The Open Door

Part: Reach Anyone

Look back first. Did you give your testimony? To whom? Celebrate the attempts, and normalize the awkwardness — everyone’s first time is clumsy.

Read Luke 10:1–11 aloud, twice, and retell it. Jesus sends the seventy and tells them to look for a particular kind of person. Then run the four questions — keep the cycle alive even in a reaching module:

1. What does this passage show me about God?
2. What does it show me about people — and about me?
3. What will I obey — a command, an example, or a promise?
4. Who will I tell this week?

The person of peace is often marked by five things — they are receptive, relationally connected, respected, responsive, and a reproducer (they’ll pass it on). And the other side of the same skill: know when to move on without guilt. Not everyone is the door, and that’s okay.

I used to push everyone the same way instead of looking for the open door.

Practice: scan your 3–5 people for the likeliest person of peace. Then script, in your own words, the invitation — to read the Bible together, with a name and a date. Rehearse it with a partner.

Your “I will”: invite [name] to read, by [date]. This is the most important dated commitment in this part of the course.

Close by praying for courage for that specific invitation.