Q & A: The Gospel (Evangelism Explosion) Part 3 of 4

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  1. What is a possible transition sentence to lead into the discussion about God?
    1. “This all begins to make more sense when we understand what God tells us is true about Himself.”
  2. Give two verses that teach that God is a God of love.
    1. I have loved thee with an everlasting love: therefore with lovingkindness have I drawn thee. (Jeremiah 31:3)
    2. And we have known and believed the love that God hath to us. God is love. (1 John 4:16)
  3. Why do some people have trouble with the truth that God is just?
    1. Incorrect understanding of love
    2. They don’t to accept the fact that they will someday give an account to Him for their own sin.
  4. Give three verses that emphasize that God is just.
    1. He [God] will by no means leave the guilty unpunished. (Exodus 34:7)
    2. But for those who are self-seeking and do not obey the truth, but obey unrighteousness, there will be wrath and fury.  (Romans 2:8)
    3. For the wrath of God is revealed from heaven against all ungodliness and unrighteousness of men, who by their unrighteousness suppress the truth. (Romans 1:18)
  5. What illustrations help people understand the need for God to be just?
    1. Bank Robber
    2. Miroslav Volf comment
  6. What’s a possible transition sentence to lead into a discussion of Christ?
    1. So it seems like God is in a kind of dilemma. On the one hand, He loves us, and He doesn’t want to punish us. But on the other hand he hates our sin, and in order to be a just God He must administer the wages of sin–death. and destruction in hell. It SEEMS like a dilemma, but really, God had the solution all along. And the solution is Jesus Christ.
  7. What is a good way to begin the discussion of who Jesus is?
    1. Ask them what they would tell a newcomer who asked about Jesus?
  8. What’s the most common answer most people give to the question, “Who is Jesus?”
    1. The Son of God
  9. What’s wrong with that answer?
    1. Nothing. But it may need clarification.
  10. What question will help clarify that answer?
    1. “There is a sense in which I am a son of God too. Is there any difference between Jesus and me?”
  11. Who is Jesus?
    1. The infinite God/Man. Fully God and fully man. God the Son, the second person of the Holy Trinity.
  12. Give three passages that teach that Jesus is God.
    1. In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. … And the Word was made flesh, and dwelt among us, (and we beheld his glory, the glory as of the only begotten of the Father,) full of grace and truth. (John 1:1, 14)
    2. For in Him dwells the whole  fullness of the Godhead bodily (Colossians 2:9)
    3. “And Thomas answered and said unto him, ‘My Lord and my God!’”  (John 20:28)
  13. What are the circumstances that lead up to Thomas’s confession that Jesus is God?
    1. After Jesus rose from the dead, He appeared, right though the locked door, to a bunch of his followers… but Thomas wasn’t there. Later the disciples who saw Him were telling Thomas that Jesus really had risen from the dead. But Thomas thought that they were being deceived and he said, “unless I see the scars in his hands and unless I touch those nail scars and that wound in his side, I won’t believe it.” Later Jesus appeared to them again… and this time Thomas was there too.
  14. What did Jesus do? (What is the main reason He came?)
    1. He came to die on the cross to pay for our sins and to purchase eternal life for us which He offers to us as a free gift.
  15. Give two verses that emphasize what Jesus did.
    1. “For Christ also has once suffered for sins, the just for the unjust, that he might bring us to God, being put to death in the flesh, but made alive by the Spirit.”  (1Peter 3:18)
    2. All we like sheep have gone astray; we have turned–every one–to his own way; and the LORD has laid on Him the iniquity of us all. (Isaiah 53:6)
  16. What powerful illustration to communicate what Jesus did for us  uses the verse in Isaiah 53?
    1. The record book of sins
  17. What was the Greek word used to communicate what Jesus meant when He said, “It is finished.”?
    1. Tetelestai
  18. What does the word mean?
    1. The debt is paid in full
  19. How was it often used in those days?
    1. It was written across a statement after the final payment was made on a debt
  20. How can the word GRACE be used as an acronym?
    1. God’s Riches At Christ’s Expense