22nd March 2026: Cultivating a Lifestyle of Everyday Evangelism

Welcome to the podcast of the White Church in Adelaide, South

Australia. I was just reminded this morning

that you know the reasons why we're here, Not for ourselves.

You know this, this church doesn't exist for us.

We, we didn't come for ourselves.

Like we, we get a lot out of being here.

We get a lot out of being with the Lord.

We're strengthened, you know, we're able to overcome together

when we're side by side worshipping together is it is

amazing thing that we don't get to do when we're on our own.

This is very special. But we're not here for

ourselves. This church doesn't exist for

you and I. We, we are serving an eternal

God who's building an eternal Kingdom.

And so we're building for the generations to come.

How special is it that we have children in this place?

They are the next generation. The Lord has made us to be

fruitful. We've got these young kids and

you know, it just reminded us this morning that you know, in

120 a 130 years, depending on how old you are now, there

there's there's every single person that's on the face of the

earth today is going to be gone. There's going to be a whole new

group of people inhabiting the earth in in a short period of

time. And that means that it, it's a

short period of time, but it means that what we do here

matters. We are wanting to see, you know,

his Kingdom come and his will be done.

That when we leave this place, that we've worked to make sure

that the work of the gospel, that the church would continue

on and that our sons and our daughters would be raised to

know him. But that many people in this

community where God's planted this lampstand would come to

know him and they would teach their children and their

children's children. This is generational Gods.

We can't lose sight of the reason that we're here.

We're here for the generations to come.

We're here for the for the Kingdom that's coming behind us.

And you know, and, and that's important for today.

Daniel, you just come up now, buddy.

Daniel's going to share with us a word.

And I just say all that just to remind us that, you know, we're

going to have to be bold. We're going to have to step out

of our comfort zones in the same way that we have to step out of

our comfort zones even just to worship the Lord sometimes, you

know, when I don't love to jump up and down here, but I want to

teach my kids. I want to teach the generation

behind me that the Lord is worthy of being worshipped.

Amen. And so it's going to it's going

to take some discomfort for us to see his Kingdom come and his

will be done. And so I'm just going to pray

for Daniel. Daniel's prepared a word for us

today. And Lord, we, we open our hearts

wide to the Spirit of God in this place.

We want to hear from you today. We will hear from you.

We want to take a hold of what you're saying.

We want to implement. We want to see your Kingdom

come, your will be done. And I'll just pray just the

anointing over Daniel right now, just a fresh anointing to speak

your words, your directing, your leading, your guiding.

I pray that that everything that is from him would fall away,

that it wouldn't take ruin our hearts and that everything from

you would take deep root in our hearts, Lord.

So I just pray your strength, your peace, your authority over

Daniel right now to speak your word.

And we, we pray in the name of Jesus our King, Amen.

Amen. Do you have your Bibles with you

guys? Awesome, Let's grab it out.

We're going to read from the Physical Bible.

But before I do that, I'm just going to quickly grab something.

Can we turn to Ezekiel 37 this morning?

This will be the foundational text I'll be speaking from.

But before I start, the title of the message that I felt was

cultivating a lifestyle of everyday evangelism.

Evangelism in the definition of the Bible or the biblical, is a

preacher of the gospel or the good news.

I'll put it simple. It is just sharing Jesus,

sharing the good news that we have been saved by grace, not

through works, but by what Cross has done.

But then we come into a general relationship with Him.

So I want to pose a question to you guys.

We're not going to answer it, just going to pose a question.

We are going to answer it through this preaching, but I

don't want you guys to answer. I want you guys to think about

this. How do I or how do we live our

lives in such a way that every day I am ready to share the

gospel? We were Ezekiel 37.

Awesome. I'm reading from the NLT today.

Lord, breathe. Upon this word.

The Lord took a hold of me, and I was carried away by the Spirit

of the Lord to a valley filled with bones.

He led me all around among the bones that covered the valley

floor. They were scattered everywhere

across the ground, and they're completely dried out.

Then he asked me, Son of Man, can these bones become living

people again? O sovereign Lord, I replied, you

alone know the answer to that. Then he said to me, speak a

prophetic message to these bones and say, dry bones, listen to

the word of the Lord. This is what the Sovereign Lord

says. Look, I am going to put breath

into you and make you live again.

