The Three Circles: Nature Reveals the Goodness of God

 

 

Hello my brother; hello my sister, my name is Dean Davis, and this is a word of encouragement for village church planters.

Psalm 19 says that “The heavens declare the glory of God; the skies proclaim the work of his hands.

Day after day they pour forth speech; night after night they reveal knowledge.

They have no speech, they use no words; no sound is heard from them.

Yet their voice goes out into all the earth, their words to the ends of the world.”

There is a message in the sky and it’s a message about the glory of God.  Wouldn’t it be wise to help people look at that message and understand it? 

Romans 1 tells us that “since the creation of the world, God’s invisible qualities—his eternal power and divine nature—have been clearly seen, being understood from what has been made.”

What we can see and learn about God by looking at his creation is called general revelation.  One of the reasons I really like the Three Circles Gospel presentation is because it is based on both general revelation, the truth revealed about God from nature, and special revelation, the truth revealed about God in the Bible.

The great thing about general revelation, the message about God written in the sky and in all of creation, is that everyone can see it.  That’s why we draw the circle with the heart and say, “But a broken world was not God’s original design. He created our world so that we could experience his love and so that we could love one another. The world he created was good. We can still see glimpses of God’s original design in the beauty of a sunrise or in the smile of a small child. How have you seen a glimpse of God’s original design?”

When we ask this question, we are asking our listeners to remember messages about God that they have received by observing creation… even if they didn’t realize that God was speaking to them through creation!

 When a person who is listening to the Three Circles remembers something beautiful in creation, he or she often feels a sense of peace.  This is a wonderful thing.  God uses that sense of peace to help your listeners open their hearts to the truth about God you will share by drawing the circle with the cross. 

So as you draw the circle with the heart and tell about God’s original design, trust God to bring peace to the heart of your listeners. Listen carefully as they respond to your question, “How have you seen a glimpse of God’s original design?”  If you do, you may hear one more way that the heavens declare the glory of God; one more way that the skies proclaim the work of his hands.

The Three Circles is a beautiful way to tell the Good News of Jesus to those who have never heard.  The more you tell it, the more you appreciate it.  But don’t let this story become so familiar to you that you fail to understand and feel just how glorious it is.

As a Village Church Planter, you have been given a powerful tool.  Use it well!

This has been a word of encouragement for Village Church Planters.

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