Finding Bread for Your Friends

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Speaker: Wendell Stoltzfus
Scripture: Luke 11:1-13
August 13, 2023

Sermon Outline

1. The prayer and the parable

• The theme in Luke 11 is prayer

• And yet, we struggle to pray

2. The three friends

• An unexpected guest

• An inconvenient hour

• Who the three friends represent

3. The Bread of Assurance

• We who have the Bread of Life, rub shoulders with those who don't

• In the terms of the parable, each of the three friends is, ultimately, starving

4. Real bread, real impudence

• No doubt many of us struggle with assurance at times

• Obnoxious persistence in prayer

• How do we begin?

5. God's answer to prayer

• Jesus says you and I are the link between his bread and our hungry friends

• What will happen if you pray for your hungry friends every day?

• What if we don't see any change?

6. Conclusion

• An inconvenienced friend

• An unfailing God