Evangelism and Spiritual Warfare, Mentor's Guide, MG08

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because he shares our very nature. The Lord Jesus is, quite literally, our very kin, and as such, can sympathize with us in every dimension of our weakness and need. Evangelism and spiritual warfare are possible because our Lord is one of us, going with us, feeling with us, and is literally there with us (Matt. 18.20; 28.20).

The purpose of contacts in your lesson is to intersect the attention and interests of your students with the subject matter about to be analyzed, discussed, and engaged. It is to awaken in their minds and motives the kinds of questions that will make a study of the material to come necessary and helpful. These contacts are for your suggesting and shaping; if you can think of situations, events, challenges, or realities that may be more on target for the students, please employ them. These are given to help you introduce the subject matter for the session by preparing the students psychologically and mentally for their learning experience. This motif, the universe at war, is a critical concept that brings together a number of diverse themes in Scripture. It can be argued that this is the major motif of all Scripture; it is for the reason of destroying the devil that Jesus was manifested in the flesh, 1 John 3.8. The entire module itself, even Capstone as a curriculum, is organized on the basis of this fundamental idea, that is, that God Almighty through Jesus Christ is waging war upon the powers which have ruined his creation, brought chaos and havoc upon his universe, and enslaved humankind. This is the key to understanding the Scriptures themselves, and the master key to understand the teachings of Jesus Christ. Notice the motif as it is mentioned either implicitly or explicitly in the following texts: Gen. 3.15 - I will put enmity between you and the woman, and between your offspring and her offspring; he shall bruise your head, and you shall bruise his heel.

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