Each One Reach One - Part 2: Story Power
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March 22, 2026
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ANNOUNCEMENTS
Easter is Coming - April 5th
Easter is one of the most natural and meaningful times to invite someone to experience Jesus with you. As followers of Jesus, part of our calling is to help others take their next step toward Him—and a simple invitation can make an eternal difference. As we look ahead to Easter on Sunday, April 5, begin praying about the one person God might place on your heart to invite. A coworker, neighbor, friend, or family member could be just one invitation away from encountering the hope of Jesus. Who is the one person you will invite to sit with you this Easter? Take a moment this week to pray for them, reach out, and invite them to join you at one of our Easter services.
2 Services at Ball Road - 9 & 10:45am
2 Services at Knox Center - 9 & 10:45am
OneLife Easter Bash - March 28th
Bring the whole family to Easter Bash! Join us for a fun-filled morning with Easter egg hunts, games, crafts, food, and photos with the Easter Bunny. This free community event takes place at both campuses from 10:00 AM–12:00 PM and is open to everyone. Come make memories together, celebrate the joy of Easter, and invite a friend or neighbor to experience it with you. For more information go to onelifeknox.com/easterbash.
Salvation and Baptism Class - for Elementary Kids & Parents, April 12th
We want to equip you to have great conversations at home with your elementary students about their faith and about baptism! So - join us for our Kids Salvation & Baptism class, Sunday April 12th in the meeting room at each campus. The classes will start at 9am at both campuses. Mark that box on your Connection Card to sign up.
Baptism
If you’ve given your life to Jesus but haven’t gone public with your story through baptism then it’s time to take that step! Mark the baptism box on your Connection Card and we’ll help you get started.
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GIVE BACK
Give Jesus your best! Make a one-time tithe or offering or to set up a recurring tithe or offering: Click Here To Give Online.
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1. Pray daily for my one.
2. Earn trust.
3. Share my story.
4. Invite my one to Jesus.
John 9:1-2 NIV
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START TALKING:
What is something you love or that you now do because someone you have a relationship told you about it and invited you to experience it for yourself?
Think about your answer to the above question. What would your experience have been if someone you don't know or don't have a relationship with randomly approached you and pressured you to do it? Why was it different because someone you know and trust told you about it firsthand?
START THINKING:
Read John 9:1-2. Before Jesus could meet this man's need, what did he first have to do as He walked along? What keeps us from seeing people and their needs?
Why do you think the disciples asked the question in verse 2? How are we often prone to assume the same thing?
Now read verse 3. What do you think Jesus meant by this response? How does this help you think through answering the question, "Why do bad things happen to good people?"
START SHARING:
Read John 9:8-9. When you began following Jesus - or when you have surrendered parts of your life to Jesus throughout your spiritual journey to become more like Him - what have those around you noticed about what is different? What change have they seen like this man's friends and neighbors saw?
Read John 9:13-25 and share about the following:
What questions have you been asked (or are you afraid you might be asked) that you don't know the answers to? How would following the blind man's example of honestly saying, "I don't know," and "I think..." help you trust God more in these moments?
The formerly blind man doesn't try to convince his parents, friends, neighbors, or religious leaders of anything. He doesn't argue with them. He simply sticks to the story. Give an example of when someone did this well with you or when they didn't do this well. How did it affect your response to wanting to follow Jesus.
Now share about your experience from the other side. When have you tried to convince or win the argument with someone versus simply telling the story of Jesus and pointing to your own before and after? What was the result? When have you stuck to the story instead and how was that different?
START DOING:
Read Revelation 12:10-11. Jesus points to two things that defeat the enemy - the blood of the lamb and our testimony (story) being told with courage and boldness.
Go around the microchurch and share your three sentence story by completing each of these three sentences.
Before Jesus I was...
I met Jesus when...
Now I am...
Who is your one that you are praying for daily?
What steps have you taken to build relationship, earn trust, and meet needs with them?
An interesting part of the blind man's case study is that every time he told his simple but powerful story, it was in response to questions. He responded whenever there was an open door but he didn't force the door open. How can you be looking for opportunities and open doors to do the same with your one? What might be the opportunities you have to naturally share your story?
