1. OPEN DOOR PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH
The Story of the Gospel
August 2, 2019

2. Series Overview JUNE 21 - INTRODUCTION JULY 19 - ACT 1
AUGUST 2 - ACT 2
AUGUST 23 - ACT 3
SEPTEMBER 28 - ACT 4
OCTOBER 19 - ACT 5
NOVEMBER 16 - ACT 6
Series Overview

3. Today's Schedule 7:00 - 8:00 8:00 - 8:35 8:35 - 9:00 9:00 - 9:20
Pizza Dinner
8:00 - 8:35
Teaching
8:35 - 9:00
Breakout Group Discussion
Today's Schedule
9:00 - 9:20
Question & Response
9:20 - 9:30
Wrap Up

4. Why Are We Here?
THE GOSPEL
COMMUNITY
MISSION

5. Bible alone tells the true story of our world.
CRAIG BARTHOLOMEW & MICHAEL GOHEEN

6. Redemption Accomplished
Bible in Six Acts
Act 1
Creation
Act 3
Redemption Initiated
Act 5
Mission of the Church
Act 2
Fall
Act 4
Redemption Accomplished
Act 6
Redemption Completed

7. Redemption Accomplished
We Are In Act 5
Act 1
Creation
Act 2
Fall
Act 3
Redemption Initiated
Act 4
Redemption Accomplished
Act 5
Mission of the Church
Act 6
Redemption Completed

8. Redemption Accomplished
Act 2 - The Fall
Act 1
Creation
Act 3
Redemption Initiated
Act 4
Redemption Accomplished
Act 5
Mission of the Church
Act 6
Redemption Completed
Act 2
Fall

9. A catastrophe has occurred
A catastrophe has occurred. We are no longer in continuity with our good beginning. We have been separated from it by a disaster. We are also, of course, separated from our good end. We are, in other words, in the middle of a mess.
EUGENE PETERSON

10. The temptation [Adam & Eve] face through the serpent is to assert their autonomy; to become a law unto themselves. Autonomy means choosing oneself as the source  for determining what is right and wrong, rather than relying on God's word for direction.
GOHEEN & BARTHOLOMEW

11. ADAM & EVE
3:6 - Eve "took of its fruit and ate, and she also gave some to her husband."
3:17- "Because you have listened to the voice of your wife...."
ABRAM  & SARAI
16:3 - Sarai "took Hagar the Egyptian, her servant, and gave her to Abram...."
16:2 - "And Abram listened to the voice of Sarai."

12. ADAM & EVE
Gen. 3:6 - "...the tree was to be desired to make one wise...."
Gen. 3:22 - "...the man has become like us in knowing good and evil."
Gen. 1: "sea creatures, "winged birds," "beasts" & "everything that creeps."
SOLOMON
1 King 3:12 - "I give you a wise and discerning mind...."
1 King 3:9 - "...that I may discern between good and evil, for who is able to govern this your great people?"
1 King 4:33 - "He spoke also of beasts, and of birds, and of reptiles, and of fish. And people of all nations came to hear the wisdom of Solomon...."

13. So the LORD said to Solomon, 'Since this is your attitude and you have not kept my covenant and my decrees, which I commanded you, I will most certainly tear the kingdom away from you....'
1 KING 11:11

14. Redemption Accomplished
Act 3- The Effects of Fall
Act 1
Creation
Act 3
Redemption Initiated
Act 4
Redemption Accomplished
Act 5
Mission of the Church
Act 6
Redemption Completed
Act 2
Fall

15. The Queen of the South will rise at the judgment with this generation and condemn it; for she came from the ends of the earth to listen to Solomon's wisdom, and now something greater than Solomon is here.
MATTHEW 12:42

16. ...Christ Jesus, who, though he was in the form of God, did not count equality with God a thing to be grasped, but emptied himself, by taking the form of a servant, being born in the likeness of men. And being found in human form, he humbled himself by becoming obedient to the point of death, even death on a cross.
PHILLIPPIANS 2:5-8

17. Redemption Accomplished
Act 4- Jesus, Obedient Adam
Act 1
Creation
Act 3
Redemption Initiated
Act 4
Redemption Accomplished
Act 5
Mission of the Church
Act 6
Redemption Completed
Act 2
Fall

18. CORNELIUS PLANTINGA JR.
...people who think of human beings as their own centers and lawgivers reject the whole idea of our dependence on a superior being. Indeed, they find this idea entirely distasteful. To them the proposal that we ought to worship someone who is better than we are, that we ought to study this person's will and then bend our lives to it, that we ought to confess our failures and assign life's blessings to him -- to them, the notion that we ought to take this posture toward anybody else at all is humiliatingly undemocratic, an offense to human dignity and pride.
CORNELIUS PLANTINGA JR.

19. ...Christ Jesus, who, though he was in the form of God, did not count equality with God a thing to be grasped, but emptied himself, by taking the form of a servant, being born in the likeness of men. And being found in human form, he humbled himself by becoming obedient to the point of death, even death on a cross.
PHILLIPPIANS 2:5-8

20. Therefore, my dear friends, as you have always obeyed -- not only in my presence, but now much more in my absence -- continue to work out your salvation with fear and trembling, for it is God who works in you to will and to act in order to fulfill his good purpose.
PHILLIPPIANS 2:12-13

21. Redemption Accomplished
Act 5 - Church, New Humanity
Act 1
Creation
Act 3
Redemption Initiated
Act 4
Redemption Accomplished
Act 5
Mission of the Church
Act 6
Redemption Completed
Act 2
Fall

22. Discussion Questions
WHAT HAS GOD BEEN SAYING TO YOU THROUGH THIS SESSION?
WHAT WAS SIGNIFICANT FOR YOU? WHAT WAS NEW TO YOU? WHAT QUESTIONS DID THIS SESSION RAISE?

23. Questions & Responses

24. On each side of the river stood the tree of life, bearing twelve crops of fruit, yielding its fruit every month. And the leaves of the tree are for the healing of the nations. No longer will there be any curse.
REVELATION 22:2-3

25. Redemption Accomplished
Act 6 - Life!
Act 1
Creation
Act 3
Redemption Initiated
Act 4
Redemption Accomplished
Act 5
Mission of the Church
Act 6
Redemption Completed
Act 2
Fall

26. SEE YOU AGAIN!
FRIDAY, AUG. 23
7:00 pm
ACT 3