God The Son

Session 1: The Good News is Jesus

Session 1 “I am a historian, I am not a believer, but I must confess as a historian that this penniless preacher from Nazareth is irrevocably the very centre of history. Jesus Christ is easily the most dominant figure in all history.” H.G.Wells Rotation angle 350 o

Session 1 Images of Jesus

Session 1 Images of Jesus

Session 1 Images of Jesus

Session 1 Images of Jesus

Session 1 Images of Jesus

Session 1 Images of Jesus

Session 1 Images of Jesus

Session 1 Images of Jesus

Session 1 Images of Jesus

Session 1 Images of Jesus

Session 1 Images of Jesus

Session 1 Images of Jesus

Session 1 Images of Jesus

Session 1 What’s your view of Jesus today?

Session 1 If you could paint a picture of who you think Jesus is, what would He look like?

Session 1 What would He be like?

Session 1 The Gospel is life-changing news

Session 1 Rotation angle 350 o The Good News is a person

Session 1 Rotation angle 350 o Snails can sleep for up to 4 years

Session 1 Rotation angle 350 o Donkeys kill more people annually than plane crashes

Session 1 Rotation angle 350 o It is possible to lead a cow upstairs…but not downstairs

Session 1 Rotation angle 350 o It’s physically impossible for you to lick your elbow

Session 1 “Christianity, if false, is of no importance, and if true, of infinite importance. The only thing it cannot be is moderately important.” C.S. Lewis Rotation angle 350 o

Session 1 Jesus is the promised Messiah Rotation angle 350 o

Session 1 Rotation angle 350 o Jesus came as a servant king not a warrior king

Session 1 Match up the following passages in the Old Testament with the New Testament passage to show how Jesus fulfils Old Testament prophecy: Isaiah 7:15Matthew 27:35 Micah 5:2Matthew 26:67 Isaiah 35:5Matthew 1:18-25 Zechariah 9:9Matthew 27:57-60 Isaiah 50:6Matthew 28:5-9 Psalm 22:16,18Matthew 21:6-11 Isaiah 53:9Matthew 11:2-6 Psalm 16:10Matthew 2:1

Session 1 The answers... Isaiah 7:15 Matthew 27:35 Micah 5:2 Matthew 26:67 Isaiah 35:5 Matthew 1:18-25 Zechariah 9:9 Matthew 27:57-60 Isaiah 50:6 Matthew 28:5-9 Psalm 22:16,18 Matthew 21:6-11 Isaiah 53:9 Matthew 11:2-6 Psalm 16:10 Matthew 2:1

Session 1 Rotation angle 350 o Jesus: Fully God, Fully Man

Session 1 “A man who was merely a man and said the sort of things Jesus said would not be a great moral teacher. He would either be a lunatic – on a level with the man who says he is a poached egg – or else he would be the Devil of Hell. You must make your choice. Either this man was, and is, the Son of God; or else a madman or something worse. You can shut Him up for a fool, you can spit at Him and kill him as a demon; or you can fall at His feet and call Him Lord and God. But let us not come with any patronizing nonsense about His being a great human teacher. He has not left that open to us. He did not intend to.” C.S. Lewis

Session 1 Rotation angle 350 o Jesus: Fully God, Fully Man

Session 1 “I am within the mark when I say that all the armies that ever marched, and all the navies that ever were built, and all the parliaments that ever sat, and all the kings that ever reigned, put together, have not affected the life of man upon this earth as powerfully as has that One Solitary Life.” James C. Hefley, Author

Session 1 REFLECTIONS?

Session 2: Jesus - The Saviour

Session 2 Rotation angle 350 o Why did Jesus die and rise again?

Session 2 Rotation angle 350 o Beautiful creation

Session 2 Creation damaged Rotation angle 350 o

Session 2 Rotation angle 350 o Promised hope

Session 2 Rotation angle 350 o We can’t fix this

Session 2 Rotation angle 350 o Jesus takes on sin and death

Session 2 “The death of Jesus of Nazareth …is either the most stupid, senseless waste and misunderstanding the world has ever seen, or it is the fulcrum around which world history turns.” Tom Wright Rotation angle 350 o

Session 2 Rotation angle 350 o The resurrection defeats sin and death

Session 2 “The resurrection of Jesus inaugurates a new creation, one free from death, and it is bursting forth in Jesus himself right here in the midst of the first creation. The tomb is empty, a new day is here, a new creation is here, everything has changed, death has been conquered, the old has gone, the new has come… when God has inaugurated a movement in Jesus’ resurrection to renew, restore, and reconcile everything “on earth or in heaven” (Colossians 1), just as God originally intended it. The powers of death and destruction have been defeated on the most epic scale imaginable. Individuals are then invited to see their story in the context of a far larger story, one that includes all of creation.” Rob Bell

Session 2 “The main meaning of the resurrection of Jesus…is that God’s new world has been brought into being…, the long- promised new world in which the covenant will be renewed, sins will be forgiven and death itself will be done away with. The resurrection is neither an isolated and out- of character divine miracle nor simply the promise of eternal life beyond the grave. It is, rather, the decisive start of the world-wide rule of the Jewish Messiah, in which sins are already forgiven and the promise of the eventual new world of justice and incorruptible life are assured… The message of Easter is that God’s new world has been unveiled in Jesus Christ and you are now invited to belong to it.” Tom Wright

Session 2 Rotation angle 350 o Jesus is the Saviour of the cosmos

REFLECTIONS? Session 2

Session 3: Jesus is Lord

Session 3 VIDEO: Vintage Jesus

Session 3 Rotation angle 350 o Jesus calls us to follow Him

Session 3 Rotation angle 350 o Living like Jesus

Session 3 Rotation angle 350 o Loving God: But how do we know if we love God and people so fully, so wholeheartedly?

Session 3 Why is being obedient to Jesus often difficult? Rotation angle 350 o

Session 3 Rotation angle 350 o Loving people: What do you think it looks like when someone is loving others wholeheartedly?

“Every act of love, gratitude and kindness; every work of art or music inspired by the love of God and delight in the beauty of his creation; every minute spent teaching a severely handicapped child to read or to walk; every act of care and nurture, of comfort and support, for one’s fellow human beings, and for that matter one’s fellow non-human creatures; and of course every prayer, all Spirit-led teaching, every deed which spreads the gospel, builds up the church, embraces and embodies holiness rather than corruption, and makes the name of Jesus honoured in the world – all of this will find its way, through the resurrecting power of God, into the new creation which God will one day make. That is the logic of the mission of God. God’s recreation of his wonderful world, which has begun with the resurrection of Jesus and continues mysteriously as God’s people live in the risen Christ and in the power of the Spirit, means that what we do in Christ and by the Spirit in the present is not wasted.” Tom Wright Session 3

Rotation angle 350 o The cost of following Jesus

Session 3 Will you make Jesus Lord? Rotation angle 350 o

REFLECTIONS? Session 3

God The Son