This weekend I was blessed with the opportunity to co-lead a breakout session at our Princess Retreat at FBC. Our session was focused towards people who wanted to know the basics of Christianity. This is the Snapshot of the Gospel that I shared with the girls. Warning: Super long, but I wanted to share!
Genesis
1:1
In
the beginning God created the heavens and the earth.
Genesis
2:7, 15-23
Then
the Lord
God formed a man from the dust of the ground and breathed into his nostrils the
breath of life, and the man became a living being. The Lord God took the man
and put him in the Garden of Eden to work it and take care of it. And
the Lord
God commanded the man, “You are free to eat from any tree in the garden; but
you must not eat from the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, for when you
eat from it you will certainly die.”
The
Lord
God said, “It is not good for the man to be alone. I will make a helper
suitable for him.”
Now
the Lord
God had formed out of the ground all the wild animals and all the birds in the
sky. He brought them to the man to see what he would name them; and whatever
the man called each living creature, that was its name. So
the man gave names to all the livestock, the birds in the sky and all the wild
animals.
But
for Adam no suitable helper was found. So the Lord God caused the man
to fall into a deep sleep; and while he was sleeping, he took one of the man’s
ribs and then closed up the place with flesh. Then
the Lord God made a woman from the rib he had taken out of the
man, and he brought her to the man.
Ecclesiastes 3:11
He has made everything beautiful in its time.
He has also set eternity in the human heart; yet no one can fathom
what God has done from beginning to end.
Ephesians 2:10
For we are God’s
handiwork, created in Christ Jesus to do good works, which God prepared in
advance for us to do.
Genesis 3:1-13,
21-24
Now the serpent was more crafty than any of the wild
animals the Lord
God had made. He said to the woman, “Did God really say, ‘You must not eat from
any tree in the garden’?”
The woman said to
the serpent, “We may eat fruit from the trees in the garden, but
God did say, ‘You must not eat fruit from the tree that is in the middle of the
garden, and you must not touch it, or you will die.’”
“You will not
certainly die,” the serpent said to the woman. “For
God knows that when you eat from it your eyes will be opened, and you will be
like God, knowing good and evil.”
When the woman saw
that the fruit of the tree was good for food and pleasing to the eye, and also
desirable for gaining wisdom, she took some and ate it. She also gave some to
her husband, who was with her, and he ate it. Then the eyes of both
of them were opened, and they realized they were naked; so they sewed fig
leaves together and made coverings for themselves.
Then the man and
his wife heard the sound of the Lord
God as he was walking in the garden in the cool of the day, and they hid from
the Lord
God among the trees of the garden. But the Lord God called
to the man, “Where are you?”
He answered, “I
heard you in the garden, and I was afraid because I was naked; so I hid.”
And he said, “Who
told you that you were naked? Have you eaten from the tree that I commanded you
not to eat from?”
The man said, “The
woman you put here with me—she gave me some fruit from the tree, and I ate it.”
Then the Lord God said to the
woman, “What is this you have done?”
The woman said,
“The serpent deceived me, and I ate.”
The Lord God made garments
of skin for Adam and his wife and clothed them. And
the Lord God said, “The man has now become like one of us, knowing good and
evil. He must not be allowed to reach out his hand and take also from the tree
of life and eat, and live forever.” So the Lord God
banished him from the Garden of Eden to work the ground from which he had been
taken. After
he drove the man out, he placed on the east side of the Garden of Eden cherubim
and a flaming sword flashing back and forth to guard the way to the tree of
life.
Daniel 9:5
We have sinned and
done wrong. We have been wicked and have rebelled; we have turned away from
your commands and laws.
James 4:17
If anyone, then,
knows the good they ought to do and doesn’t do it, it is sin for them.
Hebrews
9:22
The
law requires that nearly everything be cleansed with blood, and without the
shedding of blood there is no forgiveness.
