5 because of your partnership in the gospel from the first day until now.

Phil. 1:5

7 It is right for me to feel this way about you all, because I hold you in my heart, for you are all partakers with me of grace, both in my imprisonment and in the defense and confirmation of the

gospel.Phil. 1:7

12 I want you to know, brothers, that what has happened to me

has really served to advance the gospel,

Philippians 1:12

13 so that it has become known throughout the whole imperial guard

and to all the rest that my imprisonment is for Christ. 14 And most of the

brothers, having become confident in the Lord by my imprisonment, are much

more bold to speak the word without fear.

Phil. 1:13-14

15 Some indeed preach Christ from envy and rivalry, but others from good will. 16 The

latter do it out of love, knowing that I am put here for the defense of the gospel. 17 The former proclaim Christ out of rivalry, not sincerely but thinking to afflict me in my

imprisonment. Phil. 1:15-17

18 What then? Only that in every way, whether in pretense or in truth,

Christ is proclaimed, and in that I rejoice.

Phil. 1:18

3 Essential Gospel Passages:1. 1 Cor. 15:1-4. (Simple)2. Romans 3:10-26. (Theological)3. Ephesians 2:1-10. (Pastoral)

Gospel DefinedThe Good News about the Person and Work of Jesus.

Now I would remind you, brothers, of the gospel I preached to you, which you received, in which you

stand, 2 and by which you are being saved, if you hold fast to the word I preached to you-- unless you

believed in vain.3 For I delivered to you as of first importance what I

also received: that Christ died for our sins in accordance with the Scriptures, 4 that he was buried,

that he was raised on the third day in accordance with the Scriptures,

1 Cor. 15:1-4

Essential Elements:1. “stand” & “are being saved”2. V. 3 Early Creed / Primary source3. V. 3 “Christ died for our Sins”4. V. 4 “he was raised on 3rd day”

10 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." 13"Their throat is an open grave; they use their

tongues to deceive." "The venom of asps is under their lips." "Their mouth is full of curses and bitterness." "Their

feet are swift to shed blood; 16 in their paths are ruin and misery, and the way of peace they have not known."

"There is no fear of God before their eyes."Romans 3:10-18

Righteousness Defined: God’s kind of Goodness!

Essential Elements:1. Implied: Righteousness is

Necessary!2. V.10-12 No One is Righteous3. V. 13-15 Proof: Self Serving4. V. 16 Summary of Proof

19 Now we know that whatever the law says it speaks to those who are under the law, so that every mouth

may be stopped, and the whole world may be held accountable to God. 20 For by works of the law no

human being will be justified in his sight, since through the law comes knowledge of sin.

Romans 3:19-20

Law Defined:First 5 books of OT. God’s instructions to Israelites for fellowship with Him.

Justification Defined:Being Right before God / reconciled with God. (From enemy to child)

Essential Elements:1. Law = accountability to God2. Law = Knowledge of Not

solution to Sin!3. keeping Law does Not Justify

21 But now the righteousness of God has been manifested apart from the law, although the Law and the Prophets bear

witness to it-- 22 the righteousness of God through faith in Jesus Christ for all who believe. For there is no distinction: 23 for all

have sinned and fall short of the glory of God, 24 and are justified by his grace as a gift, through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus, 25 whom God put forward as a propitiation by his

blood, to be received by faith. This was to show God's righteousness, because in his divine forbearance he had passed over former sins. 26 It was to show his righteousness at the

present time, so that he might be just and the justifier of the one who has faith in Jesus.

Romans 3:21-26

Redemption Defined:Deliverance from an evil by the payment of a price. Propitiation Defined:The removal of wrath by the offering of a gift.

Essential Elements:1. Righteousness Manifested in

Jesus2. Righteousness is offered by His

Grace (His Gift to us)3. Righteousness attainable to all

through Faith in Jesus4. God is Just & Justifier

1 And you were dead in the trespasses and sins 2 in which you once walked, following the course of this world, following the prince of the power of the air, the spirit that is now at work in the sons of disobedience-- 3 among whom we all once lived in the passions of our flesh, carrying out the desires of the body and the mind, and were by nature children of wrath, like the rest of mankind. 4 But God, being rich in mercy, because of the great love with which he loved us, 5 even when we were

dead in our trespasses, made us alive together with Christ-- by grace you have been saved-- 6 and raised us up with him and

seated us with him in the heavenly places in Christ Jesus,Eph. 2:1-6

Essential Elements:1. Everyone begins DEAD! (No

One is Righteous)2. Death: Our state of being at

Salvation3. Salvation is from Great Love

(Grace)4. Salvation is Past tense (Done)

7 so that in the coming ages he might show the immeasurable riches of his grace in kindness toward us in Christ Jesus. 8 For by grace you have been saved through

faith. And this is not your own doing; it is the gift of God, 9 not a result of works, so that no one may boast. 10 For we

are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared beforehand, that we should

walk in them.Eph. 2:7-10

Essential Elements:1. Salvation is from Great Love

(Grace)2. We have nothing to boast3. Result of Salvation = Great Life

Purpose!

This Community’s Perspective

Mission: Glorify God, pursue the

Christ life and engage the world with the gospel of

Jesus Christ

Vision: Equip and deploy followers of Jesus who Love God and

Love others where they live, work and play