THE IMPORTANCE OF THE GOSPELS AND FIVE REASONS WE NEED THEM.
This idea focuses on Israel because they were chosen to represent God. Israel failed and needed someone to make things right. Jesus was the long-awaited Messiah. The Gospels bring the story to completion.
What is the Bible's great storyline?
We read them because they belong in this authoritative text of Scripture.
What is the Canon?
Jesus was a Jew living in the first century in the land of Israel.
What is historical context?
This is the highest purpose of the Gospels.
Jesus announces this as "the Kingdom of God" where John transposes this concept using this phrase.
What is eternal life?
This emphasizes God's need to intervene and that one will come who will make all things right.
What is the OT's lean toward the Gospels?
This first proposal focuses on the churches establishment of the Canon.
What is community?
These are narratives and we must follow best practices for narrative analysis.
What is literary context?
This asserts that the Gospels are texts that are meant to lead us to practice the way of Jesus.
What are discipleship texts?
Primarily the Gospels speak of the arrival of the Kingdom of God and this other element that Jesus brings.
What is salvation?
This reflects why the story of Jesus and His teachings have been scattered around the Mediterranean Sea and beyond.
What is the rest of the NT presupposing and building on the Gospels?
The second proposal argues that the books in the canon are based on "criteria for canonicity" such as apostolicity, orthodoxy, and usage.
What is history?
This illuminates the idea that although there are individual stories, they are also tied together into a larger canvas.
What is the context of the whole book?
These three virtues affirm that Jesus is a Savior we can trust, a King whose return we long for, and is a wise teacher we can emulate.
What is faith, hope and love?
This is the content of the Good News that Israel was longing for.
What is the kingdom?
This is how the Gospels are used in present day.
What is the Gospels being central for the church in liturgy and declarations of faith.
The third proposal is when the books themselves asserted their own authority on the church.
What is self-authenticating?
What is reading the Gospels as stories/narratives?
This was the greatest need for Israel and for humanity.
What is forgiveness of sins?
The kingdom was expected, but the manner in which the kingdom would come was unexpected.
What is Jesus' humble beginnings, His death on the cross, and resurrection?
This reflects that the Gospels are stories about what this God-man said and did. Nothing could be more important than God taking on flesh.
What is in the Gospels we meet Jesus?
One Gospel could not adequately summarize the ministry of Jesus.
What is the reason for four Gospels?
Having the definition of "lives" and coming from the Latin "vita" and Greek "bios", this describes another way the Gospels could be categorized.
What is in the form of biographies?
After reading the Gospels, you should come away with this conclusion or you have missed the point entirely.
What is a greater sense of love for God and others?
The part of the Gospels evangelists tend to focus on.
What is Jesus' last days?