I'll put flesh and muscle on you and cover you with skin.

I'll put breath in you, into you, and I will come and you

will come to life. Then you will know that I am the

Lord. So I spoke the message just as

he told me. Suddenly as I spoke, there was a

rattling noise all across the valley.

The bones of each body came together and attached themselves

as complete skeletons. Verse 8 Then as I watched, the

muscles and flesh formed over the bone.

Then the skin formed to cover their bodies, but they still had

no breath. In verse 9, Then he said to me,

Speak a prophetic message to the winds, Son of Man, speak a

prophetic message and say this is what the sovereign Lord says,

come, O breath from the four winds, breathe into these dead

bodies so that may live again. So I spoke the message as he

commanded and breathe into their bodies.

They all came to life and stood up on their feet a great army.

A fortnight ago, David actually mentioned about the dry bones

and I was sitting there. I just felt God.

So that's your foundational scripture.

And the dry bones in the scripture represent the lost out

there. Ezekiel represents us, the

mouthpiece, the messenger, the message that Ezekiel sharing to

the dry bones is US sharing the gospel truth, the lost.

And then he says the winds in the Scripture.

When you see the winds, the water, it typically refers to

Holy Spirit. We cannot do anything.

We cannot bring salvation to anyone, only God can.

Our words need to be partnered with the Holy Spirit.

And you can see in this text that Ezekiel was partnered with

God to speak the message to them.

The message was given, but without the direction of God.

He didn't have any life on them. But when God said go and speak

it and then he commanded it, Ezekiel listened, commanded it.

He partnered with the Word and he partnered with the Spirit of

God. And those dry bones came up in 2

bodies, and they stood on their feet, and there was a great

army. The the thing that he says is he

knows God so well. But his response was, O

sovereign Lord, only you alone know.

Again, O sovereign Lord, only you know alone out there who

will receive the gospel. Only you out there will know who

is right, ready for the picking. Only you will know what the

words to speak to that person, to the heart so they can receive

the gospel. It's not on our own effort, not

by our mind, not by our strength, but it's by the power

of the Spirit in us that breathes into them.

So how can we speak the message every day preparing ourselves?

I've got three points here. First point is, by knowing Him,

our intimacy is super important with God.

It is fundamental. I must say, just sharing the

good news because if you're surrounded by something, over

time you keep going there and going there.

Eventually your mouth starts speaking what you've been

around. It says in the Bible, in Luke 6,

I believe 45, says out of the overflow, the mouth speaks,

right? It's out of our time spent with

God. We start speaking these things

about who God is. It's like our hobbies.

It's like our friends, if we can hang around them enough, we

start to pick up their language, you start to pick up what

they're saying, we start to pick up their characteristics.

It's the same with us in the presence of God.

The people out there that are lost, the need to know who He is

and wear that sign. Our time spent with God, they

will see Him, not us, that will experience Him, not us.

The words that we speak will be His words and not our words.

So spending time is a fundamental thing for us to

share the gospel. Knowing him as He knows you.

Intimacy is into me, you see. So I want to encourage us.

Let's keep pushing into intimacy with God.

Because if we are pushing into intimacy with God, people will

see the face of God through us, that will see their hands and

feet at work when we start to go out and do these things.

So my question is, what are we giving ourselves to?

Ezekiel spent time with God. He heard God, he listened to

God. He was always ready to hear in.

In the whole book of Ezekiel, you see that he is listening to

God and obeying God. There are some crazy things and

some people call him the stuntman.

He does the things that a lot of people would be questionable

about in this day and age, but he didn't because he knew God.

He knew the intent of what the message was to the people of

Israel at the time. So he surrounded himself to God

and he gave himself to the things of God.

Are we listening to what God is speaking?

Simply, Ezekiel did not just listen, but he obeyed as well.

So we need to listen, but also need to be obedient to when he

says, hey, over there, go speak to them.

Oh, hey, over there, I want you to go just just pray for them.

Oh, hey, you know what? I just want you to come and draw

away from all of life's warriors around you and spend time with

me. And the third thing is, are we

letting God breathe upon what we speak?

See a moment of God. I said, Holy Spirit, speak upon

your word, because if I just said it, it would just be me

saying words. But the Holy Spirit brings life

to the work because His word is alive and active.

