Welcome to Real Christianity. My name is Dale Partridge. For those of you who are new

here, we have the show notes available for these episodes at relearn.org. Our mission at

relearn.org is to bring the church back to the Bible to strengthen biblical literacy

among Christians. Today's episode is a little interesting. Several months ago, I had an

opportunity to share the gospel with someone. Right after that, I was asked to write a paper

for the Master Seminary on a presentation of the gospel. You think that would be a pretty

easy task to do for someone like myself who studies Scripture and who is a pastor and

who has been a seminary. But the gospel is one of those things that can be written on

a napkin and can also be written in a thousand-page book. And so we have to ask ourselves which

version or length or clarity of the gospel are we going to present. In my experience,

it's usually the three to four-page version of the gospel. When you get into a conversation

with someone and you have 10 to 15 minutes of dialogue and question and answer, and

that was the length of the paper required was about four to six pages. I was just reflecting

on the previous opportunity I had to share the gospel and how that presentation went.

That presentation was with someone who had a basic understanding of Christian values,

had gone to church a handful of times throughout their life, but was not a believer, was agnostic,

did not have any theological understanding according to Scripture, and was genuinely

curious about the gospel. And I approached it with, you know, theology, biblical theology,

systematic theology, with some philosophy, some understanding of morality between man

and God. And so I want to show you, I want to actually, I'm going to read this gospel

presentation that I wrote out and that I gave in part to this gentleman in hopes that

it will be edifying for you. And understanding what does it really look like to give a,

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