START PRAYING:
Pray for each person in the microchurch and the name of their one. Pray that the Holy Spirit will move in their lives so that the door is open to share the story of how Jesus has changed your life and can change theirs, too. Pray that we each will be bold and courageous to tell our story when the opportunity arises, but also humble enough to say "I don't know" and trusting enough to let God be God.
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CONNECTION CARDS
Be sure to fill out the online Connection Card to let us know next steps, prayer requests, or other information you'd like to share, click here.
_____________________
MULTIPLICATION
Share spiritual/missional conversations you've had where you live, work, and play:
- Who did you have a conversation with that took a spiritual/missional turn this week?
- What questions did you ask to discover where God is at work in their life, even if they are not aware?
- How were you able to share your story of life change or how you have experienced Jesus?
- How can you be intentional this week with people where you live, work, and play to have spiritual/missional conversations if the opportunity arises?
- Who in your life do you think could be disciple-able or open to spiritual/missional conversations?
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WHAT'S NEXT?
- Discuss the next step for your micro church. When will we gather again, and which purpose will it fulfill (missions, fellowship/care, growth, worship, multiplication)?/giveback/giveback
- Discuss the next step for your micro church. When will we gather again, and which purpose will it fulfill (missions, fellowship/care, growth, worship, multiplication)?
March 22, 2026
YouVersion
Sermon Page
Podcast Audio
_____________________
ANNOUNCEMENTS
Easter is Coming - April 5th
Easter is one of the most natural and meaningful times to invite someone to experience Jesus with you. As followers of Jesus, part of our calling is to help others take their next step toward Him—and a simple invitation can make an eternal difference. As we look ahead to Easter on Sunday, April 5, begin praying about the one person God might place on your heart to invite. A coworker, neighbor, friend, or family member could be just one invitation away from encountering the hope of Jesus. Who is the one person you will invite to sit with you this Easter? Take a moment this week to pray for them, reach out, and invite them to join you at one of our Easter services.
2 Services at Ball Road - 9 & 10:45am
2 Services at Knox Center - 9 & 10:45am
OneLife Easter Bash - March 28th
Bring the whole family to Easter Bash! Join us for a fun-filled morning with Easter egg hunts, games, crafts, food, and photos with the Easter Bunny. This free community event takes place at both campuses from 10:00 AM–12:00 PM and is open to everyone. Come make memories together, celebrate the joy of Easter, and invite a friend or neighbor to experience it with you. For more information go to onelifeknox.com/easterbash.
Salvation and Baptism Class - for Elementary Kids & Parents, April 12th
We want to equip you to have great conversations at home with your elementary students about their faith and about baptism! So - join us for our Kids Salvation & Baptism class, Sunday April 12th in the meeting room at each campus. The classes will start at 9am at both campuses. Mark that box on your Connection Card to sign up.
Baptism
If you’ve given your life to Jesus but haven’t gone public with your story through baptism then it’s time to take that step! Mark the baptism box on your Connection Card and we’ll help you get started.
_____________________
GIVE BACK
Give Jesus your best! Make a one-time tithe or offering or to set up a recurring tithe or offering: Click Here To Give Online.
_____________________
Bottom Line: My story is powerful with my one.
1. Pray daily for my one.
2. Earn trust.
3. Share my story.
4. Invite my one to Jesus.
John 9:1-2 NIV
1 As he went along, he saw a man blind from birth. 2 His disciples asked him, “Rabbi, who sinned, this man or his parents, that he was born blind?”
1. I have a story of what One did for me.
1. I have a story of what One did for me.
John 9:8-9 NLT
8 His neighbors and others who knew him as a blind beggar asked each other, “Isn’t this the man who used to sit and beg?” 9 Some said he was, and others said, “No, he just looks like him!”But the beggar kept saying, “Yes, I am the same one!”
A SIMPLE STORY IS A POWERFUL STORY:
I was blind.
I met Jesus.
Now I can see.
John 9:13-17 NLT
I was blind.
I met Jesus.
Now I can see.
John 9:13-17 NLT
13 Then they took the man who had been blind to the Pharisees, 14 because it was on the Sabbath that Jesus had made the mud and healed him. 15 The Pharisees asked the man all about it. So he told them, “He put the mud over my eyes, and when I washed it away, I could see!” 16 Some of the Pharisees said, “This man Jesus is not from God, for he is working on the Sabbath.” Others said, “But how could an ordinary sinner do such miraculous signs?” So there was a deep division of opinion among them. 17 Then the Pharisees again questioned the man who had been blind and demanded, “What’s your opinion about this man who healed you?”The man replied, “I think he must be a prophet.”
