15. Kilton McCracken Sr. on Sharing the Gospel in Your Mentoring Relationship, Contextualizing the Good News for Your Mentee, and Practical Ways to Make Your Mentee a Disciple of Jesus
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Kilton McCracken Sr. |** [email protected])Director of Mentoring at Gospel Village (The Mentoring Alliance in Tyler, TX)**

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Four Step Gospel-sharing Method

• God. God is the creator of all things (Gen. 1:1). He is perfectly holy, worthy of all worship, and will punish sin (1 John 1:5, Rev. 4:11, Rom. 2:5-8). Everything that is wrong, he will put to rights.
• Man. * *All people, though created good, have become sinful by nature (Gen. 1:26-28, Ps. 51:5, Rom. 3:23, Eph. 2:1-3). We are far from God, hostile to God, and deserving of judgment.
• Christ. Jesus Christ, who is fully God and fully man, lived a sinless life, died on the cross to bear God’s judgment in the place of all who would believe in him, and rose from the grave in order to give his people eternal life (John 1:1, 1 Tim. 2:5, Heb. 7:26, Rom. 3:21-26, 2 Cor. 5:21, 1 Cor. 15:20-22).
• Response. God calls everyone everywhere to repent of their sins and trust in Christ in order to be saved (Mark 1:15, Acts 20:21, Rom. 10:9-10). For God so loved the world that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life. (John 3:16)

Gospel-sharing Practicals

• The longer you wait in a relationship, the harder it becomes to share the gospel

• If you share the gospel early, you can center the relationship around it easily

• Use every day examples: receiving a bad grade & missing the mark (sin), etc.

• The greatest thing you bring into your mentor relationship is your relationship with Jesus Christ

• View your mentoring relationship through the lens of Christian discipleship.

• "We want our mentees to become productive Christians."

• Learn your mentee's culture and contextualize the gospel for them where they live.

• When Paul preached to Greeks he talked about greek philosophy and the stars, intellectually-minded

• When Paul preached to the Hebrews he spoke about Abraham and the OT fathers, historical OT oriented

• Try to find something that your mentee is interested in, and relate it to the Gospel

• Use language your mentee is comfortable with. Jesus used parables to communicate.

• Brainstorm/Plan out a personal illustration (use sports, food, fortnite, etc.)

• Connect your illustration to God as judge, our sin nature, or the love of Jesus on the cross

• Show them simply how sin is connected to their experiences

• The Gospel is GOOD NEWS. Proclaim God's victory over your mentee's life

• Recognize the privilege you have in sharing the good news with your mentee

Bible Devotions with Kids

• The Bible is a story. Connect everything to the bigger story (JESUS).
• Our job is to share it. Pass the ball to God.
• God is the master of taking what we give and using it for his purposes.
• Don't put too much emphasis on how well you share it.
• Story of Noah and the Flood. "Every time you see rain, God's making a promise to you with the rainbow."
• Help them live what they read. 
• Don't bog yourself down in trying to articulate every detail.
• Share it (read) and show it (help them recognize the story in lived experiences).

Gospel-sharing Questions

• What do you think this means?
• What does it say about God?
• What does it say about Us?
• Can you share the story we just read?