ROMANS, II

hey guys,

here's a rough outline of friday's message...

I. Introduction

II. The Standard (1:16-17)

• The Gospel
• Righteousness

III. The Sin

• Its "Sinfulness" (1:18-25)
• Its Judgment (2:5-11)
• Its Universality (3:9-18)

IV. The Salvation (5:1-11)

• Justification by Faith
• Saved from Judgment

V. The Savior

• His Name (Matt 1:21)
• His Death (Rom 3:21-26; 5:6-11)
• His Triumph (Rom 5:18-21)

VI. Conclusion

• Focusing on the Savior
• The Meaning/Reminder of Christmas (Luke 2:1-20)

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to sum up, its basically hitting key points of the Gospel and culminating in Christ with a reminder of what Christmas is all about--Him who was born to save His people.

the focus will be probably be more in The Sin (III) and The Savior (V). i want to try and draw out how bad sin really is, and in doing so, show how awesome what Christ did was.

my goal also is to point things out through the study bible so hopefully the kids will have a better idea of how to use it and what's really there.

Reconciled with God

Reconciled with God

Romans 5:8-11

First I’m going to ask one simple question.

• Where is your relationship with God at?

And then I’m going to talk about the verse.

• I’m going to go over the idea of sin being the problem that keeps us from having a relationship with God. And then share how the cross and Christ satisfies the problem and how we were reconciled to him through the death of his Son.

• The amazing thing is that this happened when we were enemies with God. And it was nothing that we did but what God did through Jesus Christ that we can now have a relationship with him.

Then I’m going to talk about how some of the students might feel about there relationship with God.

• Some of you might feel like you’re not good enough or that you’re too sinful to be loved by God. That’s not true. That’s actually taking away from the cross. That’s where grace comes in. It’s okay to feel sorrow over your sin but God’s children are happy. They are full of joy, love, and grace.

• Perhaps some of you might feel like you’re okay with God. That God accepts you. But that’s such a light word. God doesn’t accept you. He loves you and wants to fully embrace his children.

Finally I will close with encouraging them to simply turn towards God. To fan into flame any spark that they feel about desiring God.