Scripture Chp 10: What is Good News?

Scripture Chp 10: What is Good News?

Open Ended

Opening Reflection: At this current moment in time, what is some "good news" you've heard recently?

What is Good News?

• Lifts our spirits, brings us joy, and gives us hope

• As Christians, we have the 'best news' ever heard and given to us to share with others...Jesus!

• Jesus is the incarnate Son of God,

  revealing God’s unconditional love for all

  people.

Multiple Choice

What does the word 'incarnate' mean?

• I have no idea.

• Invested with a human nature and form.

• God's unconditional love

• never-ending

Jesus Revealed and Was Good News

Incarnate means 'invested with a human nature and form'. So, as the Incarnate Son of God, Jesus revealed God's unconditional love for all people; He himself was the Good News; and he was the Messiah and Savior of the world.

Multiple Choice

Besides revealing God's unconditional love and being the Messiah, what else did Jesus relay?

• The end of Covid-19 is next month

• We are blessed

• Faith saves you

• The kingdom of God has come near

Faith Word - GOSPEL

• The term ‘gospel’ comes from the Old English word godspel, meaning ‘good news’. Godspel was originally used to translate the Greek word euaggelion (Latin evangelium), a term the early

  Church used for the Good News of Jesus. The Church uses the word ‘Gospel’ to refer to the four New Testament books that proclaim the life, teaching, Death and Resurrection of Jesus.

Faith Word: Gospel (continued)

More generally, however, the word refers to the proclamation of the entire message of faith revealed in and through Jesus Christ, the incarnate Son of God, the Second Person of the Blessed Trinity.

Multiple Choice

True or False: The Church uses the word ‘Gospel’ to refer to the four New Testament books that proclaim the life, teaching, Death and Resurrection of Jesus.

• True

• False

All Good Things

Jesus’ announcement of the

coming of God’s Kingdom and the

Messiah who would usher it in

must have excited the first

disciples. No prophet or Jewish

leader before Jesus had ever

declared the Good News that

God’s Kingdom had come. This Good News of Salvation was later written down to become the Gospels in the New Testament that we know today, yay!

Open Ended

Exit Ticket - 2 Questions: 1) Tell me what you learned about the word 'gospel' today. 2) What question do you have for next time (anything I can clarify?)