I can't bring this thing alive. I can't go, OK, come alive now

only by the power of the Holy Spirit.

It's not by my mind, not by my strength.

I keep saying that because it's by partnering with the Spirit

that these words will come alive and active and they will impact

the heart of the lost. That will impact our friends

that are lost, that are searching, that are hungry.

That will impact our family members that don't know the

gospel. That will impact the random

person on the street that we will encounter.

That will impact someone in this community centre that we're in

during the week. We might be here on hampers.

God is sending them through to us.

Are we ready to share the prophetic word?

Are we ready to let God breathe upon those words in Acts 826 and

30? I'll just get a little bit of a

prequel of what's going on here. Philip was the first evangelist

known in the book of Acts, and he was in a raving revival.

Things were happening, signs, wonders and miracles.

He preached the gospel people just giving their life to

Christ. But in verse 26, now the Angel

of the Lord said to Philip, rise and go towards the South, to a

road that goes down to Jerusalem, from Jerusalem to

Gaza. This is a desert, desert place.

And he rose and went, and there was an Ethiopian, a unique, a

court official of the candidates, the queen of

Ethiopians, who was in charge of all her treasures.

He had come to Jerusalem to worship.

Even in that scripture there, this guy, under what he knew of

the covenant that he was living in, he came to Jerusalem to

worship. He was coming to spend time with

God. He was coming to just praise him

and give him what he could. And he returned when he was

returning seat on the chariot, he was reading the prophet

Isaiah and the Spirit catch that the Spirit first Angel directed

him, but the Holy Spirit spoke and directed him to a further

point. He said go over there, join this

chariot. So Philip ran.

Can I ask that question? Are we running when God speaks

to go to those people or are we still going to be here?

You go right? I don't know.

Philip knew his relationship with God.

He knew the voice of the Holy Spirit and instantly reacted.

Suddenly he ran to the chariot and then Philip heard him

reading Isaiah the prophet and asked him, do you understand

what you're reading? I want to stop at that because

then this is where Philip unpacks what he's reading and

he's unpacking the gospel with him.

He's unpacking what Christ just did, crossed out on the cross,

but he came and died, but then he rose again.

This is the hope we have. This is the hope the message of

the gospel that we have. Philip was explaining to someone

on the road because the Holy Spirit directed him, because he

allowed his intimate moment to become a practical reality.

So again, our time in our with God is fundamental to sharing

the good news of the Gospel .2 knowing the gospel.

Do we know the gospel? Are we fluent in speaking the

gospel? Do we understand the gospel?

If you see on your seats, some seats, because I think some of

them have kind of misplaced, there is this thing called the

three circles. It's a tool to help you share

the gospel. It's not the only one, but it's,

it's simple because it's visual, but also there's a, there's a

communication aspect to it that you can have.

So the first circle you see here is God's plan and what I'm going

to do with this white board. This is why we have the white

board here is I'm going to draw it out a bit bigger so everyone

can see it. So we got this 1st circle, God's

perfect design. At the beginning, God created

everything and it was good. Nothing was broken, nothing was

decaying, everything was perfect and beautiful.

That was God's plan. Then.

Sin separated us from God's perfect plan, right?

Adam and Eve rebelled. They decide to eat the apple out

of God's love and mercy. Cast them out of the tree, from

the tree. And what we have here is a

broken world. We can agree we're living in a

fallen and broken world right now.

There are there are things that we should have been experiencing

because of the state of the fall, because of sin,

separation. So then that relationship, that

perfect relationship we had with God had been severed and we had

to do works and things to get back to it.

And so there's these little bungee cords that come out and

that's how it works. That's our effort, that's our

striving. That's us trying to get back

into the presence, trying to get into the relationship, trying to

build our ourselves up to be holy and righteous.

But we can't do that right then. God sent His Son, and that is

the plan, always been the plan. Jesus, who is God, came down to

earth, live that sinless and spotless life, showed us how to

have intimacy with the Father, to show us how to have a

relationship with him in the fallen state.

And then he died. He took all of humanity, sin

from past, present and future, all eternity.

The wrath of God was put on him. So sin has been dealt with.

