Catholic TMS B: Proclaim Christ
The verses in Series B: Proclaim Christ will help you communicate the basic message of salvation to those who have yet to make a decision to become a follower of Christ. The gospel message can be illustrated systematically as a cross that spans two cliffs like a bridge, just like St. Catherine of Siena envisioned (The Dialogue, 21). The cliff on the left represents the state of mankind– All Have Sinned, and Sin's Penalty. The cross-bridge represents the gift of salvation– Christ Paid the Penalty, and Unmerited Salvation. The cliff on the right represents God's calling to his holy presence– Personal Response, Assurance of God's Mercy, and Be Baptized. John Paul II taught, "The living and personal Gospel, Jesus Christ himself, is the 'good news'...the lay faithful have an essential and irreplaceable role in this announcement and in this testimony." (Christifideles Laici, 7)
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IMPORT
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1 John 5:13RSVCE
Assurance of God's Mercy
I write this to you who believe in the name of the Son of God, that you may know that you have eternal life.
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1 Peter 3:18RSVCE
Christ Paid the Penalty
For Christ also died for sins once for all, the righteous for the unrighteous, that he might bring us to God, being put to death in the flesh but made alive in the spirit;
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Acts 2:38RSVCE
Be Baptized
And Peter said to them, “Repent, and be baptized every one of you in the name of Jesus Christ for the forgiveness of your sins; and you shall receive the gift of the Holy Spirit."
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Ephesians 2:8-9RSVCE
Unmerited Salvation
For by grace you have been saved through faith; and this is not your own doing, it is the gift of God— not because of works, lest any man should boast.
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Galatians 3:26-27RSVCE
Be Baptized
For in Christ Jesus you are all sons of God, through faith. For as many of you as were baptized into Christ have put on Christ.
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Hebrews 9:27RSVCE
Sin's Penalty
And just as it is appointed
for men to die once,
and after that comes judgment. -
Isaiah 53:6RSVCE
All Have Sinned
All we like sheep have gone astray;
we have turned every one to his own way;
and the Lord has laid on him
the iniquity of us all. -
John 1:12RSVCE
Personal Response
But to all who received him, who believed in his name, he gave power to become children of God.
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Philippians 1:6RSVCE
Assurance of God's Mercy
And I am sure that he who began a good work in you will bring it to completion at the day of Jesus Christ.
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Romans 10:9-10RSVCE
Personal Response
Because, if you confess with your lips that Jesus is Lord and believe in your heart that God raised him from the dead, you will be saved. For man believes with his heart and so is justified, and he confesses with his lips and so is saved.
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Romans 5:12RSVCE
All Have Sinned
Therefore as sin came into the world
through one man
and death through sin,
and so death spread to all men
because all men sinned. -
Romans 5:8RSVCE
Christ Paid the Penalty
But God shows his love for us
in that while we were yet sinners
Christ died for us. -
Romans 6:23RSVCE
Sin's Penalty
For the wages of sin is death,
but the free gift of God
is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord. -
Titus 3:5RSVCE
Unmerited Salvation
He saved us, not because of deeds done by us in righteousness, but in virtue of his own mercy, by the washing of regeneration and renewal in the Holy Spirit.