gospel charts

Chart one, “Human Problem.”

Prepare to share the gospel by seeing whether you can put ideas into any of the squares.

 

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  1. people are responsible to God

 

 

 
  1. people have not kept God’s commands

 

 
  1. people have broken God’s will

 

 

 
  1. disobedience has led to separation from God

 
  1. separation from  God is eternal

 

 

 
  1. separation from God is at the root of our problems

 

 
  1. separation from  God explains why there is evil and injustice

 

 

 

Chart two: Sharing about God’s answer, Jesus.  First is part one, “Who Jesus is?”

 

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  1. not myth

 

 
  1. human and God

 

 
  1. pre-existent

 

 
  1. king (Messiah)

 

 
  1. makes God known

 
  1. alive today

 

 
  1. demonstrates living for God

 

 

Part two: “What did Jesus do?”

 

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  1. lived perfect life

 
  1. substitute

 

 
  1. ransom

 

 
  1. sacrifice

 

 
  1. rose: is God

 

 
  1. rose: source of life

 
  1. rose: defeated Satan

 

 

“Grace and Faith”

 

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  1. not just intellectual agreement

 
  1. relying In Jesus, not self

 
  1. brings certain results

 
  1. submission

 
  1. expressed in repenting

 
  1. God’s gift

 
  1. a reliance, a clinging

 

 

“Salvation – the benefits that faith in Jesus brings”

 

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  1. adoption, family relationship with God
  1. forgiveness, no guilt
  1. new life and power
  1. new life style

 
  1. connection to source of life
  1. good relation to our judge

 

 

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