Luke
1:26-27, 30-31, 34-35
God sent the angel
Gabriel to Nazareth, a town in Galilee, to a virgin
pledged to be married to a man named Joseph, a descendant of David. The
virgin’s name was Mary. The angel went to her and said,
“Greetings, you who are highly favored! The Lord is with you.” The angel said
to her, “Do not be afraid, Mary; you have found favor with God. You
will conceive and give birth to a son, and you are to call him Jesus. “How will
this be,” Mary asked the angel, “since I am a virgin?”
The angel answered,
“The Holy Spirit will come on you, and the power of the Most High will
overshadow you. So the holy one to be born will be called the Son of
God.
Luke 2:1, 4-7
In those days
Caesar Augustus issued a decree that a census should be taken of the entire
Roman world. So Joseph also went up from the town of Nazareth in Galilee to
Judea, to Bethlehem the town of David, because he belonged to the house and
line of David.
He went there to register with Mary, who was pledged to be
married to him and was expecting a child. While they
were there, the time came for the baby to be born, and she gave
birth to her firstborn, a son. She wrapped him in cloths and placed him in a
manger, because there was no guest room available for them.
Hebrews 1:3
The Son is the
radiance of God’s glory and the exact representation of his being, sustaining
all things by his powerful word.
Luke 3:23
Now Jesus himself
was about thirty years old when he began his ministry
Luke 4:1-2, 13
Jesus, full of the
Holy Spirit, left the Jordan and was led by the Spirit into the wilderness, where
for forty days he was tempted by the devil. He ate nothing during
those days, and at the end of them he was hungry. When the devil had finished
all this tempting, he left him until an opportune time.
Hebrews 2:18
Because he himself
suffered when he was tempted, he is able to help those who are being tempted.
Mark 1:34
Jesus healed many
who had various diseases. He also drove out many demons, but he would not let
the demons speak because they knew who he was.
John 20:30-31
Jesus performed
many other signs in the presence of his disciples, which are not recorded in
this book. But these are written that you may believe that
Jesus is the Messiah, the Son of God, and that by believing you may have life
in his name.
John 14:12
Very truly I tell
you, whoever believes in me will do the works I have been doing, and they will
do even greater things than these, because I am going to the Father.
John 11:47-48, 57
Then the chief
priests and the Pharisees called a meeting of the Sanhedrin.
“What are we
accomplishing?” they asked. “Here is this man performing many signs. If we let him go on like this, everyone
will believe in him, and then the Romans will come and take away both our
temple and our nation.” The chief priests and the Pharisees had given orders
that anyone who found out where Jesus was should report it so that they might
arrest him.
John 16:7, 28
But very truly I
tell you, it is for your good that I am going away. Unless I go away, the
Advocate will not come to you; but if I go, I will send him to you. I came from
the Father and entered the world; now I am leaving the world and going back to
the Father.
John 18:28- 19:16
Then the Jewish
leaders took Jesus from Caiaphas to the palace of the Roman governor. By now it
was early morning, and to avoid ceremonial uncleanness they did not enter the
palace, because they wanted to be able to eat the Passover. So
Pilate came out to them and asked, “What charges are you bringing against this
man?”
“If he were not a
criminal,” they replied, “we would not have handed him over to you.”
Pilate said, “Take
him yourselves and judge him by your own law.”
“But we have no
right to execute anyone,” they objected. This took place to
fulfill what Jesus had said about the kind of death he was going to die.
Pilate then went
back inside the palace, summoned Jesus and asked him, “Are you the king of the
Jews?”
“Is that your own
idea,” Jesus asked, “or did others talk
to you about me?”
“Am I a Jew?”
Pilate replied. “Your own people and chief priests handed you over to me. What
is it you have done?”
Jesus said, “My
kingdom is not of this world. If it were, my servants would fight to prevent my
arrest by the Jewish leaders. But now my kingdom is from another place.”
“You are a king,
then!” said Pilate.
Jesus answered, “You
say that I am a king. In fact, the reason I was born and came into the world is
to testify to the truth. Everyone on the side of truth listens to me.”
