Come and See

Campaigner Lesson. John 1:41-53.

Small groups:
- Highs?
- Lows?
- What was the last scripture read and what did it teach you?

READ John 1:43-51
- campaigner; have them listen
READ John 1:43-51
- me; have them underline

Summarize
- What happened?

Why did Philip go to Nathanael?
- Excited about Christ; wants others to know; knew Nathan had to know

Compare 1:43 and 1:45
- v43: “He found Philip and said to him…”
- v45: “Philip found Nathanael and said to him…”
- What does this say about Jesus’ command to follow?

How does Nate react?
- disbelief
- Nazareth = redneck, backwater, nothing good ever came from here, Perry County

Did he want to go?
- No, but he went anyways
- Why?

Would he have come without Philip?
- No
- Christ could have done this but chose to use Philip
- Philip was willing to risk rejection and did get rejected; but didn’t take no for an answer

How did Nate react when he met Jesus?
- Excited, total perspective change

What does Jesus promise Nate?
- promises of greater things
- all he did was come and see and Christ is already changing his life
- both will see these things because of their friendship

Who do you trust? Why?
- They’ve proven themselves trustworthy
- LotR: think the fellowship trust each other?
- didn’t start like that
- what changed?

Same goes for God
- how is he going to prove himself trustworthy if we refuse to let him?
- faith is trusting that Christ is all we need; it’s actively lived out
- many believe in God; few have faith
- if there is no relationship there is no trust
- relationship comes through putting time and effort in
- praying, reading scripture (pray, read twice, underline, apply, pray)
- we’re called to have faith, not just believe
- Pharaoh believed, demons believe but they don’t know God

Monday night
- How’d it go?
- Invite anyone?
- What’s the purpose?

Connection with passage?
- What are we inviting them to see?
- Will people come without us risking?
- like Nate, they’ll reject us initially, you know this
- Christ calls us to follow him, which means follow his lead
- saved and called
- how do we trust God?
- build the relationship, learn what God says
- Christ changes people, not us
- use connections
- Why did Philip go to Nate? They were friends
- talk about it now
- rides to friends/freshmen
- stay after practice/school
- lunch room
- hmwk times

What is a huddle?
- team, learn the play
- play is being intentional

- HUDDLE!
- affirm and lift them up
- here, we’re a team
- Col 1:17, we’re held together by Christ
- games not won in huddle, but on field
- from here we go out and trust
- team has to trust each other or play will fall apart
- our part of the play is to build relationships
- Christ will change lives
- PRAY

- break huddle
- do it