Now those that believe this and in Romans 10 it says when you

believe in your heart and when you confess with your mouth, you

shall be saved. And when you believe in this, it

goes full circle to that because of Jesus Christ, you now have

right relationship with the Father again and with Christ.

Do you see that the three circles?

It's it's quite simple in visual picture.

And then there's some questions here when you're sharing, you

can go, which circle do you think you're in?

And most people go, oh, I think I'm here or I think I'm here.

The reality is we're all here without Jesus.

And so then you go, OK, which circle do you want to be in?

And they said, oh, I want to be in this one.

I really want to be in this one. So I said, and then you ask the

next following question. Is there anything stopping you

from turning from your sin and believing in Jesus?

And that's when that the robbery hits the road for everyone.

They have to go outdoor where they want Jesus.

Now there's moments and there's moments that I say no thanks and

that's it. From that moment you share the

gospel. Your responsibility has been

done. Their response, their way they

barrack you to is not on you. They're not rejecting you,

they're rejecting Christ. So you can't take that on when

you're sharing the good news of, of Christ.

You can't take on that. Maybe I didn't do it here.

I didn't do it whatever it looked like.

God's going to continue to bring people around to share the

gospel. We're not the end result for

someone's life. It's the Holy Spirit that brings

the freedom and the joy and the salvation through we water and

we plant. So if we're not confident in

sharing the gospel outside, there can be as bold as say,

right after we finish today, can you grab someone in this room

and share the gospel with them? Because we need to know God is

bringing people into hampers, bringing people into our

community groups, bringing people through the doors that we

don't. We're not sure if the gospel's

in US to speak to them, how they're going to hear the good

news, our friends and our family, the people who walk in

the street. If we haven't got it in US, how

can we share it so we can fumble through this together, where

this is a safe place, where family, we make mistakes, that's

fine because we're in here, we're learning together.

This is the training ground for us to be able to understand what

the gospel is, to be able to share and communicate it

clearly. See, in Romans 611 it says when

we're utterly helpless, Christ came just at the right time and

died for us sinners. Now, most people will not be

willing to die for an outright person, though someone might

perhaps be willing to die for a person who's especially good.

But God showed his great love by sending Christ to die for us.

Why? We're still sinners.

And since we mean right with God's sight by the blood of

Christ, he will certainly savor from God's condemnation.

For our friendship with God was restored, or our relationship

with God restored by the death of His Son.

Why we're still enemies? We will certainly be saved

through the life of His Son. So now we can rejoice in our

wonderful new relationship with God because of our Lord Jesus

Christ who has made us friends with God, other versions say

reconciled us to God. Right there is the gospel.

When we were wayward sinners, enemies of God, He came, He died

in our position and place, and then it says He restored that

relationship. And now we have a hope to share

with people. David.

Read this out at the beginning of our prayer time this morning.

One Peter 315. Instead, you must worship Christ

as Lord of your life. And if someone asks you about

your hope as believers, always be ready to explain it.

First point knowing him. Second point, knowing the

gospel. And Third Point is sharing the

gospel. We spoke about sharing the

gospel, but again, it all comes from our overflow with God.

If we're not spending time, if we're not understanding his

voice or listening to his voice, I don't understand the gospel.

We can't share the gospel. And so through Ezekiel, I just

got a few examples of where it starts.

Right at the beginning of the chapter, Chapter 7, verse one to

two, it says, this is the message that came from me, from

the Lord, O Son of Man. This is what the sovereign Lord

says to Israel. And in chapter 35, verse one and

two, again a message came from me, from the Lord Son of man.

Turn your face to mount shear and prophecy against His people.

And then again Ezekiel 36 verse one, son of man prophesied to

the Israel's mountains. Give this message to the O

mountains, O Israel, hear the word of the Lord.

And again, Ezekiel 26 verse one on the 3rd or of February the

3rd during the 12th year of King Jehoiakim's captivity, this

message came from me, from the Lord.

Ezekiel had a message. We have a message.

And it wasn't just one chapter. It was majority of the chapters

began with and the Lord gave a message to Ezekiel or the Spirit

of God took me here. Oh Son of man prophesied to

them. There was a message every day.

Every moment is an opportunity for us to share the message and

we might miss it, and that's OK. Again, we're not perfect, but if

we're hearing God, we'll be able to be ready to share the gospel,

right? So the practical tips I've

mentioned here is the three circles, but it might not look

like going on the streets. It might not look like what

you've seen out there or people have shown you of evangelism.

