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 announcement

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?”