The Gospel of Jesus Christ

Recently, I have been teaching a catechism class for the youth in my church.  This past week we went over what the gospel is.  We spent about 45 minutes discussing what the gospel was, using the following 4 steps: God, Man, Christ, Response.  The basic gist of it is:
"First, God is a just, wise, Holy, omnipotent, loving, wrathful, glorious God who hates sin and wickedness.  This same God created the world, and mankind in His image.  Second, those humans who were created in His image sinned, and caused the whole human race to be born in sin from that point on, totally inadequate and without hope.  The human race has no chance of salvation because of their wretched sinful hearts, and the fact that Scripture teaches that everything done apart from faith is sin. Third, God sent Jesus Christ as the saviour of those wretched sinners.  He is fully God and fully man, He lived a perfect life, and died a sacrificial death to take upon Himself the entirety of God's wrath for His people.  Fourth, in light of this, we are commanded to repent of our sins and turn and walk towards Jesus.  If we love Him we will do as He commands, and we will confess with our mouths that Jesus is Lord and believe in our hearts that God raised Him from the dead."
In light of this, I wanted to create an easy to follow guide when talking to others about this wonderful truth.  I have taken each point and boiled it down to questions with the answers being entirely scripture.  This is hopefully a useful tool for anyone that is looking for a simple and concise way to tell others about this wonderful good news of our Saviour's sacrifice on our behalf.  I want to add a small caveat here before you go on.  This is simply a guide for your reference.  You may want to add more scripture to each point or add something that you think the Bible teaches as an essential to a gospel presentation.  If you do see anything that could be improved or changed, please comment and let me know.



1. God
(1) Who is God?  - "To the King of the ages, immortal, invisible, the only God, be honor and glory forever and ever. Amen." - 1 Timothy 1:17
(2) What has God done? - "In the beginning, God created the heavens and the earth." - Genesis 1:1

2. Man
(1) How was man created? - "So God created man in his own image, in the image of God he created him; male and female he created them. And God blessed them. And God said to them, "Be fruitful and multiply and fill the earth and subdue it, and have dominion over the fish of the sea and over the birds of the heavens and over every living thing that moves on the earth." - Genesis 1:27-28
(2) What went wrong? - "Therefore, just as sin came into the world through one man, and death through sin, and so death spread to all men because all sinned" - Romans 5:12
(3) What is the state of our hearts? - "The heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately sick; who can understand it?"  - Jeremiah 17:9
(4) Are human beings righteous? - "as it is written: "None is righteous, no, not one; no one understands; no one seeks for God. All have turned aside; together they have become worthless; no one does good, not even one."  - Romans 3:10-12

3. Christ
(1) Who is Christ? - "In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. He was in the beginning with God. All things were made through him, and without him was not any thing made that was made. In him was life, and the life was the light of men. The light shines in the darkness, and the darkness has not overcome it." - John 1:1-5  "For our sake he made him to be sin who knew no sin, so that in him we might become the righteousness of God." - 2 Corinthians 5:21
(2) What has Christ done? - "Men of Israel, hear these words: Jesus of Nazareth, a man attested to you by God with mighty works and wonders and signs that God did through him in your midst, as you yourselves know- this Jesus, delivered up according to the definite plan and foreknowledge of God, you crucified and killed by the hands of lawless men. God raised him up, loosing the pangs of death, because it was not possible for him to be held by it." - Acts 2:22-24
(3) Why did Christ do this? - "Indeed, under the law almost everything is purified with blood, and without the shedding of blood there is no forgiveness of sins." - Hebrews 9:22  "For it is impossible for the blood of bulls and goats to take away sins." - Hebrews 10:4  "And by that will we have been sanctified through the offering of the body of Jesus Christ once for all. - Hebrews 10:10

4. Response
(1) What do we do? - "because, if you confess with your mouth that Jesus is Lord and believe in your heart that God raised him from the dead, you will be saved. For with the heart one believes and is justified, and with the mouth one confesses and is saved." - Romans 10:9-10   "And Peter said to them, "Repent and be baptized every one of you in the name of Jesus Christ for the forgiveness of your sins, and you will receive the gift of the Holy Spirit." - Acts 2:38
(2) How should we live? - "Everyone who believes that Jesus is the Christ has been born of God, and everyone who loves the Father loves whoever has been born of him. By this we know that we love the children of God, when we love God and obey his commandments. For this is the love of God, that we keep his commandments. And his commandments are not burdensome. For everyone who has been born of God overcomes the world. And this is the victory that has overcome the world-our faith. Who is it that overcomes the world except the one who believes that Jesus is the Son of God?" - 1 John 5:1-5   ""For no good tree bears bad fruit, nor again does a bad tree bear good fruit," - Luke 6:43