“What is truth?”
retorted Pilate. With this he went out again to the Jews gathered there and
said, “I find no basis for a charge against him. But it is your custom for me to release
to you one prisoner at the time of the Passover. Do you want me to release ‘the
king of the Jews’?”
They shouted back,
“No, not him! Give us Barabbas!” Barabbas had taken part in an uprising.
Then Pilate took
Jesus and had him flogged. The soldiers twisted together a crown of
thorns and put it on his head. They clothed him in a purple robe and went up to him again and again, saying, “Hail, king of the
Jews!” And they slapped him in the face.
Once more Pilate
came out and said to the Jews gathered there, “Look, I am bringing him out to
you to let you know that I find no basis for a charge against him.” When Jesus came out wearing the crown of
thorns and the purple robe, Pilate said to them, “Here is the man!”
As soon as the
chief priests and their officials saw him, they shouted, “Crucify! Crucify!”
But Pilate
answered, “You take him and crucify him. As for me, I find no basis for a
charge against him.”
The Jewish leaders
insisted, “We have a law, and according to that law he must die, because he
claimed to be the Son of God.”
When Pilate heard
this, he was even more afraid, and he went back inside
the palace. “Where do you come from?” he asked Jesus, but Jesus gave him no
answer. “Do you refuse to speak to me?” Pilate said. “Don’t you
realize I have power either to free you or to crucify you?”
Jesus answered, “You
would have no power over me if it were not given to you from above. Therefore
the one who handed me over to you is guilty of a greater sin.”
From then on,
Pilate tried to set Jesus free, but the Jewish leaders kept shouting, “If you
let this man go, you are no friend of Caesar. Anyone who claims to be a king
opposes Caesar.”
When Pilate heard
this, he brought Jesus out and sat down on the judge’s seat at a place known as
the Stone Pavement (which in Aramaic is Gabbatha). It was the day of Preparation of the
Passover; it was about noon.
“Here is your
king,” Pilate said to the Jews.
But they shouted,
“Take him away! Take him away! Crucify him!”
“Shall I crucify
your king?” Pilate asked.
“We have no king
but Caesar,” the chief priests answered.
Finally Pilate
handed him over to them to be crucified.
John 19:40, 20:1-8
Taking Jesus’ body,
the two of them (Joseph of Arimathea and Nicodemus) wrapped it, with the
spices, in strips of linen. This was in accordance with Jewish burial customs.
Early on the first
day of the week, while it was still dark, Mary Magdalene went to the tomb and
saw that the stone had been removed from the entrance. So she came running to Simon Peter and
the other disciple, the one Jesus loved, and said, “They have taken the Lord
out of the tomb, and we don’t know where they have put him!”
So Peter and the
other disciple started for the tomb. Both were running, but
the other disciple outran Peter and reached the tomb first. He bent over and
looked in at the strips of linen lying there but did not go in. Then Simon Peter
came along behind him and went straight into the tomb. He saw the strips of
linen lying there, as well as the cloth that had been wrapped around
Jesus’ head. The cloth was still lying in its place, separate from the linen.
Finally the other disciple, who had reached the tomb first,
also went inside. He saw and believed.
Hebrews 7:27
Unlike the other
high priests, he does not need to offer sacrifices day after day, first for his
own sins, and then for the sins of the people. He sacrificed for their sins
once for all when he offered himself.
John 3:16
For God so loved
the world that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him shall
not perish but have eternal life.
Acts 4:12
Salvation is found
in no one else, for there is no other name under heaven given to mankind by which
we must be saved.
2 Timothy 1:9
He has saved us and
called us to a holy life—not because of anything we have done but because of
his own purpose and grace. This grace was given us in Christ Jesus before the
beginning of time
Galatians 5:13
You, my brothers
and sisters, were called to be free. But do not use your freedom to indulge the
flesh; rather, serve one another humbly in love.
Mark 16: 15-18
He said to them, “Go into all the world and preach the gospel to all
creation.
Whoever believes and
is baptized will be saved, but whoever does not believe will be condemned.
