session two
Spread the word!
♯SharingJesus
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Feedback from session one
Challenge 1: Begin your Winsome list
of people to pray for
Challenge 2: This week look for an
opportunity to take a conversation
deeper
Fifty years ago…
The world today
How do we explain the gospel?
1 Story
2 Sin
3 Jesus
4 New Life
1 Story
The Big Story
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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
Model 1: My Story
2 Sin
Today, people have no idea what sin
means…
What terminology helps us unpack
what sin is?
Broken relationships
Model 2: Four Points
3 Jesus
How can people be asked to follow
Jesus if they have no idea who
Jesus is or what Jesus stands for?
Jesus and the Cross
• What happened at the Cross and how does
that inform how I explain the gospel?
The Cross
• Trading Places (Substitution)
• Declared Innocent (Justification)
• Born again (Regeneration)
• Being made Holy (Sanctification)
The Cross
• Rescue (Redemption)
• Bring Together (Reconciliation)
• Turn away Wrath (Propitiation)
Resurrection
Story of the disciples
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
4 New Life
A new understanding of what it is to
be human
New code for living
Mark 12:29-31
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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.
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?
Recap: The 4 Models
1 My Story
2 Four Points
3 Let the Bible speak
4 New Living
Challenge: Use one of the four
models to share or explain the
gospel this week