2. I don't have to have all the answers.
John 9:18 NLT
2. I don't have to have all the answers.
John 9:18 NLT
18 The Jewish leaders still refused to believe the man had been blind and could now see, so they called in his parents.
John 9:24 NLT
John 9:24 NLT
24 So for the second time they called in the man who had been blind and told him, “God should get the glory for this, because we know this man Jesus is a sinner.”
3. My job is to tell the story not to convince.
John 9:25 NLT
3. My job is to tell the story not to convince.
John 9:25 NLT
25 “I don’t know whether he is a sinner,” the man replied. “But I know this: I was blind, and now I can see!”
4. Stick to the story.
4. Stick to the story.
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START TALKING:
What is something you love or that you now do because someone you have a relationship told you about it and invited you to experience it for yourself?
Think about your answer to the above question. What would your experience have been if someone you don't know or don't have a relationship with randomly approached you and pressured you to do it? Why was it different because someone you know and trust told you about it firsthand?
START THINKING:
Read John 9:1-2. Before Jesus could meet this man's need, what did he first have to do as He walked along? What keeps us from seeing people and their needs?
Why do you think the disciples asked the question in verse 2? How are we often prone to assume the same thing?
Now read verse 3. What do you think Jesus meant by this response? How does this help you think through answering the question, "Why do bad things happen to good people?"
START SHARING:
Read John 9:8-9. When you began following Jesus - or when you have surrendered parts of your life to Jesus throughout your spiritual journey to become more like Him - what have those around you noticed about what is different? What change have they seen like this man's friends and neighbors saw?
Read John 9:13-25 and share about the following:
What questions have you been asked (or are you afraid you might be asked) that you don't know the answers to? How would following the blind man's example of honestly saying, "I don't know," and "I think..." help you trust God more in these moments?
The formerly blind man doesn't try to convince his parents, friends, neighbors, or religious leaders of anything. He doesn't argue with them. He simply sticks to the story. Give an example of when someone did this well with you or when they didn't do this well. How did it affect your response to wanting to follow Jesus.
Now share about your experience from the other side. When have you tried to convince or win the argument with someone versus simply telling the story of Jesus and pointing to your own before and after? What was the result? When have you stuck to the story instead and how was that different?
START DOING:
Read Revelation 12:10-11. Jesus points to two things that defeat the enemy - the blood of the lamb and our testimony (story) being told with courage and boldness.
Go around the microchurch and share your three sentence story by completing each of these three sentences.
Before Jesus I was...
I met Jesus when...
Now I am...
Who is your one that you are praying for daily?
What steps have you taken to build relationship, earn trust, and meet needs with them?
An interesting part of the blind man's case study is that every time he told his simple but powerful story, it was in response to questions. He responded whenever there was an open door but he didn't force the door open. How can you be looking for opportunities and open doors to do the same with your one? What might be the opportunities you have to naturally share your story?
START PRAYING:
Pray for each person in the microchurch and the name of their one. Pray that the Holy Spirit will move in their lives so that the door is open to share the story of how Jesus has changed your life and can change theirs, too. Pray that we each will be bold and courageous to tell our story when the opportunity arises, but also humble enough to say "I don't know" and trusting enough to let God be God.
_______________________________
CONNECTION CARDS
Be sure to fill out the online Connection Card to let us know next steps, prayer requests, or other information you'd like to share, click here.
_____________________
MULTIPLICATION
Share spiritual/missional conversations you've had where you live, work, and play:
- Who did you have a conversation with that took a spiritual/missional turn this week?
- What questions did you ask to discover where God is at work in their life, even if they are not aware?
- How were you able to share your story of life change or how you have experienced Jesus?
- How can you be intentional this week with people where you live, work, and play to have spiritual/missional conversations if the opportunity arises?
- Who in your life do you think could be disciple-able or open to spiritual/missional conversations?
_____________________
WHAT'S NEXT?
- Discuss the next step for your micro church. When will we gather again, and which purpose will it fulfill (missions, fellowship/care, growth, worship, multiplication)?/giveback/giveback
- Discuss the next step for your micro church. When will we gather again, and which purpose will it fulfill (missions, fellowship/care, growth, worship, multiplication)?
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