2. Zone of the Unknown Speaker: Cass Tompich 19 th March 2006

3. ‘The zone of the unknown’ is uncomfortable and exciting. God never intended for us to experience the ‘zone of the unknown’ alone: Matthew 28:18-20 (NLT) “I have been given all authority in heaven and on earth. Therefore, go…And be sure of this: I am with you always, even to the end of the age.” -

4. “The day Christ followers stop taking walks across the room, the day we stay glued to our circle of comfort and refuse to step out it is the beginning of the end for the dream of Christ that people on earth would come to know Him.” – Bill Hybels

5. 1.The Holy Spirit is trying to turn all of us into ‘walk across the room’ type of people… John 17:18 (NLT) Just as you sent me into the world, I am sending them into the world.

6. 2.No experience compares to walking across the room Luke 19:10 (NLT) For the Son of Man came to seek and save those who are lost. John 4:34-37 (NLT) Then Jesus explained: “My nourishment comes from doing the will of God, who sent me, and from finishing his work…The harvesters are paid good wages, and the fruit they harvest is people brought to eternal life.”

7. 3.We can all walk across the room! Matthew’s Party… Luke 5:27-29 (NLT) …(Jesus) saw a tax collector named Levi sitting at his tax collector’s booth. “Follow me and be my disciple,” Jesus said to him. So Levi, got up, left everything, and followed him. Later, Levi held a banquet in his home with Jesus as the guest of honour. Many of Levi’s fellow tax collectors and other guests also ate with them.

8. 4.The example of Jesus… Philippians 2: 6-8 (NIV) Who, being in very nature God, did not consider equality with God something to be grasped, but made himself nothing, taking the very nature of a servant, being made in human likeness. And being found in appearance as a man, he humbled himself and became obedient to death— even death on a cross! Romans 5:8 (NIV) But God demonstrates his own love for us in this: while we were still sinners, Christ died for us.