to do the same.
MULT:
Sharing the Gospel
1. Model and teach the sharing of a
Gospel script
2. Identify some foundations for
enabling Spiritual Multiplication
and Evangelization
3. Addressing fear of sharing
4. Power session preparation
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Why invite others to know Jesus?
John 17:3 – “This is eternal Life, that they may
know you, the only true God, and the one
whom you have sent.”
Why invite others to know Jesus?
John 3:16 – “For God so loved
the world that he gave his only
Son, that whoever believes in
him should not perish but have
eternal life.”
Why invite others to know Jesus?
• Because the world lacks joy!
• “The joy of the Gospel fills the hearts and lives
of all who encounter Jesus. Those who accept
his offer of salvation are set free from sin,
sorrow, inner emptiness and loneliness. With
Christ joy is constantly born anew.”
Pope Francis, Evangelii Gaudium, Paragraph 1
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“I can see from my own experience that even if I
speak of many beautiful concepts, nothing seems to
happen. We must proclaim Jesus as Lord and Savior,
helping people to grasp what it means to have Jesus
as their Savior — not in a theoretical way, but that
every day they have a Savior, someone who will lift
them from their fatigue of the day, of their sin, and
their mistakes, and who renews them. He saves us.
When you proclaim this living, crucified and risen
Jesus, something always happens.”
-Fr. Raniero Cantalamessa
(Preacher to the Papal Household since 1980)
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This is in the
program so that…
And
you…
can teach it to your
group and to
disciples on campus!
I can
teach it to
you…
Don’t be that guy…
Don’t break the chain!
What are we going to do?
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Tell
Show
Try
Do
What did we just do?
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Tell
Show
Try
Do
What did we just do?
• The Ultimate Relationship is a script.
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This booklet has four main messages:
Relationship
1. God created us for a ____________________
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This booklet has four main messages:
2. Our ________________________through
sin.
Relationship is broken
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This booklet has four main messages:
Jesus restores
3. _________________
our relationship
_________________
with the Father
_________________.
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This booklet has four main messages:
4. We have the
Free choice
____________________to
accept or reject this offer.
Why use the UR?
• It opens the door for the Holy
Spirit to work
• Invitation to know Jesus
• Repeatable
• It has a Catholic approval of
being free from error (Nihil
Obstat/Imprimatur)
• Asks listener to make a
decision
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Basics of Spiritual
Multiplication
“Go therefore and make disciples of all nations….”
Matthew 28:19-20
“and what you have heard from me before many
witnesses entrust to faithful men who will be able to teach
others also.”
2 Timothy 2:2
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A rock solid foundation for
Spiritual Multiplication
1. Evangelization and spiritual multiplication
are the work of the ______________
_______________
for which we seek to make ourselves
_________________.
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A rock solid foundation for
Spiritual Multiplication
1. Evangelization and spiritual multiplication
Holy
are the work of the ______________
Spirit
_______________
for which we seek to make ourselves
_________________.
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A rock solid foundation for
Spiritual Multiplication
1. Evangelization and spiritual multiplication
Holy
are the work of the ______________
Spirit
_______________
for which we seek to make ourselves
available
_________________.
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2. Everything you do must anchor
others into
______________ ______________
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2. Everything you do must anchor
others into
Jesus
Christ
______________
_______________
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2. Everything you do must anchor
others into
Jesus
Christ
______________
_______________
3. Everything you do must be
______________ _______________
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2. Everything you do must anchor
others into
Jesus
Christ
______________
_______________
3. Everything you do must be
100%
repeatable
______________
_______________
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2. Everything you do must anchor
others into
Jesus
Christ
______________
_______________
3. Everything you do must be
100%
repeatable
______________
_______________
4. _____________ is the heart of all
spiritual multiplication.
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2. Everything you do must anchor
others into
Jesus
Christ
______________
_______________
3. Everything you do must be
100%
repeatable
______________
_______________
Prayer
4. _____________
is the heart of all
spiritual multiplication.
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5. We must ____________ _______________
and trust the Holy Spirit to guide us in the
process of spiritual multiplication.
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sow
broadly
5. We must ____________
_______________
and trust the Holy Spirit to guide us in the
process of spiritual multiplication.
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Sow broadly? Who can you share
with?
#4
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Strangers
Acquaintances
Friends and family members
Bible study members
Disciples
Yourself
The most objectively sinful person you know of in your
life
Addressing Our Fears
• “For surely I know the plans I have for
you says the Lord, plans for your welfare
and not for woe. To give you a future
filled with hope.”
-Jeremiah 29:11
• “Perfect love casts out fear”
-1 John 4:18
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Know Thyself
Fears about a relationship with God
• I’m not good enough
• I’m afraid he won’t forgive me
• It is going to cost too much
• I don’t know if I can change
• I am not ready to change
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Jesus meets us in our fears
Close your eyes:
Imagine yourself on Calvary at the foot of Jesus’ cross.
Mary and St. John are standing by your side. You look
up at Jesus and he can read your fears in your face. As
you hold your breath you hear him speak slowly to
you…. What did Jesus say to calm your fears?
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Know Thyself
Fears about sharing with others
• I’m not good enough
• They’re all going to laugh at me.
• I don’t know what to say
• I am afraid of them
• How could he use “me?”
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Jesus meets us in our fears
Close your eyes:
Now close your eyes imagine yourself sitting where you
are the most comfortable, Jesus is there also. He has
your papers in his hand. He looks at your fear and then
looks at you….What does Jesus say to you to calm your
fears?
“Perfect love casts out fear”
- 1 John 4:18
Philemon 1:6
“And I pray that the sharing of
your faith may promote the
knowledge of all the good that is
ours in Christ”
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Tips for the UR
In your teaching groups.
• The program identifies three ways you can
become more natural in presenting the UR.
• Read the tips
• Discuss these tips together
• Can you think of any additional ways?
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Power Session
1. Open with a prayer to the Holy Spirit for
guidance.
2. Split your group into even groups for how
many of you attended this session
(2 attended = 2 groups)
– Each of you will lead the 45 minute session as if
you were teaching those you walk with in
Discipleship how to lead the Ultimate
Relationship with another.
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Power Session
5. Make an invitation to an initial or deeper
commitment to Jesus using the Ultimate
Relationship script.
a. Rejoice if they prayed to deepen or begin a
relationship with Jesus!
4. Lead the Know thyself (#2) exercise.
3. Depth Chart Brainstorm (#4)
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6. Review the four main points of the Gospel
message. (#3)
7. Reinforce the basics of Spiritual
Multiplication. (#1)
8. If time permits use the Golden Question
Exercise (#5) to build a more personal
invitation for sharing the Gospel.
Correct order: 1, 2, 5, 4, 3, 6, 7
Eliminate 8
Go Therefore!
• Prep your power session.