It might be you have someone at your coffee table or you might

have them for dinner before you even have them start in prayer.

Holy Spirit, what is it that you want to say?

And when you're in the midst of the conversation with them, it's

never just you in the conversation.

Get God to come join with you. It's like you're having an

internal conversation while having an external conversation.

You're going, Lord, is there something you want to say to

them? Is there something that you

know? Is this the moment I share the

gospel with them? Are they ready?

Are they ripe? It's like Holy Spirit pausing

and allowing Holy Spirit to speak, not having your own

agenda, but letting him flow through you.

But that comes again back from your own time with Holy Spirit

comes again to hearing His voice.

Another way that Jesus did it was he sent them out in twos.

See Matthew Mark 6 verse 7 to 13.

Mark 6:7–13

He called the 12 disciples and began to send them out two by

two. He gave them authority over

unclean spirits. He charged them to take nothing

for their journey except the staff.

No bread, no no bag, no money in their belts, but he to wear

sandals to put not on 2 tunics. And he said to them, whenever

you're into the house, stay there until you depart from

them. And if any place will not

receive you and they will not listen to you when you leave,

shake the dust from your feet as a testimony against them.

I mentioned that before. Some people won't receive the

gospel, and it's not our responsibility for them on how

they receive it. God has just said go and share

the gospel. We can't make them respond in a

certain way to it. That's how they're going to

respond. We're not the Savior.

Jesus is the Savior. And so when I look at that, I

go, OK, I've done what I've been called to do.

They've heard it whether they wanted to hear it, whether they

didn't hear it, I can't do anything about that now.

And thank God sends another one. Continue to pray for them,

continue to intercede on their behalf that they would that the

vial will be lifted, that they would hear that that other

people would come along and share the good news.

I just want to share a couple of testimonies or some stories of

me sharing the gospel with people and showing you the

reality that there is no success and there's no failure in how

you share the gospel. Because I feel like sometimes we

go hard and that wasn't successful.

What our success is completely different to what God's success

is. So some of you used to know that

I worked in the kitchen as a chef and that was a rock place

for the gospel. Awesome things were happening.

I remember I got saved in the kitchen and I remember my head

chef said to me, oh, you born again.

She spoke that over me and she didn't understand what she was

saying. She just knew there was a

difference in my life. And so that's what happened.

I started just sharing the gospel of people because I was

just so passionate. I've just been saved.

I was on. I was like, God, come on, you

can do it for anyone. And that's what we should be

like every day, right? I've been saved.

I was a Wretch. I was broken.

I was lost. I was I was in sin so deep, but

you said I want you and you brought me out of that into from

darkness into your marvelous light.

So this young kitchen hand had just started.

He come from a Catholic background and I just kept

talking to him about the gospel. This was a couple of weeks just

constantly. And then I play my worship music

on the speaker. Some people don't like it.

I still had bold enough to do it.

And he kept hearing the song Oh, come to the altar.

And that was it constantly just sharing the gospel over and

over. And then one night I was, it was

like a 12 hour shift. I was tired in my flesh and I

just wanted to get home to bed. 10:30 I'm walking out, he's

doing the bins, I'm walking past.

And I felt the nudging of the Holy Spirit say, turn around.

He wants me. And I went, OK, So I turned

around and I said to him, do you want the do you want Jesus?

He's like I do. I went, oh, and then he tells

me, actually last night I tried to commit suicide.

We never know someone's last link.

We never know the story behind someone's background because I

shared the gospel. There was a hope there for him

and he knew it. Even in that very moment.

He knew there was a hope for him.

Now. Was that success?

Was that failure to God that was success?

Could it look completely different on my end?

Another story where I shared the Gospel summit and they didn't

like it. They got really right up.

They started swearing in me, spitting on my face.

The reality is, was that a success.

Was that a failure? It was a success because I

shared the gospel. Their life was impacted, whether

it's in a negative way or a positive way.

Their life was impacted with the gospel.

When I was at this workplace, I work in a child care at the

moment, and there was a lady that came from Brazil over

there. Typically Christianity is just

what they're known for. So she's known about the gospel,

heard the gospel, She was not walking in the way.

