• What is "Friendship Sunday?"

• Mount Olive's goal:                 Guests

• Your goal? ____

• Next Week, the "How?"

• This week, the "Who?"

How People Respond to our Invitations

As he was scattering the seed, some fell along the path, and the birds came and ate it up. Some fell on rocky places, where it did not have much soil. It sprang up quickly, because the soil was shallow. But when the sun came up, the plants were scorched, and they withered because they had no root. Other seed fell among thorns, which grew up and choked the plants. Still other seed fell on good soil, where it produced a crop--a hundred, sixty or thirty times what was sown.
Matthew 13:4-8

1.                      -- Not grasped, stolen by Satan

2.                           -- Faith that quits when challenged

3.                                -- The stuff of life gets in the way

4.                                           -- Embraced faith and fruitful

It Used to Be That You Could Count On a "Bridge"

• Some Christian background

• Basic familiarity with the story of Jesus and the Bible

• Belief in a "right" vs "wrong" moral truth

• Strong family bonds and greater community

How to Build Bridges to Good Soil

• Friends and family =                          

• Crisis and uncertainty =                     

• Previously churched = faith                                    

Never Lose Sight of the Goal

"Who's On Your Infield?"

Trust = ___________________

Hope = ___________________

Faith = ____________________

What's Next?