Going Deeper in Your Teaching Ministry

Christ-Centered and Mission-Focused

Three Ways to Define Deep

• Depth as “Just the Facts Ma’am”• Depth as “Insights for Daily Living”• Depth as Gospel-Centrality

Three ways people hear the question “What is the Gospel?”

• Telling the Story for an Individual– Evangelistic Presentation

• Telling the Story of Jesus– Exegetical definition of the word

• Telling the Story of New Creation– The whole good news of Christianity

Moralism: The enemy of depth

• Getting right with God without defining who God is

• Good advice versus Good News• Spiritualization of the gospel

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Going Deep

• Recognize that true transformation comes from the biblical gospel.

• Proclaim Jesus as Savior, not just example

• Diagnose moralism in your own heart• Ground your application in the cross

and resurrection• Experience God’s grace yourself

The Gospel Project: Core Values

• Deep, but not dry• Christ-centered• Story-focused• Mission-driven

Questions we ask our writers to ask…

For every lesson…

Questions…

1. How does this topic/passage fit into the big story of Scripture?

Questions…

2. “What is distinctively Christian about the way I am addressing the topic / passage?” – Is there anything about this Old Testament

lesson a faithful Jew could not affirm?– Is there anything about this New Testament

lesson a Mormon could not affirm?– Is there anything in my application an

unbeliever would disagree with?

Questions…

3. “How does this truth equip God’s church to live on mission?”