So when I first came to the childcare, for two years, I kept

sharing the gospel over and over.

Still nothing. Was it success?

Was it failure? No, because the gospel had been

shared into their lives. It's not on me to see them come

through. It's amazing when God absolutely

gives us opportunity to see that.

And you can celebrate that and give glory to God on that.

But then out of that, weeks, weeks and weeks later, I was

just chatting with her and I was saying to her like, she walked

into work with a problem and an eye she couldn't see.

And I went, hey, can I pray for you?

She's like, OK, so I prayed for her and nothing happened.

And then she went to the doctor's surgery that day.

She was like, I'm going to the doctor's surgery.

She sat down in her seat Instantly she sat down.

God healed her. I, I didn't hear this story

until a week later. But The thing is, it's because

the gospel was preached. She heard the gospel signs and

wonders, miracles flowed. We hear that in the Scripture

that that is the evidence of the gospel being presented.

Signs, wonders and miracles flow.

Yes, salvation is in that, but God was trying to touch her life

by saying I still love you, I still care for you, I'm still

there for you. So when you share the gospel, be

ready to be praying for them as well.

If you see things, your Holy Spirit give them eyes to see

things that aren't in the natural so that you would you

have the glory that your Kingdom would come in the life that they

would receive you. I planted the gospel in them,

Lord, I've shown them what the gospel looks like by my life

displayed as well. I've told them about the hope

that I have now come and demonstrate it in their life.

So you're often when you're sharing the gospel, when you're

partnering with the Holy Spirit, you often get words of

knowledge. So you're just sharing.

You might get a picture, lean into that.

You might hear a word. Lean into that word because

that's the Spirit of God revealing something about that

person that you don't know. And that helps them soften their

heart to hearing the truth of the gospel too.

Because I go, oh, how do you know that?

Say, because the God that lives in me loves you, has given this

so they can share with you that you would come to know him

again, these signs, wonders, miracles, everything we do in

sharing the gospel, the stories, they're great, but God appointed

back to Jesus. That is the message that we're

sharing. It's not about, oh, look at the

wonders that he's doing. Look at the signs, look at the

stories, look at the amazing things.

Yes, glorifying for that, but bring it back to Jesus because

the ultimate thing is the message of Jesus.

So before we close, I just want to pray and I want to challenge

us on one thing as well. Thanks, Fortnite.

I want you to go back and pray and ask God who it is that you

need to share the gospel with and do it.

Suddenly the dry bones came to life.

Suddenly Philip ran. Suddenly.

When you hear God speak that person, call them.

Suddenly When you hear that name, pray.

Suddenly When you encounter that person, share it, Lord.

I ask right now that you give us courageous faith, bold faith,

that we'd step out and just be like Philip, just be like the

UNI that we were just on our way and then suddenly the gospel

comes out of our mouth, out of the overflow of our heart, Lord,

That we would be people found in your presence, people tarrying

in your presence because not for us, but for the people out there

as well, Lord, for us, yes, Lord, but for those to see the

reflection and the glory of who you are for what we represent is

you, Jesus, so that when our words come out, they would be

breathed upon by your Spirit. When our words come out, that

would be partnered with you, Holy Spirit, that we would be

able to share things that we don't even understand we're

saying because it's your power of your Holy Spirit coming and

speaking to that person. Lord, I pray for the anointing

over the words. I pray the hearts that are ready

to receive. It would be on our pathway that

we would be that divine appointment for them, that they

would see and taste that the Lord is good.

I pray that you would put the word in US.

They would help us be able to communicate it clearly with the

people that are around us even in this moment, Lord, that there

would be people that you would put in our hearts right now to

go, hey, I just want to fumble through how to share the gospel.

I want to learn how to do this because I know this is something

that God has said. It's in his great commandment to

go and make disciples. To make disciples.

I need to go and share the gospel, Lord.

So help me bring those people to our minds even in this week,

Lord, Bring them across our piles.

The coincidences that your hand at work, Lord.

So have the glory. Lord, may we see many people

come to know you, Jesus, through our lives, through the

influences, through the hampers, through our community groups,

through prayer, through our Sunday services.

May many come flocking in and may be ready to share you.

We pray these things in your mighty name, Jesus.

Thank. You, Daniel.

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