session two

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session two
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Feedback from session one
Challenge 1 Begin your Winsome list of people to
pray forChallenge 2 This week look for an
opportunity to take a conversation deeper
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Fifty years ago
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The world today
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How do we explain the gospel?

• 1 Story
• 2 Sin
• 3 Jesus
• 4 New Life

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1 Story
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The Big Story

• God made the world and he loves it
• God created us to look after the world 
• It has gone wrong because of us
• Jesus came to this earth for the whole world
• God has a purpose for the world and asks us to
  join in

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Model 1 My Story
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2 Sin

• Today, people have no idea what sin means
• What terminology helps us unpack what sin is?

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Broken relationships
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Model 2 Four Points
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3 Jesus

• How can people be asked to follow Jesus if they
  have no idea who Jesus is or what Jesus stands
  for?

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Jesus and the Cross

• What happened at the Cross and how does that
  inform how I explain the gospel?

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The Cross

• Trading Places (Substitution)
• Declared Innocent (Justification)
• Born again (Regeneration)
• Being made Holy (Sanctification)

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The Cross

• Rescue (Redemption)
• Bring Together (Reconciliation)
• Turn away Wrath (Propitiation)

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Resurrection

• Story of the disciples

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Model 3 Let the Bible speak

• The Samaritan woman at the well John 4
• The woman caught in adultery John 8
• Blind Bartimaeus Mark 10
• Emotional authenticity
• Language
• Jesus life story and the impact of the cross

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4 New Life

• A new understanding of what it is to be human

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New code for living

• Mark 1229-31
• Love the Lord your God a high value of God
• Loving and present in Christ
• Love your neighbour... a high value of people,
  made in the image of God
• ...As yourself a high value of ourselves and
  our identity in Christ
• Sacrificial Love Christian love demonstrated
  in our lives and actions.

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Model 4 New Living

• Q What are the three best things about being a
  Christian?
• Q What is one of the hardest things about being
  a Christian?

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Recap The 4 Models

• 1 My Story
• 2 Four Points
• 3 Let the Bible speak
• 4 New Living

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Challenge Use one of the four models to share or
explain the gospel this week