This document discusses the gospel and its key concepts. It begins by defining the gospel as the story of God revealed in the Bible, focusing on Jesus Christ. It notes that the gospel means "good news" and refers to God's salvation through the Messiah. The gospel involves sin entering humanity, our inability to overcome it ourselves, and God intervening through Jesus Christ. It also outlines the gospel as creation, fall, redemption, and fulfillment. The document then asks whether the Bible is reliable and if God exists, noting evidence from manuscripts, archaeology, prophecies, statistics, creation, conscience, and Christ that provide answers to these questions.

2. Mark 1:1
The beginning of the gospel about Jesus
Christ, the Son of God.

3. Good News: What’s It All About
CE: “The Gospel”
Questions:
 Is the Bible Reliable?
 Does God Exist?

4. The Gospel
 “God-spell” -- the story concerning
God
 Translates a Greek word (NT) that has
its roots in a Hebrew word (OT)
 The story of the Bible is the Gospel

5. The Gospel
 “bisar” -- verb “to proclaim, announce,
or report victory”
 Originally victory in battle (2 Sam.
4:10)
 Eventually personal proclamation
about God’s deliverance

6. The Gospel
 God’s “salvation” in the coming of “The
Messiah”
How beautiful on the mountains are the feet of those
who bring good news, who proclaim peace, who bring
good tidings, who proclaim salvation, who say to
Zion, "Your God reigns!“ Isaiah 52:7 (NIV)

7. The Gospel
 “euangelizesthai” -- verb “to
proclaim, announce, or report victory”
 Originally victory in battle (2 Sam.
4:10)
 Eventually “to proclaim…good news”

8. The Gospel
 God’s “salvation” in the coming of “The
Messiah”
 The “good news” about Jesus Christ
The beginning of the gospel about Jesus
Christ, the Son of God. Mark 1:1 (NIV)

9. The Gospel
 Sin has entered each of our lives
 Sin controls and shapes our destinies
 We are helpless in our sin
 God has intervened on our behalf
through Jesus Christ

10. The Gospel
 Repent  Belong
 Trust  Obey
 Born again  Follow

11. The Gospel
 Creation
 Fall
 Redemption
 Fulfillment

12. The Gospel
3 For what I received I passed on to you as of
first importance: that Christ died for our
sins according to the Scriptures, 4 that he
was buried, that he was raised on the third
day according to the Scriptures, … 1 Cor.
15:1, 3-4 (NIV)

13. The Questions
 Is the Bible reliable?
 Does God exist?

14. Is the Bible reliable?
 M anuscripts
 A rcheology
 P rophecies
 S tatistics

15. Does God exist?
 C reation
 C onscience
 C ognition
 C onsequence
 C hrist

16. Does God exist?
 C ognition
 Ontological (logical)
 Cosmological (first-cause)
 Teleological (design)