1. OPEN DOOR PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH
The Story of the Gospel
July

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 1 - Original Creation
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. GOHEEN & BARTHOLOMEW, QUOTING GERHARD VON RAD
The creation story is so rich in meaning that 'it cannot be easily over-interpreted theologically'
GOHEEN & BARTHOLOMEW, QUOTING GERHARD VON RAD

10. "In the beginning, God created the heavens and the earth."
Genesis 1:1
"Then I saw 'a new heaven and a new earth,' for the first heaven and the first earth had passed away...."
Revelation 21:1

11. Redemption Accomplished
Act 6 - New Creation Will Come
Act 1
Creation
Act 3
Redemption Initiated
Act 4
Redemption Accomplished
Act 5
Mission of the Church
Act 6
Redemption Completed
Act 2
Fall

12. See, I will create new heavens and a new earth
See, I will create new heavens and a new earth. The former things will not be remembered, nor will they come to mind.
ISAIAH 65:17

13. Redemption Accomplished
Act 3 - New Creation Will Come
Act 1
Creation
Act 3
Redemption Initiated
Act 4
Redemption Accomplished
Act 5
Mission of the Church
Act 6
Redemption Completed
Act 2
Fall

14. New Creation in the Gospel of John
1:1 - PROLOGUE
2: (1) WATER TURNS TO WINE
4: (2) OFFICIAL'S SON HEALED
5: (3) LAME MAN WALKS
6: (4) 5,000 FED
9: (5) BLIND MAN SEES
11: (6) DEAD LAZARUS RISES
19: (7) JESUS CRUCIFIED
20: RESURRECTION
New Creation in the Gospel of John

15. Redemption Accomplished
Act 4 - New Creation Is Here
Act 1
Creation
Act 3
Redemption Initiated
Act 4
Redemption Accomplished
Act 5
Mission of the Church
Act 6
Redemption Completed
Act 2
Fall

16. Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, the new creation has come
Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, the new creation has come. The old has gone, the new is here!
2 CORINTHIANS 5:17

17. Redemption Accomplished
Act 5 - We Are, In Christ, New Creation
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. So God created mankind in his own image, in the image of God he created them; male and female he created them.
GENESIS 1:27

19. Just as powerful earthly kings, to indicate their claim to dominion, erect an image of themselves in the provinces of their empire where they do not personally appear, so man is placed upon earth in God's image as God's sovereign emblem. He is really only God's representative, summoned to maintain and enforce God's claim to dominion over the earth.
VON RAD

20. as God's representatives, [we] carry on where God left off
...as God's representatives, [we] carry on where God left off. But this is now to be a human development of the earth. The human race will fill the earth with its own kind, and it will form the earth for its own kind. From now on the development of the created earth will be societal and cultural in nature.
AL WOLTERS

21. When we take fabric and make a piece of clothing, when we push a broom and clean up a room, when we use technology to harness the forces of electricity, when we take an uninformed, naive human mind and teach it a subject, when we teach a couple how to resolve their relational disputes, when we take simple materials and turn them into a poignant work of art -- we are continuing God's work of forming, filling, and subduing.
TIMOTHY KELLER

22. You know that those who are regarded as rulers of the Gentiles lord it over them, and their high officials exercise authority over them. Not so with you. Instead, whoever wants to become great among you must be your servant, and whoever wants to be first must be slave of all. For even the Son of Man did not come to be served, but to serve, and to give his life as a ransom for many.
MARK 10:42

23. 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?

24. Questions & Responses

25. It may well be that, only if Christianity in the west becomes a movement of resistance to such evils as consumerism, excessive individualism and the exploitation of the global periphery, can Christianity in many other parts of the world be credibly distinguished from the west's economic and cultural oppression of other cultures and people."
RICHARD BAUCKHAM

26. You were taught, with regard to your former way of life, to put off your old self, which is being corrupted by its deceitful desires; to be made new in the attitude of your minds; and to put on the new self, created to be like God in true righteousness and holiness.
EPHESIANS 4:22-24

27. SEE YOU AGAIN!
FRIDAY, AUG. 2
7:00 pm
ACT 2: FALL